Reposting this from the old Hedera Hashgraph group to this one!
A Man And One Night In Paris...
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No, it isn't a romantic novel. It is a story about how I found out about Hashgraph.
A few years back I dabbled in Crypto. I knew the basics, but not to a level where most of you are at.
Paris, 29th September 2018. I am a hairdresser, and this was the evening I was nearly fired.
Myself and my future business partner had claimed we were going on holiday to Paris... It was actually to do the hair for a big show with ourselves leading it. It was to be a break for us in the industry and to help us make our name.
Anyhow, our boss had basically got us to swear to him that we were not going there to do a show.
Long story short he found out, and after a blistering barrage of texts from him and missed calls, I was particularly annoyed. I decided to take a walk that night, to find a nice restaurant to have dinner on my own.
After walking for close to an hour down little cobbled backstreets, I found a nice little restaurant tucked away off Paris's main Rues (roads in french).
I was sat there waiting for my food to arrive when to men sat down next to me- a father and son. Well dressed and professional. After a while they noticed I was on my own, and asked what I do; It was quite an expensive restaurant, filled with businessmen and the Parisian upper class it seemed- far more than my salary would normally allow shall we say ( I ordered the cheapest thing on the menu)
So they broke conversation, and asked what I did. I am not sure how, but we started talking about cryptos. Their English was broken, but we found common ground. This man kept going on about something called r/hashgraph r/Hedera and was explaining how it was the future- not blockchain. He said if blockchain was the .com bubble, Hashgraph is the internet.
Our conversation went on for an hour or so just talking about this. He even took to drawing on a napkin the way transactions worked- How Hedera literally is light years ahead of common blockchain technology, the way it can handle incredible loads on servers and distribute data that would normally jam up in other cryptos. He essentially said it is the the future, beyond any other coin.
After sharing our future plans in our relative industries, we said bye that night and the man left his card with me.
That man was Didier Cresp. A CEO and owner of one of the largest IT companies in France.
After looking
... keep reading on reddit ➡Just heard this on the radio. Anyone ever done an analysis of it? Seems like a perfect song for 12tone to analyze on YouTube.
What's happening here?
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[Similarly, but more morbidly, a Japanese man murdered (shot) and cannibalized a Dutch woman in Paris in 1981]^^1
He could walk free in 1986:
>Sagawa's wealthy father provided a lawyer for his defense, and after being held for two years without trial Sagawa was found legally insane and unfit to stand trial by the French judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière, who ordered him held indefinitely in a mental institution.[2] >Sagawa's subsequent publicity and macabre celebrity likely contributed to the French authorities' decision to deport him to Japan, where he was immediately committed to Matsuzawa hospital. Examining psychologists there all declared him sane and found sexual perversion was his sole motivation for the murder.[2]
>Because charges in France had been dropped, the French court documents were sealed and were not released to Japanese authorities; consequently Sagawa could not legally be detained in Japan. He checked himself out of the hospital on August 12, 1986, and remained free.[2] Sagawa's continued freedom has been widely criticized.
Vice Magazine had an interview with him even.
It appears the French view was "He's too insane to even stand trial! Lock him in a mental institution" while the Japanese view was: He's perfectly sane just a perverted freak, release him!"
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Author: /u/lud1120
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei_Sagawa
2: https://web.archive.org/web/20110714172725/http://www.newcriminologist.com/article.asp?nid=17
