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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 13m \ parent \ on: What am I missing about Ross Ulbricht and the silk road? Politics_And_Law
That's not an unreasonable thing to say, but it's also not decisive. My understanding is that things that are harder to prove are often not raised in trial, when a case that is sufficiently strong on other accounts can be made.
I'm willing to be corrected on this by someone who knows better, though.
I liked it a lot, other than the amount of work involved. I'd do it again someday, with some tweaks to method, and hopefully with some tweaks to the mechanics of the site that made it easier to manage.
Both, is my guess. It's hard to have someone who embodies a bunch of things you like, especially when that's rare, and then does something despicable. Easier to deny the despicable thing. Overwhelming evidence on that account.
Again, I don't know what's true. But I know that it doesn't matter what's true for how people are behaving, that's the interesting (and disturbing) thing.
Let Lyn come on here and prod us into a comprehensive discussion, herself.
I like it! This will be my mental defense for a host of things, now ;)
I don't have a problem with any of the activities apart from paying for a hit on someone. It's hard to know whether that's real without spending more time digging into this than I want to.
What's interesting to me is that "Ross is innocent" is a point of dogma in the btc community that you're not allowed to challenge and still be in "polite" company; and most people who hold the dogma know as little about it as I do.
Every culture has its unquestionable truths, I guess.
Okay, posted. I struggled figuring out where it should go between ~bitcoin, ~BooksAndArticles, and ~meta, but decided on B&A; so I added a bit potentially of interest to those readers.
First time in my life I've wanted cross-posting.
It's probably because I changed the name to "Broken Money" book club:
After part 4, because the discussion was so long and unwieldy, for part 5 I broke them into separate questions, which are harder to find.
I think that's all of them.
My policy on these things is that, if anyone ever comments, I will still see it and reply if I have anything useful to say -- in service of evergreen-ness. So please, do comment, the discussion is still alive, in my heart at least :)
The fact that this law needs to exist at all makes me want to puke. I wish there was another law where people making "animal crush" videos would be fair game for others to make "human crush" videos with them as subjects.
Are people learning the cautionary tale?
I suppose not, no more than they ever do.
I kinda see why the elite cannot grasp their heads around this.
This seems plausible, and is an example of a more general problem: when people are able to isolate themselves from the consequences of things, they can hold onto all kinds of notions that more intimate practitioners can't.
But what they fail to see is that although academia is ethnically diverse, it is not multicultural.
Under-rated take. The annoying thing is that diversity really is amazingly valuable. People are just generally extremely limited in how the think about the concept.
I want a version updated with modern machine learning tech.
This is my favorite part.
If a cat gets on the keyboard, PawSense makes a sound that annoys cats. This teaches your cat that getting on the keyboard is bad even if humans aren't watching.
And I think it's directly responsible for the rise of so-called populist movements all over Europe. They're directly downstream from the original theses of success in cultural integration going through just-try-harder efforts as well as the multicultural compromise. A pair of ideas that had buy-in across much of the European board until reality simply became too intolerable for too many who had to live with the consequences.
So much truth in this, IMO. A cautionary tale when you let what you want to be true get in the way of what the world is demonstrating is true. A lesson for everyone, for all of time.
Even thinking what the unit vectors should be is an interesting exercise. Personally I think I would relax the requirements a bit and allow a bit more social / cultural things, just not the usual suspects, whose components are hugely over-represented in current podcasts.
Anything memorable in how he created this group, and curated it, to be so interesting to so many for so long? I love that idea, have thought a lot about trying to do some similar thing.