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by quantumBerry 5y ago
If all "legitimate" platforms ban hate speech, then users wanting to engage in hate speech will all go to some platform that radically allows all speech with disproportionately this undesirable speech. They will intermingle dispr
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
I apologize, maybe you are not familiar with the details of the silk road. Ross Ulbricht was the administrator and creator of the silk road, allegedly. It's quite probable that without his arrest, it would have persisted even if on n
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
>Oh hello, strawman. Glad to know you finally admit that being kidnapped by a 3rd party is not really what most of us think as "moderation", and thus you have made a straw man. Although in the strict sense I guess it is true th
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
I suppose in the sense that Gabby Pettito was moderated off the internet, Ross Ulbricht was moderated off of the internet and into a cage permanently for the heinous crime of facilitating voluntarily peaceful trade. Tor marketplaces were d
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
The internet is not moderated in any useful sense for content. Drug markets like white house market, and before that silk road have perpetuated for years. Tor and other darknet websites host content that is nearly universally disdained by
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
As late as 2018, torrent traffic has been quoted as the fifth in internet traffic [1]. [1] https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-dominates-internet-traffic-...
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
>Trying to stop sexual abuse and child pornography isn't weird moralization. How does moderation of content prevent sexual abuse or CP? If anything I'd argue it creates more, because those that seek the images instead have to
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
The internet itself is unmoderated in any useful sense for content, yet it has lived longer than most of these cheesy "moderated" products that seek to impose their morality on you.
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
maybe enough "Notes" to pay my stay out of jail money, and the rest in hard currency :)
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
>This idea has been explicitly stated by those who oppose a $15 federal minimum wage, arguing that people making current minimum wage, or close to minimum wage, are not actually poor, Again, you claim was that it was said that those who
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
>It's treated as temporary as part of a justification for lower wages. This idea has been explicitly stated by those who oppose a $15 federal minimum wage, arguing that people making current minimum wage, or close to minimum wage, a
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
>we, as a society, have already decided that the benefits of eliminating $5/hour jobs was worth whatever effect it had on unemployment. We have eliminated some, but others we've simply relegated them to the black market so that
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
Of course you can get rich by buying dollars. Ever seen a street money changer? It's big business in places like Iraq, Argentina, and other places where dollars are desired. You can make a cut out of every dollar you sell for less d
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
>1) I feel like you know that is an oversimplification, No it really is this simple. Jobs that have negative economic value (wages do not cover value) are not maintainable in a free market for anything more than a short period of time.
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
>And what if that prophecy is not fulfilled? If you've gained no skills vs a fresh person with no experience that you can use to gain a better paying job, then you're doing the best you don't benefit financially from your
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
Glad to know you think anyone who can offer under $15/hr in value just a "nuance" worthy of unemployment.
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
>one consequence of federal minimum wage hikes can be job or hours loss for low‐ wage workers, as we’ve seen, which can create poverty. If the minimum wage has no effect on unemployment, then why stop at $15? Make minimum wage set at 20
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
No the argument is that if you outlaw all jobs under $15, then you've just outlawed employment for anyone who can offer less than $15/hr in value, and relegated that person to unemployment and cut their ability to climb the wage l
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
It's treated as a bridge for those who need some life skills before moving onto something else. A lot of jobs requiring responsibility don't want to hire a kid who has no experience other than smoking dope and video games, and re
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
Why are you wasting so many 'watts' sending this out? Every watt you use for debating on HN is a watt not used for something more productive. [ Personally I prefer units of energy like joule, power is not a measurement of wasted
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
Read the white paper about bitcoin. Does it say anything about it being an investment, guaranteeing stability of exchanging rates to fiat, providing interest, or any appreciation? I'll be waiting for you to cite that. There's a
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
>Ad hominem attacks undermine your arguments and suggest that you don’t actually have very strong argument, instead you’re forced to attack the character of the person your discussing with, due to an inability to attack their argument. T
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
Clearly you do not. You continually peddle lies and myths about crypto-CURRENCY (not crypto-investments, which you seem to think they are). You continually make the false presumption that cryptocurrencies are investments, and then proceed
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
Property taxes don't go to the federal government or national military, at least in the US. Lots of myths here.
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
> dollars are created through work. [citation needed] You seem to have a fairy tale level of knowledge about how dollars are created. One of the Fed's favored way of created more money is simply buying treasury bonds with newly cre
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
>including turning those digital funds into spendable cash. Crypto can be spendable cash. You can buy a coffee or a bar of gold with it, even bullets. Sounds like it can be used as a currency to me. It only takes a willing counterpart
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
Of course! If the US Army switched to massively inflating Venezuelan Bolivars for use and its share of tax collection, it would have no impact whatsoever on the army or its size! Clearly the one arguing in good faith is the person leading
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
> What the tax money is spent on is irrelevant and doesn’t create the demand. The maintenance of the army doesn't create demand for taxes? Are you aware this is one of the most significant historical reasons for the collection of t
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
That's an interesting and totally irrelevant statement that ignores the fact that taxation to pay for the army in your own words creates "base demand for dollars." Change in demand on the supply-demand curve means change in
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by quantumBerry 5y ago
Happily. "Base demand for dollars is created due to taxation" [1] Which of course completely contradicts: "The (mostly paid for by tax) army has nothing to do with the value of a dollar." [also 1] [1] comment by 'ar

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