Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by kaba0 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @07:52PM
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True, but at the point of a dictatorship, all is lost, unless you leave the country - and that’s why democracy should be protected at all cost.
I don’t see how circumventing the whole thing help the regular people, considering the potential increase due to easier availability in illegal activity like human trafficking, child porn, weapons trade, etc. We have laws against them for very good reasons.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by reedjosh on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @09:55PM
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> True, but at the point of a dictatorship, all is lost, unless you leave the country
Today's democracy is just a dictatorship in sheep's clothing, and I'm not convinced democratic governments were ever anything but.
> illegal activity like human trafficking, child porn, weapons trade, etc.
Boogiemen... Not that these things don't happen, but that they happen rarely, and the government doesn't even do a good job of stopping these things.
Worst of all good people believe the government stops these things and don't work to protect themselves and their community from them because of this belief.