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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I’m not arguing about the fines themselves, those can indeed be scaled by revenue. I also agree that many fines should be higher to prevent companies from merely seeing them as an operating cost.

    However, my point is that company revenue can’t be used 1:1 to pay off fines. That doesn’t take into account that revenue also has to cover all other operating expenses and taxes. As an example, the article states that Meta would take roughly 5½ days to pay off its fines, but taking the 23.42% profit margin into account a more realistic answer is 23½ days.



  • It’s perfectly clear that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians and if you support that, I’m sorry but you’re absolutely evil.

    This “you’re either for Palestine or a genocide supporter” mindset is half the reason this conflict still exists, the other half is the “you’re either for Israel or a terrorist supporter” mindset. I’m sure it feels great to have a one-dimensional world view, but not everyone is either for or against one side.

    All I was asking for is a source for your claim that Israel is spreading misinformation and that said misinformation is allowed to proliferate. The one source you provided is inadequate because it doesn’t have any proof of Israeli lies, it just says that Israeli-provided proof is inconclusive. Let alone your claim that the alleged misinformation is not removed…

    We’re done here, clearly there’s no good faith discussion to be had.








  • Publishing everything on a blockchain means that everybody who’s running a node has access to a copy

    I’m not sure that’s the case, although the article is rather vague. It says:

    […] the user must register with a node of their choice using their public key. Once registered, users can create channels and invite others to join. Each channel has a separate ledger hosted by the nodes. […] The data in the ledgers are encrypted, and the secret key is managed by the users of the channel.

    IIUC, nodes will not have access to private keys, neither those from users nor those from channels. Users could use their keys to exchange the channel’s private key without the node getting to know it. I don’t quite understand how user’s would exchange their public keys without the node being able to play MITM, though…

    Edit: Removed an irrelevant sentence from the quote