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by everfree 5y ago
I can't design a new society in the comments section. The question of how to reform the policing system to make cops more accountable for unlawful actions isn't really in the scope of this article.
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by everfree 5y ago
As I mentioned, the article clarifies that the law only applies in the case that an officer is interacting with a third party. A cop walking towards you is clearly interacting with you, not a third party, thus the law would not apply.
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by everfree 5y ago
While these people may be arrested and their cameras may be seized, they could easily sue for unlawful arrest if they were more than 8 feet away at the time. Exactly the same as if their cameras were seized before the 8-foot law were in eff
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by everfree 5y ago
Your comment, like many others in this thread, seems to be of the form "what if the police do this other, unrelated, illegal thing?" The solution is to make sure there are repercussions for cops doing illegal things, not to preven
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by everfree 5y ago
Cops unlawfully arrest people all the time for multitudes of reasons, but we have courts to deal with those cases of unlawful arrest. It should be very clear from an officer's body cam whether the recording party is within 8 feet. That
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by everfree 5y ago
According to the article, the ban only applies when the officer is interacting with someone other than yourself.
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by everfree 5y ago
The title is editorialized to be misleading. They aren't moving to ban video recording of police. The ban is on recording from within a distance of 8 feet, while the officer is interacting with someone else , which seems reasonable en
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by everfree 5y ago
US savings accounts is a very competitive industry that's traditionally been very responsive to underlying rates changes. All it takes is for a single bank to decide to raise their consumer rates in response to the rates they're t
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by everfree 5y ago
> This is disingenuous advice considering all financial vehicles for savers have been gutted. When you say "all financial vehicles for savers", you're really just referring to liquid savings products tied to the federal fu
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by everfree 5y ago
Anything that prompts Discord to provide more options regarding message retention would be a step forward. Instant messages were never designed to be a permanent storage medium for information archival. I don't think anybody should nee
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by everfree 5y ago
I hope they do ruin free message history. The lack of an option to limit Discord's message history to something sane like one year is a travesty for privacy.
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by everfree 5y ago
I don't disagree with most of your comment, but I do want to point out that the code to power Ethereum's switch to PoS is actually built out now and is in its final stages of testing. The latest Kiln test network is effectively a
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by everfree 5y ago
The phrase "ponzi scheme" has been thrown around liberally in regards to cryptocurrency, especially on this forum, but I've never heard a convincing argument that it actually fits the definition.
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by everfree 5y ago
None of that speaks to Bitcoin or Ethereum being scams. You've posted a wall of text about how they enable scams and how the community is riddled with fraud and pyramid schemes. Guess what, I agree with you. You accuse me of ignoring
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by everfree 5y ago
Many popular stocks (all stocks without dividends or buybacks) are like a Ponzi scheme in that all of the money used to pay early investors (through sale of the security) comes from later investors (buying into the security). However, they
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by everfree 5y ago
A friend asked me to watch that video back when it came out, but I couldn't get past all the technical inaccuracies about Bitcoin and Ethereum in the first half hour or so. Most of those links are about artwork NFTs, not Bitcoin or Eth
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by everfree 5y ago
Read my comment more closely. > some cryptocurrencies have expected cash flows Ethereum has cash flow which is expected to go positive after they switch their consensus model from mining to staking this year. At this point, I wouldn&#x27
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by everfree 5y ago
Why?
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by everfree 5y ago
> The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from legitimate business activity (e.g., product sales or successful investments), and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds. I think that's th
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by everfree 5y ago
> Yet Bitcoin is still considered the OG token and a "true" cryptocurrency as mentioned above and not old dangerous tech. The solution to that is to educate people on how Bitcoin is old dangerous tech, not to throw out all othe
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by everfree 5y ago
I'm not aware of any threats by developed countries to ban citizens from interacting with cryptocurrency networks. It seems like the trend is quite the opposite, actually: Most countries are clarifying and tightening up their regulatio
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by everfree 5y ago
Some stocks have no expected cash flows, some cryptocurrencies have expected cash flows. You can't generalize entire asset classes like that.
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by everfree 5y ago
> Anyone else who wants to participate and trade would have little choice but to follow your lead. Honest exchanges could let individuals trade it among themselves using an order book at no particular price, which is what they do. I woul
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by everfree 5y ago
> You have placed all your trust and blind faith in these unregulated exchanges that no one ever audits. As I mentioned in the other comment thread, Coinbase and Kraken trade USDT, are highly regulated under US law, and are audited regul
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by everfree 5y ago
Is Kraken another exception? They also trade USDT and comply with KYC, and they undergo semiannual third party audits.
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by everfree 5y ago
> Has your favorite exchange ever been audited by the SEC to confirm it is actually playing by theses rules? Coinbase does not trade what are currently considered securities by law, so its trading operations are not subject to SEC oversi
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by everfree 5y ago
> Yes, it does. Crypto isn't a regulated market. As long as the scam stays inside crypto land, it is totally legal. As far as the SEC and CFTC are concerned, you're playing a game with Monopoly money. That's your opinion.
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by everfree 5y ago
> fraud is not even illegal Just like all other non-bank fintech companies (like Paypal, Square, etc.), US crypto exchanges are regulated by FinCEN, the Bank Secrecy Act, and the Patriot Act, and are obviously legally liable if they try
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by everfree 5y ago
Why would stablecoins other than Tether die?
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by everfree 5y ago
The title isn't really accurate. It wasn't a bug to create ETH, it was a bug to steal ETH from the Optimism contract.

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