The user-friendly way to be a little drug lord: economic secrets of the dark web
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Re: The user-friendly way to be a little drug lord: economic secrets of the dark web
#2I love studying economics like this article. It's the most counter-intuitive science. Unfortunately it's often a frontal collision with popular opinions, which brings a lot of hate against me (being white, I automatically get accused of unfairness). I wonder whether I'll ever be able to have a discussion about economics with less educated people, which means, will I ever be able to word it without hurting people.
Re: The user-friendly way to be a little drug lord: economic secrets of the dark web
#3> The facilitator rents a carefully vetted Airbnb and arranges for a naive student to be there to sign for the package. The student then takes it to a second location
What are the risks for that renter?
Re: The user-friendly way to be a little drug lord: economic secrets of the dark web
#4I love studying economics like this article. It's the most counter-intuitive science. Unfortunately it's often a frontal collision with popular opinions, which brings a lot of hate against me (being white, I automatically get accused of unfairness). I wonder whether I'll ever be able to have a discussion about economics with less educated people, which means, will I ever be able to word it without hurting people.
You might have better luck if you work on not sounding so condescending.
Re: The user-friendly way to be a little drug lord: economic secrets of the dark web
#5> The facilitator rents a carefully vetted Airbnb and arranges for a naive student to be there to sign for the package. The student then takes it to a second location What are the risks for that renter?
I imagine the specific risk is the packaging getting intercepted and then the person receiving the package being confronted. As for the renter -- a headache, but not more than that. They'd be able to prove pretty easily that they were not at home at the time, more than likely.
But it getting down to that seems unlikely, given the number of 'levels' of plausible deniability are involved. That's the theory at least. It seems only feasible for very large shipments that happen often -- the DEA doesn't really do much in the way of small-time drug deal busting, it seems.
Re: The user-friendly way to be a little drug lord: economic secrets of the dark web
#6I love studying economics like this article. It's the most counter-intuitive science. Unfortunately it's often a frontal collision with popular opinions, which brings a lot of hate against me (being white, I automatically get accused of unfairness). I wonder whether I'll ever be able to have a discussion about economics with less educated people, which means, will I ever be able to word it without hurting people.
You might have better luck if you work on not sounding so condescending.
Feels like that what I've tried for years. But your comment is the automatic response I get for any wording I use. So I've defaulted to thinking it's a prejudice from the listener. When is the last time you've discussed economy with someone who doesn't agree with you and didn't take it as condescending? and, bonus point, what did the guy say/not say?
Re: The user-friendly way to be a little drug lord: economic secrets of the dark web
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might have better luck if you work on not sounding so condescending.
Feels like that what I've tried for years. But your comment is the automatic response I get for any wording I use. So I've defaulted to thinking it's a prejudice from the listener. When is the last time you've discussed economy with someone who doesn't agree with you and didn't take it as condescending? and, bonus point, what did the guy say/not say?
> economics with less educated people,
The "less educated people" is going to cause you problems. You probably need to find a different way to phrase that.
Re: The user-friendly way to be a little drug lord: economic secrets of the dark web
#8I love studying economics like this article. It's the most counter-intuitive science. Unfortunately it's often a frontal collision with popular opinions, which brings a lot of hate against me (being white, I automatically get accused of unfairness). I wonder whether I'll ever be able to have a discussion about economics with less educated people, which means, will I ever be able to word it without hurting people.
Remove the following things from your two comments:
being white, I automatically get accused of unfairness)
less educated people
will I ever be able to word it without hurting people.
So I've defaulted to thinking it's a prejudice from the listener.
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#9I love studying economics like this article. It's the most counter-intuitive science. Unfortunately it's often a frontal collision with popular opinions, which brings a lot of hate against me (being white, I automatically get accused of unfairness). I wonder whether I'll ever be able to have a discussion about economics with less educated people, which means, will I ever be able to word it without hurting people.
Surround yourself with intelligent people who don't take an attack on their beliefs to be an attack on their person.
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#10Man, I'd love to go poking around on the dark web, specifically those black markets just to look around and satiate my curiosity but am to afraid that I'll be put on some NSA watch list for doing so.