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by glerk 5y ago
Sanctions have achieved nothing but isolate North Korea, ruin the lives of generations of innocent people and entrench an authoritarian ruling class. Sanctions are a crime against humanity.
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by glerk 5y ago
Great work! Simple and elegant. Makes me thinking of a simplified Rubik's cube.
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by glerk 5y ago
Yep, plutocracy in the open without loopholes, lobbying and corruption. Just directly weigh the votes by the amount of participation to the common pot.
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by glerk 5y ago
If we can dream of reforming the whole system, how about a voluntary tax in exchange for a governance stake? Like, the more tax I pay, the more say I have in the decisions my government makes?
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by glerk 5y ago
Any issues with your bladder? Have doctors mentioned anything about the potential damage to the urinary system? This seems to be the scariest side effect.
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by glerk 5y ago
Preventing individuals from moving their wealth across borders makes a government authoritarian for me. It doesn't matter which government it is.
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by glerk 5y ago
I was presupposing you can get yourself out. If you can't physically leave the country, owning crypto will not help you much, except perhaps to bribe some corrupt official who could smuggle you out. Similarly, if the electric grid goes
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by glerk 5y ago
For those saying that crypto is useless, here is a great use case. Authoritarian governments are currently preventing individuals from moving their property across borders. Crypto fixes that.
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by glerk 5y ago
1. This would set a dangerous precedent and undermine any trust we can have in an open and global internet. 2. As with many other "sanctions", this would affect mainly innocent civilians who have no say in the decisions of their g
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by glerk 5y ago
For everyone looking for a new registrar, I suggest Porkbun, they are usually cheaper, provide the same features as Namecheap and hav excellent customer support. In support of all the innocent people affected by Namecheap's actions, I
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by glerk 5y ago
This is disgusting. You are punishing innocent people for the decisions of their government. Do you even realize that your behavior does not help your own cause? Do you realize that innocent Russian people banned from your platform will be
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by glerk 5y ago
A similar bill passed in Colorado and resulted in many employers stopping hiring in Colorado to avoid having to comply. I hope this won’t have the same outcome.
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by glerk 5y ago
Sure, so we have it better the North Korea, for now. I should just count my blessings and allow authoritarianism to creep in?
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by glerk 5y ago
> The environmental impacts of cryptocurrencies have been discussed at length here on HN and elsewhere. The environmental impacts of cryptocurrency are not worse than any other economic activity, because any human activity requires energ
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by glerk 5y ago
How is owning and trading cryptocurrency akin to dumping oil into a river? That’s a weird analogy. Obviously, the river is a public good that I share with others, it is not mine to pollute. Banning cryptocurrency is not just “some restricti
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by glerk 5y ago
> crypto needs to be banned Genuine question: why would I fight to defend the “feee world” if at the end of the day, no matter the people in charge, I have no freedom?
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by glerk 5y ago
Why is this so hard to understand? “I don’t like crypto”. Ok, don’t use it. This anti-crypto cult has been rehashing the same arguments for years while the crypto space continues to build new applications and innovate.
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by glerk 5y ago
> This is so f’ing stupid, and in that way perfectly epitomizes what’s so broken about crypto. > nobody wants to run their own bank It sure looks like A LOT of people do. The real question is why are you so mad about it?
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by glerk 5y ago
There is a difference between physics and economics/social “science”.
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by glerk 5y ago
Cryptocurrencies give you the OPTION to use a trust-less decentralized system. If that’s not your cup of tea, nobody is forcing you to opt-in to this system. Go use a bank, or a centralized exchange, or whatever makes you happy. > At abs
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by glerk 5y ago
I always find it incredible that in our free and civilized societies an adult isn't allowed to decide what chemicals he can put in his body. He must first beg for them.
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by glerk 5y ago
Kucoin with a VPN is the way to go until everything moves to decentralized exchanges and we don’t have to deal with this nonsense anymore.
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by glerk 5y ago
I can’t stand this sarcastic and condescending tone. When someone talks to me like that, my instinct is to ignore whatever they have to say.
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by glerk 5y ago
> They're a relic of back when people believed in IQ tests were useful selection criteria. IQ tests are a very reliable proxy for academic performance potential. Is this even in dispute?
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by glerk 5y ago
This is caused by the way the US justice system is set up to be adversarial. I would much prefer a system where state prosecutors are seeking _justice_ for all parties involved not convictions at all cost.
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by glerk 5y ago
Because the adults in the room are too afraid to speak up.
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by glerk 5y ago
> Fundamentally it's the antithesis to democracy. Good. I never consented to capital controls, property confiscation, drug laws and all the other blessings that “democracy” has bestowed on me. Finally there might be a path to opting
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by glerk 5y ago
https://archive.is/lP87C
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by glerk 6y ago
The original cells were frozen in 1988 and since then the population of black-footed ferrets has dwindled to just a few individuals all living in captivity. The article mentions that all black-footed ferrets alive today are essentially half
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by glerk 6y ago
Most of the work done by some "journalists" in 2021 is regurgitating what they see on social media. They wouldn't want to be deprived of this low hanging fruit and go back to doing hard investigative work.

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