africanboy

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by africanboy 5y ago
> Meaning that, Yes, you do have the right of free speach, but No, you should not be saying the wrong things. Yes. Exactly. What's the problem with that? Yes, you have the right to do what you want, but No, you should not do the wro
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by africanboy 5y ago
WTF happened here, my new comments are all flagged as dead, why??? I swear I have nothing to do with anything you are implying, why should I reply with a different account when I could have used this one? and BTW my comment had positive upv
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by africanboy 5y ago
that's what they advertise the Petro as > A total of 100 million Petros will be sold, with an initial value set at $60, based on the price of a barrel of Venezuelan crude in mid-January. Unfortunately we know that its purpose is r
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by africanboy 5y ago
smoking in public places. alcohol sold to minors. unlicensed doctors. guns. hard drugs. tanks as private vehicles. old polluting cars. the list is endless.
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by africanboy 5y ago
this is quite incorrect. In Venezuela they haven't banned cryptos, they banned mining, especially if it's done on state funded electricity (for obvious reasons)/and because other cryptos compete with the state backed crypto,
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by africanboy 5y ago
> supposed to hunt bittorrent use in France that's not the same thing. torrenting illegal material was already illegal, before Netflix. and France is not Turkey, but no Germany either where the ban on illegal downloads actually work
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by africanboy 5y ago
> Why politicians still think that if they ban something then it will magically go away? because people don't like to go to jail > "oh it's banned, I guess I'll stop using it then" that's exactly what&#x2
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by africanboy 5y ago
or why they won't work to solve this kind of issues
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by africanboy 5y ago
Why this old news-not-news reappear every few months? > Is Europe about to ban E2E Encryption? > No. https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2020/11/09/whats...
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by africanboy 5y ago
> but still well worth optimizing are we still talking about criminals? I don't think something that make it worth optimizing for but is intended to optimize criminals activities is really desirable. Anyway, there's no advantag
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by africanboy 5y ago
> China has capital controls and dual currencies to prevent these common scenarios that's why you buy stuff in yuan and sell the stuff for dollars/euro or other currencies BTW we are talking about criminal activities here (mone
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by africanboy 5y ago
> Imagine if you were a drug dealer smuggling in a million dollars of cocaine into Chicago from Mexico Now imagine I smuggled in from Mexico to Chicago this[1] but I don't know how to take back this[2] What kind of genius/idiot
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by africanboy 5y ago
> Googling I see the price of a 3080 is 700 dollars assuming you're able to buy them and have the money upfront and are able to hide the purchase. "What this person could be doing with 90 3080, I wonder" asks the Chinese g
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by africanboy 5y ago
it looks pretty complicated for a person who wants to send money (illegally) out of China and clean it up. The easiest thing for China would be monitor crypto transactions and stop them from happening. But suppose you are Chinese and have a
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by africanboy 5y ago
> So what lesson can we learn? that some sexual encounters in Japan that should be considered rape, aren't. That could be true. But 30 times less is hard to explain with that. Remember that he majority of rapes are perpetrated again
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by africanboy 5y ago
Let's talk about numbers: - In 2019, the rate of forcible rapes in the United States stood at 29.9 per 100,000 inhabitants. it has decreased from 1990, when there were 41.2 forcible rapes per 100,000 inhabitants. - In 2014, rape rate f
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by africanboy 5y ago
I think we should start a discussion about a simple fact: the World is huge, US is only a small part of it. For example: RMS did not believe in providing raises — prior cost of living adjustments were a battle and not annual. RMS believed
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by africanboy 5y ago
so why's Elon Musk still there? /s Jocking aside, perfection is enemy of the good. Nobody is all those things, all the time, consistently, over a life time. Being a leader in the real World is mostly about being in the political
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by africanboy 5y ago
In Japan age of consent is 13. Do you find Japanese people abhorrent?
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by africanboy 5y ago
No, it doesn't. What about Japan where age of consent is 13? Or Switzerland were the age of consent is 16, although if the age gap between parties is three years or less – for example between a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old – no charg
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by africanboy 5y ago
So in other words at the FSF workers are free to unionize like in the rest of the civilized World, while if you work at Amazon you have to pee in a bottle and be happy about it.
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by africanboy 5y ago
yes, exactly. He was arguing that he was wrongfully accused of rape, because according to the testimony the sex never happened and nobody has been able to prove otherwise (an eyewitness swears that Minsky refused her). He then added that ev
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by africanboy 5y ago
who said anything about Epstein? I believe Epstein did it, Stallam believes Epstein did it too (he wrote it in the thread), there's no doubt about it. Another thing entirely is the other accusations, we can't assume that every acc
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by africanboy 5y ago
> It claims the allegations against Minsky are false. I don't think he did.
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by africanboy 5y ago
He was writing those things on his personal web site, before anyone called them blogs. It has nothing to do with free software, you're right, they are his opinions on stuff.
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by africanboy 5y ago
that's completely fair! but on the other hand some might think that the FSF is becoming one of those organizations were "social indignation" has more importance than "due process" and it might alienate old and new c
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by africanboy 5y ago
she could be, we don't know (at least I don't know) and since I don't know, I prefer to stay on the cautious side. For example Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has now sued the woman in federal court in New York, claimi
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by africanboy 5y ago
what exactly this has to do with what happened to Giuffre and why should we care if it's Giuffre quoting something we have known for years? Is Giuffre some kind of higher being whose words are to be taken as divine thruths, just becaus
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by africanboy 5y ago
I'm not sure how a self emitted digital coin not backed by any institution or protected by any law could add security from frauds. «Bitcoin: Fake Elon Musk giveaway scam 'cost man £400,000'»
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by africanboy 5y ago
it was inspired by real events happened in Rome that go under the name of "mafia capitale" Suburra is also the name of an area in ancient Rome of lower class criminals and prostitution.

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