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by olalonde 1y ago
Trump or Kirk spreading misinformation is not an excuse for yourself spreading misinformation. No matter his opinions, Kirk was a peaceful, non-violent person.
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by olalonde 1y ago
Kirk didn't say "I miss everything about the 50s-60s". He did none of those things, nor did he encourage them. Suggesting otherwise is intellectually dishonest, and the spread of such misinformation may have partly contribute
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by olalonde 1y ago
Given he preceded that with "I blame the decline of American men" and followed it with "as testosterone rates go down and men start acting like women", it seems that in his worldview, the decline of masculinity started i
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by olalonde 1y ago
Hunting, entertainment, tyranny prevention and respect of the constitution.
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by olalonde 1y ago
That's not what he said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WhMtFZtmcg . He was just talking about not allowing a transgender compete in a women swimming competition. None of this has anything to do with threatening or in
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by olalonde 1y ago
What did Kirk say that would cause someone to fear violence or death?
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by olalonde 1y ago
I just listened to the clip. The remark was made jokingly, though arguably in poor taste. Immediately afterward he described the attack as "awful" and "not right," and then pivoted into a rant about how it's too eas
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by olalonde 1y ago
You've missed the parent's point. Society routinely accepts some level of risk, even when it leads to deaths, in exchange for other values. For example, dogs kill about 43 people annually in the U.S., yet we still allow them as pe
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by olalonde 1y ago
In most of Quebec, water is not billed nor metered. It's considered as a "public good" and paid for through property taxes. That does lead to overuse and waste though.
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by olalonde 1y ago
Indeed, fair use might apply, but it doesn't change who owns the copyright. And in practice, YouTube rarely cares about fair use as it's simpler and safer for them to ignore it.
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by olalonde 1y ago
If the speech is original enough to be copyrighted, the speaker owns the rights to the content itself. The recording is a separate copyright, but you can't just distribute it without the author's permission for the same reason you
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by olalonde 1y ago
I've had to provide proof for relatively small amounts. AML regulations are intentionally vague, so different reporting entities tend to interpret them in their own ways.
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Oscar (Therapy Cat)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by olalonde 1y ago|0 comments
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by olalonde 1y ago
You missed the point. The point was that there are many ordinary and mundane reasons why you wouldn't be able to prove the full chain of custody for the BTC you acquired in 2012. It would be a real practical concern if you are a law-ab
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by olalonde 1y ago
See my other replies for why that doesn't work.
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by olalonde 1y ago
What I described is actually extremely mundane. Maybe you started with Bitcoin Core and later switched to a lighter SPV wallet like Electrum when the blockchain got too big. Maybe you bought a hardware wallet and moved your BTC offline. May
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by olalonde 1y ago
Sure, you can trace the full transaction history of any BTC through the blockchain... but that doesn't prove anything. At minimum, you need all the private keys involved (e.g. not possible if you used an exchange or deposited/with
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by olalonde 1y ago
That works until it does not. What if you transferred the BTC to other wallets or exchanges in the meanwhile? Even if you still had access to the original wallet, what proves that it was really yours? etc.
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by olalonde 1y ago
It's extremely simple until it's not. Let's say you bought 100$ worth of BTC back in 2012 with cash at a meetup. Now it’s worth $1M, but you can't prove its origin. You now have a perfectly law-abiding person that risks
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by olalonde 1y ago
The crazy thing about money laundering laws is that in many jurisdictions, just failing to prove the legitimate origin of your funds can be enough to lose assets, and face criminal prosecution, without the state ever proving an underlying c
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by olalonde 1y ago
Oh, the irony of that comment...
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by olalonde 1y ago
I got a little worried after reading some reports on Reddit about creatine and hair loss.
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by olalonde 1y ago
What's good about reducing options available for therapy? If the issue is misrepresentation, there are already laws that cover this.
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by olalonde 1y ago
It's not surprising that poverty affects life expectancy but what I find hard to believe is that poor air quality shortens life expectancy by a full 15 years.
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Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes for Linux 6.17: "Garbage"(phoronix.com)
10 points by olalonde 1y ago|4 comments
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by olalonde 1y ago
Exactly. Even smoking doesn't shorten life expectancy by that much (it's 10 years).
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by olalonde 1y ago
In Quebec, grades are normalized using a statistical formula that factors in how well students from your high school tend to perform in university[0]. This means an average student at an "elite" school could end up with a similar
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by olalonde 1y ago
I find this very hard to believe... Mind sharing that study?
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by olalonde 1y ago
They essentially extrapolate from what the most intelligent species on this planet did to the others.
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by olalonde 1y ago
I answered that question in the first sentence of my previous comment...

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