miracle2k

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by miracle2k 1y ago
> Please keep espousing this nonsense: 2028 will be fun. I hope our little pushback against deporting random legally present gay bakers to the foreign gulag doesn't force you to support Trump's 2028 22nd amendment violation.
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by miracle2k 1y ago
> The USA is not a democracy. The USA is a larger republic of a union of republics. "The USA is a democracy" is a perfectly valid and correct statement. "No, it's a republic" is kind of a nonsensical retort, and
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by miracle2k 1y ago
> An American illegally immigrating to Europe for financial gain (work) would be deported forthwith just for having done so. They would be afforded a way to challenge their deportation, not be denied access to a lawyer, sent to a foreign
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by miracle2k 2y ago
Independently of your overall point, what strikes me here is that Trump could not possibly care less about any promises that the "US" may have made. He is effectively breaking every deal ever made, with no regard for any continuit
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by miracle2k 2y ago
> As an aside, in Canada, a sentence of life without parole is considered unlawful because it conflicts with Section 12 of the Charter guarantees that individuals have the right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. Courts
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by miracle2k 2y ago
They had a choice every single time they dropped a bomb! In fact, "the IDF is the most moral army in the world" supporters would like us to believe that very often, they chose not to. If they want credit for the ones not dropped,
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by miracle2k 2y ago
> The blood of the Palestinian civilians that Hamas waged war from behind is absolutely on Hamas's hands. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. Thousands of Palestinians children are dead, and for every single one, Israel c
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by miracle2k 2y ago
That's why when referring to the price people generally don't talk about sales, but about the "floor price", that is, actual committed listings that someone is willing to sell for. The floor price can be a dubious measur
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by miracle2k 2y ago
> The U.S. Constitution provides rights for citizens to have free speech — not non-citizens. This is basically untrue. At times, the court has applied different standards to speech by residents, but this does not mean that they would all
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by miracle2k 2y ago
> This is how it works in Europe and it never even crossed my mind that it could be annoying. I've taken many flights in Europe without id check, see also: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/180781/
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by miracle2k 2y ago
I don't know how common it is, but this is a page of the Stuttgart court: https://oberlandesgericht-stuttgart.justiz-bw.de/pb/,Lde/Sta... - Countries without a link they have no info - Countries with a link,
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by miracle2k 2y ago
I am seeing different things online about this, de.usembassy.gov says "no such government issued document exists in the United States", but maybe they are referring to the federal government. In any case it say that since 2021 Ger
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by miracle2k 2y ago
It's actually somewhat similar in Germany. You need a Ehefähigkeitszeugnis , essentially that document proving that you are not married yet. You would have needed to get this from the US. Because most countries don't have that so
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by miracle2k 3y ago
> On this issue in the group that complain about the cookie law there are some people who are very wrong on purpose because it's in their interest, and some people who are very wrong because they genuinely don't understand the
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by miracle2k 3y ago
> The purpose of incarceration isn't to coddle murderers, Unfortunatly in the real world your criminal justice ethics will have to accommodate crimes that are not murder, so you might need to think about some prisoners eventually ge
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by miracle2k 3y ago
Big props on this; great project, and the tutorial really showing off it's power. Would love to be able to use this outside of Figma one day.
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by miracle2k 3y ago
> I believe this is a clue to where the GP post is coming from: we can't, therefore the study must be flawed. How so? They are clearly saying they expected this to be possible already, until this article claimed otherwise (by sugges
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by miracle2k 3y ago
> If you hold ETH according to the chain, it’s yours. So is my NFT! No one can take it away from me. There are a couple things that could happen: - The artist can mint an additional copy; this could mean my own copy loses value, or it co
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by miracle2k 3y ago
> The entity selling them just takes payment via ethereum or other coins, but at best what they're storing on that chain is a pointer saying "oh yea, nytesky bought this thing that we store elsewhere". The thing that I ne
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by miracle2k 3y ago
> When you buy an actual piece of art, the provenance is useful because it lets you know the art you have is the real thing. When you buy art as an NFT, you do own an actual piece of art. Unless you think a non-physical art like say The
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by miracle2k 3y ago
Which Android malware problem? Android has a permission system, every permission an app has needs to be approved by the user, and some permissions only system-apps can request. There is no need for an app store review process to stop apps f
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by miracle2k 3y ago
The NFT was issued by the creator of the artwork. It’s like a moon certificate issued by god plus we don’t have space flight.
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by miracle2k 3y ago
Try to use less all-caps? > OH COME OFF IT. There is not a Government on this planet that wants to get rid of cash. It is a real civil rights concern: - https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/say-no-cashle
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by miracle2k 3y ago
> We already have an untraceable value credit system in place for transacting illicit things. It's called cash. Sure, cash is great. I hope we get to keep it, but it seems clear we'll need to fight for that. It has advantages o
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by miracle2k 3y ago
> The solution is to decriminalize drugs and use the existing financial system to pay for them. When can we expect this utopia to be ushered in? What about paying for abortions? Sex work? Hosting of Kiwi Farms? There is no future where a
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by miracle2k 3y ago
> They didn't invent cars Can we really call the car an "invention"? After all, both the wheel and the steam engine already existed. Those techniques were already invented and in-use long beforehand.
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by miracle2k 3y ago
“My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that:
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by miracle2k 3y ago
Love this contrarian answer.
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by miracle2k 3y ago
> Neither [1] nor [2] contain the word "blockchain". I don't think you get to retroactively claim those projects & research as part of the blockchain movement. Curiously, Crypto-critics like to do the same, aka Ben McK
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by miracle2k 3y ago
> they were just hoping to reach “too big to fail” status before attracting the attention of prosecutors. Are saying that although this is evil, evil money laundering, if they just get a chance to do more of it, US prosecutors will leave

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