ESTheComposer

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by ESTheComposer 2y ago
If you're a HN-er you should know the culture of HN is very old school and fringe mentality. E.g: - Flip phones are celebrated in some threads because people don't want smart phones (extreme minority in real life) - Disabling JS a
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by ESTheComposer 2y ago
In case anyone just reads the headline, this is not a good result for the SEC. Judge reduced the fine from 2B to 125m (94%) and deemed retail sales of XRP was not a security. SEC has been trying to label pretty much every crypto a security,
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by ESTheComposer 2y ago
The real question is why you're equating 6 teens to 23% of the world (1.8 billion people)
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by ESTheComposer 2y ago
Literally not difficult to find the reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel#Civil_... It's the same as the US's treatment of African Americans for decades; legally they have the same ri
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by ESTheComposer 2y ago
You cannot call any criticism of Israel or its hold over US politics anti-semitic just because Israel happens to be Jewish majority. When people criticize the US they aren't automatically anti America, any other country holds the same.
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by ESTheComposer 2y ago
I believe the issue here is how much sway Israel has on the US and how rabid many US politicians are about Israel (to the point where many straight up accuse you of anti semitism if you just criticize the country or their policies) Also iss
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by ESTheComposer 2y ago
Reminds me of this story by Isaac Asimov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaround_(story)
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
> Wow, aren't you the fallacy guy. Please, give me more fallacies! Ad hominem
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
> I understand logical fallacies, and my point is that your original argument as stated way up the thread is materially different from the one you put into logical form. I mean it's literally not, I state the same thing but shortene
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
> I absolutely expect CNN, Google, and any other website to serve me malware. You can find many historical examples of the largest ad networks serving up malware on just about any site in existence. I would love to see a source of a larg
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
> They get the same amount of residuals if someone doesn't watch something or if they pirate it. Someone dying of natural causes and someone being murdered both end up with the person dying, that does not mean they're the same
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
> primarily because you had to change/add more premises to your argument as part of your explanation. I did no such thing, I was putting the argument into logical form[1]. When you do that you express the original argument in specif
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
> Do you use any ad blocker at all? No With your second question: Tracking - Tracking isn't stealing, that's a privacy question. Building a Profile - I mean not stealing but also vague so not sure what's the point of tryin
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
Except because you now actually went out, downloaded/took it, and experienced it, it implies there was a non 0 interest in the work, therefore there is lost possible revenue since you might have eventually went and bought the work.
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
It's called a false equivalence fallacy[1] and more specifically it's called the fallacy of composition[2]. I don't know why I'm taking the time to do this but I'm going to assume you're genuine with wanting to
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
Thanks for actually contributing instead of being obtusely sarcastic...ah wait. It's interesting that people devalue a good just because it's digital on a tech focused website named HackerNews lol.
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
> because if you call this stealing you’d also have apply the stealing label to blocking ads/trackers on the web Yes that is quite literally also depriving them of revenue, and quite possibly their only source of revenue if they&#x
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
You're using a false analogy. You're trying to make a parallel between not paying for an item/produced good and simply not giving someone money in an attempt to downplay not paying for created material.
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
You are depriving them of revenue, it is stealing.
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
It doesn't matter how many times you can sell the same item. If someone spent time and money producing something, no matter how small, and they dictate they want $x for you to own/consume it, then you are stealing if you don'
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
You are using the age old argument of “I wouldn’t have bought it anyway, so they won’t get anything from me either way” This is just a roundabout way of excusing stealing. If the creator of something says “if you want to view my work, you m
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
The irony here is from their post history they are a business owner that made 4m in profits last year. Guess it’s a moral imperative to steal from them eh?
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
You should probably learn what an ETF is…it’s one of the most basic investment vehicles that will grow your savings reliably over the years, and most people put their 401ks (or equivalent) into them, so yes a ton of normal people know what
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
You don’t know what an ETF is or the SEC?
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
Yes the corpse that just got approved for a BTC ETF with an ETH ETF on the way and with multiple companies winning lawsuits against the SEC. But sure, because it's not on HN anymore it's a corpse.
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
Yeah it's understandable why though from your own article: >The PCPSR poll found that 44% of Gazans say they have enough food and water for a day or two, and 56% say that they do not. Almost two-thirds of Gazan respondents - 64% - s
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
A bit of a strange take considering every one of your points applies much more to Palestine than Israel. >I was in my 20s and remember the feeling in the air after Al Qaeda members hijacked commercial planes and flew them into WTC in 200
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
> Very plainly, you're risking normal money on a venture that doesn't promote anything other than greed and black market transactions. You could quite say the same about any privacy or encryption or really anything that protect
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
There's a difference between being bearish and being fully anti crypto and just spreading conjecture. Being bearish is very normal, being rabidly anti crypto on every crypto thread on HN like a couple folks who are in this very thread
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by ESTheComposer 3y ago
Ok and from my anecdotal experience the opposite is true, so I guess we're at a crossroads here. Either way doesn't have bearing on how HN views crypto

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