@pmonks It's not about making money. It's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo.
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Just got into it with some idiot about taxing billionaires, and their argument basically boiled down to “governments are corrupt, so the tax revenue won’t be used properly.” -
my post clarifying that this is not a golden calf is raising questions already answered by my post.@peter Ce n'est pas un veau d'or.
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Today, two cybersecurity professionals who made a deal with AlphV/BlackCat to use their #ransomware to attack multiple victims in the U.S. were sentenced to four years in prison.@superball @PogoWasRight This right here.
Our sentencing shouldn't be based on vengeance or some idea of what the convict "deserves". It should be based on preventing the thing from happening again.
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There’s a good case for this@inthehands Yah, that's because you're wrong about why Segway failed.
Good inventions happen when the underlying technology is mature enough to support them. The Segway didn't fail to vanguard the micromobility revolution because influencers thought it was dorky; the Segway failed because the underlying technology wasn't cheap and small and lightweight.
If Segway had done a successful marketing campaign to somehow make Segways cool; and they had launched Segway 2.0 with the underlying design flaws fixed (move the wheels inline, lose the gyro) it STILL would have been expensive, short-range, and heavy. Because battery technology was not even close to ready.
You're lending way too much weight to the idea that we got scared of looking dorky.
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I just messed up and somehow ordered £959 worth of Imodium online by mistake.@GossiTheDog YKINMKBYKIOK