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by kemotep 3y ago
Interestingly the article says the New York consolidation was allegedly one of the ways the city politicians were able to buck Tammany Hall. Obviously that was a different time and situation but why does that argument work for consolidating
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by kemotep 3y ago
Paper ballots does not mean absolutely zero computers are involved. I do not know about Germany but in the United States we have voting machines that print paper ballots and those are submitted to a vote counting machine but you can verify
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by kemotep 3y ago
The verifiability is the biggest one. One could conceivably develop a voting system that had perfect accountability, secrecy, and integrity, but would be far far more difficult to work out by hand. A zero knowledge roll up is not something
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by kemotep 3y ago
The war on drugs doesn’t stop people from using drugs yet many people are in prison because of drugs. If cost was a reason not to do it, most drugs would have been decriminalized and effectively made legal decades ago. Meth is not a legal c
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by kemotep 3y ago
That completely side steps the question at hand. You, a citizen of an authoritarian regime, are banned from doing transactions and participating in the economy because you are a dissident or not vaccinated or whatever. Why would that ban no
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by kemotep 3y ago
Why wouldn’t this hypothetical authoritarian government also just ban the use of crypto currency? If they then ban you from transacting while in their jurisdiction, and you don’t become homeless, starve to death, and so on, why would they n
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by kemotep 3y ago
Or maybe people changed how they voted? People who didn’t vote in 2016 voted in 2020, thus changing how that county voted. Is that not the point of voting?
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by kemotep 3y ago
I do not think we are going to reach a consensus on what reality is if you can read through that paper Putin published and not see it as calling to subjugate Ukraine, among other issues with its “facts”.
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by kemotep 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Rus... And then there is the actual annexation of Crimea in 2014 and Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk Oblasts in 2022. If annexation was not his goal,
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by kemotep 3y ago
So the problem with realism is why does Ukraine not have any agency of their own? Why does only Russia or the United States have a say and not the Ukrainian people about who they want to be allied with? In my opinion it is John Mearshiemer
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by kemotep 3y ago
Any HIPAA authorization form I have signed has had me spell out who is allowed to have access to my records, like my wife or another Doctor’s office. Did you read what you signed?
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by kemotep 3y ago
The solution to, the government is extrajudicially spying on our transactions and without due process blocking people from their finances, is not a system that uses an immutable public ledger. It’s reforming the law to protect people’s righ
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by kemotep 3y ago
One can be anti-extrajudicial government powers and anti-cryptocurrency. For one, I believe cryptocurrencies will be the government spyware of the future that allows for total control over our finances, since crypto evangelists push “code i
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by kemotep 3y ago
I will concede the concern that the bank won’t be able to just take your money in the case of using ethereum, but being unable to legally spend your ethereum in the country you physically reside in complicates things. And buying things over
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by kemotep 3y ago
This is what all those chain analysis companies claim to solve for, and allegedly law enforcement agencies have done in the past to de-anonymize people. Perhaps you are right about it not being feasible given enough volume and so on. But at
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by kemotep 3y ago
Putting your eth wallet keys on a “do not transact with” list would be pretty similar. Having to engage in “money laundering” such as those privacy measures you bring up being a reason the government may put an address on the block list wou
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by kemotep 3y ago
Can you specifically describe how Ethereum, where all transactions are public, would prevent this kind of surveillance?
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by kemotep 3y ago
So personally, I find the LGPL for libraries, GPL for local software, AGPL for remote software, and Apache license for small line count/scripts recommendations from the Free Software Foundation to be pretty straightforward. I guess I c
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by kemotep 3y ago
This does not answer the question, what does the redistribution of services from the old to the young looks like. If the issue is wealth disparity, then why only target the elderly not the young people who are wealthy as well?
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by kemotep 3y ago
What does shifting the services from the old to the young actually mean?
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by kemotep 3y ago
Only places near the equator will be parallel with the sun. Anywhere else, because the curve of the earth, there will always be an angle, and thus even at high noon on the summer solstice, there are still shadows in Alexandria. So I don’t u
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by kemotep 3y ago
That’s the entire thing! He read an account of a city so many miles away from where he was that on a specific day of the year had no shadows at noon. On that day in his city, shadows still were cast. If there was no discrepancies in the sha
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by kemotep 3y ago
I heard it was using a military unit’s standard marching pace to calculate the distance. Here is a wonderful video of Carl Sagan explaining it[0]. [0]: https://youtu.be/G8cbIWMv0rI?si=uRdlxGqBxxDTkUj6
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by kemotep 3y ago
An organization that depends on the cooperation of China and India probably won’t be as effective as it claims.
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by kemotep 3y ago
Bryan Lunduke has kind of gone off the deep end the past few years. It does always seem bizarre that Wikimedia alone gets called out when companies like Apple alone have enough in just cash to fund Wikimedia for the next 1,000 years. Unless
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by kemotep 3y ago
> Comply with all industry security standards Yeah this should just be the list. But then it wouldn’t be it’s own thing. It would just being SOC2 or NIST-800 certified.
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by kemotep 3y ago
There is a difference between being skeptical and being conspiratorial in thinking. We can be critical of mainstream media in its accuracy but not have to immediately trust the next person to come along. Especially when they utilize sources
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by kemotep 3y ago
John Stewart advocating for 9/11 first responders or you calling your Senator to tell them to support or oppose a bill would then be called what? That technically would be lobbying but you define that was also bribery.
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by kemotep 3y ago
The fifteen minute city conspiracies drive me crazy. Designing urban infrastructure to be people focused and not car focused should if anything be the liberation.
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by kemotep 3y ago
Additionally, if you don’t list a beneficiary on any of these accounts, they have to go through probate court to gain access. The fewer hurdles and headaches that your loved ones have to go through the better. Having dealt with this early t

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