akimball

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by akimball 4y ago
There is one in Moorhead, Minnesota. Also a longship.
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by akimball 4y ago
They keep happening. Not much press now though.
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by akimball 4y ago
Whether it is true or false doesn't really depend strongly on whether or not I believe it.
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by akimball 4y ago
On September 10th 2001 Donald Rumsfeld testified to Congress that the department of defense had misplaced 1 trillion dollars. Somehow the public reaction didn't last for a full 24 hour news cycle.
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by akimball 4y ago
As evidence, see the moderation immediately above.
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by akimball 4y ago
Authors who have given robust analytical treatments of rights include Rawls, Habermas, and Kant. I think the concept is at least useful if you want to protect a right. Without it, in practice, it would be much more difficult to defend agai
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by akimball 4y ago
Much of Aristotle is evidenced in Latin translations for which the Greek is lost.
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by akimball 4y ago
Subtitle: The case for wire-heading.
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by akimball 4y ago
The attachment of provenance to an item makes it non-fungible, removing it's moneyness, until and unless that history can be removed. Just-so stories based on implausible premises -”didnt have surplus labor" lol- are conspicuously
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by akimball 4y ago
Only if you presume that private deeds are illegitimate. That appears to reverse the presumption of innocence, without which the law becomes nothing more than a tool to destroy the enemies of the prosecutors.
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by akimball 4y ago
That presumption would be incorrect
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by akimball 4y ago
Halting grey and black market transactions would destroy ~15% of global GDP, causing mass disruption, poverty, starvation, global unrest. Bad idea.
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by akimball 4y ago
This is accomplished every day in every country in the western hemisphere by means of shell companies.
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by akimball 4y ago
Bronze age? No. Once gold leaves the sovereigns borders, it is a neutral money. Since 1971? Yes. That is a very brief experiment in monetary history, and quite Lindy. It can be validly estimated to have 51 years of life left in it (albei
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by akimball 4y ago
...and the USD is used for far more illicit transactions than any other exchange medium. This will predictably change as privacy technologies become more widely adopted. For example, transactions on the Monero network have been growing at
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by akimball 4y ago
Financial privacy is definitely a right. The question is whether that right is respected by any given institution. Since it is against the interests of existing institutions to do so, they will not unless compelled by a greater force. Cry
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by akimball 4y ago
I think you may mistake the individuals for the whole. HN as a social center can be corrupted and coopted without any of the original individuals changing their behaviors, simply by adding more individuals with different behaviors. If by
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by akimball 4y ago
The greater the threat which a community represents to the vested control hierarchy, the more intensely it becomes infiltrated and coopted. This is an Iron Law.
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by akimball 4y ago
Hard to pursue the perpetrator does not justify pursuing someone else.
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by akimball 4y ago
Not even the famous secret nuclear bunker?
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by akimball 4y ago
...given the perpetuation of competitive nation-states.
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by akimball 4y ago
...said every supervillain in scifi. You might want to build an evil AI to swallow the fly.
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by akimball 4y ago
Don't forget the money laundering
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by akimball 4y ago
Dysphoria
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by akimball 4y ago
Stress will kill you no matter what your profession. Physical exercise can save your life. I nearly died on one IT job, and nearly killed myself on another. I became an investor to escape the pressure to undertake such positions, and now
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by akimball 4y ago
That seems an unreasonable size for a gorilla. I would advocate vivisection for science in such a case.
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by akimball 4y ago
There is nothing inherently dishonest about coming to a conclusion which is adverse to Google. Google's interests are not coextensive with honesty.
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by akimball 4y ago
Take 1 life, go to jail. Take .00001% of 100 million lives, go to jail. Seems logical & fair & socially constructive to me, like justice should.
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by akimball 4y ago
If you murder someone, you go away. If you rob 100 million people of 0.00001% of their life, you just did the equivalent of 100 murders. Seems no less criminal to me - in fact more so.
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by akimball 4y ago
It would be more reasonable if federal officials faced similar penalties for lying to the public.

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