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sdwa
9y ago
All three of those things sound pretty plausible to me. ISIS is known to use bitcoin, and I doubt they're the only one, and the single biggest use case for bitcoin up until this year was to buy illegal drugs. Using bitcoin for illega
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sdwa
9y ago
>Initiative. People with initiative tend to be better off regardless of how bad anything else is. That's just a truism though. Your advice may as well be "read more books" or "work harder". These are not soluti
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sdwa
9y ago
The problem is that if you go by the fact that someone somewhere has it worse then where's the motivation to change anything? Should we not be holding our societies to a slightly higher standard than what passes in the third world? Y
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sdwa
9y ago
True. All the Marvel films are broadly the same. They've got absolutely nothing to say about the world or the human condition but they are of course entertaining (well, some of them anyway).
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9y ago
I think part of the problem is that China has zero respect for human rights for even its own citizens. Pretty common knowledge they farm their own undesirables (human beings) for organs.