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by habinero 4y ago
Of course not. I'm pointing out people upset with a small mandated inconvenience are completely fine with the imprisonment and forced medication of others.
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by habinero 4y ago
Valuing a nice walk over human freedom, autonomy and dignity sure is an interesting choice for a person who claims to be moral.
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by habinero 4y ago
That's a frankly stale misconception based on old prejudice and Hollywood tropes. It's unmoored from reality. Mental illness is not a monolith and it does not present the same way for different people. It also doesn't mean yo
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by habinero 4y ago
That's flat out not true.
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by habinero 4y ago
I just want to point out that we have several people in this thread talking about the blatant tyranny of being asked to wear a small face covering... ...while simultaneously advocating for the state to imprison and forcibly medicate others.
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by habinero 4y ago
I just want to make sure I'm understanding you correctly. Are you equating wearing a small piece of cloth -- something all of us are already legally required to do outdoors -- with jailing and forced treatment of the homeless?
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by habinero 4y ago
I don't think I would call any of this take "moral" or "ethical", and in the future, I would suggest refraining from using those words to refer to yourself. Homeless people are rarely dangerous. They don't want
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by habinero 4y ago
Well, there was that entire huge NFT crypto scam bubble. To a first and probably second approximation, crypto is only good for getting scammed and scamming others. There's a lot of overly credulous people in the field, which just attra
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by habinero 4y ago
Don't be gross.
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by habinero 4y ago
I'm sure you know exactly what shady thing you did to get yourself banned.
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AI-powered lawyer DoNotPay is neither AI powered nor a lawyer(twitter.com)
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by habinero 4y ago
You're complaining about a library, not Python.
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by habinero 4y ago
Neither Twitter nor Elon are bound by the 1A, so it's irrelevant. Also, why is the claim surprising? Elon has really only paid lip service to free speech, his actions have been all over the place.
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by habinero 4y ago
So go invest in something else and make your money there. The income limit is only $200K. I don't understand why you're so fixated on this one thing. This limitation was put in place for an extremely good reason: to protect people
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by habinero 4y ago
Take your conspiracy screeds elsewhere, please. This is a technology site, not Reddit.
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by habinero 4y ago
You're letting your conspiracy politics cloud your thinking. This entire screed is entirely irrational FUD. Stop. Canadian banks and regulators looking into potential money laundering is entirely reasonable and appropriate behavior.
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by habinero 4y ago
Sure, but they're called smart contracts because they're meant to literally codify an agreement. If you just want to trigger actions based on something and then store it, you don't need the machinery of the blockchain.
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by habinero 4y ago
What? I think you have some fundamental misunderstandings here. Buying a stake in a small biz is perfectly legal and people do it all the time. That's entirely separate from the requirement to be an accredited investor to buy unregiste
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by habinero 4y ago
Contracts aren't for when things go right, they're for when things go wrong. It's just as true to say contacts aren't "necessary" 99% of the time, because people follow through on the agreement.
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by habinero 4y ago
Contracts are agreements between humans. Therefore, the only "correct" outcome is the intended outcome. If your code has bugs or errors or security vulnerabilities, those will all lead to incorrect behavior. That's why smart
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by habinero 4y ago
This ridiculous straw man comes up all the time. Stop it. Nobody said "governments are always good" or denied that dictatorships exist. The rest of this is pure irrational FUD. Democracies are not dictatorships. A president doesn
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by habinero 4y ago
Owning gold/silver is legal. It's also regulated - it's not legal tender. Investing in a business is legal. It also means sending money, which is regulated by KYC/AML and you're still responsible for taxes.
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by habinero 4y ago
Sure, but it's not specific. I'm thinking more along the lines of requiring public SEC filings or prospectuses.
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by habinero 4y ago
No, and saying it's "astonishing" and "it's a threat to liberty" is ridiculous and incredibly overdramatic. It's just an app. Companies rise and fall, it's how it works. We lived just fine before it,
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by habinero 4y ago
No? "Non-government approved" either means "unregulated" or "illegal". Unregulated financial speculation has a lot of issues. See: FTX and NFTs
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by habinero 4y ago
Agreed. I've never understood why people think this.
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by habinero 4y ago
Smart contracts are useless and will always be useless for two reasons: 1. It is impossible to write code that always works exactly how you want, all of the time, forever. 2. Law exists. The legal system exists. The moment you have a proble
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by habinero 4y ago
> Central/commercial banks, Treasuries, etc. cannot abide any fire-exit that is not chained shut Ok, then call it what it actually is: tax evasion, fraud, and laundering money. You're getting caught up in an anti-government age
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by habinero 4y ago
Because "there are no regulations" is not permission to defraud others.
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by habinero 4y ago
None of those are things people care about, though, outside of a tiny niche. Most people find it pretty easy to avoid getting kicked off social media, and even if they do, it doesn't affect them. Likewise, "personal control of dat

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