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by nmlnn 6y ago
What if someone whispers something in your ear?
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by nmlnn 6y ago
It's the branding that they need to get rid of cash. Playing it off as an analogue to digital switch, rather than the removal of transaction freedom and privacy.
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Here's the final paragraph for those who want to know if this is worth reading: > The real solution, as I have argued elsewhere (and as many people have argued, back to Keynes at least) is for central banks to intervene at many more
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by nmlnn 6y ago
> The concept is the bedrock of many religions anyway. It’s something that a lot of people want. This is exactly the reason communist systems have to destroy religion and replace it with the state. Because if people realise they're
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by nmlnn 6y ago
The black hole "observation" only happened a year or two ago, no?
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Maybe force isn't required because they have some secret P=NP proof.
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Don't they own FitBit?
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Sure, it's better for them if their goal is total financial surveillance. It's not better for people who care about financial privacy, and it makes a mockery of the rule of law when laws are enforced selectively in secret like tha
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Would be less cringy if they would go after the management of TBTF banks based on the same logic.
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by nmlnn 6y ago
The solution to that is pretty simple.. end drug prohibition.
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by nmlnn 6y ago
How is the number of employees relevant? The point is the massive hypocrisy and inconsistent enforcement. Personally I think the $10k SAR threshold is stupid, it hasn't been adjusted up for inflation since it was put in place in 1970 w
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by nmlnn 6y ago
> The financial sector appears to be the one sector where US authorities actually do a good job to stamp out crime Yeah, they're really great at that /s. It wasn't just last month that it was revealed that US banks launder
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by nmlnn 6y ago
https://freeross.org/real-untold-story/
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by nmlnn 6y ago
I actually switched from a Leatherman to a Victorinox because the pliers were more comfortable to use. https://www.swissarmy.com/us/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Knives/S...
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by nmlnn 6y ago
Which corporations though? News Corp. wants one thing, Facebook the other. It's like having to decide which type of terminal cancer you'd prefer to get.