CryptoPunk

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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
It's obviously true that convergent evolution, that produces similar traits across distantly related species, occurs. So your assertion makes no sense to me.
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
Crypto has unique qualities that enable new applications. For example, you can issue loans to yourself using MakerDAO: https://oasis.app/borrow The process is permissionless, meaning, among other things, that it can be auto
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
In case you forgot, numerous states forbid people from even going outside their home, and from perusing numerous services if they weren't vaccinated. This was restricting people's bodily autonomy under duress, to theoretically red
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
With respect to 1, the principle of increasing the anonymity set, and thereby facilitating criminal concealment of funds, is the same, when using cash, and it is on this principle that the parent comment suggested companies that use privacy
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
>>No, there are no logically valid, non-religious arguments for prohibiting abortion. There are so many reasons why this is wrong. Under the Constitution, the tenth amendment clearly reserves powers not expressly enumerated for the fe
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
That would be an extraordinary stretch of the sanctions law, comparable to sanctioning any business that uses cash, by virtue of its effect of expanding the anonymity set that uses cash and thereby assisting sanctioned entities in concealin
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
The laws of physics impose contraints that will make certain traits common amongst intelligence species and advanced civilizations. We see a variation of this in convergent evolution across distantly related species (e.g. the evolution of w
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
To the best of my understanding, AML law, as currently written, doesn't work like that. It governs those who administer financial services. When originally written it did not apply to cash and was not conceived of with decentralized
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
blender.io is a centralized service run by people which AML laws can target, since they are facilitating third party transactions, some of which are criminal in origin. Tornado.cash is decentralized software, and there is no law that can be
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
There are more than religious arguments for prohibiting abortion and the Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe vs Wade has zero religious argument contain therein. Beyond that, the law says the Supreme Court and legislature decides what is or
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
You've found a way to rationalize undermining rule of law, by arguing that this exercise of the law is.. not the law. Like I said at the start: If the law is only respected and observed when it agrees with one political platform, it&#x
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
I think it also points to compensation for creators, so that they can dedicate their time to creating their works, mattering. I think him being on Patreon, and knowing he can count on income as long as he keeps creating this kind of content
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
A leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion is an extraordinary breach of judicial confidentiality protocols and severely damages the integrity of the highest court. Are you saying that the rule of law is already so degraded in other areas that
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
I'm suggesting every one would connect directly to the central cluster.
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
>>I worry about words being switched on a per-copy basis as a trap So you support leaking Supreme Court draft opinions and prefer leakers not be caught? You realize the consequences of legitimizing this for the rule of law, right? If
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
1. That is not a standard definition of racism. It's one a small elite attempts to impose on society and is still mostly unrecognized outside of that. 2. There is no evidence that white people have institutional power over people of ot
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
>>I’ve been dreaming lately of a tor-like network that’s based loosely on the idea of tailnets. Rather than blockchain bullshit, you’d have a direct ring of trust with friends, and then you could set up access policies to forward pack
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
I was responding to zukzuk's argument, that straws have no utility.
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
Apparently collective bargaining for teachers harms boys' education but not girls'. https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/negative-ef...
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
There is no need to make racist generalizations. You could just limit your criticism to social justice activists.
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
Being able to be less careful, or be a less coordinated person, and yet not spill, has utility.
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
A drink is far less likely to spill if you use a straw.
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
With a more optimized contract, the same number of transactions would have been submitted, and the aggregate computational load would have been smaller, leading to less congestion.
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
Equating CO2 emission with Amazon-rainforest-lit-on-fire is deliberately inflammatory and grossly misleading.
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
A congestion tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_pricing#Impact
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Plastic Products Release Trillions of Microscopic Particles into Water(nist.gov)
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
The more complex the laws, the fewer people will be willing to learn "what being an employer actually entail[s]", and will instead operate illegally, or not start a business.
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
The difference in your experience from that of your neighbor is not a case of racial discrimination. Even if this afflicted more black people in general, a racial disparity in the impact of a policy is not evidence of it being systemically
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
The founding fathers almost all believed slavery was wrong but they were born into a society where it was a core institution and it wasn't obvious how exactly to reform it. Entitlement principles are why the West was the 1st place in t
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by CryptoPunk 4y ago
>>and 'systematic racism exists' - which of course it does Systematic racism only exists today to positively discriminate against people belonging to so-called disadvantaged races, at the expense of those belonging to so-cal

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