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by eric_cc 4y ago
> if I operate a pawn shop Tornado Cash is not a company and nobody operates it. It is a privacy protocol. Better to say “If I am a HTTPS”…
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by eric_cc 4y ago
> A money laundering operation Tornado Cash is not a money laundering operation. It is a privacy tool.
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Didn’t they throw away the keys to the smart contract a long time ago?
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> The right to privacy ends at the moment that it is used as an excuse to evade the law. With your logic we’d lose 100% of our privacy. Privacy of your own home? You could setup a drug lab. Privacy of your own phone/computer? Can ru
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by eric_cc 4y ago
Except it’s not and you’re 100% wrong. Tornado cash is used by people who buy crypto on centralized exchanges, want to take private self custody of their crypto without the CEX or other entity spying on them.
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A horrible attempt. Tornado cash is used for privacy. Cell phones are used in laundering. Let’s ban cell phones.
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by eric_cc 4y ago
TornadoCash is not only for laundering. When you buy ETH on a centralized exchange, send to a self-custody wallet, they can then watch your funds and perform on-chain analytics on you, etcetc. Tornado Cash helps fix this.
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by eric_cc 4y ago
What if you buy ETH on coinbase and use tornado cash to simply stop coinbase from spying on your funds?
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by eric_cc 4y ago
I’m not sure what your point is by saying that perfect privacy does not exist. > privacy - noun - the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. We have the right to privacy and this is what privac
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Tolkien on Tom in Letter 144: I might put it this way. The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship, moderated freedom with consent against compulsion that has long lo
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> But I know a lot of people who find Tom irrelevant to the plot. Probably the people who most need to understand why he is in there.
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100% agree with you. Tom was my favorite character and an essential one in my opinion. I was one of those people that was deeply disappointed by his absence. Tom is entirely beyond caring about "good" or "evil". His peac
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by eric_cc 4y ago
> They could all be built without tokens or a blockchain if they wanted to. How would you build a decentralized, cross-chain asset exchange without a blockchain? I agree there are far too many superfluous tokens. But there are plenty of
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by eric_cc 4y ago
> Can police be unbundled over the course of years and result in an overall net good? Emphatically yes. Do you have proof or some source to support this idea?
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> I can not possibly believe that the police are an overall force for good So you’ve made a definitive conclusion and will now approach information with this bias. > At this point, you can turn on the news and the evidence is right th
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by eric_cc 4y ago
Can you give a good example of how one of bitcoin’s “managers” changed bitcoin recently?
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Large platforms (twitter, YouTube, etc) banning views that they don’t agree with gives them power to truly shape society by controlling acceptable discourse. What they deem outright information may in fact be true. And even allowing clear m
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> All states that had a trigger law to ban abortions also do not have paid family leave. So they only kinda sorta care about the child in the womb but not about the mother or the child when they are born. Or they’re more capitalist in th
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I think it’s totally fair to respond to this in multiple ways. Legal and economic repercussions are important discussions. So is the practical impact to women. There is no reason to belittle people for considering various aspects of this ru
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Practically everybody knows this already and yet this comment shows up every time freedom of speech is discussed. Censorship is bad even when legally permissible. And we should still fight corporations acting unethically even when the law i
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by eric_cc 4y ago
> The Trump administration It was Trump’s fault!! /s So what you’re saying is we should be more concerned with defense and accept that viruses will be engineered. I don’t disagree with this line of thinking but I also believe we mus
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> it is a distraction. It doesn't help solve the crisis. This is extremely naive. Do you really believe it won’t happen all over again? The real crisis is not Covid. It’s how easy something even worse than Covid could be started tod
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> we cooked them up When you say “we”, who do you mean exactly? How did they cook them? Can you explain why you believe the pandemic is not over?
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> If this was a lab leak, it means that this kind of research is far more dangerous than we've been lead to believe Even if it wasn’t a lab leak, it could have been. So whether it was or was not should not change your opinion about
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by eric_cc 4y ago
I want to add emphasis that we Should be nice to each other! Re-read my comment and felt it lacked that important point.
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The complete bullish thesis is still in tact. In fact, the thesis is as strong as it ever has been. Nothing has changed but the price.
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> as a cis white dude Speaking like this reveals that you are part of the subculture obsessed with gender identity. If you talked this way to me at work, I certainly would not want to associate with you. I do not go to work for exposure
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Yes. As long as said person does not bother them at work. Violence or threat of violence at the workplace should not be tolerated regardless of motive.
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> I don't make 12 trips a day to stores/friends/whatever when I can just make one or two Forget gas: This type behavior is a waste of time! The most precious resource of all.
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Even if > billionaires should not exist at all Hell no to > a heavy wealth tax The federal government is the last organization on earth that deserves more money.

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