RoboPlumber

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by RoboPlumber 10y ago
> By backing I meant a .gov's ability to tax or confiscate wealth, or for that matter impose capital controls. Neither of these are an advantage of a fiat currency. They are both very bad for users of the currency. These are preci
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by RoboPlumber 10y ago
Experimental evidence suggests that having lots of users isn't a guarantee of stability. See Venezuela (right now), Zimambwe Dollar, German Reichsmark, Argentine Peso, Mexican Peso, Thai Baht, etc. All of these had tremendous collapses
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by RoboPlumber 10y ago
The confusion is probably from your internal semantics of the phrase "backing". When you say > the "we the nation" backing of fiat money. what do you think that means? First, I'll tell you what it doesn't
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by RoboPlumber 10y ago
I really hate the "gigantic block quotes between paragraphs" thing. It's very distracting from the flow and content of the article.
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by RoboPlumber 10y ago
Yes, absolutely. The vast majority of engineers are fairly right-leaning. Some good reading: http://www.businessinsider.com/charts-show-the-political-bia... https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/
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by RoboPlumber 10y ago
Radical leftists are easy to find. Radical leftist engineers are probably hard to find because leftist engineers in general are hard to find.
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by RoboPlumber 10y ago
For example, people on the alt-right frequently claim that the Bogdanoffs are heavily involved in alt-right politics. Is this true? Almost certainly, but it's impossible to know for sure.
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by RoboPlumber 10y ago
Ah, brilliant idea! Politicians and voters just shouldn't be allowed to make bad choices. Why had no one thought of this yet?
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by RoboPlumber 10y ago
Nope, they used flight radar data to triangulate the flag to within 2km, then had cars drive around.
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by RoboPlumber 10y ago
Nope, they did use contrails. I happened to see the /hwndu/ board while it was happening. They only sent people out in cars after triangulating the flag using the sun (for camera direction) and flight data (for location).
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by RoboPlumber 10y ago
I bet you were fun in college. Good-spirited pranks don't warrant jail time.
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by RoboPlumber 10y ago
While this was certainly illegal, I think it's hard to say that it was malicious. This has essentially become a (somewhat one-sided) prank war. If they intended to deplatform or suppress Shia, they could have done something much more m
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by RoboPlumber 10y ago
This one was 8chan, not 4chan. While I'm nothing more than an occasional passive observer of the chan communities, it seems that most of the "talent", so to speak, has left 4chan amidst increasingly strict rules against vario