US hegemony is military, not monetary US army will be hegemomic even if the entire planet switch to BTC
there are many kinds of cheese that are very low on lactose see my previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26988408 I'm lactose intolerant myself, but have no problems with Parmigiano
ricotta contains no caseine and it's real cheese caseine and lactose intolerance are very common conditions, they have always been for humans throughout history people developed techniques to make cheese that contains…
I think it was popularized in the USA by the first amendment > FREEDOM of speech is a constitutional guarantee. But that doesn't mean it is absolute or not subject to some limitations one important thing is that the…
> 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…
you haven't reconsidered yet?
I think it's the opposite, productivity is the GDP output over worked hours, in USA they work a lot more than in Europe on average, so their productivity is actually similar, not higher. More hours = more productivity…
that is hours clocked in I guess, there's a similar pattern in Italy but they are not working more they are staying at the office longer they chose to so that they can skip other obligations (family for example) and as…
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…
smoking in public places. alcohol sold to minors. unlicensed doctors. guns. hard drugs. tanks as private vehicles. old polluting cars. the list is endless.
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…
> 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…
or why they won't work to solve this kind of issues
> 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…
> 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…
> 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…
> 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…
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…
> 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…
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…
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…
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…
In Japan age of consent is 13. Do you find Japanese people abhorrent?
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…
US hegemony is military, not monetary US army will be hegemomic even if the entire planet switch to BTC
there are many kinds of cheese that are very low on lactose see my previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26988408 I'm lactose intolerant myself, but have no problems with Parmigiano
ricotta contains no caseine and it's real cheese caseine and lactose intolerance are very common conditions, they have always been for humans throughout history people developed techniques to make cheese that contains…
I think it was popularized in the USA by the first amendment > FREEDOM of speech is a constitutional guarantee. But that doesn't mean it is absolute or not subject to some limitations one important thing is that the…
> 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…
you haven't reconsidered yet?
I think it's the opposite, productivity is the GDP output over worked hours, in USA they work a lot more than in Europe on average, so their productivity is actually similar, not higher. More hours = more productivity…
that is hours clocked in I guess, there's a similar pattern in Italy but they are not working more they are staying at the office longer they chose to so that they can skip other obligations (family for example) and as…
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…
smoking in public places. alcohol sold to minors. unlicensed doctors. guns. hard drugs. tanks as private vehicles. old polluting cars. the list is endless.
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…
> 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…
or why they won't work to solve this kind of issues
> 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…
> 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…
> 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…
> 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…
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…
> 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…
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…
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…
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…
In Japan age of consent is 13. Do you find Japanese people abhorrent?
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…