@greennomad@fkamiah17@aral That law only applies to Americans, I assume, not Netanyahu. But seriously, the US will turn on you in an instant if you are doing the right thing but it's against their interests. Because many of their interests aren't the right thing.
@regordane@mekkaokereke@carlosrodriguez Spurious, capricious, volatile...all features you *don't* want in a currency. One reason we dropped the gold standard is that international trade became punishing for some countries who could not control their currency. Bitcoin is no different than gold.
@mekkaokereke That's my perspective as well. You get more free speech if you exclude hate speech. If you include hate speech, then you lose *all* the speech from the victims. It's a loss for society because minorities have the unique perspectives you don't have in the dominant culture.
@arstechnica Vaporizing plastic sounds trivial, just add enough heat. But in this case the plastic polymers were selectively broken down into useful gases that can be reused in the plastics industry to make high quality "virgin" plastic. So this sounds like a big deal.
@Dianora@david_megginson@RickiTarr Many people probably use a fax from desktop system by now, though my spouse's office has a real one to communicate with hospitals. It's still used because of its point-to-point nature with no intervening opportunities to view patient/client information, and the relative confidence in fidelity of the copy.
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