There's no insurance scheme the IRGC can concoct that protects against the US navy hitting your rudder with a 20mm gun.
China can and not with its military.
Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
711–720 of 737 posts
Re: Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
#712Earlier quoted context omitted.
Paul Graham is saying you should not call people you are in a discussion with names Only if you don't care to read past bullet point 1. If you had cared enough to read at least one paragraph further, you would have found: > DH1. Ad Hominem. > An ad hominem attack is not quite as weak as mere name-calling. [..] It's still a very weak form of disagreement, though
Another ad hominem in this thread, making they same type of call out I did (calling out abhorrent abuse) you might want call out similarly to how you did me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199184 "The same UN that Pedophile Trump denounced as a "feckless institution"" - tremon > DH1. Ad Hominem. > An ad hominem attack is not quite as weak as mere name-calling. [..] It's still a very weak form of disagreement,…
The original comment did have substance in addition to name-calling. Your response was purely ad-hominem, which specifically made you look entirely detatched from the actual conversation taking place (even if you matched their tone).
The question of "why would you post this" still hangs high above your comment. It mostly seems like you're concerned about the optics of this conflict and not any of the real-world consequences.
Re: Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
#713Earlier quoted context omitted.
Iranian child marriages do not reframe Israel too to be fair "They're 15, Married With Children: Inside an Israeli Hasidic Cult's Code of Silence" (the gov and the population knows it, but it's ok) : https://archive.is/v9Amc#selection-699.0-699.83
I'm not seeing where they rent out their children via temporarily marriages as the Shia mullahs in Iran have given religious sanction/approval/doctrine of or like the similar behaviors highlighted in the Epstein files. Can you help me find that bit that relates to what I was speaking to? That said allowing child brides is horrific, I agree. Especially when it seems to be accepted by the highest levels of a religion o…
The Israeli government gives implicit immunity to pedophiles by refusing to compile a state-funded sexual abuse registry, and their leadership (eg. Netanyahu) blocks investigation of credible rape accusations. I would be careful pointing towards Israel as a moral high ground in this discussion.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/tens-of-thousands-of-pedop...
https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-war-palestinians-pris...
Re: Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
#714Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not one U.S. ship was damaged by the Houthis. Meanwhile airstrikes took out a ton of Houthi assets.
Americans always say they are winning. Nobody believes it.
I guess, you know nowadays it seems like if an enemy scratches one of our ships it is called a total loss for the U.S. meanwhile other nations have their entire air force taken out along with all of their targeting systems and most of their missile supplies and even their heads of state are taken out by F35s or arrested by special forces and somehow that is called "losing" by armchair internet dwellers.
Re: Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
#715Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not seeing where they rent out their children via temporarily marriages as the Shia mullahs in Iran have given religious sanction/approval/doctrine of or like the similar behaviors highlighted in the Epstein files. Can you help me find that bit that relates to what I was speaking to? That said allowing child brides is horrific, I agree. Especially when it seems to be accepted by the highest levels of a religion o…
The Israeli government gives implicit immunity to pedophiles by refusing to compile a state-funded sexual abuse registry, and their leadership (eg. Netanyahu) blocks investigation of credible rape accusations. I would be careful pointing towards Israel as a moral high ground in this discussion. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/tens-of-thousands-of-pedop... https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-war-palestinians-pris…
Where did I point towards Israel as a moral high ground? Israel was randomly injected in a discussion about Epstein/Iranian leadership government/religious leadership. Israel doesn't even come into this discussion about not Israel, and wasn't brought in as a moral point by me.
I agreed it is immoral when such actions occur, and is especially immoral/heinous when religious groups/religious figures are involved in sanctifying/justifying child marriage. I think we both agree a religious group looses it's legitimacy when it engages in defending such behavior just because it was/is done by the religious groups members/leaders and the they claim 'it's actually ok because...' trying to justify such horrific behavior.
