TallTales's comments

From my perspective it's because the constitution outlines law making as a power given to the legislative branch. To give regulatory agencies the ability to effectively create law by reinterpretation is clearly bad. But to let the courts give broad deference to the executive branch agencies, when challenged on it, is a clear violation of the separation of powers. Beyond that, it is just wrong, in my opinion, for unelected bureaucrats with vested personal interests in these issues to get deference over the people they serve.

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Also because he was forced into pleading guilty for doing journalism. A great crime has been committed against Assange and I understand why he would do this. I would never ask him to spend another day in a small Ecuadorian embassy room with no living facilities or in a medieval torture cell in England... He has suffered more for the free people of the world than we have a right to ask for but this is not a just outcome.

It makes for interesting photography, but I really dislike ugly concrete buildings. Post apocalypse photography of them is kind of appealing.

This is a matter of opinion but brutalism is so hideous.

This is a fascinating comment. How would you define violence?

Yeah network vision was a disaster. I think in the market I helped built our average number of site touches was like 21 or 22 from construction complete to on-air. All the funds gathered from the high interest junk bond sale to fund NV was used very inefficiency because sprint lacked the expertise to not get taken for a ride by their vendors.

Yeah it depends on the market you were in. I helped build the WiMax network but it was built very quickly and in places it was built by people who didn't care very much.

It was all microwave back hauled so rain fade in stormy weather was absolutely a thing. Most of those were FCC licensed or should have been but I know of at least 1 market where they just never filed the paperwork to get the licenses and built it anyway.

I'm a former engineer at Sprint and I strongly disagree with this characterization. Sprint's goose was cooked but it was due to debt from selling junk bonds to build Network Vision at the time of the original LTE rollout. Their credit was ruined by that point from 30+ years of absolutely terrible and corrupt c-suite executives.

Marcello has a lot of faults but he didn't run Sprint into the ground. He is actually pretty smart and at that time we cut over a billion dollars out of the operating budget circa 2016/2017 iirc. It was an impossible position and it's really sad because it was a great old company in my estimation. T-Mobile is just the worst.

The difference in between the two is a matter of trust. Maintaining a 1:1 peg with the USD requires that users trust that the dollar reserves actually exist. Presumably, Coinbase will be seen by many as a more trusted 3rd party than Tether.

Stable coins exist to solve the problem of moving money in and out of cryptocurrency introduced by KYC/AML. Bitcoin represents an attempt to create a system of censorship resistant transactions with an absolute minimum amount of counter-party risk. Outside of the open cryptocurrency context, its unclear if something like stable coins would be allowed to exist. Certainly when you go back in history and look at things like ecash or the liberty dollar the answer seems to be no.