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by perl4ever 5y ago
If you need dollars, you can exchange your euros for dollars seconds before paying whatever. If the government had a problem with that, something drastic would've changed. You can speculate that the US will deteriorate into a state whe
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I'd still rather read something called "not even wrong" than something called "less wrong".
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>people that criticize the entire concept of crypto assets frequently point to thefts of crypto assets and never apply the same standard to financial systems that they respect because they are completely unknowledgeable of the frequency
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>The book forms a coherent whole In order to derive meaning from your statement, I think it's logically necessary to imagine a counterfactual where it doesn't form a coherent whole. If you think the Bible is coherent, can y
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Everything is stored unencrypted somewhere . Getting access to that somewhere might be easiest.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
This happened not long ago, in the "legacy" financial system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery "Thirty-five fraudulent instructions were issued by security hackers via the SWIFT netw
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by perl4ever 5y ago
His mother was let out much earlier than his father. Apparently his father got out in 2021, due to Andrew Cuomo making him eligible for parole. It's possible that Chesa's public position is that while prison was not inappropriate,
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>(2) Gilbert (father) was convicted of murder (not felony murder) One or the other of us has got wrong information. I just double checked and read that he was an "unarmed getaway driver" convicted under NY's felony murder
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Collector items exist, and while a certain amount of resources have to be burned to preserve them, on the whole, they seem to me like a positive effect on the environment. Say there is an old Bugatti that rich people trade for tens of milli
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Authenticity of physical collector's items is a big deal for some people. Some car manufacturers have discontinued providing certificates of authenticity for classic cars because they are afraid of being held responsible for counterfei
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>They've gotten so good at defeating drone swarms that they want the enemy to believe that they are confounded, and in the language of counter-intelligence, they are daring anyone to bring it on In that case, no need for actual dron
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I don't see the connection between something having utility for authorities and it having utility for you, me, or society. Are you able to consider the perspective of others who don't share your goals or values, temporarily and wi
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Felony murder is a controversial crime. It's not in the Bible.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>It is one thing not to hold them complicit in the crime, and another to judge the DA for holding the position that murderers should not be imprisoned. Let's say someone says "gee, that's just too far out to believe".
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by perl4ever 5y ago
If everybody will be a billionaire in the future, sure, carbon emissions will be out of sight, but at least we solved the inequality problem, right?
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Lorne Michaels was "born Lorne David Lipowitz [on] November 17, 1944." Not a boomer.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
People trust banks. People trust by default, when there's no big flashing red warning sign. People trust when there seems to be no alternative since no bank is competing on the finer points of security. People trust when it looks like
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by perl4ever 5y ago
If you want money from advertisers with the least effort, don't you have an incentive to identify the people most likely to buy before you advertise to them? And thus do the least possible amount of converting people to products they
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Previously, I reacted to the people who think Fauci is the devil by going "well, they're obviously and frighteningly nuts". However, even if I don't think he's doing meaningful harm, I'm increasingly feeling li
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>The "stabbing in the back" refers to how they treat their constituents, and in that regard, my analogy perfectly describes the situation, and this is why they're both terrible parties. Ok, I see that you think they are ba
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>If you want pretty pictures, YOU pay for it. SpaceX has already done amazing shit. I pay taxes to support NASA, but NASA sometimes seems as though they are above catering to the public. SpaceX can and has done frivolous things to show o
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>Reagan This matters because Donald Regan was a guy who worked for Ronald Reagan . >Deinstitutionalization was a bipartisan, national phenomenon driven in large parts by abuse scandals in institutions. Not just scandals in the sens
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Isn't there anything better to do with them than flirting with Kessler syndrome? It's been really hard to send probes to the outer solar system, and they can't orbit or land when they get there. Scientific missions generally
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by perl4ever 5y ago
What upsets me is that used books are now out of sight, I believe because every used book that's out of print can be priced extortionately for the one person in the world who needs it most. I bought a book in the 1990s that is a classi
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Seems like the only sensible way to set up a big attack. Spend an indefinite amount of time desensitizing the targets. I get downvoted every time I point this out, but this is why banning things makes sense, even if only the law abiding obe
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I'm getting the impression that people are avoiding saying "it's a thing outside the US". I'm in the US, though, so I was interested if it was a thing in the US.
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Thanks, but I wasn't asking about history. You can't roll the clock back. I'm old enough to remember when you could pump gas before paying, and there was actually at least one place that had full service in town (I've ne
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by perl4ever 5y ago
I don't think older people expect to be treated like that. The salesman was ~half my age, and I knew someone ~twice my age who had bought and serviced a car there and simply said they had no such experience, like I had. I guess that ol
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by perl4ever 5y ago
>sometimes stabs you in the back when it's convenient for them Your summary didn't support this analogy. I think you need to work on it. You mentioned that the Republicans repeatedly "stabbed" the Democrats, front,
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by perl4ever 5y ago
Malaria was once endemic in the US, but that was a while ago, right?

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