When r/conspiracy is true
Happens more often than most are willing to admit, especially lately.
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OrlandoHakim commented on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources reuters.com/technology/ex... · Posted by u/thm
> Sadly, not just in Turkey but increasingly in what you'd consider developed "western" countries. This is concerning.
Bullsh*t alert! Name one western country that charges people for terrorism for criticizing Erdogan.
In Canada, protestors had their bank accounts frozen for saying mean things about Trudeau. It's not exactly the same as your example but it does rhyme.
OrlandoHakim commented on Atlassian products have been down for 4 days status.atlassian.com... · Posted by u/Corrado
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OrlandoHakim commented on Elon has decided not to join our board twitter.com/paraga/status... · Posted by u/minimaxir
I think it’s more likely that Elon wants to keep his options open. As a board member he would have a fiduciary duty’s that would prevent him from doing certain things. Most notably, it would keep him from purchasing more shares and orchestrating a hostile takeover by way of taking a majority stake in Twitter.
In other words, taking a board seat would have limited him to holding no more than 14.9% of Twitter shares. Now he can take control if he wants.
OrlandoHakim commented on Elon has decided not to join our board twitter.com/paraga/status... · Posted by u/minimaxir
I think it’s more likely that Elon wants to keep his options open. As a board member he would have a fiduciary duty’s that would prevent him from doing certain things. Most notably, it would keep him from purchasing more shares and orchestrating a hostile takeover by way of taking a majority stake in Twitter.
OrlandoHakim commented on Atlassian products have been down for 4 days status.atlassian.com... · Posted by u/Corrado
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I would like to advocate for Linear.app as an outstanding, fast, polished alternative to Jira for teams looking for an alternative.
OrlandoHakim commented on The Complete Argument Against Crypto stephendiehl.com/blog/com... · Posted by u/sfg
his point is not that sanctions or good or bad, but rather that the people doing the sanctioning were elected by the people. Albright was appointed by a president who won in a democratic referendum and was confirmed by senators who too were elected by the people in their respective states. There is accountability there. If you don’t like the leaders you can vote them out and replace them with new leaders. The American republic is by no means a perfect system, but it has a lot more accountability built into it than allowing private entities to control whether or not a foreign entity is sanctioned. Moving to a system where unelected billionaires have control of sanctioning powers with no accountability to the people is less desirable and offers less accountability
War crimes committed by democratically elected officials are still war crimes. I don’t see a compelling argument in giving Bush and Blair total control to decide the economic fate of nations who didn’t elect them is justifiable. Crypto is partly about separating money from state so democratically elected governments such as Canada cannot unilaterally delete people from the banking system without due process.
My original argument stands. The author’s primary argument is that crypto is bad for authoritarians/statists as it allows the subverting of state power. He is not wrong on that point, but he is viewing the issue from a one-sided perspective and his arguments are tired.
OrlandoHakim commented on The Complete Argument Against Crypto stephendiehl.com/blog/com... · Posted by u/sfg
This is a really bad article. It screams from the hilltops that crypto is bad because it doesn’t support the author’s statist/authoritarian worldview.
For example one of the article’s first points is that crypto is bad because it makes it harder for countries to enforce sanctions while ignoring that sanctions are acts of economic war and without recognizing that they have been horribly abused by governments in the past. (See Madeleine Albright defending her sanctions against Iraq which directly led to the deaths of 1.5 million women and children)
The author goes on to regurgitate every standard criticism against cryptocurrencies but in the shallowest of ways and without bringing anything new to the table.
I’ve seen many far better critiques of crypto. This article falls far short.
"it was changed before this piece and before NPR decided to leave. Twitter acknowledged that label was incorrect and changed it. Then NPR had a temper tantrum and left and this piece implied they left over that label. It’s misleading at best"