aminok

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by aminok 12y ago
Well, it looks like he's not squatting. He's actively looking for partners to develop the web properties with.
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by aminok 12y ago
There is nothing fictitious about the capital, and means of making a living, lost from a lawsuit that a corporation loses. Legal abstractions like corporations represent people's property.
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by aminok 12y ago
"voluntary trade" makes it sound like said trade wasn't actually illegal (in other words, like something the police are actually supposed to stop, peaceful or otherwise.) No it doesn't make it sound l
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by aminok 12y ago
It was actually large firecrackers, used by farmers to scare of pests, that he sold.
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by aminok 12y ago
I think you rephrased what I just said.
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by aminok 12y ago
"By establishing strong "fair" law they stopped long lasted inner-conflicts and "made life better"." They established fair law for 80 years at most, and at the price of killing off a substantial percentage of t
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by aminok 12y ago
It doesn't, but it's also not a non-violent threat. The police were out to lock him in a cage for decades.
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by aminok 12y ago
"And if they were simply brutal eventually there would have been revolt." They were extremely brutal so that conquered peoples would not revolt. They were very pragmatic in some sense. After Herat revolted and killed the Mongol go
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by aminok 12y ago
The Mongol horde displayed unparalleled ruthlessness in Eastern Iran: The garrison at Merv was only about 12,000 men, and the city was inundated with refugees from eastern Khwarezmia. For six days, Tolui besieged the city, and on the sevent
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by aminok 12y ago
The Dorset culture was spread all across Northern Canada and parts of Greenland. It was found in widely divergent latitudes, with different climates. It's simply not plausible that such a widely dispersed culture would disappear in suc
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by aminok 12y ago
It's the correct definition of slavery. If I were to arbitrarily stretch the definition of words, I could find a way to define your style of communication as a form of slavery, to malign you, as you are doing to low wage free labour.
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by aminok 12y ago
Without an effective police and judiciary, you can't be secure in your person or property, and end up paying an informal tax to organized criminal elements and corrupt police, so no, Russia is still not laissez faire.
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by aminok 13y ago
http://www.nber.org/papers/w10268 Deflation and Depression: Is There and Empirical Link? Are deflation and depression empirically linked? No, concludes a broad historical study of inflation and real
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by aminok 13y ago
A slight correction, he paid zero fee. The 0.5 bitcoin is change, that he got back. You can see the fee amount further down the page. If he had paid a fee, 0.0001 BTC, or $0.04 worth of BTC, would have been enough to ensure the transaction
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by aminok 13y ago
Europeans are not morally responsible for spreading diseases to the Americas that killed the natives. That was inadvertent and in many ways inevitable.
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by aminok 13y ago
It has lower fees than PayPal. For micropayments, you don't really need risk management. In addition to offering a lower cost option for micropayments, it enables transactions in countries not well integrated into the global economy wh
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by aminok 13y ago
Native Indians were killed almost totally by disease, not armed force.
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by aminok 13y ago
The women in this article assume they can read minds and divine intentions from a very sparse base of facts. To jump to the conclusion that those who chose not to do business with you are seeking to enforce the 'Old Boys Club' (wh
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by aminok 13y ago
> For this rich mercantile elite, yes, the anglo system is superior, which is why its ideals have now spread across the entire world (even in China there is now an elite that dresses in suits and engages in trade unencumbered by rules an
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by aminok 13y ago
Lower fees, and no divulgement of personal financial details, make it awesome for micropayments.
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by aminok 13y ago
Programs are a series of instructions. I don't understand how they're theories.
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by aminok 13y ago
BTC is an excellent implementation of a new protocol type, despite being the first, which I think makes it more akin to HTTP than to Lycos.
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by aminok 13y ago
Gopher and HTTP came out at around the same time and were contenders from the beginning. This is very different than the situation with cryptocurrencies, where Bitcoin came out long before the competing derivatives, and where mindshare and
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by aminok 13y ago
No, Bitcoin is the world's first cryptographic currency.
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by aminok 13y ago
Gopher was completely different from HTTP. It also came out about the same time as HTTP, giving it no initial lead. The alternative cryptocurrencies are virtually identical protocols to Bitcoin, using a fork of the code, but are just incomp
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by aminok 13y ago
Miners have not included 'replace by fee' rules in four years, despite the short term financial incentive of doing so. There's no reason to believe any significant portion of miners will adopt the patch in the future either, because mining
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by aminok 13y ago
Because Bitcoin offers a paradigm-level improvement over fiat, whereas other cryptocurrencies would not offer any such improvement over Bitcoin.
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by aminok 14y ago
Value is stabilized by the market. Futures markets are how value changes are averaged out through time. You don't need a central banker manipulating the money supply in a misguided attempt to maintain stable prices. That's destabilize the e
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by aminok 14y ago
No one knows the future. They could be, and that's a pretty amazing prospect.
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by aminok 14y ago
It's not excessively volatile. Relative to its market capitalization, its volatility is quite low: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3338/how-does-bit... As for being deflationary, that hasn't stopped the rapid growth in the numb

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