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by etherael 4y ago
Giving North Korean citizens access to an economy outside their locked down one where they can engage in trade may well be the exact opposite of collaborating with the North Korean regime. This could easily be the most practical and realist
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by etherael 4y ago
I can understand if it mutates to the point of circumventing the original immunity and there's a new vaccine variant to address that specific mutation but as you yourself point out, that doesn't apply here, so I don't get it?
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by etherael 4y ago
Why? They said they already had it which means they'd now have natural immunity. What would be the point of getting a vaccine for something you're already immune to? Am I missing something here?
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by etherael 4y ago
> I dont think anyone has ever yet explained how this is meant to function as a currency. It's called money, people use it to buy goods and services. If you can't say this with no qualifications about a crypto, then it's n
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by etherael 4y ago
It's worse than most places that aren't China tier if you simply observe what happened there over the past two years, but it's true that basically the entire world with very few exceptions to lesser or greater extent really d
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by etherael 4y ago
I can easily imagine such laws in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. They already exist in Australia. The consensual mass hallucination regarding those places is that they are democratic countries that profess to value free speech. But of
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by etherael 4y ago
I'm talking about the entirety of the new wave of "narrative sculpting", of which reddit is most definitely a significant part, by censorious mechanisms as an adjunct to what was previously a prevalent and well accepted viewp
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by etherael 4y ago
To ask the question misses the point entirely and demonstrates the malfunction; In the presence of what I claim to be this optimal regime of information restriction which has concealed instances of what I am seeking to be informed of, infor
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by etherael 4y ago
Can't you see the problem with holding as evidence your position of ignorance that anything is wrong with the situation as it stands, whilst the situation which you argue in support of is explicitly designed to impose that position of
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by etherael 5y ago
Russia can be provoked into the war and the war can still be unjust at the same time. It's not an either or scenario. If someone calls me a name and I summarily execute them, it would be both provoked, and unjust in much the same way.
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by etherael 5y ago
> manipulation (e.g. filtering "disinformation")? This makes it basically unusable for anything that isn't a technical question, for which it is still reasonably good if you restrict to sites where it will likely get a re
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by etherael 5y ago
> The whitepaper is not an authority, the project is allowed to evolve and that doesn't make it illegitimate. The whitepaper is a statement of intent, what the project is actually for . It can evolve into anything that still serves
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by etherael 5y ago
> Your argument is still predicated on the fact that BCH is the "real" Bitcoin, and that it's strictly better. No, it isn't. It accurately reflects the original intent as outlined in the whitepaper, that is not an arg
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by etherael 5y ago
Also, it's a critical point to make; the hashpower doesn't "choose" anything, it just mines whatever is the most profitable at any given point in time. Any other strategy loses to that.
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by etherael 5y ago
Most people aren't even aware that it happened so you're miles ahead of the game just from that alone. As far as forcing them to do it, if the market was more aware and willing to actually pursue the purpose of all this to begin w
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by etherael 5y ago
> Nobody is disputing that BTC needs to scale throughput, you misunderstand my point. Bcash was a disagreement on how to scale it. And changing a bridge into an airport might be characterised as a disagreement on how to cross the river i
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by etherael 5y ago
> lol, were you around when this was going on? People were absolutely losing their shit about bcash. This post really takes me back to that honestly. I was, and I recall that the vast majority of trade volume was not constituted in USDT
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by etherael 5y ago
> Node operators who didn't intentionally switch over to the Bitcoin Cash software were mining on the original Bitcoin chain, not the other way around. Which is to say; they were entirely duped by the complete change in direction an
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by etherael 5y ago
> You realize if there is a fork in Bitcoin, your coins would exist on both sides of it right? In theory. In practice a lot of people will never bother to track splits, understand the intricacies of what a given fork means; case in point
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by etherael 5y ago
So next time they organise a soft-fork and have their crony exchanges insist on allocating the ticker to their soft-fork for whatever, that's not going to consist of a "failure of trust" on their part at all? And before you c
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by etherael 5y ago
And why would you trust Greg Maxwell and his gang?
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by etherael 5y ago
Gov confiscated all footage of incident is not the same thing as because incident nature was x and they were conducting a coverup. (I have no idea if the footage was confiscated from all people, only that the footage from certain fixed near
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by etherael 5y ago
If the trend continues, we very well may.
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by etherael 5y ago
This assumes there are no negative externalities to the curtailing of free speech, which is laughably untrue. People now are no less rational than they have been the past few centuries when free speech was allowed to prosper unmolested. And
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by etherael 5y ago
The censorship was well underway before Trump, at best it accelerated it.
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by etherael 5y ago
They should indeed just ignore them, free speech wasn't arrived at as an optimal path by accident. Nothing changed to make it not-optimal. People need to adapt to not believing every stupid thing they read on the internet and actually
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by etherael 5y ago
I think you misunderstand me because I don't disagree with anything you're really saying here. In fact you observe that success at scale results in the accumulation of power over other people, and that's exactly my point; If
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by etherael 5y ago
Nice is not really the point, though. You can be perfectly polite and simultaneously violently hostile to the idea that you should understand anything about the way that things actually work, and that the structure of civilisation will simp
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by etherael 5y ago
To play devil's advocate here, I think it's a frequently repeating pattern for a reason that doesn't just boil down to the outliers who tread this well worn path over and over again being fundamentally broken or corrupt. You
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by etherael 5y ago
Sure it varies, and the high number on ARR is 1.32 percent. ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33652582/ ) I added a margin over that for safety and its still just not impressive. As far as getting through this without va

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