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Good luck.
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Please don't insist that "leftist fascist" is a thing. Sorry that people don't react with perfect civility to your uncivil attempts to create an ethnostate. That doesn't make you a victim.
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The backlash is not devoid of logic and facts. Again, a shitty argument does not merit a thesis on it's shittyness from everyone who dismisses it, and there are plenty of in-depth critiques that you would've sought out if your age
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Most people don't agree with the contents of the memo, or it's conclusion. But HN is filled with a specific breed of pseudo-intellectual that I will happily poke fun at whenever possible.
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W.. what? Literally your post. I'd have to quote the whole thing. "many people's first instinct". It wasn't many people's first instinct. Again, I read the article, many others read the article and wrote detail
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The state doesn't censor speech. Hate speech laws (in the US, anyway) aren't very strong, for example the Supreme Court in the USA didn't rule against the Westboro Baptist Church or even people burning crosses on black family
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Both political extremes are not the same. Getting fired over a creepy manifesto that you chose to make public isn't censorship, and not a threat to your "rights".
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The far left is dunking on the center / Clinton establishment pretty hard all across the internet, which has been immensely satisfying. That being said, Clinton was pretty tepid and corrupt, not openly offensive and terrifying the way
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Some people may have reacted that way. I think you're very intentionally trying mischaracterize people rolling their eyes the same way they always do as some sort of ignorant knee-jerk reaction. I read the memo entirely. It was half-ba
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I meant to respond to the response someone else made: It's not a debate to be won. Some people just keep insisting it is with this cloying, sweaty desperation. It's embarrassing, and it's awful that these Silicon Valley ghoul
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I've never even heard of anyone getting a pension, out of all my friends in tech & myself. They're basically extinct at this point.
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No part of the original post implied this.
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He was found guilty of defrauding investors. He started a fund, lost a bunch of the money trying to make more money for himself doing unrelated things with it, and only gave it back much later by repeatedly lying to the original investors a
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I'd really love to step into this magical world cryptoconcurrency advocates invented where modern banking is impossibly terrible for most people to utilize, and Bitcoin is easier and has lower fees (it doesn't). This invention or
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I don't see how actively having to manage the volatility of your currency is "liberating" or a "lifesaver". I'm also not sure who or what would normally be restricting your spending, I live in the US and have o
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I don't follow. Would you mind naming some examples of the types of places you're thinking of?
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It sounds like you're describing normal banking + massive volatility. How is that a lifesaver or particularly liberating? And what do you actually buy with Bitcoin? Also curious: is there a debit card that you can back with Bitcoins?
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Scraping isn't shady.
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That sounds exciting! I always felt like there wasn't a need to "build" much past the first Mun mission, and grinding for science performing slight variations on the same task to get new parts was really boring. My first thou
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This is exactly what drove me crazy about it.
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I have a friend that started driving for Lyft, but only while he was seeking other employment. I don't think this need is being fulfilled by people quitting their jobs to become Lyft drivers, I think it's a primary income for a lo
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This is naive. People get the best job they can get, which is rarely the one they want. I was always forced to work more than 40 hours and I hated it but never had a choice when I was younger. I had employers erode all sorts of my rights an
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If someone found a valid use-case or actual market for Bitcoin outside of speculation that provided real value to everyday people. Or if the myriad of issues I've brought up had a solution and wouldn't just get worse with at scale
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Most people don't think about the value of the dollar or the conveniences of modern banking because it's become such a transparent part of our daily lives. That would very obviously change if it went away. I also lament the "
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I would agree the existence of cryptocurrencies is a net positive, aside from the environmental waste of mining them, though that's an impossibly tiny blip compared to anything else humanity does. I enjoy watching developments related
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Murder isn't really a "normal natural human behavior". Deferring to people's desire for a stable currency in a modern economy does not mean normalizing murder. Seriously: what?
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Imagining the scene from the end of Goodfellas, with Lorraine Bracco flushing handfuls of asics down the toilet.
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I didn't name the obvious problems because they've been talked over to death at this point, typically in that most-upvoted first post you mentioned initially. I think the largest issue with Bitcoin is precisely what you probably a
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I think it's incredibly interesting and the the tech / concept is extremely impressive. (We still don't even know who thought this up, do we?) That being said, I'm one of the people who have always mocked bitcoin. There
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I had a crazy idea re: a multiplayer roguelike engine that would be scriptable. It was a pipe-dream, mostly due to my skill level, and I abandoned it after using it as a hobby for roughly 3 years when it became clear it needed a massive rew

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