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that's what cryptozealots don't understand you can laugh about it, but fiat money will stay in charge

US hegemony is military, not monetary US army will be hegemomic even if the entire planet switch to BTC

but that's not a dichotomy you can have both we had smaller, lighter, more durable, waterproof, cheap phones in the 90s and they were also highly repairable

there are many kinds of cheese that are very low on lactose see my previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26988408 I'm lactose intolerant myself, but have no problem…

ricotta contains no caseine and it's real cheese caseine and lactose intolerance are very common conditions, they have always been for humans throughout history people developed te…

I think it was popularized in the USA by the first amendment > FREEDOM of speech is a constitutional guarantee. But that doesn't mean it is absolute or not subject to some limitati…

> Meaning that, Yes, you do have the right of free speach, but No, you should not be saying the wrong things. Yes. Exactly. What's the problem with that? Yes, you have the right to…

you haven't reconsidered yet?

> Your account appears to be one of a long series of accounts we've previously banned for years Is this some kind of joke? Have I upset the wrong person? This is my first account h…

WTF happened here, my new comments are all flagged as dead, why??? I swear I have nothing to do with anything you are implying, why should I reply with a different account when I c…

I think it's the opposite, productivity is the GDP output over worked hours, in USA they work a lot more than in Europe on average, so their productivity is actually similar, not h…

that is hours clocked in I guess, there's a similar pattern in Italy but they are not working more they are staying at the office longer they chose to so that they can skip other o…

that's what they advertise the Petro as > A total of 100 million Petros will be sold, with an initial value set at $60, based on the price of a barrel of Venezuelan crude in mid-Ja…

smoking in public places. alcohol sold to minors. unlicensed doctors. guns. hard drugs. tanks as private vehicles. old polluting cars. the list is endless.

this is quite incorrect. In Venezuela they haven't banned cryptos, they banned mining, especially if it's done on state funded electricity (for obvious reasons)/and because other c…

> supposed to hunt bittorrent use in France that's not the same thing. torrenting illegal material was already illegal, before Netflix. and France is not Turkey, but no Germany eit…

> Why politicians still think that if they ban something then it will magically go away? because people don't like to go to jail > "oh it's banned, I guess I'll stop using it then"…

or why they won't work to solve this kind of issues

Why this old news-not-news reappear every few months? > Is Europe about to ban E2E Encryption? > No. https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2020/11/09/whats...

> but still well worth optimizing are we still talking about criminals? I don't think something that make it worth optimizing for but is intended to optimize criminals activities i…

> China has capital controls and dual currencies to prevent these common scenarios that's why you buy stuff in yuan and sell the stuff for dollars/euro or other currencies BTW we a…

> Imagine if you were a drug dealer smuggling in a million dollars of cocaine into Chicago from Mexico Now imagine I smuggled in from Mexico to Chicago this[1] but I don't know how…

> Googling I see the price of a 3080 is 700 dollars assuming you're able to buy them and have the money upfront and are able to hide the purchase. "What this person could be doing …

it looks pretty complicated for a person who wants to send money (illegally) out of China and clean it up. The easiest thing for China would be monitor crypto transactions and stop…