VexXtreme

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by VexXtreme 12y ago
I understand your viewpoint. It's interesting how your lack of trust for things made you become socialist, while my lack of trust for people made me develop anarcho-capitalist tendencies. I guess everyone's political philosophy te
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
I see a lot of comments here presenting HSTS as some kind of silver bullet for preventing MITM attacks. While it does help, it's not impenetrable. If a website hasn't been preloaded into the STS preloaded list, then the HSTS heade
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
Lol no they don't. Most third world countries actually have very strong authoritarian governments where any serious dissent is highly discouraged or even impossible. And even if they have low taxes, they sure compensate for that with r
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
Ok, I guess we are just going to have to agree to disagree. Our respective systems of values seem to be fundamentally different, because I believe that property rights are sacrosanct and an extension of who we are. In case you're curio
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
He seems to think that equities are some kind of sinkholes where the money simply gets tied up or disappears. He doesn't understand that the money used to buy a share has to go to the seller of the said share, who might in turn use it
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
Your statement is fallacious. If governments are more efficient at creating inventions and advancing science, then according to that logic, a big government with greater power should be more efficient at advancing technological and scientif
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
You didn't answer his question whether it's ok to try to neuter the power that people derive from certain innate attributes. I.e. is it OK to make an exceptionally good looking person pay a higher tax, because there's a loose
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
Looks like you're getting downvoted, even though your statement is basically correct. It's very sad that it's getting harder and harder to have a fruitful discussion here on HN. Some people are more interested in downvoting b
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
It's only seemingly inefficient. It's basically the price you have to pay for maintaining a trustless distributed ledger. If you were to run an organization/bank/Paypal clone that maintains a centralized ledger, it would
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
The workers are paid what the market is willing to pay them. If there is an inefficiency/mispricing and someone can get better compensation elsewhere (for the same skill set, presumably), then it makes sense for them to arbitrage that
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
See my reply to the poster below you.
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
If a monopoly spontaneously emerges out of a free market, whereby no violence or coercion was used against other participants, then that business was simply better and more efficient at giving the market what it wants. It also doubles as a
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
It seems as though the author has a problem with capitalism and free markets in general. Yes, let's abolish capitalism, allow some central bureau to fix prices and use its power of violence over actors who don't comply. Oh wait...
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
Most Japanese day traders are ex-pachinko players, i.e. degenerate gamblers. Nothing to see here.
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
Yet another reason not to jailbreak.
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
You say I owe something, I say you're stealing from me. I don't and won't pay shit. It's my property. Come and take it, but there WILL be consequences. I don't know if you're genuinely evil or you're just
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
Sorry I don't subscribe to communism. I believe in certain unalienable rights, and property ownership is one of them.
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
Ok, let me present a simple scenario. Imagine the following: Initially you're doing well in life. You're making decent money at your tech job and you eventually end up buying a pretty nice house. Things are good for a while, but a
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
I agree. It all comes down to your personal belief system. If I believe that theft is wrong and immoral and you disagree, then we will never be able to reach common ground. Goodbye.
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
Or that they don't subscribe to everything The Cult of Apple feeds them. edit: getting downvoted like a champ. The Cult is strong with HN.
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
It's different. If your home was previously paid for in full, then it's your private property. If I'm paying someone on a monthly basis to allow me to live in their residence, then it's obviously not mine. Asking someone
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
That's correct, it's not a right, but being free from having your primary and only residence confiscated because you're unable to pay a "property tax" (usually due to a decreasing living standard) should be a right.
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
> we are Americans and aren't going to allow our liberties to being eroded by a bunch of fear mongering asshats I can't count how many times I've heard this comment along the lines of "hurr durr this is Murica and no
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
Palantir, by far. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/02/09/did-sec...
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
More people get wrongfully killed every year by police officers than they do by terrorists. Why not deal with the low hanging fruit first?
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
The beautiful thing about bitcoin is that it's an open system, an open currency if you will, that will allow a nice app ecosystem to be built on top of it. That aspect will allow many non-technical people to interact with abstractions
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
You know what man, FUCK YOU. You broke the layout of the discussion for everyone and it's next to impossible to follow the conversation without a ton of horizontal scrolling. Take your trolling elsewhere, it's not welcome here.
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
So would this XKeyscore thing know what you're searching for if you're not logged into your Google account and you're behind SSL? Would that imply they have private keys to Google SSL certificates?
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
> Let's get real, the vast majority of Tor traffic is, shall we say, for nefarious purposes. I don't really understand your argument here. Are you saying that Tor should be banned because the ratio of illegitimate to legitimate
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by VexXtreme 12y ago
I had to downvote and here's why: > you're mostly helping drug dealers and child pornographers operate You could argue the same about encryption, so should encryption be banned or deemed immoral now? > That's why it&#x2

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