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OK. I'll just fire up my VPN to route around the 'problem-solving'. I'll use crytocurrency when I can to mitigate the 'good'. > Which is why people have not an

OK. I'll just fire up my VPN to route around the 'problem-solving'. I'll use crytocurrency when I can to mitigate the 'good'. > Which is why people have not and will never "learn" that lesson you are hoping they will I don't think anyone will learn anything. We don't walk down the current path because people are learning. I avoid the shitshow the best I can. Money, tech, metathinking. You all can do what you want.

nebabyte 9y ago
> OK. I'll just fire up my VPN to route around the 'problem-solving' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14374926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14374926 Nonparticipation and avoidance are stopgaps; don't expect stopgaps to save you. Those who participate and invest themselves in making their systems work (and find a place within such system) are not the ones who get stranded without recourse when the governments continue to act in accordance with their own precedents. In this instance, if you were a citizen of Britain and decided your response to this was plugging your ears and using a VPN, I would not put much stock in your success with that venture going forward, as you'd be at the mercy of the gov't not implementing one of the contingencies I listed in that comment or any number of others they could easily justify given their precedent and direction. Cryptocurrency is as vulnerable to the will of the people as anything else. At some point, the point of sale is discoverable - oh hell, I've written on this before too. Head-in-the-sand-ism only gets you so far :)
- discombobulate 9y ago
  I'll move countries if they get too egregious. I'm not tolerating that bullshit when I'm the one doing the productive work. You call it head-in-the-sand-sim, I call it fuck-off-ism. I'm already to the point where I'm going to have to pay for health services, which are free on the NHS (National Health Service). I pay twice. Once for the govs incompetent service & again for a reasonable service. They are a waste of space in my estimation.

nebabyte 9y ago

> OK. I'll just fire up my VPN to route around the 'problem-solving' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14374926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14374926 Nonparticipation and avoidance are stopgaps; don't expect stopgaps to save you. Those who participate and invest themselves in making their systems work (and find a place within such system) are not the ones who get stranded without recourse when the governments continue to act in accordance with their own precedents. In this instance, if you were a citizen of Britain and decided your response to this was plugging your ears and using a VPN, I would not put much stock in your success with that venture going forward, as you'd be at the mercy of the gov't not implementing one of the contingencies I listed in that comment or any number of others they could easily justify given their precedent and direction. Cryptocurrency is as vulnerable to the will of the people as anything else. At some point, the point of sale is discoverable - oh hell, I've written on this before too. Head-in-the-sand-ism only gets you so far :)

discombobulate 9y ago
I'll move countries if they get too egregious. I'm not tolerating that bullshit when I'm the one doing the productive work. You call it head-in-the-sand-sim, I call it fuck-off-ism. I'm already to the point where I'm going to have to pay for health services, which are free on the NHS (National Health Service). I pay twice. Once for the govs incompetent service & again for a reasonable service. They are a waste of space in my estimation.