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by etherael 10y ago
There is no such thing as a credible source, any more than there is any such thing as a glass incapable of holding poisoned liquid. It's the actual information that is credible or not, and the NYT hasn't been doing any favours for
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by etherael 10y ago
You don't make loans to people unless you have evidence that they can and will pay it back. BTCJam for example has reputation scores, and people actually say what they intend to use the money for. The default rate on BTCJam, which was
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by etherael 10y ago
Nothing works if the payoff for defection outweighs the costs of enforcement, that's why we have wars, crime, and all of the other things that the old fashion legal and diplomatic systems of the nations of the world have to deal with.
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by etherael 10y ago
One way you could solve the problem in the real world is track down the delinquent counterparty to the contract, drag them into an expensive legal system, subject them to the costs thereof, levy a penalty on them, hope that they pay it, in
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by etherael 10y ago
> Bitcoins are amazing. Just not there yet. I can't give a credit card of bitcoins for my wife to buy groceries :) Yes you can. There are actually even multiple providers for just such a card.
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> The troll says: you are irrational in your beliefs, and I will keep stirring that up month after month, so that the forum is replete with exposure of this fact. This sounds a lot like the behaviour of someone who is genuinely offended
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by etherael 10y ago
Oh well, explanation is quite adequate at any rate, thank you for that. Yes, I'm familiar with the type, and agree with your rebuttal. Singapore unfortunately is the exception rather than the rule, so I predict that these people are on
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by etherael 10y ago
So really you're saying it reduces to the intent of the interrogator? If you interrogate someone for their irrational beliefs because you are genuinely curious if they are in fact as irrational as they appear, or you're missing so
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by etherael 10y ago
I would be interested in a link to that discussion if you have it. Also, is a white supremacist NRX type the type that refuses to politely ignore the research on intelligence levels, the heredity thereof, and the observed differences betwee
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by etherael 10y ago
Once again, Isn't that just another way of saying that people do not like being confronted with the fact that their positions are not actually rational at all, rather than that you are "trolling" someone by so confronting the
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by etherael 10y ago
Why would you call that a troll, rather than simple rational enquiry?
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You have no facts. Merely an ideology you are wedded to and will insist on pushing regardless of the facts even when directly confronted with them, and having simple mathematical statements you make proven wrong. If the facts damn the state
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by etherael 10y ago
Read your comment history, realise you are a simple shill for the state, I am no longer interested in correcting your false information. I don't care at all what you or people like you think. Goodbye, have a nice life.
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by etherael 10y ago
> Are you listening to yourself? You just compared 20 years to 2 months, and they were approximately equal. That's terrible. You compared them, and your comparison was technically incorrect, so I pointed it out. Price discovery in n
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by etherael 10y ago
It's this kind of thing that makes me see just how ignorant people actually are about this subject. You have this neat little label you've put on the box and you've never actually done the necessary research to see if your la
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by etherael 10y ago
There's a good argument that the existence of the state itself exerts a specific aggravated case of the tragedy of commons on the entire society over which it projects coercive power. https://www.libertariannews.org/201
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by etherael 10y ago
And maybe the energy necessary to actually vaporise entirely would not be the kind of thing one would be wanting to punch up into the atmosphere willy nilly.
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by etherael 10y ago
I've seen that, but wouldn't a laser actually be more reliable / faster?
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by etherael 11y ago
I assume you actually mean that luck cannot be removed from the equation when you say "I would not agree that luck cannot be removed from the process."? You may be onto something there, certainly resources assist with wealth creat
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by etherael 11y ago
If you still believe in the core concept of a state, but just believe the US is a particularly bad one, invest in other governments with opposing, or non-aligned geopolitical / economic interests. Iran, Russia, Brazil, India, China (a
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by etherael 11y ago
> will comment on the Holocaust analogy say that yes, it was technically legal in the German state since it was sanctioned by the State. That does not mean it was right. Quite, that was not my implication, you seem to have assumed that
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by etherael 11y ago
> Not paying taxes is leaching. Tax dollars pay for the infrastructure that holds society together. If it wasn't for tax dollars, the society in which you derive your income wouldn't exist. This chain of reason justifies North
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by etherael 11y ago
> Taxation is obviously not theft, any more than charging for goods is. The difference between charging for goods and services vs taxation is that you are unable to choose not to patronise the state. A mugger charging you 75% of your inc
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by etherael 11y ago
I find the idea of people dressing up simple theft as something other than it is, and in the ill-fitting trappings of a global social good, despite the fact that the institutions being financed by this form of theft were the largest non nat
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by etherael 11y ago
Except the case for anthropogenically induced global warming is just not nearly so airtight as those constantly talking about the "overwhelming scientific consensus" would have you believe. https://mises.org/librar
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by etherael 11y ago
Gee, I can't imagine the event to which you might be referring here.
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by etherael 11y ago
Por que no los dos? One is the hand, the other the wallet.
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by etherael 11y ago
But you're not actually arguing the concept of predicting the future, you're arguing that when you throw something up, you can't predict that it's going to come down. Look at the charts, the writing is on the wall, den
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by etherael 11y ago
You seem to have missed the thrust of my commentary, I am saying that you are correct, it is appropriate to scream bloody murder, and that the person dismissing this as "some random Australian who couldn't possibly know better tha
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by etherael 11y ago
This is hilarious, or would be if the consequences were not so sad. It's listening to someone standing on the deck of the titanic talking about the complexity of the design of the ship, how many great and esteemed members of the establ

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