plsbenice34

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by plsbenice34 4y ago
I left Australia a few years ago because it is rapidly becoming a highly corrupt police state. Chinese influence is rife. National security laws have legalised mass surveillance and undermined all sense of IT security and personal privacy.
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by plsbenice34 4y ago
What does Australia mean to you? It's a whole country, a complex object, but you seem to use the word as though it has some obvious meaning in this context - that meaning isn't immediately apparent to me, as an Australian
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by plsbenice34 4y ago
An invalid statistical argument that appears to support the truth is still invalid. Just like a proof for a mathematical theorem can be invalid even if the statement turns out to be provably true by other means.
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by plsbenice34 4y ago
>You will up pay for every click Much less dystopian to me to pay rather than indirectly pay by being a data mining product and selling my mental real estate.
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by plsbenice34 4y ago
It has no relevance to tether. It's strategically trivial to peg 'paper USD' to USD by having full USD reserves and allowing redemption. Pegs between different national currencies has no such solution
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by plsbenice34 4y ago
I don't follow, but you communicated your animosity. The topics of the thread have everything to do with each other as I read it: the value of the technology, human resources and efficiency (waste vs value). I thought past generations
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by plsbenice34 4y ago
Removing the human factor is not just about comparing energy and resource efficiency. There is a social and political impact. Intermediaries like banks infringe on our basic freedoms to hold our own money, to have privacy, and transact with
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by plsbenice34 4y ago
I bought a double-edged razor as mentioned in the article. Tried it several times, including staring at youtube videos to try to learn. Fucking destroyed my face every time, which is quite embarrassing and upsetting. Found it impossible to
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by plsbenice34 4y ago
Seems like every time now, when I read a medical study, especially psychiatry-related, I'm shocked that it could even be published. I have no training in the field, so nobody would take me seriously and I even doubt myself, but the stu
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by plsbenice34 4y ago
Psychiatry and the war on drugs is where the politicized and bad science is. 'Illegal recreational drugs' are generally very well-tolerated.
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by plsbenice34 5y ago
Bitcoin is not private but many people don't know this, and they refuse to accept Monero, so I follow the same logic but come to the opposite conclusion.
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by plsbenice34 5y ago
Fastmail seems to be based in Australia unfortunately, so it is not secure
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by plsbenice34 5y ago
I find it takes even more effort to continually understand the situation of the traditional financial system and the current status of geopolitics. I don't know when my country could became the next Russia. It's a hostile world ou
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by plsbenice34 5y ago
Did you see the videos of Russians lining up all day to try to withdraw tiny amounts of cash from an ATM?
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by plsbenice34 5y ago
Unenforceable laws aren't that relevant here
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by plsbenice34 5y ago
The EU 1982 Treaty of Lisbon specifies that 'If a Member State is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other Member States shall have towards it an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power'.
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by plsbenice34 5y ago
It will be fascinating to see how regulation deals with trying to regulate anonymous cryptocurrency payments. It leads to innocent people suffering from bitcoin's lack of fungibility; this is already happening. I don't know how it