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by lowkey 5y ago
> That negative has to be offset by using the energy to do something useful. I think this is the real point you are trying to make. You don’t have an issue with the use of clean energy, provided you personally believe it is a useful use
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by lowkey 5y ago
Increasing global energy output isn't a negative, provided that energy output is clean energy. In fact, developing our ability to produce and use energy is virtually synonymous with the development of human civilization.
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by lowkey 5y ago
It's always been the case that banks had the ability to seize funds, what is new with this Emergency Order is that banks can now seize personal funds without evidence, based purely on suspicion and without legal liability if this power
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by lowkey 5y ago
> what would you instead recommend to the government to do so that people could carry on with their lives and not have their likelihood shut down? I understand how frustrating this is for Canadians who don't agree with either the pr
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by lowkey 5y ago
The price, measured in freedom, is too high in my opinion. In passing the Emergency Act the Canadian Government: - has given the banks the right to freeze bank accounts of suspected protesters without evidence and granted the banks full imm
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by lowkey 5y ago
Notably the Canadian government has numerous examples of employing agents provocateurs, enough examples that there is a section of the Wikipedia article dedicated to examples from the Canadian government. [0] [0] https://en.wikip
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by lowkey 5y ago
One relevant example of the Canadian gov breaking the law and lying about it until they were caught was the 2007 Security and Prosperity Partnership protests in Montebello Quebec. In that case the government used agent provocateurs (provoki
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by lowkey 5y ago
Except in this case the major private Canadian media all participated in taking something like $600 million Canadian dollars in subsidies from the government. Justin Trudeau even had the audacity to joke about having bribed the media. [0] I
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by lowkey 5y ago
> Maybe I'm just not smart enough to understand BTC. I don’t think that’s true. I suspect it is more likely that you’ve given Bitcoin only a cursory study where you compared it to a very inefficient database, recognized that on-chai
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by lowkey 5y ago
> I think this is a solution looking for a problem. It's extremely rare that a bank will freeze an account for non-legitimate reasons. But I mean, sure, you're technically correct: there's a non-zero probability BofA will
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by lowkey 5y ago
With Bitcoin, anyone can create new coins via mining - but it takes a lot of work and is difficult. With fiat, only central banks can print new money but it is cheap and easy for them to do so. Claiming traditional fiat is decentralized is
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by lowkey 5y ago
But how far are you as an individual willing to go? - Apple uses exploitative labor practices to manufacture iPhones [0] - Google is increasingly being recognized as a surveillance and manipulation platform. They have even been caught manip
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by lowkey 5y ago
And it's official, Godwin's Law [0] has reached crypto. The purpose of Bitcoin is of course to support the Nazi cause. What other purpose could it possibly have? /s Hint: Millions of people use Bitcoin as a: - store of value
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by lowkey 5y ago
> All you're doing is chattering on the web. You will never understand anything this way. Is that why you feel justified throwing insults instead of engaging like an adult? This isn’t the only comment where you’ve directed insults m
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by lowkey 5y ago
Thanks for sharing that link. It was very informative. They didn’t go far enough (e.g. None of the ratings agencies were impacted) but I’m glad to be proven wrong on this issue.
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by lowkey 5y ago
> Censorship is to imitate the Roman Censors. So that’s your definition of censorship. However the first result on Google points to a different definition. One more in line with my understanding. > What is a simple definition of censo
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by lowkey 5y ago
> You really have no idea how much people hate this, do you? I’m starting to understand how much hate you have in your heart for me. I’m still not sure why. Do you hate anyone who disagrees with you or am I special?
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by lowkey 5y ago
I’m still not sure what exactly you are inferring by calling me a Walrus. Does it mean I have tusks? Are walruses known for acting in bad faith? Your comments are immature and toxic. If you can’t engage in constructive dialogue, name callin
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by lowkey 5y ago
I’ve never heard the walrus analogy before and this is the first time I’ve been called a walrus. I did do my own googling. Here is what I found [0] - a study that seems to indicate the opposite of your claim that > Viral load does not ha
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by lowkey 5y ago
I’m genuinely curious what your source is for the claim that the unvaccinated have a higher chance of spreading COVID? According to this UC Davis/UCSF study [0] both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals carry similar viral loads. Th
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by lowkey 5y ago
Please explain it one more time for our sake? How is cancellation different from censorship in practice or in theory?
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by lowkey 5y ago
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by lowkey 5y ago
Lightning is working for an entire nation in El Salvador. Why is Lightning a Joke? I commented below that the UX for Lightning needs work but I would consider that par for the course for an emerging technology. What are some of the ~20 bett
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by lowkey 5y ago
Governments have banned alcohol, heroine, cocaine, and other illicit drugs yet somehow a market always continues to exist despite being banned. In the case of the above banned substances, the market value of the contraband ended up being hi
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by lowkey 5y ago
> At least some of the fraud which did occur resulted in prison time. Could you point me to any examples? When I looked into this the only person to serve prison time during this period was Bernie Maddoff and his great crime was stealing
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by lowkey 5y ago
Unless the stablecoins are preferred over traditional fiat USD for some use cases. For example with stablecoin cryptocurrencies I can move an arbitrary amount to another party with no risk of censorship, no permission required, on an arbitr
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by lowkey 5y ago
The Bitcoin network is not controlled by the miners. This was proven a few years ago when the CEOs of the largest miners and the largest exchanges all tried to increase the blocksize. They were thwarted by individual users who run nodes on
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by lowkey 5y ago
I would counter with the great financial crisis of 2008 - and the stated reason for the creation of Bitcoin. Those were all regulated banks and financial entities that were deeply involved in a fraudulent scam to mis-represent the quality a
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by lowkey 5y ago
I read through your talking points on Lightning and for the record I agree for the most part with all of them. Lightning is a newish technology and like most of the cryptocurrency space, the UX is not great. However, I didn’t see any talkin
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by lowkey 5y ago
Price volatility is definitely a thing in Bitcoin, Ethereum and altcoins. However there are many other cryptocurrencies whose value is designed not to fluctuate - specifically stablecoins. Ignoring Tether for the moment there are many other

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