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>It’s interesting to me that they continue to spawn and nix products like this despite the reputation damage it causes.

I guess this means a "reputation" doesn't influence their profits. Some companies aren't in impression-making business, or even pretending-to-be-trying-to-make-their-customers-happy business.

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So why is it hosted in Germany and not, say, China?

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Anything related to crypto/blockchain tends to be a technically very poor way of doing decentralisation.

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>Government-sponsored was not a US propaganda badge, it was a response to a serious concern about adversarial governments

For most people USA is an adversarial government. You've just confirmed it was a propaganda badge meaning "unamerican".

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Yes. I your car catches fire when parked, you probably want to grab a fire extinguisher instead of complaining, even though it's not technically your fault.

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And look how effective that was.

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So, does it? xD

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s/employing/led by/. Yeah, pretty much.

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So here's where we disagree: to me, any institution led by Medvedev won't be independent; funding formalities don't matter at all.

Also, once again: there's a fundamental difference between "used to work" and "was a CEO".

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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/where-have-russians-bee...

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Oh, definitely; it could be based on literally anything, or just effectively random. But it doesn't change my view of whether the outcome is positive or not.