The closest I come is in trying to understand Israel's relevance to my point and the discussion. There are many many countries that can and should be called out, but they aren't relevant to a discussion about Trump/Epstein/Iran. "I'm not seeing where they rent out their children via temporarily marriages as the Shia mullahs in Iran have given religious sanction/approval/doctrine of or like the similar behaviors highlighted in the Epstein files. Can you help me find that bit that relates to what I was speaking to?"
Re: Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
#716Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Israeli government gives implicit immunity to pedophiles by refusing to compile a state-funded sexual abuse registry, and their leadership (eg. Netanyahu) blocks investigation of credible rape accusations. I would be careful pointing towards Israel as a moral high ground in this discussion. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/tens-of-thousands-of-pedop... https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-war-palestinians-pris…
Where did I point towards Israel as a moral high ground? Israel was randomly injected in a discussion about Epstein/Iranian leadership government/religious leadership. Israel doesn't even come into this discussion about not Israel, and wasn't brought in as a moral point by me. I agreed it is immoral when such actions occur, and is especially immoral/heinous when religious groups/religious figures are involved in sanc…
> Israel was randomly injected in a discussion about Epstein/Iranian leadership
Israel is not a non-sequitur in the discussion of the Epstein files or attacks on Iranian leadership.
Re: Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
#717Earlier quoted context omitted.
Iran has been funding terrorists for decades and the IRGC has murdered tens of thousands of Iranians. There are no reparations for terrorists getting their comeuppance.
> Iran has been funding terrorists for decades Americans not understanding that half of the world says the same thing about them is the funniest shit ever... Propaganda is one hell of a drug
Oh boy, equivocating the U.S. military to the IRGC, which murdered tens of thousands of Iranian protestors just 4 months ago, which jails and murders women for failing to wear a hijab or burka or protesting in public, the IRGC which fired missiles at 8 different countries in the middle east less than 2 months ago, is the highest form of privilege coming from people largely shielded by the US military from inevitable global war in its absence.
Re: Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
#718Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t think this is true. You just need to work with countries whose values and incentives align with your own. Luckily American values line up very nicely with most western countries. I do agree that ignoring the suffering you cause other people is pretty immoral, I just think most people tend to be kind of ok with that, especially in out of sight out of mind situations. Most people don’t mind if their enemies suf…
> Luckily American values line up very nicely with most western countries. You're living in the past. There's a reason that European countries are rushing to increase their technology independence from the US. The countries whose "values and incentives" align with the current US administration are countries like Russia, China, and a number of countries in the Middle East. Orban's Hungary was another but that's behind…
Yes, the U.S. is very concerned that the E.U. is pivoting to LibreOffice. There is an ongoing war in Ukraine right now as there has been for 4 years. Will the E.U. deploy forces there to save Ukraine from Russia? Or will it instead resort to virtue signalling against the U.S. because they were asked to pay more for their defense or lose free access to American markets?
Toothless E.U. never came to anyone's defense.
Re: Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
#719Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's a video of Trump in 2015 talking about how he would make sure Iran never got a bomb [1]. Crazy that the Israelis we're already planning it then. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIDNonMDSo8
The Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran's nuclear capability was a joint US-Israeli operation in 2010. This has been going on for a long time. But that doesn't mean that the timing of the current war, and the choice to start it, wasn't due to Trump's desire for a distraction.
To me it seems like just "the current thing" that the media is accusing trump of. In his first term it was russaigate. If Trump was in the Epstein files in any meaningful way you think the Biden administration wouldn't have leaked it?
Re: Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
#720Earlier quoted context omitted.
In this case it does. You can't funnel huge amounts through a coin with usually small volume and market cap and expect any sense of anonymity or privacy. The delta makes it obvious. It would probably be visible via movements on markets too. For smaller amounts this is not a problem for the same coin and network. Your volume might support $10k but not $10m.
Take a look at the statistics: https://fusionstats.redteam.cash/
What of it?
You are not responding to the debunking of your "Value doesn't have anything to do with utility" claim.
The only relevant thing I can see here is that yes, the volume is too low to provide any sense of untracability for the scenario discussed. It might for paying your VPN subscription.