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2024-08-15 12:17:23

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I agree with your remarks about the healthy and productive process of confronting and melting publicly "right" and "wrong" ideas, as Stuart Mill explains.
And being totally against censorship, I find this matter quite complex, though.
Because we can see many times that hate speech doesnt come originally from "people" or communities, but from armed organizations, governments or ideological lobbies... in these cases the hate speech doesnt help the situation, but FUELS the conflict in order to better achieve the objectives, whether of an arms lobby from Washington or an Islamic Revolution from Tehran.
Anyway, if there is a solution, it should be more speech and more freedom !!

2024-08-14 12:45:05

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Lo nunca visto en países libres, CENSURA preventiva y generalizada basada en los criterios subjetivos de un comisario político que no ha sido elegido democráticamente.

2024-08-13 18:28:40

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The radical dichotomy between the concepts of government and people is naïve and too simple. Governments have been CREATED not by aliens, but by real persons, by people.
I agree that this creation is some kind of monster used by the powerful to exploit other people, but authority is not an irrational superstition. Authority is a great REALITY based and justified on the historic legitimation given year by year, month by month by people in a complex PROCESS of thousands of years.

2024-08-08 20:51:43

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2 minutes ?? I am afraid that is too simple an explanation...
The fact that the educational system, morals of powerful, religions, etc indoctrinate people to obey is not a sound reason to affirm that people obey ultimately because of that.
Too many books and theories have been written about the ORIGIN of the State and none of them is definitive, but what is certain is that this origin is a process of thousands of years in hundreds of different civilizations, not a false illusion of the people.

2024-08-07 18:49:35

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Discrimination is one of those confusing concepts that drives us all crazy.
It is something negative when it is an illegal act of the government or a public power, since it is an attack against the principle of equality before the law.
Yet, when we speak of discrimination between private people we tend to miss the simple fact that we all do it, all the time.
We all discriminate when we choose our friends or our partner, when we apply for an specific post, when we hire a worker, when we decide to have a tuna sandwich, when we cheer on our favourite team, when we buy a book, when we marry or when we decide to spend a week in Brazil and not in Canada.
And we do it according to criteria of beauty, race, culture, kindness, money, intelligence, etc and other very "selfish" reasons.
We all do it every day and it is our right (without prejudice to the fact that by doing so we could be maybe a stupid or a bad person in some cases).
So, discriminating CV with picture or discriminating interview for a job ?? ...yeah !! isn't that the main function of a CV or an interview ? .... to discriminate !!

2024-08-07 14:05:29

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Felicidades por la entrevista, nos trae un buen chorro de realidad y de autocrítica, ambos requisitos imprescindibles para avanzar.
Mi impresión en este tema es q la dimensión del cambio personal y social q propone #bitcoin es tan gigantesca q principalmente son los mejor informados (grandes inversores) y/o entusiastas (generaciones jóvenes) los q hacen el esfuerzo para entenderlo. De ahí la brecha entre precio y adopción.
La gran masa de población sólo entrará si Amazon o su banco se lo dan masticado o cuando haya un cambio generacional.

2024-08-04 20:09:44

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I mostly agree with the central idea of your post about AML.
Yet, I think that "equality" could be a much clearer word in that context than "social justice", which is a very common but quite confusing concept, as one might think considering its religious origin (from a Jesuit priest).
Confusing also because (if we dont turn to religious beliefs) justice is always a "social" idea, so its a redundancy.
And finally because out of a legal system nobody can give a minimally precise and not circular definition of what "Justice" is (apart from stating his personal opinion about what considers just or unjust)... this problem dates back to Roman Law times.

2024-08-03 11:16:46

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As Hume explained, the problem with "what is right" (morals) is that it comes not from reasoning but from emotions. So, there is NOT such a thing as a single "what is right" except for very few and extreme cases (vb to kill a baby .... but not vb to kill and eat human flesh as its done nowadays in some parts of Papua New Guinea).
Most of cases of "what is right" are gray areas determined in every historic moment and in every part of the World by the emotions of majority.
And today majority of people chose every day order, obedience, police and repression, since they get security in exchange. This could change in the future, though.

2024-07-30 13:25:12

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Indeed, ego is a great obstacle to learn new things, but in my opinion laziness plays a more decisive role.
The sofa is our greatest enemy, the ultimate factor why most of us hardly commit any time on the problems of the "Res Publica" ... so politicians have occupied that large void to sell us comfort and security.

2024-07-27 13:01:02

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Yeah !! ... and a very interesting topic is to compare both in the light of Game Theory... #Chess is a zero sum game but, what about #Bitcoin ??
Some say its a negative sume game, some say its a positive sum game ....

2024-07-27 12:11:13

VAAAMOS FAUSTINO !!
Youngest Ever Chess International Master !!! ♟️
... here playing a 1 minute game
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/HIjnLur-Oyk

2024-07-27 11:40:41

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I am afraid that most people dont WANT to understand and they have a right to behave that way. This topic is quite old.
"The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it"
Ayn Rand

2024-07-26 09:24:49

Tao Te Ching (chapter 75),
written on bamboo strips in 4th century before Christ (around 24 centuries before #Bitcoin )
https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d740dfd94cc76d7e48289b2dcc989d62e264380237c6296d054826d51e816f5/0216b7a5e4bed6e25bb8b9fe619e2dff0de2015a778959a1fe803fdee903825e.webp

2024-07-25 16:00:22

This article of Daniel Lacalle reveals the ultimate goal behind CBDCs (and KYC regulations on #Bitcoin ) >> not just to follow abstract collectivist ideas, but mainly to gain more control on private lives in order to reduce the chances of escape.
"If the ECB and the Fed really want a digital currency is because they know they will lose the confidence of citizens earlier than we think and they need to impose their market share, not gain it."
FUNGIBILITY in #Bitcoin is essential to prevent that State market share from being imposed on us by force.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/central-bank-digital-currencies-would-bring-hyperinflation

2024-07-24 22:49:03

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Boredom is something as old as man and a common theme in Philosophy and Literature... vb in Goethe's Faust. It is generally more interesting to look within ourselves before looking for world governments in the shadows.

2024-05-06 20:35:38

Snowden issues a FINAL warning about the increasing and advanced attacks on #Bitcoin privacy.
https://news.bitcoin.com/snowden-issues-final-warning-to-bitcoin-developers-on-privacy-enhancements
Too dramatic ?? Probably not... without FUNGIBILITY, bitcoin will easily be whatever governments want it to be.

2024-04-27 08:31:26

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"But if you're not breaking the law, you have nothing to worry about" ... I could agree with most of your post, but this sentence is quite unfortunate.
This last week Bitcoin suffered -in my opinion- the worst blow of his lifetime, because FUNGIBILITY IS ESSENTIAL for Bitcoin to be a true alternative to the fiat system. And mixing tools like coinjoin are the main (if not the only) way to stop the increasing attacks to that fungibility.
To criminalize the Samourai developers will have and is ALREADY having serious consequences in the use of these tools, so there is MUCH to worry about.
Snowden saw this really fast and the very same day he wrote: "The way to fix this it to make money private by default." I agree 100%, it is the way.

2024-04-23 08:47:49

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Before calling to anger, maybe we would need to know what "Justice" is (not what is fair for me... or for him). The idea of Justice that gives Aquinas is a bit of a circular definition, it doesnt help very much