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by subsistence234 4y ago
the conversion (between crypto and fiat) is the problem. you can't convert more than a couple hundred euros without KYC. >How exactly do you measure what is what on crypto with mixers and anonymous currencies? you add up all the tra
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>And if there was crypto, they would be far more efficient at doing what you describe because they don't even need to pay for the planes They would however need to find people that can sell bitcoins to them. Let's say a corrupt
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>Money laundering They don't need bitcoin for that. Smuggling money into the US (the by far largest global destination for laundered money) via crypto requires the exact same amount of criminal effort (false identities, mules,..) as
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Almost every serious recent scandal that goes against dominant hegemonic interests was "a crazy conspiracy theory" until the day when the evidence for it became overwhelming, then it switched instantly into a "nothingburger&q
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>I don't want to be callous towards the abuelitas and students and remote-working but their suffering is a sacrifice you are willing to make for the good of our blessed tax authorities.
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not only on hackernews, also on reddit and twitter. all following a similar script.
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good point, we gotta keep discussion of this topic hidden, so people don't get any weird ideas about questioning our blessed three letter agencies or the holy MIC.
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>queerness is very much still edgy Something that people advertise about themselves on their linkedin profiles in order to get better job offers is the opposite of edgy.
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Counterculture is when you have the same tastes, consumption habits, and political beliefs as a mid level HR manager at a Silicon Valley tech company. Counterculture is when most of your beliefs align with what the Raytheon PR pushes out. T
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I would love it if my ethnic group were more widely known. >Consider empathy. You're not really asking for empathy. Neither of us is the arbiter of right and wrong. You have an opinion, so does everyone else.
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Well, it's easy money. Whether they actually care... who knows? What does the vast majority of Native Americans (ca three million people), or specifically the members of Apache tribes, think?
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>The survivors of that genocide are asking we stop doing that. No they aren't. Three people are asking. Three people, who most likely didn't survive anything, and just realized that extortion is easy money. _______ Vote on it!
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Vote on it! If half of all members of current Apache tribes want the name change, it should be changed. But we both know that less than 1% of actual native Americans feel slighted by the name, there's a larger percentage that like it.
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> the people involved Who are these people? They're certainly not representative of Native Americans overall. Just like demanding the use of "latinx", 99% of the supposedly affected minorities either don't care or wou
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> The Irish Software Foundation was named from respect for the Irish people, well-known for their fighting spirit and perseverance against hundreds of years of adversity. oh no that would be horrible I bet the Irish would be so mad. It&#
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Yeah, nice principles, unfortunately a bogus threat is enough to make CF compromise them.
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Irrational rebellion is a puberty thing. Normal adolescents outgrow that phase by age 16. The loudest Oberlin "rebels" are in their mid-20s, some in their 30s and 40s.
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See the wikipedia article to learn what actually happened, the Oberlin statement and the NYT article are misleading: An employee took a photo of the shoplifter in the act of stealing, the shoplifter got angry and assaulted the employee for
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It's not about speed. It's that in courts of law there's something called "due process" -- important safeguards designed to prevent injustice, e.g. the right of the accused to defend himself or herself. The court of
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"hate speech" has no coherent definition, it's whatever the people with enough power to impose discourse limits don't like to be said.
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>If it's not faithful to the source, then it's just on the same level as unknown author Yeah, kinda pointless to buy IP, only to then hire producers that don't understand what made the source material good.
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There are many successful protection rackets going around that work by generating bad PR and threatening more bad or worse PR, unless you donate to them and/or hire them as consultants.
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If KF are guilty of defamation or other crimes, go after them in court. Don't try to bully cloudflare into acting as executioner of your demands.
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"Hate speech" is ill-defined, basically it's just "speech that people with enough power don't like." and what that is can changes at any time. Many people more intelligent than you (and me) have spent many deca
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In a courtroom you wouldn't get away with absurd hyperbole like this. It would hurt your case more than help. No wonder the activists want to avoid court and rule through social media where hyperventilating emotional blackmail is prett