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by zirgs 4y ago
Yet another reason to not use services that require to use one account for many completely unrelated things. You say something wrong on FB and now you can't log into a completely unrelated service. This is why I will never use gmail. Y
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by zirgs 4y ago
I use encryption to prevent criminals from stealing my data. Not because I'm afraid that my government might turn tyrannical.
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by zirgs 4y ago
And why would the government freeze your bank account, but not arrest you?
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by zirgs 4y ago
Yup - and salaries are paid directly to bank accounts. Mortgage payments are automatically charged directly from bank accounts as well. If your government freezes your bank account - you're fucked.
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by zirgs 4y ago
How would that cash help you wnen your bank account is frozen? You can't receive your salary. Can't pay rent or mortgage. And that cash will run out in a month or two. What then?
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by zirgs 4y ago
If a super religious govermment wanted to punish you specifically - they don't need your transaction history. They can put you in prison using a completely made up reason. Just look what the Russian government did to Navalny. Scare sto
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by zirgs 4y ago
So how does having physical cash in your mattress prevent your government from going full China?
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by zirgs 4y ago
If the state freezes your bank account then you're already fucked. And nothing stops them from raiding your home and confiscating your physical cash as well. I'm from an ex-USSR country. You can't stop an authoritarian govern
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by zirgs 4y ago
Haven't tried it in neighbouring countries yet, but as I understand - it's a virtual Visa/Mastercard card, yeah. So it should be accepted in the same places where my physical card is accepted.
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by zirgs 4y ago
You don't need Google Pay to pay with a phone. I use my bank's app for that. It works just fine without Google Pay.
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by zirgs 4y ago
Not the porn I watch, but the porn that's easily accessible nowadays. BDSM, choking, simulated rape, incest and other more extreme stuff wasn't accessible anywhere when I was a kid. It wasn't something that you could find in
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by zirgs 4y ago
My whole childhood - the 90s - was computer-free. Pornhub didn't exist back then.
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by zirgs 4y ago
I was not able to access messed up stuff when I was a kid. We didn't have phones and internet. My parents didn't have to do anything special. But in today's environment - you just can't. Unless you lock your kid up and h
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by zirgs 4y ago
Except it's not irrational this time. Porn has gotten much more extreme and way easier to access than before. When I was a kid - I could only access porn magazines that were relatively tame. Porn industry is not doing anything to preve
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by zirgs 4y ago
Playboy is way tamer than current porn sites where anything 18+ goes.
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by zirgs 4y ago
When I was a kid - it was not possible to access hardcore porn with one click. Even adults could not do it back then.
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by zirgs 4y ago
That ban is for new cars only. Existing gas cars won't go away any time soon.
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by zirgs 4y ago
Nothing stopped them from implementing low inflation into the BTC protocol. Would have driven away all the HODLers immediately.
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by zirgs 4y ago
If BTC had a relatively stable price and low inflation then it could challenge the private banking system. But its volatility is only attractive to gamblers and speculators. It's the opposite of a good currency.
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by zirgs 4y ago
In many cases Wikipedia's source links are dead. And nobody bothers to update them. Or they cite some random book that I have no way to get and read myself. Who checks if that book actually exists and is not made up? Especially if it&#
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by zirgs 4y ago
The USA should finally start regulating PayPal as a bank. PayPal is legally a bank in the EU and is regulated as such.
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by zirgs 4y ago
I doubt that BoE is going to start issuing loans. That's not what central banks do.
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by zirgs 4y ago
CBDC transaction history isn't public. And only one government can see it. They will also need a warrant for that. Bitcoin and most other cryptos are much worse, because their blockchains are public. Everyone can see every transaction.
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by zirgs 4y ago
Yeah, I remember when cryptobros talked about self-contained crypto economy. In that ideal scenario exchanges aren't necessary. But 14 years have passed and nothing has come of it. Off-ramps are still necessary. Exchanges that deal wit
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by zirgs 4y ago
Gambling is taxed and regulated in pretty much all jurisdictions where it's legal.
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by zirgs 4y ago
USD is used for a lot of things. Most of them are legal. Can't say the same about bitcoin.
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by zirgs 4y ago
And reports you to police if you happen to do something illegal?
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by zirgs 4y ago
Meanwhile after 9/11 things started getting better in Eastern Europe. Less crime, less corruption. Joining EU and NATO. Rising living standards. More options to travel, work and do business. My coutry's GDP per capita has more tha
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by zirgs 4y ago
Tbh - USSR citizens could travel. Sure - their tourist groups had to have a KGB agent/informant attached, but it wasn't like North Korea. My grandpa visited Italy, Egypt, Cuba and India. I doubt that NK citizens can do it now unle
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by zirgs 4y ago
Tbh - I was a kid back then so it wasn't that bad. But for adults hyperinflation, economic collapse and skyrocketing crime wasn't that fun.

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