aminok

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by aminok 10y ago
Claiming I'm wrong doesn't make it so. Your definition of democratic is the majority being able to violate the minority's rights. Your definition of mercantilism is also totally wrong. >Short term rental is widely regarded
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by aminok 10y ago
You didn't answer my question. If you believed your ideology was morally right, you would not shy away from directly answering questions about its values. Here's the question again: So because we haven't created a law designa
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by aminok 10y ago
The laws violate human rights. People should not have their right to contract denied. Actions that infringe upon the rights of others, like damaging the common area of an apartment building, or creating noise pollution, can be justifiably p
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by aminok 10y ago
If the city can create a law punishing landlords who rent short term, they can create a law punishing landlords whose tenants disturb neighbours. Once the incentive is there, landlords using Airbnb will be sure to monitor guest behavior tow
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by aminok 10y ago
So because we haven't created a law designating some group, defined by the consensual behavior they have in common, a protected class, it's morally okay to discriminate against them? Also, you mention "corporation's cust
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by aminok 10y ago
How can someone be a victim of a zoning code violation? That's like being victimized by a school uniform violation.
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by aminok 10y ago
Embezzlement is not victimless.. Renting your property to a short term renter is victimless. So is selling illicit drugs to a consenting adult. You need to learn what distinguishes a victimless crime from victimful crime, because your examp
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by aminok 10y ago
It's not victimization. He had no right to rent property at a lower price than the owner can get from short term renters.
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by aminok 10y ago
>There's also the issue that "guests" have a higher tendency to break things. So discriminate against guests based on statistics related to members of their group? That sounds familiar...... If there is a problem behavior,
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by aminok 10y ago
If tenants are disturbing neighbours the owner should be held liable, whether the tenant is a short term renter or a long term renter. Airbnb has an effective mechanism to ensure good guest behavior: ratings. There is no justification for d
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by aminok 10y ago
Renter friendly laws also make it much less attractive to build new units, since they reduce the ROI in doing so.
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by aminok 10y ago
Yeah we need snuff out the scourge of voluntary market transactions.
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by aminok 10y ago
No being able to afford something owned by someone else is no crime.
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by aminok 10y ago
So it's victimless in the sense that dogmatic authoritarian "liberals" don't like it.
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Victims of what?
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by aminok 10y ago
This sounds like more Keynesian style delusion to justify the elitism of central economic planners. For instance the comment about economists 'realising' that individuals are not perfectly rational and markets are not perfectly ef
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by aminok 10y ago
Police are justified in using deadly force any time they have reasonable cause to believe someone is putting their life in danger. Resisting arrest, while carrying a gun, poses a very high risk of creating the perception among the arresting
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by aminok 10y ago
I dont think it's quite that simple. Quality matters. Having fewer, wealthier kids can be an evolutionarily superior strategy, given the greater future potential of higher quality offspring surviving cataclysms and being the founders o
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by aminok 10y ago
I don't reap any benefits. The level of education would have been far higher if the state did not impose an income tax and did not provide government education or social welfare payments. Per capita wealth and GDP would be substantiall
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by aminok 10y ago
Oh yea we wouldn't want those parties who benefit from growing Bitcoin usage to influence Bitcoin protocol decisions, because then Bitcoin might see mass adoption and that would be a terrible fate because ???
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by aminok 10y ago
>There is no maximum transaction size, other than that imposed by the fact that it has to fit into a block. There is a maximum transaction size: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/35882 It is equal to the maximum bl
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by aminok 10y ago
Hey people who live under Sharia Law can go live in the desert so they have nothing to complain about. We have a right to throw people in prison if they don't contribute money to our big projects. Yea it's those libertarians who a
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by aminok 10y ago
At least no one threatens to throw me in prison if I don't pay taxes to support Ethereum. But it's totally cool and even funny that we throw people in prison, where they are kept in small enclosures, and where they often develop m
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by aminok 10y ago
You know how far gone social justice is as an ideology when "gentrification" has become a bad word. Gentrification means more safe high quality neighbourhoods for people to live in. The local effect might be to price some low inco
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by aminok 10y ago
Natural languages like English imply much more through context, and trade precision for succinctness. This is less true for legalese but still the case. Computer programs need to be explicitly defined and precise because there is no intelli
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by aminok 10y ago
The contract language is not Ethereum. Ethereum is the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) which runs bytecode. Any language can be used to produce that bytecode. Solidity, the language being criticised as overly complex, is not part of Ethereum
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by aminok 10y ago
Nothing that provides people with optionality is a "bad idea". Trial and error, and development, will produce ever better (and more secure) applications on Ethereum.
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by aminok 10y ago
>I am also confused about the security properties of the Lightning Network. What happens when one of the hubs gets popped? Can someone steal all of the unsettled transactions? Suddenly this proposed scaling element starts taking on the s
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by aminok 10y ago
PayPal is made shitty by the laws relating to the financial system. If it doesn't act shitty, it stands to get fined for hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars.
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by aminok 10y ago
I don't want Sakaguchi to die!

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