Grustaf

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by Grustaf 5y ago
"Bicycles bad"? I don't think anyone has said that since Victorian times. Probably not then either. If your son hadn't been into BMX/MTB/Cross (are you sure you mean halfpipe?) before the unlimited screen time
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Most people don't really use propellers all that often
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Seems they went after him for other things https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2021/08/bitcoin-ian-free...
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Do you have any examples of that happening, innocent people getting arrested for child porn? Never heard of it. In any case, the police will not arrest anyone because they have only been flagged by the automatic system. As soon as Apple rev
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Why would they want to entrap people with fake child porn images? What would even be the point of getting people flagged? They would never be convicted anyway, since they are not actually storing illegal images.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
If your point is that it's important for founders to keep control, then sure, but you can have different classes of shares. Founders can stay in control of their companies without making tens of billions.
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Because followers are interchangeable, but a leader is someone that wills something into being from nothing. It's incredibly demanding, most people can't even start a hot dog stand from scratch.
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Of course a leader provides tens or hundreds of times the value of a follower, what an absurd question. But that doesn't mean it's reasonable that he collects 10000 times more of the value. There is so functional difference betwee
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Sure his life seems like a nightmare, but to be honest, wouldn't it have been even worse without the streaming. Then he'd probably still be playing computer games all the time, still living in squalor, but he'd be broke. Now
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by Grustaf 5y ago
There are no "rules against women". As you note, women can be, and are Saints, which is of course a much greater honour than being a priest. In fact the most highly honoured saint (by a wide margin) is a woman, so clearly the chur
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Here comes the Geometric Algebra evangelists again.
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What are these "restrictions that have no base whatsoever"? Are you referring to "Christian men only"? Surely you can see the basis of a male monastery complex only allowing male Christian guests? Would you be equally up
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by Grustaf 5y ago
A big part of the orthodox church (mostly on the slavic side) also uses the old calendar. That's why Russians "celebrate Christmas in January".
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If any country can be treated as a coherent entity, it's China.
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What is even the purpose of showing these tiny islands in a larger size? It's not like they are the backbone of China's economy or that they prove that the party still has the mandate of heaven.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Anyone can make their own alcohol at home, without any kind of expensive machine, but in many places that's quite successfully outlawed.
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The point is that typically when you make something illegal, it is still physically possible to do the thing that is forbidden. That's why it's not at all strange or unusual to ban this very particular usage of "math".
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I’m talking about differently coloured bricks on the inside of a model. That is definitely not some nefarious scheme to make you buy more lego. Nowadays there are so many custom pieces and people don’t really rebuild much anyway, so they
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> The point above was that even in the case of making something illegal, it doesn't stop people from physically doing it. Well, that’s precisely my point. You typically don’t ban anything by physically preventing people from doi
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The link seems to disprove your point, the police raided his house.
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> Properly designed cryptosystems produce ciphertext that is indistinguishable from a random number. It's also impossible to tell from a 100 dollar bill if it has been taxed or not, yet taxes are enforceable. Almost no law enforceme
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Haha yes, banning physics is the perfect metaphor here!
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> trying to make math illegal This is a non-sensical but very common expression from crypto-bros. It's like saying that gun control is to "make steel illegal".
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Yes, the re-build aspect is almost gone. As I kid I got maybe 5-10 original sets over a 10 year period, and a few bags of random bricks, and I played and played with that. Nowadays the idea is more build and forget. If you're lucky the
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Why wouldn't they have a "profit motive"? They are a company, not a charity.
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> With the internet there should be FAR MORE Lego-provided sets. Sure, have the Harry Potters and Star Wars sets. But we are talking about a company that (granted to very good tolerances) is charging a LOT for very cheap plastic. They sh
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This all applies to when you receive the money. The discussion concerns what you then proceed to do with them.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
That's not quite what I'm talking about. Obviously if you transfer money to your account you need to be able to explain where it comes from. But once you have the money, you can turn them into cash or gold if you want. At that poi
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Isn't that a bit like saying cash is dirty? I don't think we are under obligation to keep our funds traceable? Perhaps we are getting closer to that point though.
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I'd say temp accounts have exactly 0 credibility in themselves.

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