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by agorabinary 13y ago
So...now that mt.gox is dead, does this mean mt gox employees are free from any non-disclosure agreements and can talk freely about what the hell happened? Insider info would be greatly appreciated.
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by agorabinary 13y ago
Except when the rules result in say, Weimar.
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by agorabinary 13y ago
(Assuming this is real) How do you lose HUNDREDS of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins over the course of years and not notice it?? There is no evidence that this "accidental loss" is not merely obfuscated theft.
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by agorabinary 13y ago
Why repost? This was submitted and discussed several days ago.
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by agorabinary 13y ago
The thing is though, the only society that allows individuals to "agree to disagree" and still live peacefully is a purely libertarian model. Perhaps you do believe in a different version of freedom --- no one in such a model is s
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by agorabinary 13y ago
"... a new startup, Meteor, an open-source Web app development platform more interesting than Coin, Bitcoin, and Uber put together." Oh yes, another colorful dev framework is more interesting than programmable money . Who is this
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by agorabinary 13y ago
The Great Depression was caused by a 40% reduction in the money supply following a decade of easy money fed policies (the "roaring 20s"). It is no coincidence that shortly after the federal reserve was created we had the biggest b
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by agorabinary 13y ago
I can't help but observe, with a sort of grim humor, that this fellow's resume now consists of international unwarranted espionage that threatens to upend the very foundations of our constitutional republic...and organic mayo entr
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by agorabinary 13y ago
Not everyone can think of the next genius app on their first try. Unlike you, apparently.
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by agorabinary 13y ago
>more Elizabeth Warren-esque rubbish suggesting that Google wouldn't have been created if not for the public road system And so, according to you, we need to wait for Africa's "benevolent" dictators to stop warring wi
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by agorabinary 13y ago
Effectively argues, to use an analogy, that China with its explosive market-based growth needs Western debtor nations to buy its stuff, and that acknowledging its superior economic sustainability is "arrogant". And the "pape
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by agorabinary 13y ago
There's nothing more wishful than hoping the watchers do their jobs, without watchers themselves. Ad infinitum.
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by agorabinary 13y ago
Mediating disputes =/= Government You need to understand that libertarians are not against mediation or even courts. If someone commits fraud, or pillages the environment, there are plenty of ways of punishing them without government.
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by agorabinary 13y ago
> free rider problems, collective action problems, problems involving positive and negative externalities, problems involving information asymmetries, etc. The usual statist objections to pure market action are total myths, not to mentio
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by agorabinary 13y ago
He doesn't need to prove the libertarian alternative. You need to first show how our present road system isn't a complete nightmare. Touting the road system as a government success. Please.
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by agorabinary 13y ago
On a systemic level, what advantages does government provide to solving these various problems that private individuals couldn't? Beyond blindly asserting that "there simply was no practical alternative to government regulation&qu
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by agorabinary 13y ago
Walter Block disagrees: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPeqXcJqkeg . His hypothetical situations at the end may seems unrealistic to you, but consider them as illustrative of the dangers of blanket prosecution over much mor
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by agorabinary 13y ago
Reductio ad absurdum, a perfectly legitimate form of proof, begs to differ with Mr. Godwin. Anyone can leak anything, as anyone can say anything. This is the law as per the First Amendment. You could lose your job contract for leaking infor
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by agorabinary 13y ago
And who is to decide whether the leaked documents demonstrate government wrongdoing or not? If not for whistleblowers, we wouldn't even know that these wrongdoings exist, which would preclude our ability to judge them as such. This is
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by agorabinary 14y ago
Atlas? :)
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by agorabinary 14y ago
Ladies and gentlemen, this is just the beginning.
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by agorabinary 14y ago
You'll feel like that even more once it hits $1B capitalization.
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by agorabinary 14y ago
I feel like this article would have a greater thrust if it focused more on the perils of college and the job market nowadays and less on software programming as the overarching solution for young people. It really hits a more accessible ton
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by agorabinary 14y ago
There is no shame in pursuing a career in literature, but whether it is wise or not to spend $200k to get there instead of 75 cents in late fees at the public library..that's another thing altogether.
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by agorabinary 14y ago
Bitcoin is anonymous if you aren't an idiot about it. I mean seriously, all you have to do is generate a new address everytime you send or receive coins. Which is a click of a button. If anything, this "Bitcoin isn't actually anonymous" is
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by agorabinary 14y ago
I could not agree more. I wonder how much of the SV environment is created from the trickle down investments of legitimately good ideas --- that is, a Facebook spawning thousands of millionaires, some of which happen to invest in their brot
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by agorabinary 14y ago
Sure - the oft cited strength of bitcoin is the ability to send value instantly (if you trust the party, 10 minutes otherwise) and with near zero fees. As a currency, bitcoin is limited in using this advantage because so few businesses acce
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by agorabinary 14y ago
In all the universes in which bitcoin succeeds, it first succeeds as a protocol for which traditional currencies circumvent their own limitations, as this value is immediate, palpable, and unaffected by bitcoin's scarce use. Only then, once