LiquidSky

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by LiquidSky 8y ago
>So instead of accepting a state-controlled imprisonment he chose a voluntary period of conditions quite similar to being imprisoned. Yes, that's what anyone who has ever fled an arrest warrant has done. It also apparently worked, a
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>They got Assange in a virtual prison for ~7 years at no cost to them (that cost was borne by the UK and the Metropolitan Police). You can't argue that being holed up in an embassy is that much better than prison. He was "holed
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Why? Every word of it is true. Christians treated Jews with brutality and contempt for nearly 2000 years, and there's a longstanding tradition of minimizing or disparaging Muslim thought and accomplishments that is only very recently b
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>We do not admit competitive medications from other first world countries without full FDA approval. Thalidomide. You lose.
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Seemingly out of spite? Musk openly committed securities fraud, negotiated a sweetheart settlement deal with the SEC, then spent the next few months openly mocking the SEC and, apparently, ignoring the settlement. The Musk Cult is unbelieva
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The tweet approval is a requirement of the settlement Musk signed with the SEC for his previous instance of securities fraud. CEOs aren’t kings, they have laws to follow. Musk could have avoided all of this by simply not engaging in the beh
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>Both Taiwan and the Byzantines are rump portions of their larger entities The "Byzantine Empire" wasn't a rump portion at the time of the fall of the Western Empire. It was the other way around: the Eastern Empire was the
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But that didn't make a different entity. Sure the Principate differed from the Dominate, but it was all continuously the Roman Empire. At the time the Western portion of the Empire fell it was legally controlled by two emperors in two
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>If the language, architecture, religion, sphere of influence, culture & laws were all completely different why wouldn’t you distinguish it? Because it was a single, continuous political entity. Why would any of those aspects have an
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>Saying that the Byzantine Empire is just the Roman Empire masks the fact that it really is a Ship of Theseus situation Not at all, it is simply an objectively correct statement. What we call the "Byzantine Empire" is the easte
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>Should I be shamed for something that long ago? I don't personally think it's productive. I see your point, but surely you see how this is a bit self-serving, that you'd give yourself a pass. I'm not saying I necessa
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Not sure what the parent meant, but the example of Kevin Hart losing the Oscar hosting gig this year because of tweets from 2010-11 that used anti-gay slurs comes to mind.
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If you're referring to the arrest of Green in the beginning, the authorities had built up a case that Green was a major player in the Silk Road and the package delivery was the final confirmation. You seem to be talking about entrapmen
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It's the same story. That site doesn't dispute that Ulbricht founded the Silk Road with the explicit intent of, among other things, providing a platform for the sale of narcotics and other illegal items. In fact, it opens with thi
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>The countries with the highest wage gaps are the countries with the most equality in the workplace. Women in Korea are not treated poorly. I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. Korea most assuredly is not a country with &quot
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The problem with your analogy is that people understand car seats and couches are and do different things. Crypto enthusiasts seems to want Bitcoin (or something else) to become widely adopted and used but are highly resistant or indifferen
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>centralized options This seems to be the crux of all of these discussions and why they inevitably go nowhere. For a small but passionate core of libertarian-minded crypto/Bitcoin boosters, decentralization is a good unto itself. Al
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The old saw that any publicity is good publicity isn't true. Tesla being in the news because their leader is committing securities fraud and acting increasingly erratic isn't helping the brand anymore than Coca Cola being in the n
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by LiquidSky 8y ago
Why this bizarre cultish paranoia? He's in this mess because he committed securities fraud. He got a slap-on-the wrist sweetheart deal and he can't even stick to that. He's done all of this to himself, and he can't seem
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It doesn't matter if it's market moving. Or rather, the terms of his settlement are that all of his communications need to be pre-approved by counsel to determine what is market moving. He didn't get the pre-approval so he&#x
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No, this doesn't seem right. Musk is clearly burning through the good will he'd built up. There's going to be a limit to how much his aura can shield him, and it seems like he's really pushing to find that limit.
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>He did no such thing. You are probably referencing a series of tweets where Elon was openly contemplating what would be required to buy back Tesla shares. The settlement with SEC clearly stated that no fault was found and no guilt admit
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>For example, when you are dealing with multiple small transactions where a potential for fraud on the buyer side is significant. We already have systems that handle this issue well and have for decades. Why involve the blockchain? >A
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>To be fair, I think most people who have given blockchain an honest 30 minutes of brainstorming aren't arguing for real world assets connected to a chain. The comment above says that the blockchain provides a satisfactory answer to
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Unfortunately that's just the reality of how people think. The person who is making confident declarations is going to come across as stronger and more inspiring than the person who is being careful and thoughtful, no matter who is act