RobertoG

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by RobertoG 9y ago
National currencies are not really in risk. Suppose that bitcoin or similar are used as currency in practice (that it's very far of happening, by the way). Even if you are able to do all your operations in a cryptocurrency, you will ne
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Paper ballots are more secure, precisely because they need a lot of people in the process. If most of those people is chosen randomly between the population, as it happens in my country, the system is pretty robust. As this is HN: It's
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>"It pays to be paranoid." Then, it's not paranoia.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
History tell us that the powerful always abuse their power, but it also tell us that, government or not government, the powerful always exist. So, you can see modern governments as a power to defeat or as a way of trying to control power.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
How do you reconciliate "execute their own free will" and "are easily manipulated" ?
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>"[..]not what they say they want, but what they actually want[..]" That always sounds circular and a little unscientific to me. It's a variation of the old: 1. markets give us ideal results; 2. how do we know? because in
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>"You are paying exorbitant fees, for what is essentially public information" I don't understand how this works. Is it really public information or the different markets sell it? Where are the providers getting the informa
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>"do we really want to apply 16th century economics rules today? No" Well, it's not 16th century economics, it's economics if you are a already developed country or a country in process of development. Those are diffe
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by RobertoG 9y ago
"The state should serve the people, not the other way around." That depends on your political views, but in my book, sure. The only measure of economic success for a country should be the improvement of the lives of their citizens
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by RobertoG 9y ago
>"The government has been actively extorting international companies into "joint" ventures. These ventures essentially require "treats" (as an insider told me) every several months. These treats would be manufact
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by RobertoG 9y ago
"[..] if your entire business model is flawed [..]" Unions go a little deep than the concept of "business model" "[..] I personally have zero desire to work in a union or be forced to be in one." I'm goin
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by RobertoG 9y ago
I have a stone in my garden that have been a stone for thousand of years and will stay a stone in the future. BTC can be stolen (have been stolen) and depend of the existence of a complex network of computers and the faith of thousands of p
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Not really. What is the point of cheaper price per transaction if, for some reason, nobody it's using it?
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"Sci-Fi has been lying to us for a very long time [..]" That's totally unfair. I think you have been reading the wrong science fiction.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
You can say the same about every country. That's the nature of networks of power. Or in other words, when you operate a business of considerable size you start being part of the inner circle.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
"I used to donate regularly to Watsi, but recently I have churned, as they have de-emphasized the p2p aspect over universal healthcare." It's my understanding that the their "other projects" are not being funded fro
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by RobertoG 9y ago
", I often want to backtrack and re-reference how a previous experiment went, but I lose that history" Have you considered using Git or some other control version system? I'm not sure about the practicality in your case, but
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Is it not deflation a signal of underutilization of available resources in the economy, and necessarily, in the long term, of diminishing capacity?
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by RobertoG 9y ago
So, socialism (the fear of) improved the live of those people. Sounds like a good deal.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
"How would anyone control something like that?" We know empirically (see your comment, for instance) that some people would vote against a raise. That idea that 'people' is unable to control their passions is not support
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Sure, but, in a more pessimistic view, what it's the meaning of 'they all work' if average people can't follow it?
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by RobertoG 9y ago
"You're either having strange moral values or suffering from cognitive dissonance" And, I would add, missing some reading in the modern history of South-America.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Is it not, this: "Extrajudicial courts were created." (I would add, created at will and could be created again in the future). and this: "the system as a whole is worth saving" a little incompatible? I mean, what is the
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by RobertoG 9y ago
This is a very useful project. Something similar (even if it's not exactly the intended functionality) that already exist is the Kaggle image: https://github.com/Kaggle/docker-python
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by RobertoG 9y ago
"It's like automating astronaut application forms." Good potential astronauts could get tired of filling application forms for everything and just choose another career.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
I checked. CUP, 8% of the votes. The other pro-independence parties mostly from the right. There goes the communism thing, what about the slavery thing? It seems to me that you are trying again the same trick.
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Not sure why you feel the need to use slavery or communist as an example here, instead of, for instance, secessionist. Maybe you expect to elicit a sense of horror in your readers?
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by RobertoG 9y ago
Surely, you have your own brand or brainwashing in mind when it's you who want to control the education.
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"The real fix is politically unpopular." If the real fix is politically unpopular, is it a real fix? I mean, what people want should be accounted somehow, that's the point of a democracy, isn't it?
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"[..] now owns currency that was introduced from outside the system, which will now be spent or invested in the country." With the current (in most countries) banking system, the money available for investing is not limited by the

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