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One should probably also ask how much research would not have gotten done or other issues that would crop up if less tech-savvy researchers didn't have a beginner friendly tool like Excel available.

Are you suggesting it's unreasonable to ask here without doing his own independent research? It seems like a reasonable thing to discuss here.

I'd expect bananas to have lower than average amounts of pesticides though.

The edible part is enclosed in a thick skin that is discarded. And all the small-time banana growers I know, who use pesticides on other crops, just let their bananas grow naturally.

That's true, and the AML laws for crypto are already becoming more strict, especially in Europe. But in practice, it will be much easier to evade those laws than it is with fiat transfers or moving physical cash/gold.

> But you’re reinventing money with extra steps.

But you gain some desirable properties over traditional money.

Without crypto, you don't have frictionless and permissionless transfers of arbitrary value across international borders.

Unless the "baddie" in this case is the government, why would it be easy for anyone to obtain access to multiple secrets stored in multiple boxes/banks?

Multisig is a pretty common setup for crypto and there is software that makes it easier.

Sure, they could. Would that be any different from how a bank could steal funds from a traditional deposit account?

By making a bank the custodian of your crypto wallet, you're placing your trust in them and should have similar legal recourse you would have had with a fiat deposit.

I think we just don't agree on what the problem is. I don't want a discussion platform protecting me from "dangerous" content that I am choosing to engage with.

How about let the user decide what he or she wants to see?

Don't censor any discussion, but give users options on what things to hide, preferably with open source algorithms that anyone can create and share.

Doesn't Android show an indicator when the microphone is being used? Are they bypassing this?

> And I haven't started on the slavery side of the production side of the supply chain.

That exists primarily because of the legal status. If cocaine were legal, for example, the production wouldn't be much worse than say coffee cultivation.

And that's terrible what happened to your cousin, but I don't see how those relatively limited cases, as bad as they are, compare to the millions of lives that have been destroyed globally by the war on drugs.

The solution to that problem is simple: legalize the sale of all drugs. Extortion is a common practice of drug gangs, whether they sell online or not.

Which part is hypocritical?

I do support drug legalization and decriminalization of all "victimless" crimes.

But I also realize that libertarian policies are unlikely to be adopted in today's political climate, so I also support technology that gets the government out of personal lives, regardless of the law.

> I just opened Telegram right now to check and sure enough the third contact in people nearby right now is called “Weed, Coke, Viagra - Buy now”. At some point, if you don’t see the issue, I think you might be intentionally blind.

Or we just see these discussions as something that shouldn't be criminalized. I'm happy that those who wish to buy drugs can do so on a safer platform than the street corner.

> You need to be very clear about what you mean by "lab leak theory"

Why? Are you implying that it was okay to censor discussion of some versions and not others?