Today I found out that the stethoscope was invented relatively recently, in the mid-1800s.

What is most interesting is the motivation for its invention. Previously, the lungs were listened to by resting the ear on the chest, and Dr. René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec realized that his patients, especially women, were made uncomfortable by this gesture, which, moreover, they endured at a time of suffering. So as an act of kindness he invented the stethoscope so that he could stand at a respectful distance while examining his patients.

It is very nice to see that a technical development came out of an act of love.

#TIL

Privacy is normal and good.

There has been an effort among authorities to make “money laundering” and “financial privacy” the same thing. That is, the mere act of moving money privately itself becomes a crime. That’s not okay.

Money laundering is when money that is obtained through crime is concealed by obfuscating it with clean money. The actual crime is the initial non-financial crime (say, mob stuff), and historically money laundering involves manual activity to work with the criminals.

Now that open source tech can make certain transactions private, authorities increasingly equate all private money transfer with money laundering, even if the developer of the open source tech had no direct involvement with criminals. Authorities target them regardless, and sanction the technology itself. Financial privacy becomes synonymous with crime in their minds, and in the minds of the public.

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