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by glerk 3y ago
> I agree strongly with the goals of the law What exactly do you agree with? This is clearly just a shakedown and they're making very little effort to disguise it. Are you a shareholder of the corporations that will benefit from thi
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by glerk 3y ago
Any authoritarian state will label dissidents as "criminals". If you want to flee Russia or Venezuela today without forfeiting all your property, crypto can come in handy. This is very much a positive use case if you value individ
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by glerk 3y ago
Cool, but that’s not what you asked, and you’re moving the goalposts. I suggest you slow down and think about the pros/cons/tradeoffs instead of automatically going down the decision tree of this argument.
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by glerk 3y ago
Uncensorable money across borders
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by glerk 3y ago
Please take this as constructive criticism: telling an interviewer you’re not interested in the product and you only care about collecting a paycheck comes across as arrogant and is a huge red flag. Ultimately, people hire people they want
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by glerk 3y ago
> this is justice Meh. This is society taking revenge on an individual by locking him up and offering him no chance for redemption. Maybe that's the best form of "justice" we can do for now, but let's not celebrate it
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by glerk 3y ago
It’s the DEA, so this is more like a priest getting fired from a church for not following the dogmas.
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by glerk 3y ago
Fine, so print warnings on the bottle and make me sign a disclaimer. Isn’t it more harmful to create a black market with no quality controls? Isn’t it more harmful to ruin countless lives with felony convictions?
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by glerk 3y ago
What are the ethics for preventing a mentally stable, tax paying adult from consuming whatever mind altering chemical they want?
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by glerk 3y ago
I just wish there was a “treat me like an adult” button.
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by glerk 3y ago
Mine also correctly answered that she was alive at noon, but added his standard infuriating disclaimer in the last sentence: > However, always remember that real-life medical situations can be complex, and this is a simple logical deduct
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by glerk 3y ago
> we just need a law Who is “we”? How would this “law” be compatible with the US constitution? How would this “law” be enforced? This must be the most naive take in this entire thread.
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by glerk 3y ago
Great day for crypto and for financial freedom in general. Great to see the justice system finally rebuking these unelected bureaucrats and placing some limits on the power they claim to have.
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by glerk 3y ago
> Canadian tax policy is better suited to redistribute the gains from that than U.S. tax policy Nothing attracts profitable businesses and high earning individuals more than a tax policy optimized to redistribute those gains.
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by glerk 3y ago
Correct. And if you personally don't see anything of value being created by cryptocurrencies, nobody is forcing you to invest or work in this field. It's the beauty of free markets when they're allowed to operate properly. Bt
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by glerk 3y ago
This is hilarious. So crypto exchanges selling “securities” will be driven out of the US. Ok. US users will have to first buy “approved” cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, transfer them to a non-US exchange or p2p exchange like Bisq and use a V
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by glerk 3y ago
If everyone stops doing it, it ceases to be customary. So it’s on each of us to do our part and refuse these new customs. Also how does one become an “etiquette expert”? Are there some certs I can take?
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by glerk 3y ago
Ah yes countries where you face long prison sentences or, in the case of Singapore, the death penalty , for weed possession. This is the kind of society you want to live in?
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by glerk 3y ago
I am convinced most fentanyl addicts got hooked on it because it is the only thing they could get their hands on. Fentanyl is a consequence of the drug trade being driven underground and controlled by unscrupulous street dealers. Who in the
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by glerk 3y ago
Even at comparable levels of intelligence and social coordination, agility and opposable thumbs go a long way. This is a fun thought experiment, but my bet is on the humans.
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by glerk 3y ago
I’m a firm believer that copyright is 100% bullshit and nobody should get to own ideas.
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by glerk 3y ago
Our ancestors probably also had to put up with people like you trying to prevent them from making fires because night is the great equalizer and everyone should sleep when it's dark or some other nonsense. I feel miserable just trying
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by glerk 3y ago
You conveniently skipped over the "your account is frozen" and "your transactions are flagged and reversed" parts, and you are splitting hairs now. If you're not concerned by the problems addressed by cryptocurrency
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by glerk 3y ago
A bitcoin block is mined every 10min and 1-2 blocks is usually enough for the transaction to be considered settled (6 blocks used to be the convention, but with today’s hash rates it is very unlikely 2 blocks will be reversed). The confirma
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by glerk 3y ago
I can move my assets across borders instantaneously and exchange them for local currency whenever I need it. There is value in digital assets that are not bound to any jurisdiction.
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by glerk 4y ago
There is no good answer to this. I suggest not wasting your time trying to argue in good faith with irrational or straight up malicious actors. Better invest in ways to protect yourself, your assets and your anonymity through technology.
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by glerk 4y ago
I admit I am playing the devil's advocate, but not trying to be disingenuous. The intention behind an ephemeral chat application is to allow private communication without creating a record. From the end user's perspective, the mes
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by glerk 4y ago
> What Google called off the record chats were 24 hour history chats. Ah, I missed that part, that's a very compelling argument. I disagree these are not language games though. The way the chat application was kept from preserving h
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by glerk 4y ago
Who gets to decide what is "potential evidence"? If we're going to play language games, turning the chat history off doesn't really destroy anything, just prevents the paper trail from being created.
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by glerk 4y ago
The truth is we are letting antisocial criminal trash walk freely around downtown and terrorize the local population. I think a lot of people live in their nice neighborhood bubble and have never stepped foot in FiDi or SOMA. Since I moved

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