Petro dollar is directly tied to the US military prowess. If you try to create all alternate Petro dollar they kill you. See gaddaffi for example

I don't see how it's just as good, it's good but not nearly the same

They can't and won't, anyone savvy enough can obfuscate it enough. This is just fear mongering for the masses, in other words, business as usual for the government

Already been thinking about moving abroad, this is a great reason to push me further in that direction

I would do this before I deleted my Facebook account when I ran ads not to intentionally exclude people but because I figured people over a certain age probably wouldn't know the technologies I was looking for and I figured I would probably end up paying for false positive ad clicks

> because I figured people over a certain age probably wouldn't know the technologies I was looking for

This is precisely the kind of age discrimination the law is intended to prevent.

Yep. I was hoping that sentence would end with "because I figured people over a certain age probably wouldn't be interested in entry-level positions," and I was prepared to think that was an interesting point.

Why would that be any less discriminatory?

It wouldn't really, but it would be significantly less douche-y, because it would ultimately be based in a less disparaging view of older job seekers.

It is factual that certain technologies are more used by certain demographics. If someone has a very small ad budget I don't understand why they should be forced to display ads to a demographic less likely to know the technology.

No, can't really be the case that they can't rather they would just have to be too ignorant to do it elsewhere, if you can buy Bitcoin it's relatively trivial to buy any other crypto currency.

It was a flash spike, it's back down

Definitely not possible to buy it today on coinbase as far as I can tell

No, it has nothing to do with analysis of data, it only has to do with access to information that others do not have access to.

I choose to profit