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by brigandish 8y ago
> If you're offended by… Please keep in mind the guidelines[1]. > Don't be snarky. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by brigandish 8y ago
> free market advocates are against monopolies, but believe that they're caused by government regulation These free market advocates don't believe that, clearly. I'm wondering why you get to draw these lines rather than th
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by brigandish 8y ago
Then you're arguing against your original point because they don't support free markets, they just think they do. For example, Paul Joseph Watson in this tweet[1] says he's for free markets, limited government, and against mo
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by brigandish 8y ago
That’s what I thought you meant, and I think that’s a mischaracterisation of the group in question and of those more generally who say they’re advocates of free markets. Are any of them not against slavery on the basis it’s unfree? (based o
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by brigandish 8y ago
Could that be extended to "You can yell whatever you like, but nobody is obligated to sell you water"? My point being, why should what you say be of any concern to the seller? Unless, of course, they're trying to control the
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by brigandish 8y ago
No, they should not have forced to allow all comers to air an opinion (not that that would necessarily have been a bad thing), but the situation you've given is one of a time with healthy competition between a plurality of media outlet
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by brigandish 8y ago
A lot of people who support the notion of free markets also support there being some regulation, especially for things like monopolies (which end up distorting markets until they resemble unfree ones). It’s a spectrum, not black and white
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by brigandish 8y ago
If you deny someone their freedom to speak then you deny others their freedom to choose to hear that speech. Hence, this is a freedom of speech issue.
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by brigandish 9y ago
NaCl is the library, secretbox is one of the methods. It's been implemented into libraries for several languages, I'm currently using the Ruby one to make an encrypted backup app that suits my needs. It makes using encryption stra
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by brigandish 10y ago
If the data is encrypted using a session key and then the session key encrypted with a master key and stored with the data (concat them together) then it can. You can't revoke access to the data they've already got, of course, but