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Well there is England...

If it's any consolation I'm just American and I believe Trump is an incontinent rubber stamp for any brown-noser that orbits him and Elon deserves to be unceremoniously gored with a brick.

Maybe we'll get a solid Somaliland in the ensuing chaos after this current unmanaged Chapter 11 leads to a messy Chapter 7.

Treating the government like a startup is gambling, the difference is startups are intentionally disposable while a Nation State... it's a fucking Nation State.

He's more of a lobotomized Jack Welch imo

If the only thing it can accomplish is being traded back and forth for "hard" currencies such as the US Dollar than it's no more useful than the Soviet Ruble. It's not even useful as an actual anonymous currency, it's not even anonymous without a considerable amount of legwork.

Nah, the whole executive branch is getting Jack Welch'ed. Hopefully your tap water cleanliness regulations are strong on a state level.

Wouldn't be a terrible idea.

So you are just flooding a submission box with meaningless noise that at worst merely sounds plausible but doesn't actually work that way in experimentation? It's like trying to pull knowledge from the old Library of Babel website, a repository with every combination of letters, a tremendous volume of noise, and zero discernment of what is true or applicable among it. At best it is merely a glorified filter to that repository that only outputs sentences that are coherent at face value.

"If this thing was an entirely different situation then the stakes would be different." Well, glad we got that part worked out.

Considering how broadly unpopular the idea is to average people who don't aspire to own cryptocurrency (especially after FTX publicly ate its own organs) I don't see it being particularly difficult to find support for such laws in more liberal places such as the EU.

I think in places like Italy they discover something of that sort almost every single time they dig a hole deep enough into the ground (eg during construction).

Prostitution is legal in the State of Nevada but is outlawed again specifically for Las Vegas on a local level.

In school it was my literal case study in software ethics.

What is what this article is about, the author enjoyed having a VOIP-based house phone. Everyone just assumed it was about POTS because they don't read past the headlines.