Prohibition of cigarettes won’t work, at best people will just go across an imaginary line to buy cigs, at worst it creates an unregulated black market. Just look at how alcohol prohibition went and the current war on drugs is going. If you want to have any sort of meaningful impact on cigarettes create more sin taxes on the product so people will decide on their own to just not buy them.

So NSA backdoors are mandatory but Chinese ones are bad.

You highly overestimate the amount of compassion the average person has. If you torture people to death in public people will sell tickets for the best seats. The Romans built a whole damn arena for this purpose.

Threaten them with a copyright strike…

There’s no way reddit has more “real” users than Twitter // X. Maybe with bots but half the shit on reddit is a Twitter screen cap or repost.

It was around the time Windows 7 was out but XP was still supported by Microsoft.

I put it on a dual boot laptop once because the laptop was to shitty to run to a proper VM and I wanted to get updates at a few different points in time. Intel Core 2 Dou and Windows XP as the other OS. It was more of a project laptop than a daily driver though.

Just regedit delete all programs that run at startup besides the default page file.

It falls under the low voltage // communications lines in most US states, so standard electricians union pay. It’s pretty good, but not $400,000 salary good.

The exchange and the wallet become the same for a lot of people that never really move money between their personal bank and places like coin base.

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If you donate Bitcoin to 4chan you get a speed pass so you don’t have to enter the captcha for a few months at a time, that’s kind of like a membership but your posts are still marked anon so no one else would know unless using your physical device.

Are they doing full blown ARM processor’s now? I thought they still had enough devices less than three years old that still used Intel because of the COVID manufacturing delays.

Microsoft was also the biggest early investor in OpenAI, anyone that wants to leave that company has a guaranteed job at Microsoft, bet on it.

Isn’t Mozilla a non profit? I don’t they can sue for anything along the lines of hurting profits to the company.

Wasn’t Tupac engaged to another woman when he died?