Trickle down implies that money from the rich being indulgent makes its way back down to the plebs.

no, actually, you infer that, applying your marxist puritanical morality to a neutral situation. Trickle down means something more like, if one company in a town of many companies develops a hit product, one that they sell a lot of, the money that flows into that company will flow back out and spread out to surrounding businesses downstream, through more spending by the company, by their expanded workforce, bigger bonuses etc. And, if the company doesn't spend but takes a portion of its income and invests it, those investments will create new productive enterprises trickling out more income.

it's a good thing.

If they investigated good conduct in cryptocurrency advertising and then prosecuted everybody who didn't show up in that list, it would be a very quick investigation, and it would yield a lot of idictments! So much easier!

to keep orientation correct for this toast eight years

it kept orientation for the last eight years. It's now just starting out on it's toast eight years.

you're lucky you're allowed in tech.

studies have shown over and over, girls are interested in people, boys are interested in things. Technology is things. Do you even believe in science?

The fox is teaching

it's the wisdom of crowds, dude, you can't trust the motives of a particular fox, but for the best information you can tune into the Fox Network!

according to what you've written, privacy IS a boolean:

There are levels of privacy, and there are appropriate uses for each of them, and violation possibilities for each of them as well.

you just described a set of features that privacy has, and set theory is a boolean algebra. QED.

if the wallet doesn't autoerase, it dramatically increases the chances of theft, even your friends would have an incentive to steal it

sort of redundant, isn't it, to have "Vice" and "low effort" in the same sentence?

it's is pretty standard in the world of art that the limitations of the medium play an important role in the art. GIFs are a very limited medium for a time that had limited bandwidth and that was part of the art.

Perhaps if we limited Vice they could produce some art.

the Mozilla foundation accepting crypto donations will push the price of crypto down because the foundation will be selling it.

With the price pushed down, crypto mining will be discouraged.

and yet they have the facts right in this case. Of course other lawyers will try to sink this lawsuit while other lawyers think about it and decide the case as if it's not a slam dunk

the whole point of a deterrent is your willingness to use it. The US never pledged not to use nukes during the cold war with the Soviets. Ivan needed to be scared.

you also work at Microsoft, I can tell

she got her handle back, but where do I get my reputation back? she blamed it on the racism and sexism of white men, and that's all most people will remember

how many grandmasters can't fly?

do you have any evidence that the Cuba ransomware group is actually in Cuba?