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by etherael 13y ago
FINALLY! Yes, this is where things need to go, forget the whole political charade and just jump straight to the end game; don't ask for your privacy from an authoritarian state, take it back with cryptography.
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by etherael 13y ago
Actually I'd dispute that; modern warfare between major powers can only waged by proxy wars between lesser powers who do not have recourse to nuclear options. In the future as the destructive potential of smaller and smaller actors increase
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by etherael 13y ago
"The ability to bomb specific other countries" sounds like the default go to defensive action to take in the event of external attack? I know a supranational fanatical religious terrorist organisation that happens to agree with you.
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by etherael 13y ago
Hearing someone bluntly say this made my skin crawl, you're okay with enormous economic imbalance in your favor backed up with no greater justification than the collective willingness of the society to which you belong to engage in mass mur
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by etherael 13y ago
Not for the next 127 years.
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by etherael 14y ago
Totally true, if as a politician you want to manipulate your power base into believing that a small reduction in your power is a really bad move, you should make every possible administrative move to maximise the direct pain they will feel
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by etherael 14y ago
Playing games with labels whilst refusing to accept the essential characteristics of the underlying subject doesn't make you correct. It's not taxation, it's extortion. It's not quantitative easing, it's debasement. It's not enhanced interr
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by etherael 14y ago
You keep pretending that those words don't actually apply, even though when I nailed you down on the definitions, you acknowledged it, you just said it was OK because the behaviour is acceptable when it's your team that's doing it. If that
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by etherael 14y ago
When I first read you saying; > And now we are finally going to have an empirical test where the left can't wave a gun at the right to force them into inflation. I thought you were being hyperbolic, and then a few responses down; >
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by etherael 14y ago
Tyranny vs democracy wasn't my point, my point was that instead of accepting the negatives in the system, you rationalise them away by saying it's okay when it's your team behaving this way. History has a way of making this habit look fooli
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by etherael 14y ago
"Sure he's a tyrant, but he's our tyrant" This is exactly why I look forward to the rise of cryptocurrencies; protection from people like you.
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by etherael 14y ago
They are not emotional labels, they are simply facts. Government is by definition; Violent; the state claims a monopoly on violence and employs the use of violence when forcing compliance with its edicts. Parasitic; the state functions by s
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by etherael 14y ago
You completely missed the point of what I said. The labels you or I use to describe the institution in question are entirely irrelevant, it is the characteristics which those institutions have which dictate their actual material nature. Re
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by etherael 14y ago
No, as a matter of fact it simply never occurred to me that you might simply disagree thereby changing the underlying nature of reality in so doing. But I suppose I am not one for the acceptance that things are only what we label them with.
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by etherael 14y ago
> If by that you mean a democratic government (violent extortionate power) empowered to stabilise the currency via a variety of means, including supply inflation (engaged in parasitism of the monetary base)... It's funny how many differ
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by etherael 14y ago
> You have misunderstood the grandparent post. His point was that since states exist as a matter of fact and want to have their taxes paid, Bitcoin is less useful than currencies which are acceptable legal tender for that purpose. For o
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by etherael 14y ago
Yes it is; There is no powerful entity (violent extortionate power) that taxes people (engaged in parasitism) and requires payment in bitcoin. (the monetary base in question) It's just in statist apologist clothing. Monetary bases exist o
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by etherael 14y ago
Serious question, why does the price of a single bitcoin matter when they're divisible to 8 decimal places? Beyond a psychological barrier people have thinking about the 1:100 thing, it's really irrelevant if your cup of coffee costs 10 bit
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by etherael 14y ago
This is actually untrue, bitcoin can be used as many things, and unless the price is zero for all eternity, which at this point appears to be extremely unlikely, it can be used at the very least as a wealth transfer medium. There is nothing
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by etherael 14y ago
That's hilarious, do you even realise what you're saying? You consider it a feature of a currency that there is a violent extortionate power engaged in parasitism of the monetary base.
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by etherael 14y ago
Yeah that's already happening. Look up gold plated tungsten.
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by etherael 14y ago
Ok, Even if this is granted, more thoughtfully designed products that exist within an already existing category and enable no entirely new abilities. A globally distributed peer to peer cryptocurrency with the characteristics bitcoin has, w
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by etherael 14y ago
Not just any multi billion dollar consumer company, a descending and overvalued one that never really contributed anything I see as particularly worthwhile at any rate.
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by etherael 14y ago
Yeah, apple is obviously so much more valuable than bitcoin because having computers in prettier cases or phones with prettier user interfaces is incalculably more valuable than access to a provably fair and reliable financial system not ca
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by etherael 14y ago
Can't tell you how enormously surprised I am by this. :/
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by etherael 14y ago
I might be missing something obvious here as I only just woke up but that thread looks entirely innocuous and uncontroversial to anyone who doesn't accept the constant refrains to the necessity of the state, is that really a position that w
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by etherael 14y ago
I got downvoted for saying it at the time and later quoted out of context on shithnsays, and I wish I wasn't in a position to say I told you so, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4982330
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by etherael 14y ago
It sounds unbelievable enough that I really can't help but wonder if they're doing it on purpose. But assuming that were true, what have they to gain from doing so?
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by etherael 14y ago
> As soon as you have a government and regulations you don't have a free market. You have a centrally planned economy with an identity crisis. The supporters of which are loathe to admit it. (Case in point)
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by etherael 14y ago
Possibly, but the market amongst people with a lot of money to spend on frivolities is quite saturated, and by nature any entry you make into that market is easily ignored by your target audience. Contrast it with say an aeroponic backpack

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