chronicsunshine

Being that your life depends on your car not failing catastrophically while using it, I think your analogy would make more sense if you replaced clay pots with pacemakers.

This is insane. One side is doing everything they can to rig elections and even tried to overthrow the government and end the democratic process. And then the other side is judged for being taken aback by that? Are we supposed to pretend like nothing is happening?

This is a fair take. I appreciate your input.

The hope that the Russian people can free themselves of Putin's tyranny?

I think you are mischaracterizing why Julian Assange has lost support. He has not lost support because of exposing corruption in any political parties, he's lost support because its become clear he works with Russian intelligence services.

People have leaked data on Russian corruption to WikiLeaks, which went unpublished. His leaks coincide with what is politically favorable to Russia, not with making all information free to the world.

To the downvoters: https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia...

Maybe provide some feedback, so I can understand why you disagree with me?

They are using them?

The country has a population of >6 million.

Bitcoin beach is a philanthropy run by one adult coordinator, 4 university students and 4 high school students.

The country is not using the lightning network. Maybe some have intentions for them to. But this is not something widely used by any means.

ref: https://www.bitcoinbeach.com/

You're telling us people that don't have bank accounts are gonna be using bitcoin in some abstruse way?

Or are you saying some other entity (a bank) will help them with it?

And if the latter, why would bitcoin be of help at all? A normal bank account would be simpler and less worrisome.

That's the strategy of McDonald's corporate, not the mom and pop franchises. Franchisees do not own the land the franchise is on. The McDonald's corporation buys the land and leases it to the franchisee.

"McDonald’s owns thousands of iconic pieces of real estate around the globe. From New York City’s Times Square to Moscow’s Red Square, McDonald’s has ventured around the world, buying up prime real estate. Franchisees pay McDonald’s a cut of their food sales, but a much larger portion of McDonald’s revenue comes from the rent it’s paid on its real estate. After all, rent in Times Square isn’t cheap, but a Big Mac is.

McDonald’s still takes a royalty on its franchisee’s sales but enjoys a much fatter revenue stream from the leases on nearly 33,000 franchisee-owned restaurants." - https://1851franchise.com/why-is-mcdonalds-considered-a-real...

I'm a developer and spending 1-2 hours a day to commute to an office where I have to microwave a lunch, sit in a cubicle all day, and be forced to overhear coworkers talk about inane things while I'm trying to concentrate sounds like hell to me. Working from home has increased my productivity and made work more enjoyable.

Most major corporations have teams of mixed offshore and onshore developers. If it was okay to have the offshore part of the team working from outside the office before the pandemic, I don't see why onshore developers wouldn't deserve the same treatment now.

The cut off would likely be at 29 hours. Health benefits are mandatory at 30 hours+.

In Minneapolis, MN the Herbivorous Butcher makes vegan cheeses that are better than normal cheese. Unfortunately they also are expensive.

Equating the two is ridiculous.

The Capitol Riots were an attempt to overturn a free and fair democratic election in favor of the rioters preferred candidate.

The HK protests are in relation to freedom from the Chinese Government's dictatorial rule.

Democracy is what is most important in both of these situations. The Capitol Riots were anti democracy. The HK protests are pro democracy.

You seem to be confused. Repealing Section 230 would vastly increase the amount of moderation on social media platforms, because they would be directly liable for anything posted there.

Also, the US has free enterprise. Businesses are free to choose who or what they do or don't do business with. Parler can sue all they want, but its a waste of their time and money.

I don't think it's that simple. From my experience, if you are in certain non-Microsoft applications and the mouse is moving it will still set you as Away and won't set your status to Available until you click into an application it recognizes.

Probable sources would be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Nuclear_Power_Plant or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Notably the second uses RBMK-1000 reactors, the same as used in Chernobyl.