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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

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Post by gregw2 »

stinkbeetle wrote: post #573
vntok wrote: post #529

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It's a pretty well known entity. You can find more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_Foundation

> It's a pretty well known entity. You can find more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_Foundation Gates's relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein started in 2011, a few years after Epstein was convicted for procuring a child for prostitution I see.

Who says it started in 2011? I find that hard to believe.

Gates was having interviews with John Brockman's edge.org in 1996: https://www.edge.org/conversation/bill_gates-digerati-chapte...

Gates was at The Edge dinners in 2010: https://michaelshermer.com/articles/my-dinner-with-bill-gate...

Jeffrey Epstein funded The Edge in the late 90s early 2000s, then not around 2008/9 during his first trial and prison, then again after he got out:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep...

https://epsteinweb.org/john-brockman/

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Post by mhb »

hunter67 wrote: post #890
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And it's always been a business.

but there's also state funded journalism, so they are not forced to do whats commercially viable

And then it's a business that is funded by political patronage.

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Post by chiefalchemist »

eru wrote: post #838
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No. But people without ethics, transparency, etc can not be. Again, for all intents and purposes it’s a verb. It’s the actions you take. This thread is filled with references to actions that DQ the person from being a journalist. Continuing to get them the title / reward only encourages bad behavior.

Morally, that's a valid position to take. Pragmatically, I'd call every human who writes for a newspaper like the NYT a 'journalist'. (Of course, we could extend the same game and deny the moniker of 'newspaper' for a rag like that. But at some point, we are drifting too far from the mainstream accepted definition of words.)

You say mainstream. I say Orwellian. We can’t lower the bar and expect standards to be maintained. It doesn’t work that way. If most them are reporters then call them that. FFS even influencers is more accurate. But journalists? They. Are. Not.

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Post by busterarm »

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can you give some examples? I'm very interested in this. (after all we had about a decade of crying "fake news" - and as far as I understand the verdict was that big traditional outlets get the basic facts right - who what where when - but are absolutely clueless about or intentionally spin the "why".)

No meaningful ones that I'd want to reveal without doxxing myself. I can give you one of someone else's that can be independently confirmed. https://www.vice.com/en/article/sugar-weasel-the-clown-escor... This article by Vice is 100% bullshit. Vice basically published this PR piece for the guy as a favor. A lot of articles that you read are really coordinated press releases -- like the initial Blake Lively v Justin B…

https://youtu.be/wwofBlN9PDs?si=g45QejsDPuwLIrfY Or this…

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Post by missingdays »

righthand wrote: post #767
missingdays wrote: post #558

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So if someone broke into your house, murdered you, and stole all your money, you would die peacefully, knowing that the thief will be prosecuted?

What? They murdered me then stole my money. I’m dead before I knew I was robbed so in your scenario I can’t die knowing the thief would be prosecuted, because I’m already dead. I literally dont care what happens then because I have no agency at that point in time.

That's my point

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Post by Lapsa »

SXX wrote: post #550
Lapsa wrote: post #524

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sad state indeed. people deserve better than that

This is what you get when majority of country is ignoring politics, dont participate in electiom process, dont fight for their rights, etc.

I find it weird to defend Russia but you seem to be missing couple things. most importantly - it's not homogeneous, not even a republic. there's around 190 ethnic groups and ~40 officially recognized separatist groups. and that's important because it skews national narrative, mandates harder punishments and corruption as a crutch. when the media follows "99% heroic bullshit, 1% truth" scheme, it's somewhat challenging not to ignore politics - you get bored of it

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Post by hunter67 »

mhb wrote: post #892
hunter67 wrote: post #890

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but there's also state funded journalism, so they are not forced to do whats commercially viable

And then it's a business that is funded by political patronage.

okay so the police is a business too? Just like private security firms?

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Post by SXX »

Lapsa wrote: post #898
SXX wrote: post #550

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This is what you get when majority of country is ignoring politics, dont participate in electiom process, dont fight for their rights, etc.

I find it weird to defend Russia but you seem to be missing couple things. most importantly - it's not homogeneous, not even a republic. there's around 190 ethnic groups and ~40 officially recognized separatist groups. and that's important because it skews national narrative, mandates harder punishments and corruption as a crutch. when the media follows "99% heroic bullshit, 1% truth" scheme, it's somewhat challengin…

I was born in Russia and lived there good chunk of my life. I agree it's not that simple and it took two decades to turn the country into whatever it became now.

When country is already turned into authoritarian military regime there is obviously no way to turn back to democracy by political actions alone.

Yet back in 2006-2016 it was still possible to turn things around if enough people cared. Unfortunately majority of population was happy to ignore politics and now everyone pays the price.

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