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6y ago
You can't be a 'World Health Organisation' if you refuse to talk about a crucial region of millions of people that had the best response and most important information. It's clearly rotten at the core.
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6y ago
I'm not so sure. People wouldn't be so afraid to share it and admit that they agree.
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6y ago
You just proved the comment you're replying to.
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6y ago
The author still seems highly focused on their social image. They say it became a sort of personality signal that they were a big coffee drinker, now are making a loud social signal about quitting. Also impossible for me to imagine spending
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6y ago
That site requires identification. So the owner of the coins is known by everyone with the dataset (which that will be shared with chain analysis companies), as well as the website owners and the trader you trade with. Pretty big set
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6y ago
Most of the genuine use-cases would do much better with privacy, it goes hand-in-hand with payments that traditional finance may try to censor.
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6y ago
Exactly. A messaging app isnt private just because you never message anyone
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6y ago
Dandelion is running now
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6y ago
> Bitcoin has really settled down in terms of price swings over the last year. It did have a major covid crash, but aside from that it's been very stable for the past year. lol what? It went from $7000 to $10500 to $4000 to $10400..
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6y ago
Barely anyone understands this technology well, and so they listen to celebrity Bitcoiners that have a vested interest. It's also difficult to find the one good alternative project among is a sea of well-funded scams. Marketing is impo
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Customers don't want to put themselves at risk either. Most illegal activity is rapidly switching to monero as people learn that Bitcoin is easily traceable unless people take confusing and expensive countermeasures. It's not diff
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6y ago
The ability to install a custom OS like LineageOS again gives the advantage back to android
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6y ago
People doing high-profile illegal activities will always be able to use simple open-source software, that cannot be stopped. Terrorism is not a valid reason - well, perhaps unless you're going to take the jump to including a Chinese na
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6y ago
In the long term yes the halving schedule must lead to huge fees (eventually there will be zero inflation). As inflation decreases, miners have to be paid by fees to secure the network. Otherwise the security collapses.
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7y ago
Food and water supply are important too, who said you can only ¨focus¨ on vaccines? I don't really understand your argument. The controversy with fluoride where some countries are totally against it while others love it shows water is
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7y ago
If anyone's wondering why we have anti-vaxxers... Well, we are living in a time when bodies that could abuse them have proven time and time again that they deserve absolutely zero trust. The root cause is a completely rational crisis o