CryptoGhost

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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
This whole situation is a great example of why you should avoid politics / politically charged statements in the workplace all around. No one's mind about anything was fundamentally changed. People got upset and stressed out and w
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Comparing Bitcoin to a credit card payment isn't really a fair comparison. (Since if people really like the credit card model so much you can build credit card like things on top of the Bitcoin network) A more apt comparison would be t
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
Lots of Bitcoin critics really struggle with the subjective theory of value (which is also the basis of Marginalism and modern mainstream economics). Nobody believes in stuff like labor or intrinsic values outside of a few marxist holdouts.
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
No one is putting the proverbial gun to academic researchers heads to use these publishers.
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
The point being this is completely discretionary. It's not comparable to say Gold Certificates in the USA where it gave you title to actual gold coins you could redeem. Holding USDT gives you title to nothing other than USDT itself.
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
> Tether is backed. It isn’t a fraud. Both of these can be true. But it is also true that Tether cannot be redeemed for USD (owning USDT does not entitle you to exchange for USD) and it has never undergone a hard audit. So while the ent
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
I was skimming through it and couldn't really find any smoking gun about them missing any hard deadlines for content removal. If you take a site like Reddit, it can take days before all violent / threatening language is removed fr
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
> This entire comment thread can be asterisked with “for now”. Which is true but its also important to not jump the gun so people can give coherent arguments for/against currents events. Take Amazon for example, there is significant
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
You must decouple in person interactions from site content. So you can have a site filled with philosophy, historical analysis, generalized activism tips, technical information, etc but not a site that directly facilitates in person meetups
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
You don't even need to do that. The actual key to running an extremist / subversive / hate / unpopular website is NOT connecting the site to any in-person activities. As long as your website is just some text floating ou
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
But then you have cases where people leak private group chats (either from bad opsec or insider jobs) and people face the ban hammer.
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
It's a fair distinction. Applications that have private messaging systems that have exchanged all sorts of bad / illegal content to parties haven't been cancelled by their hosts or held up to such high moderation standards.
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
crypto-anarchy is coming to solve the first 3 for sure. The last one is a little bit more difficult but not impossible.
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by CryptoGhost 6y ago
I have to give AWS some credit for this exchange with the customer. Normally in a situation like this the hosting company will never give you specifics and just ban your account. The fact that they specifically point out which user generate