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by yareal 2y ago
The existence of some legitimate use does not make the system not a money laundering system. Some legitimate money flows through all money laundering operations.
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by yareal 2y ago
It turns out that money laundering is still money laundering even if you do it in a fancy, machine automatable way. It stuns me that people thought they had somehow beat the system by building technology like this. The government is going t
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HN's audience is often pretty petty and biting towards out groups, and tends towards a certain political axis ime (often a sort of progressive individualism) that can be pretty snarky towards people who, in their eyes, "should hav
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by yareal 2y ago
It almost certainly limited the blast radius. Tattooing is a similar procedure, and is cleaner and safer than ever. No regulation prevents 100%, but they do help.
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It's the same with U.S. liberals (which compose the bulk of the Democrat and Republican politicians). Note: Liberal as in liberalism or neoliberal, not as shorthand for "progressive", which is how it is sometimes used in the
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by yareal 2y ago
Explain more. Are you suggesting that hate cannot be a motivator for a crime? That hate cannot cause a crime to be committed that would otherwise not be committed? Or that we should not punish people who commit crimes purely out of hate any
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by yareal 2y ago
Fascist policy grows in stagnant Liberal society. Right now, in many of the wealthiest nations we have two Liberal parties. (For instance the democrats and republicans in the US, which are both Liberalist parties.) Without a more diverse po
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by yareal 2y ago
To say nothing of maid being used as a eugenics program.
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The politicians proposing these things aren't Marxists or leftists. They are liberals or centrist conservatives. The people putting these bills forward absolutely detest Marx and Marxists. Marxism is a wide, wide set of ideologies. Sov
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by yareal 2y ago
Huge plus one. I too bounce between environments with my MacBook. Never experienced any of the issues the gp describes, which to me sounds like something wrong with that device. Is it a Corp managed device?
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The leftists I know are socialists, anarchists, and communists. They are very much doing the work both politically (I live in the Pacific Northwest, where socialists are on the ballot regularly) and locally (e.g. via Food Not Bombs or resto
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by yareal 2y ago
Some of us still do, as a useful delimiter between leftist politicians vs the centrist positions held by the democrats.
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The people who make the laws about prostitution are the set of people under discussion. Not Americans at large.
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Certainly. There's a feminist case for it as well. Interestingly, that article opens with a left/right framing.
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Can you say what you are saying? You are alluding to something, but it's not clear what. Are you saying this author is extorting tech executives?
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> Consider a media organisation has a bias towards accurate reporting with a view to helping readers achieve the best outcome for themselves and good outcomes for society. Are there media organizations that don't believe they are do
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by yareal 2y ago
Do we have many conservative Muslim or Jewish legislators? I would figure they tend to come from more progressive districts...
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I'd argue plenty of democrats fit that description as well. > Perhaps a compromise to placate the majority of Americans would be: "don't touch the right to bear arms in exchange for bodily autonomy and healthcare." Mo
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by yareal 2y ago
I think they described the situation fairly? The folks who legislate against sex work tend to tick most of those boxes.
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I don't think there's much Left in US politics, unless you mean in the language of US politics, where somehow Democrats are considered "Left".
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All news media has a bias, it's literally impossible to serve a finite news set and not exert some editorial control. However, if you describe a news site as (very political ideology) I think it's fair to consider it slanted.
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Why don't they utilize them? What's keeping them from doing so? Addiction is brutal, and getting clean is not a simple process of rehab. Getting clean requires a ton of energy and patience and it often hurts like hell. For someone
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by yareal 2y ago
This is the thing. Oregon basically decriminalized but didn't build or maintain the harm reduction infrastructure necessary to make decriminalizing drugs not a terrible idea. The two things support one another -- make it easier to stop
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by yareal 2y ago
People read for reasons beyond pleasure. I might be doing a study or comparing authors, I might be reporting on history or researching someone. I might be doing a comparative analysis. Ten checkouts seems low enough that it's likely to
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by yareal 3y ago
To be fair, I genuinely don't know how to measure "is capable independent without trauma". I was independent at around 14, but that was due to having to survive trauma. My path was awful and I carry scars. I'd love for k
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by yareal 3y ago
I mean, I'm out here saying college should be a public service that everyone gets and we all fund because it's a net good for our society for young adults. I don't think it should require debt at all.
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by yareal 3y ago
I think the parent and gp poster are more like, "Tesla is an odd reference. Not wrong per se, just odd." It's like saying, "they are building a search engine, just like Netflix!" Sure, Netflix does build search, but
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by yareal 3y ago
Cities of millions of people are too big to effectively be a self organized community, imo. And I have moved to a city or town that operates closer to my ideals. But the other thing that's important to remember is that those communitie
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by yareal 3y ago
Hmmmm.... on the one hand, I see and understand the argument you are making regarding the use of state violence. On the other hand, I don't think most folk use that as the only difference between military and civilian. The police are s
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by yareal 3y ago
STEM kids absolutely are struggling to pay off these loans. They have it easier, but college exploitation has gotten so bad that every degree program has some students graduating with lifelong debt. What you said used to be true, it's

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