jedimind

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by jedimind 3y ago
I'm talking about tweets with 20k+ likes which contain outright lies and demonization of immigrants., so it's not "tailored" made to engage me, they are typical right-wing talking points.
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>I don't think there's any real evidence that people of immigrant background get "murdered by the police on a systemic basis" in France. If you have well sourced statistics on this, feel free to post, but for now it j
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by jedimind 3y ago
Getting oppressed and murdered by the police on a systemic basis is somewhat different compared to some individual's terrible reaction to a provocation. it's a sick system vs a sick individual, thus it's quite the reach to ma
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by jedimind 3y ago
If that were the case, then why is it that the most of the propaganda against him or individuals of similar background involves the notion of "he wasn't a 'real' french person" and demonizing everything about them t
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by jedimind 3y ago
Can you provide sources for your claims and make good faith comparisons based on evidence? As I posted below: Crypto doesn't even hold a candle to the criminal activity that's going on in traditional banking. It's a public le
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by jedimind 3y ago
Crypto doesn't even hold a candle to the criminal activity that's going on in traditional banking. It's a public ledger after all, that's why more and more chain analysis startups are gaining traction and more criminals
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by jedimind 4y ago
Is this the same BBC that's quick to whitewash Israeli apartheid policies? The corruption of FIFA was apparent for a long time, yet it's only now that certain governments seem to loudly voice their criticism. Don't get me wro
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by jedimind 4y ago
>You seem to have a lot unuanced, inflexible and strongly held beliefs about this all. Peak projection. At least I provided arguments based on evidence, while you just stated your opinion which clearly ignores any evidence of corruption
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by jedimind 4y ago
>I haven't seen any government want to use blockhains or anything decentralized for their CDBCs. They are not a copy of cryptocurrencies. Wrong, they are. Just because you haven't seen or studied it, doesn't mean it isn&
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by jedimind 4y ago
How is that a relevant question? It's like asking if people really widely used credit cards for payments in the early days of their development. If you study the history of credit cards there are amusing stories likes companies even ma
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by jedimind 4y ago
>I'm just of the opinion that whatever next steady state situation we might find out on the other end of a crypto-world isn't necessarily going to be better, or relatively better enough. Oh is that so? Curious that governments
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by jedimind 4y ago
>Plenty of "smart contracts" have been drained due to programming flaws because they are so extremely complicated. So? In the early days of the internet credit card scams and all sorts of scams were running rampant, the solutio
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by jedimind 4y ago
loaded question. there is enough material out there to convince any good faith actor that cryptocurrencies were the breeding ground and driver for innovations in cryptography research and application (zero knowledge proofs, verifiable compu
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by jedimind 4y ago
>Give me one example of that then. For the 4th time: [Empire Files: How Palestine Became Colonized]( https://youtu.be/BT5L4YU_Fl4 ) Watch it, the documented evidence recorded about 1000x of the evidence you asked for. You
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by jedimind 4y ago
>If those links are the best you can do, then I stand by my claims. That's all you have: empty vapid rhetoric, no evidence, no arguments, just shallow childish claims. "Noam Chomsky: Israel’s Actions in Palestine are “Much Wors
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by jedimind 4y ago
>You just repeated the same things. Yes, I will repeat the evidence as long as you keep ignoring it, makes sense doesn't it? >That's does not make Israel a terrorist state. Doing acts of terrorism for 70+ years doesn't
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by jedimind 4y ago
> I'm not going to waste my time arguing with you. You seem to have a firm belief. It's not objective and factually incorrect. Yet here you are, arguing with me, making more baseless vapid claims which you can't be bothere
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by jedimind 4y ago
> What are these acts of terrorism then? Sources please. [Empire Files: How Palestine Became Colonized]( https://youtu.be/BT5L4YU_Fl4 ) [Israeli Army Vet’s Exposé - “I Was the Terrorist”]( https://youtu.be/1
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by jedimind 4y ago
Let's see, am I going to believe the overwhelming amount of evidence or am I going to believe the guy that makes a baseless emotional claim denying the evidence. I think I will go with the former. If Israel is not a terrorist state,
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by jedimind 4y ago
Traditional finance also makes it easier for terrorist states like Israel, so I don’t really understand your biased judgment here. Money and State need to be separated so states don’t have the ability to start endless wars enabled via arbit
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by jedimind 4y ago
Occam's razor: money. They get a cut of that sweet VC money. Wouldn't be surprised if they drop them the minute the partnership money dries up.
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by jedimind 4y ago
this is exactly kind of stuff that makes me distrust brave, they give off shady sell out vibes with terrible partnerships like this
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by jedimind 4y ago
How did no one ever think of this? We should have world peace by afternoon.
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by jedimind 4y ago
Pointing out that you are spreading misinformation is "Proclamation of someone's idiocy"? Stop spreading factually incorrect information and people will stop calling you out on it. >Usually the person making that claim is
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>The point is that you can't know. That's the purpose of a money laundering operation. Wrong. You can in fact know, because it has auditing tools which allow one to disclose transactions exactly for AML reasons. At least put in
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by jedimind 4y ago
Again, no. It's like asking "Isn't the point of SSL or End2End encryption for chats committing illegal activities?" Authoritarian governments should really start hanging around on HN, they would love the sentiment here..
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by jedimind 4y ago
For privacy. It's like asking what SSL is good for other than criminal activity. Vitalik himself used tornado cash for private transactions. Do you think that Vitalik openly launders money?
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by jedimind 4y ago
One can always infinitely shift the goal post and nitpick if one has an axe to grind. The point is aiming for as little or as much decentralization possible to realize certain properties, it's not about having decentralization for the
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by jedimind 4y ago
It is also worth pointing out that centralized systems tend to drive people towards wanting decentralization over time, since it's only a matter of time until individuals get burned by the arbitrary whims of the rulers over centralized
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by jedimind 4y ago
That's a Nonargument https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonargument . Giving examples of technologies that can also be considered "a waste of energy" is a valid argument. Why is using energy play

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