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If this harms the crypto industry even a little I'm not sure I'd feel even a twinge of sympathy. Is there anything I can do to assist NK in these affairs?
by kelseyfrog 2y ago
If this harms the crypto industry even a little I'm not sure I'd feel even a twinge of sympathy. Is there anything I can do to assist NK in these affairs?
- klodolph 2y ago“These people (crypto industry) are bad people so it is justified to ignore the rule of law when hurting them” is a classic bad take. What you can do is regulate crypto into oblivion and make people feel bad about working in crypto. If you assist NK, then you’re hurting crypto but you’re funding NK operations (e.g. NK soldiers assisting Russia against Ukraine).
- kelseyfrog 2y agoIf I don't assist NK then I'm tacitly assisting the crypto industry. We're in trolley problem territory now.
- catlikesshrimp 2y agoFalse dichotomy territory. You can assist neither of them and be happy.
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- klodolph 2y agoYou’re on a roll.
- pixl97 2y agoIs multi-track drifting an option?
- ted_dunning 2y agoIs that so that you can take out all of the people in the problem at once?
- ETH_start 2y agoCryptocurrency is just a technology to give people the means to generate assets, and transfer them, themselves. Advocating that the state's monopoly on violence be employed to prohibit people from using this technology is incredibly illiberal. Regulation is just repression, rebranded.
- kelseyfrog 2y ago> Advocating that the state's monopoly on violence be employed to prohibit people from using this technology is incredibly illiberal. I simply don't care anymore. Cryptocurrency's value is as a cultural shibboleth to identify individuals who deserve social interaction.
- ETH_start 2y agoThis is really not a constructive comment to make. This is going to ignite a flame war.
- kelseyfrog 2y agoThey're in control and responsible for their responses. Blaming someone else for one's anger or overreaction is indicative of abuse. "You made me lash out," is simply not a mature way to live one's life.
- ETH_start 2y agoThe moderators of hacker news expressly ask that people don't post like you just did.
- fc417fc802 2y agoI was with you until that final sentence. Regulation can be used for repression but it's also an essential part of any large scale real world system.
- ETH_start 2y ago