aminok

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by aminok 10y ago
Says my conscience. That's all a perception of human rights amounts to. I think most would agree with my perception if the euphemisms and ideological labels were pealed away.
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by aminok 10y ago
>I don't know if Finland does it as well, but this completely ignores how US tax brackets work. There's never a point where going up a tax bracket means you'd take home less money than you would have before your raise. And
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by aminok 10y ago
Something being funded by the Kochs doesn't automatically make it a Koch propaganda outfit. >Its this philosophy that guaranteed the the information revolution dividends didn't go the people the same way they're trying to
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by aminok 10y ago
Both private property and privacy rights are human rights that no society has a right to violate.
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by aminok 10y ago
> I'm not sure abandoning the rule of law, protection of private property, labour protections, at least an attempt at the appearance of corruption-free tenders, high safety standards and the principle that people who are affected sh
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by aminok 10y ago
"idealist sophomores" Personal attacks suggest a weak argument. Something being the law doesn't negate its qualities. The law is enforced through the threat of violence. Ignoring this fact is euphemizing what your political i
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by aminok 10y ago
Not all things need consent. You don't need the consent of someone violating other people's rights to punish them. You don't need the consent of 100% of the citizenry to make a decision on how to expend public funds. You do n
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by aminok 10y ago
'Justice' is not conventionally understood as being synonymous with law. You're employing a highly unconventional definition of 'justice' which would make your statements misleading to most. >You need to use the
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by aminok 10y ago
They're not a conditional construct. They are by definition universal. When something is a human right, we consider it to be an inalienable right that no party has a right to violate. And 'social contract' is double speak. It
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by aminok 10y ago
>It is subject to different rules. A person acting under the auspices of a state has no right to violate human rights. A state is merely a human construct. No human construct grants a person a right to violate human rights.
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by aminok 10y ago
Ironically, I am a statist too. I believe a state has a rightful place in society, in managing the commons, and expending its revenue on public goods. What I don't believe a state has a right to do is violate human rights, in imprisoni
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by aminok 10y ago
Ironically, I viewed libertarians exactly the way you do many years ago. I would have long grueling debates on the internet with American libertarians. They may as well have been speaking to a wall, because I discounted them and their views
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by aminok 10y ago
A social contract is not a real contract. In fact, it is in some aspects exactly the opposite of a contract. The term is extremely misleading, and basically invented for propaganda purposes. A group of people calling themselves the governme
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by aminok 10y ago
>you don't have a complaint that you didn't consent to the contract. But you didn't consent to the contract. Choosing to stay in a country is not contenting to following any human-rights violating law the majority happens
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by aminok 10y ago
So no one can complain about their government violating their human rights, because they are capable of moving?
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by aminok 10y ago
Consent doesn't 51% of people get to decide for 100% of people what to do. Majority-rule does not make state action consensual. Your politics is shallow and inhuman.
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by aminok 10y ago
The point he's making is that it is immoral for the same reason theft is. Whether it meets the full technical definition of theft is beside the point. Most people view theft as wrong because it takes someone's property from them b
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by aminok 10y ago
>The benefits are simply too high, the Govt here is well aware that sizable portions of this money is likely dirty money, but the bottom line for the economy eases that discomfort. The money isn't 'dirty'. It might be brea
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by aminok 10y ago
Suggesting a moral view can be substantiated by history, and that because mine is not, it is not valid, is intellectually dishonest. Moral views can neither be validated nor invalidated by the historical record. Many practices, like slavery
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by aminok 10y ago
Humans aren't horses. Horses can't buy an automobile or a computer. The number of registered automobiles has gone from 126 million in 1960 to over 1.2 billion in 2012, which is a 4X increase per capita. The number of people ownin
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by aminok 10y ago
Then why did you write: "Except for the numerous cases it does", when you understood that I was making a normative statement, rather than a positive one? The role of government is not to avoid unnecessary pain. Government is a col
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by aminok 10y ago
There is a huge, glaring problem in the internet right now: it is very hard to accept and make payments. If your site wants to monetarily interact with users, it requires going through the arduous process of hooking up to the banking system
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by aminok 10y ago
>Time will tell if they did a good job. You could have said the same thing about the DAO before that collapsed. You missed his point. He said it's a good proof of concept. Not that it's a good final product.
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The subtext in my comment is that the proper role of government is not to do those things I mentioned. And policing violations of other's right to their person or property, in prosecuting murder, and managing public property, in inst
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by aminok 10y ago
Yes, it is. It shouldn't be illegal to exercise racist values in one's business decisions. The job of government is not to police our motivation and values, or, in the name of making the world more fair, to play the role of a self
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by aminok 10y ago
What it has in common with securities is the opportunity to scam less informed consumers. The frequency of leading cryptocurrency exchange insolvencies/hacks was far greater three-five years ago than today, and it's been that way
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by aminok 10y ago
BI is a form of forcible redistribution that weakens private property rights, which is a key market institution, so pointing put that stronger market institutions are better for wealth-generation/poverty-reduction is absolutely relevan
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I can't stress enough that the conditions found in Dickens's time had nothing to do with a lack of prohibitions limiting contracting rights, and everything to do with people being poor and technology being less advanced. That is w
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by aminok 10y ago
In the Wikipedia page on highest funded crowdfunding projects, you can find six that are Ethereum based: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_funded_crowdfu... Many more are in the works.
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by aminok 10y ago
While equity crowdfunding may not have matched the hype, technology crowdfunding where people provide capital in exchange for a cryptographic claim on a digital token that provides (or in the case of preorders, may or may not one day provid

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