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> I did not call him a racist. I said his statement could be understood as racist This postmodern redefinition of racism really needs to be discarded. It’s done so much damage by giving actual racists cover, since if everyone is racist then racism isn’t a problem.
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While the USD value is important, this puts the number in perspective, since only 21M BTC can ever exist (and a good number of them are out of circulation for various reasons).
so many hard drives in so many landfills where we thought "hell, it's only $20 in btc, hardly worth reclaiming" I'm proud to say that I was able to acquire about $100 worth of product from the dark web using only what would turn out to be several hundred thousand dollars in bitcoin, so at least mine are still in circulation
It's funny to imagine how much the one "random act of pizza" I contributed multiple BTC that I mined on my Dell Dimension Pentium machine (worth multiple pennies USD then) is worth now.
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> I did not call him a racist. I said his statement could be understood as racist This postmodern redefinition of racism really needs to be discarded. It’s done so much damage by giving actual racists cover, since if everyone is racist then racism isn’t a problem.
Negative racial stereotype as a definition of racism is the classical definition of racism. There is nothing postmodern about it.
It wasn’t racial stereotyping. It was stereotyping a country’s population as sad and desperate. Saying X country’s quality of life sucks isn’t racist.
If they’d said or implied Cambodian Americans are also sad and desperate, sure. But they didn’t.
Btw this is low-key the reason why Cambodia almost went to war with Thailand recently. In particular what's interesting is that how quickly Cambodia repurposed scam center employees as internet trolls. They're onto a really powerful golden goose here that not only brings in 15B usd but also empowers the current dictatorship. But also it's a pit of doom that is destined to erupt anytime now.
At this point its accurate to say the Cambodian leadership have completely been subjugated through corruption and that they are no longer running the country but Chinese OCGs who are affiliated with CCP and that they are probably influencing it at a state level on all matters. We are seeing similar attempts in other Southeast Asian countries and even Korea but Cambodia seems like an outlier. It's sad that not enough…
What are some news related to this?
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> Negative stereotyping of a whole group is racism I’m not in Cambodia. The only way I can relate to its people is by stereotyping. Saying we can’t negatively stereotype basically says you can only have positive opinions about this country or you’re a racist, which is absurd.
This logical fallacy is a False Dichotomy (also known as a False Dilemma or Black-and-White Fallacy).
This fallacy occurs when an argument incorrectly presents two opposing options as the only possibilities, when in fact a wide range of other options exist.
How it applies to the statement: The statement "Saying we can’t negatively stereotype basically says you can only have positive opinions about this country" creates a false choice between:
Option A: Engaging in negative stereotypes. Option B: Only having positive opinions. This completely ignores the vast and reasonable middle ground, which is legitimate, specific criticism.
Do they force you to reveal your private keys? After obtaining the bitcoins, are they forced to sell it immediately? How does this affect the market?
So in these cases of government seizing bitcoin, the people they seize from have unencrypted private keys? The article just says "private keys the defendant had in his possession" does this mean he was holding onto private keys that had no passwords / encryption at all that unlocked $15B? Or does the government have an alternative way of "seizing" bitcoin? I remember years ago people throwing around conspiracy theori…
The forfeiture complaint [1] says: > Chen personally maintained records of the wallet addresses and seed phrases associated with the private keys for each. So he wrote the passwords down, basically. [1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.53...
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is Chen in custody? If not, why wouldn't he just transfer the funds to a new seed?
All the wallets were drained years ago and [1] says the bitcoin "are already in the government’s possession, custody and control". [1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.53...
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> I did not call him a racist. I said his statement could be understood as racist This postmodern redefinition of racism really needs to be discarded. It’s done so much damage by giving actual racists cover, since if everyone is racist then racism isn’t a problem.
Negative racial stereotype as a definition of racism is the classical definition of racism. There is nothing postmodern about it.
>> Negative racial stereotype as a definition of racism is the classical definition of racism
>It wasn’t racial stereotyping. It was stereotyping a country’s population as sad and desperate. Saying X country’s quality of life sucks isn’t racist.
>If they’d said or implied Cambodian Americans are also sad and desperate, sure. But they didn’t.
This is a distinction without a difference. A negative stereotype about the people of a country is a stereotype about that country's dominant ethnic group. Their geographic location is irrelevant.
By this logic, saying "All Japanese people are [X]" is not a racial stereotype as long as you're only talking about the ones in Japan. It only magically becomes a racial stereotype when they are "Japanese Americans." This doesn't make sense.
There's a fundamental difference between:
Criticizing a state: "Cambodia's economy is struggling and its government is corrupt." Stereotyping a people: "The people of Cambodia are inherently sad and desperate." The original comment did the latter. That is, by definition, a negative ethnic stereotype.