africanboy

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by africanboy 6y ago
How is she different from, say, Donald Trump, Paris Hilton, George Bush Jr. or the English Royal family?
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by africanboy 6y ago
I honestly don't get the "stealing" part, can you explain what you mean?
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by africanboy 6y ago
maybe. But she is well known for being a philanthropist and for taking stance against "dirty money", so she probably deserves some credit. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/disney-
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by africanboy 6y ago
> first it's crypto that's easy to steal now it's the goods you buy with crypto or the fiat you have to convert into. crypto is as easy to steal as any other property. I was just playing along the game "crypto is safe
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by africanboy 6y ago
> A point stands on its own, not based on the authority of the person making the point. paraphrasing Asimov my ignorance is not as good as your knowledge > You seem to have little clue how cryptocurrencies even work here doesn&#x27
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by africanboy 6y ago
don't worry, you'll understand it one day. do you own BTC? anyway, you don't have to believe me (again) > According to bitinfo, which tracks the total number and value of bitcoin addresses, 75% of addresses are home to le
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by africanboy 6y ago
bitcoins are worthless their nominal (aka imaginary) value is right now $60,000 dollars each, in real money if btc could not be traded in fiat currencies, which is the real goal of every btc investor, their value would drop again to zero be
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by africanboy 6y ago
> So according to your research 99% of people who have bought it have lost mone it's accurate you don't have to believe me, just think that Satoshi alone owns 1% of the bitcoins in circulation, than there are a major crime orga
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by africanboy 6y ago
> If your family was barely surviving in a restricted country I'm sure you would send funds to them as well. I don't really understand why people don't read other people comments I've literally said "as an Italia
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by africanboy 6y ago
as a proof of what I've written on the parent comment, I made the usual mistake yesterday: I commented on a thread about bitcoins writing that no, btc won't save the World and no, very few people got rich, btc are not making the g
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by africanboy 6y ago
> such that it can be illegal for people to send money out of the country so it would be illegal to send crypto money if we are exploring illegal ways to do things, crypto is just one of many solutions and probably not the cheapest or ea
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by africanboy 6y ago
> instead we were forced to dilute the supply of our already existent supply the expenses to keep the system running are diluted too.
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by africanboy 6y ago
bitcoins are valued at $ 600 billions, with 6 million active users it's an average of $ 100,000 per user, which is not much in 10 years time. probably less than 1% made a lot of money, the rest lost some.
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by africanboy 6y ago
completely unrelated but watching at that Twitter thread looks like bitcoins is a boys only club, putting gender issues aside - I don't think they are particularly interesting here - it's kinda telling IMO.
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by africanboy 6y ago
I think it's more about make the commenters not look bad (in this case American people)
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by africanboy 6y ago
and that's a good reason to hide downvotes then if the spin becomes "Biden wants it" without any proof, Biden videos will keep being downvoted only because those who oppose to him think he is censoring YouTube But that's
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by africanboy 6y ago
most of the votes (up and down) don't come from real people and do not represent real users' opinions and are casted for the most stupid reasons, like in DIY video example I am friend with the author or am friend of a competitor.
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by africanboy 6y ago
https://fringe.fandom.com/wiki/White_Tulip
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by africanboy 6y ago
is sex a battery?
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by africanboy 6y ago
the obvious conclusion then is that even poo is more useful than bitcoins.
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by africanboy 6y ago
in this scenario am I a battery because I can make my own wood? and is the tree I am cutting a battery too? wouldn't it be easier (and more sustainable) then to plant trees than mine bitcoins?
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by africanboy 6y ago
it's a waste for 99.9% of the World population, assuming that bitcoin's 6 million wallets represent 6 million different people. So yes, it's arithmetically a total waste.
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by africanboy 6y ago
> I assert verbal self-narrative is not necessary for free will. You assert otherwise? Why? Why don't you? If higher cognitive functions are not necessary, than a virus can have free will. bovines don't lack self narrative, the
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by africanboy 6y ago
> Or what “free will” is. I did poor terms to describe what we already don't have a solid explanation for > whose language I do not speak would pass and fail exactly the same tests as me if there was a test that didn’t depend o
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by africanboy 6y ago
> What would that look like? Running away? Because that behaviour pops up in news often enough. Exactly. As I've said if they can't explain to us what they are doing and why, it is completely useless to try to frame or define i
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by africanboy 6y ago
because if you scan the brain of a cow with an MRI and start talking about free will to it, nothing lights up. they respond to food, loud noises, other physical stimuli, but not to philosophy. Also, if you open the gates of a farm, cows don
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by africanboy 6y ago
> Maybe don't impregnate them then > That's funny to you? It happens every year to wild cows too that are impregnated by males because that's what bovines do. they don't plan on parenting Also calf mortality is cor
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by africanboy 6y ago
> I challenge you to define “free will” in a way which is simultaneously testable, and also something humans have and other animals lack every animal, except humans, lack the neurological structures to process the concept of "free w
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by africanboy 6y ago
> US Mean income is much much higher - various sources show something around $70K that's per household, not per capita.
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by africanboy 6y ago
the country of China is as big as the USA but hosts 4 times the population the median salary in US is $ 36k/year[1] in China is $ 13.5k, but cost of living in China is more than 50% cheaper than in US on average and education is basica

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