cinquemb

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by cinquemb 5y ago
Yeah, a full clip pointed to your head? Though, I guess thats not much of Russian Roulette anymore :P
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Following your logic, its a great thing that local authorities didn't do anything stop the local gangs, nor encourage taking any safety measures to protect yourself. They did, always another task force this that or another (I was
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> but I'd be more tactful about how you frame it. Fair enough, but thats never really how i've been, and old habits die hard. > So many people have had no choice but to comply with some pretty harsh restrictions True, but t
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Not living in fear doesn't have to mean pretending that life has no risks. Ha, I faced more risks growing up when I had to avoid the local gangs walking to school as a kid than I do now. Most people never gave a shit about that (a
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by cinquemb 5y ago
It's just my preference to not want to live in fear (i've long left the US) and have more freedom in practice (due to lack of ability for government to enforce or government practices). There are plenty of other countries that are
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Interestingly enough, also has no covid restrictions [NO test, NO quarantine, NO vaccine]: https://www.travelinglifestyle.net/countries-without-covid-t... Would be great to see more remote friendly + no covid restriction pl
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> And then you can say, "But I'm using encryption," and the government mandates that they have a back door into all encrypted traffic that goes through their borders. And then one can compromise and infect millions of such
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Yellen Redacted 73 Meetings/Calls in First 3 Months in Office(wallstreetonparade.com)
32 points by cinquemb 5y ago|1 comments
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Pros and cons ;P 4th largest country by population
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> There are some decentralized stablecoins Most people clamoring for regs around stablecoins haven't gotten a chance to wrap their minds around this yet… nor have most of them considered the $ demom "cash and cash equivalents&q
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by cinquemb 5y ago
People who move to these places will continue to vote for this crap… better for us as individuals not supportive of moral hazards at play here (these are not the only examples of some taking excessive risk, only to realize the costs of doin
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by cinquemb 5y ago
I've been living abroad for almost six years, I've been working remotely, and for the visa I've needed for where I've wanted to be I do not need a local bank account (I can renew every year or every two years which is th
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by cinquemb 5y ago
It was more inconvenient in the past, but with things like (transfer)wise/paypal/stablecoins+crypto it's not that big an issue. Easier for me to be bankless as an american abroad than to try bother to jump through all the hoo
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Don't Be Fooled by the Bipartisan, 'Paid for' Infrastructure Bill(realclearmarkets.com)
10 points by cinquemb 5y ago|2 comments
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> which virtually guarantees more-onerous rules than would have been necessary. I see this as a good thing™, since more onerous rules will probably negatively affect a lot more people who may not even care about cryptocurrency just becau
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> You'd have to be extremely anti-crypto to think it justifies the creation of a Chinese-style great firewall and the associated surveillance state. Even then, I see plenty of chinese users (talking in mandarin) on various forums&#x
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> This will just end up being another "I promise I'm not a US person" checkbox when you sign up for cryptocurrency services. And that's only for centralized services… permissionless decentralized protocols with no art
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Bauxite + SCO2 CSP at Sandia(solarpaces.org)
2 points by cinquemb 5y ago|0 comments
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Supercritical CO2 Tech Team(energy.gov)
76 points by cinquemb 5y ago|50 comments
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by cinquemb 5y ago
If by trying to avoid aiding and abbeting the system described as: > …giant banks and institutions received trillions of dollars in unprecedented bail outs [1] while 'main street' suffered with record unemployment, foreclosures
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Unfortunately, today it's 90% people trying to get rich quick. And that is, unsurprisingly (and quite banally), used by many detractors to dismiss it all while handwaving away: > Bitcoin was born in the aftermath of the globa
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Yup, nation states should apply violence to their own productive populations so they can collect tax in perpetuity from the dead bodies they leave in their wake.
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by cinquemb 5y ago
What you are saying isn't that depressing, I think it makes a lot of sense. But perceived abuses do take time for people to eventually take action that can actually effect companies/states bottom lines. I can imagine at some point
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> If we were to perform a cyber analog of what the founding fathers did for the USA 250 years ago, it would be something along the lines of declaring all software free from the tyranny of corporate control and state oppression. … and the
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JPM Gave 550 Customer Passwords and Usernames to “Active Customer” for a Decade(wallstreetonparade.com)
2 points by cinquemb 5y ago|0 comments
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Probably can do other things on blockchains, but i'd like to see people use federated networks like mastodon/matrix instances before that. DeFi has alot of power because of the social economic implications that finance does in the
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by cinquemb 5y ago
I wish brave forked from FF when Brendan Eich resigned, now im "stuck" removing crap once every so often that ff adds and recompiling and I have no interest in chromium. Oh well, glad for FOSS!
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by cinquemb 5y ago
This also conflates institutionalized schooling with knowledge of Tuskegee (as well as education == institutionalized schooling, but this is typical among many)
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Status Madness Starves Religion(overcomingbias.com)
2 points by cinquemb 5y ago|0 comments
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Sounds like a market: backpack faraday cages and gps spoofing marketed to kids thru animated cartoons on the internet where they find a way to spend their parents money on it.

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