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by etherael 13y ago
This is just wrong. The analysis he links to on the profitability of mining is based on litecoin, he claims it's the same, but it's simply not. Quick calculations on bare avalon chips with a 100k investment gives a current ROI of
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by etherael 13y ago
Ask them what they're praying for, not how to pronounce the Latin.
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by etherael 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx7PIIA60XQ&feature=youtu.be&... Yeah, sure, whatever.
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by etherael 13y ago
Never, but seriously as soon as I hear typical combinations of the words white male cis privilege I instantly write off the person using it as hopelessly deluded. These are dog whistles for social justice warrior ideologies and everything t
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by etherael 13y ago
NSA actually just went out of their way to try and take this analysis down. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/crypto-prof-asked-to... Streisand effect anybody?
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by etherael 13y ago
... Aaaand I just realised I was talking to mpyne, not rayiner. Sorry, you two share positions on so much I get you mixed up.
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by etherael 13y ago
Are you really not a lawyer? As we've sparred fairly frequently over time I kinda wanted to get a feel for where you were coming from so I read through all your comment history for a while (though this was a while ago). I just double c
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by etherael 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machinery_of_Freedom Describes a system based purely around free market mechanisms. Free markets are emergent, and they certainly work very well, scaling them up to consume all the func
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by etherael 13y ago
> I happen to disagree that it is the only logically consistent position When I say it's a logically consistent position, what I mean to imply by that is for people who think that government is an abomination, it is logically consis
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by etherael 13y ago
> Just like we shouldn't have to trust the cops not to bust my door down, right? Sure, if it were possible to stop the government from doing anything at all I would be in favour of that, letalone obviously positive things like not s
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by etherael 13y ago
I outgrew big L Libertarianism as in the specific brand of political ideology that is in keeping with the idea of trying to destroy the current force initiating political institutions whilst actually attempting to co-opt the mantle of those
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by etherael 13y ago
> Mayer is portrayed as “robotic, stuck up, and absurd in her obsession with detail,” Normal people saying this about technical people is usually a good indicator that the technical person is doing just fine.
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by etherael 13y ago
> You can't have peace without the threat of force. No, You or someone else would only come to my house and start claiming all my stuff if you believed it was in your best interests to do so. It might get you killed is indeed one re
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by etherael 13y ago
I once had a dog, he liked to urinate on things, I didn't see the point in getting worked up and cynical about the fact that he was simply doing what was in his nature. Then again I didn't ask him to vote on my major life decision
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by etherael 13y ago
> You are proposing to entirely eliminate an effective means to raise money for beneficial programs Firstly, I am proposing that it is flat out wrong to engage in forcible extortion from peaceful people who do not desire to finance your
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by etherael 13y ago
Of course. We're the crazy ones, and yet you and everyone like you expect to be taken seriously when you ignore the inherent negative externalities in a system in which force is the sole pillar supporting it and distinguishing it from
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by etherael 13y ago
Not impossible, you're on the right track. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agorism Widely adopted, this is what kills the tyrants.
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by etherael 13y ago
The OP answer reads to me like a very polite and indirect way of saying "partially self-inflicted pointless busywork".
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by etherael 13y ago
If absence of evidence is already enough to convict, the evidence was never realistically required to begin with.
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by etherael 13y ago
Hidden volumes?
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by etherael 13y ago
I like this, skip the political bull and jump straight to subversion, bravo! Idea for a new service; trusted tor homed token vendor (a la dpr or similar bonded agency), takes advantage of the trusted third party model whlist providing a ja
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by etherael 13y ago
Dang and blast it, foiled again by these fiendishly clever government chaps! Oh well lads better just get back to the slave mill the jig is up.
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by etherael 13y ago
> They'd made it clear the story could and would be reported from anywhere. And the only response these GCHQ goons could come up with was to smash a Macbook? When "the family" sends around Big Tony with a baseball bat to e
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by etherael 13y ago
Reading this, I actually felt my brain snap a little and I laughed hysterically until I couldn't breathe for about five minutes straight. I think anyone just skipping over this bit here really needs to stop and consider more closely th
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by etherael 13y ago
re mutualism, of all the variants of leftist anarchism I am familiar with, this one does indeed appeal to me the most. The problem I have with it is only the idea that as soon as anyone who has invested labor into real estate vacates the pr
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by etherael 13y ago
Yes, I've read that before and it's extremely unconvincing I'm afraid. I'd go into details but you've already expressed a desire to refrain from such so I'll respect that.
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by etherael 13y ago
Alright, I'm sorry if I gave you the impression I was attempting to be prejudicially dismissive of your position, the things you told me about Mondragon were actually quite interesting. Wish you all the best.
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by etherael 13y ago
> It depends on what kind of socialist you're talking about, and at what scale. For example, the Mondragon corporation is a form of socialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_corporation At the smaller sc
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by etherael 13y ago
> The snarky answer is "because that's not what capitalism is," but let's try to elevate the conversation a bit, shall we? Sure, lets. It would be a waste of time to just spin definitions in a way that makes us inhere
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by etherael 13y ago
How is an economic relationship between two independent entities with complete freedom of action for both independent entities best described as "inherently authoritarian" ?

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