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by javert 5y ago
> My point was that you are actually very rarely in the case that studies are in conflict to the point that the best you can do is personal experience I didn't make my point very clearly, but my actual view is that only the research
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Nobody's arguing that.
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Flagged.
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You're being aggressive. Please stop. I wouldn't contest that more people die from alcohol than marajuana. That wasn't the issue under discussion. The issue is, which is worse for society. Part of why I find your comment so a
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by javert 5y ago
> Without opinion on the relative damage of both, I'll note that considering this a logical statement is really flawed. I can't understand what you are saying here. > You can pretty much always find "studies arguing for
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by javert 5y ago
> The societal risks are the same and additional worse ones with alcohol I don't think this is correct, personally. (I'm pretty sure you'll find studies arguing for both sides, so we can only go on personal wisdom.)
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This suggestion amounts to letting Ukrainian citizens die to avoid a miniscule chance of getting a Russian citizen arrested.
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by javert 5y ago
> "there is no section of the PATRIOT Act that includes..." DHS often flouts the law. (You aren't wrong, but I'm just saying.) > That would go even beyond the wildest accusations of domestic dragnet surveillance I
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by javert 5y ago
> The idea of a currency which has value because people give it value makes sense As a BTC proponent, I just want to say, I don't think this is what gives BTC value.
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by javert 5y ago
Everybody is saying "ask your lawyer." Good advice, but lawyers can be wrong . You know who's seen this a million times before and isn't going to be wrong? YC. So this is a valid question, assuming OP gets a response fr
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by javert 5y ago
I want to echo what a [dead] sibling comment is saying: It's a problem that you get the "posting too fast" error only after you have typed a comment. Maybe a long and well thought-out one that took a lot of time and effort. I
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by javert 5y ago
> I simply offered a counterexample. That isn't true. You offered a counterargument. > This is not relevant since the teaching is abstinence until marriage, not abstinence until college. A common effect of religious influence is
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by javert 5y ago
If I had to pick which better exemplified post modern society and absurdity, I'd pick unlimited government money printing by the Fed, over bitcoin. Weimar Germany pretty much defined what it means to be "post-modern," and the
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> Would love for you to point me in the direction of the supporting evidence. There is scholarly work arguing for this. George Selgin comes to mind as someone who I believe has written about this. There's probably also scholarly wor
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Economic progress was actually far better under the gold standard. That was the time of the industrial revolution. That was the first time great masses of humanity were lifted from poverty.
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by javert 5y ago
This is an incorrect view. When you rule out anecdotes, you're ruling out specific cases. But specific cases are how we learn. You can absolutely learn from specific cases. Moreover, specific cases are what studies are based on. And st
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by javert 5y ago
I'm sorry, but there are tons of young people from religious or conservative families who wait until marriage to have sex and marry young, and/or don't begin their sexual exploration until well into college. Your anecdotal po
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by javert 5y ago
What he said is true in rural America . In the religious areas, which is most of 'em. This is a divided country. You'd be shocked at how seriously people take religion and how it affects views on sex.
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by javert 5y ago
> Coinbase isn't doing this to be evil or centralized or controlling, they're literally just following the law. Nah, they're definitely in the business of regulatory capture. But they have to be. If they don't capture
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by javert 5y ago
I don't think so. I think you're likely to get tainted coins out of lightning, even if the coins you send in are untainted.
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by javert 5y ago
> This usage and definition by NHTSA predates the colloquial definition I don't think that's right, because countries could "recall" ambassadors, or parliament could be "recalled." Essentially, "recall&
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by javert 5y ago
What you are describing is a recall in a regulatory and legal sense, but not in a common English sense. In common English, a recall is when the product has to be returned to the manufacturer or taken to a dealer for a fix. In other words, &
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by javert 5y ago
Sorry to hear that. This practice degrades the signal to noise ratio of the language and in my view is absolutely indefensible. It's possible for languages to evolve in ways that make them objectively better or worse; we should strongl
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by javert 5y ago
It isn't a "recall" in common English. So, the title and story are wrong. Very disappointing on the part of Reuters. This is not quality journalism. Since they wrote it the way they did, I would guess there is some regulatory
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by javert 5y ago
> I'm not sure what you mean when you say that Bitcoin can scale by using 3rd party payment providers? Try thinking about it. It would work the same way PayPal works with USD. Bitcoin payments simply don't need to happen on the
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by javert 5y ago
> I don’t want to turn this thread into a crypto version of Wall Street Bets where people are arguing over their favorite coins it seems like that's exactly what you want. Given that you are spreading lots of misinformation and don&
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by javert 5y ago
It is not clear that proof of stake can be very decentralized. Proof of work, however, can be. Bitcoin can scale using 3rd party payment providers . That's exactly how fiat currencies are made to scale. We use Visa, PayPal, Zelle, ACH,
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by javert 5y ago
If you don't even have a compiler, it's easier to patch a binary that's already running than make one from scratch. That's a closer analogy to the situation under discussion.
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by javert 5y ago
I don't agree with that, but let's not litigate it. I only still reside in the US because I don't want to pay the exit tax to expatriate. I'm being kept against my will. But I'll make it out eventually, when I can m
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by javert 5y ago
If it's a just war, it could be. Depends on the specific case. For instance, it was moral for European countries to fight the Nazis.

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