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by etherael 14y ago
Potentially, but if you're dismissing free markets on account of manipulative, deceitful or otherwise fraudulent behaviour, you ought to at least hope that fraudulent behaviour never occurs or occurs less frequently in the centrally planned
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by etherael 14y ago
The more desperate the need the higher the potential to turn a profit, so in a fashion, pursuing the maximum profit is fulfilling the needs of the market. Giving people what they want. Sure, there are sometimes negative externalities, givin
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by etherael 14y ago
Assumedly the implication is that by not succumbing to the social pressure you are demonstrating the required fortitude to choose to also not succumb to a desire for intimacy with other humans, as op states this is an extreme outlier behavi
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by etherael 14y ago
This article was very well written and easy to digest and has some of the most succinct descriptions of the political underpinnings and implications of the cypherpunk movement I've ever seen without the sweeping oratory that tends to go wit
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by etherael 14y ago
" I cannot account for the discrepancy , nor for a later stretch in Connecticut where I recall driving about 45 m.p.h., but it may be the result of the car being delivered with 19-inch wheels and all-season tires, not the specified 21-inch
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by etherael 14y ago
Hyperinflation doesn't so much make a currency unreal as simply worthless, Zimbabwean dollars were still Zimbabwean dollars, and the government was still charging taxes in that currency and enforcing its laws and systems by fines in that cu
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by etherael 14y ago
It seems to be something of a pattern that when the state has in recent history held monopoly power over something that is evolving in a way corrosive to that power, they immediately jump to the stage of dismissing it as "unreal" in some wa
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by etherael 14y ago
Since your reply basically boils down to "Is not" I believe that the customary response on my part is supposed to be "Is so". And since this exchange is very boring and trite and you are clearly a complete moron, I'll leave it at that, we c
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by etherael 14y ago
Disappointed? Huh? What on earth are you talking about? If I refer to someone as a sad little man, it's a fair call that I could be described as disappointed in them, if I misunderstood your position on that I apologise. Or perhaps did y
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by etherael 14y ago
It sounds like you're disappointed in him for not succumbing to aspects of the modern world which could fairly be described as diseases. I understand this is a widespread and basically normal opinion, but I don't understand how people can h
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by etherael 14y ago
"Because I feel like it" would be less vague than this travesty.
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by etherael 14y ago
What do you mean by horrible state of encryption? why is it high cost to make a truecrypt container and use that as your interface? the only thing I can think of is it's inconvenient to be unable to simultaneously mount content from multipl
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by etherael 14y ago
It's not defeatist because it doesn't imply you just can't do anything about it, it implies you should be responsible for your own key management and encrypt sensitive data appropriately. Government agencies silently seizing an appropriatel
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by etherael 14y ago
If you're doing software development without an asynchronous work pipeline in 2013 then you have a problem. Regardless of remote or local work, long periods of uninterrupted concentration is exactly when the vast majority of productive work
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by etherael 14y ago
Conspiracy theorists suffer from a mental misconfiguration where the cost function applied to the neural network of neural networks suffers from "over fitting". Finding patterns in randomness leading to conclusions are not valid. A lambda
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by etherael 14y ago
So your exhibit A of how business and markets can make a mess of things is a county almost entirely dominated by government employers? It almost looks to me like when they have near total control over how an area evolves, they don't bother
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by etherael 14y ago
What disasters in Northern Virginia? I'm curious to hear what you hold up an example of the failures of markets, being as you're about the most strident statist I can think of here.
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by etherael 14y ago
I can't believe he had the nerve to go on the record after being specifically told what he was planning was illegal once again on public record and then re-iterate his original threat. So not only the no hire thing, but basically extortion
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by etherael 14y ago
Not the market you need to be playing in, something enormously frequently overlooked when a localised problem arises here I have found, is all.
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by etherael 14y ago
This problem is extremely culturally localised, look at the rash of mail order bride sites, not in isolation but as to what it suggests. Just because the market works one way within one culture is absolutely not a global indicator that this
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by etherael 14y ago
There's a whole weird history of civil asset forfeiture being abused, such as when the one black guy in a rural Ohio town is pulled over on his way to buy a new truck with cash, and the cops seize the cash under CAF rules on suspicion that
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by etherael 14y ago
Wow, way to go with the middle brow dismissal. It's nice to know you're actually listening to the opposition.
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by etherael 14y ago
The system was engaged with, that was the problem. People have a default assumption of adequacy when it comes to interaction with the state, this episode shows such a default assumption is not only unwarranted, but actually dangerous.
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by etherael 14y ago
This is probably the top comment because the zeitgeist is that the system is broken and making nice with it is a failing strategy.
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by etherael 14y ago
That the state is an organisational structure and thus that it is "composed of people" is no more an innate hedge against corruption than any other organisational structure. That plenty of the people which make the machine are otherwise goo
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by etherael 14y ago
The state has for as long as I can remember disgusted me, amongst many other things, exactly due to behaviour like this. Murdering thuggish religious zealots are a lot less sympathetic than anti authoritarian information crusaders, but the
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by etherael 14y ago
You say the country capital, are you from the US? Perhaps you got the "big red phone" or some associated item?
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by etherael 14y ago
Do you approve of all actions throughout history performed under color of law? Your constant refrain to "Yes, these aren't terribly good laws, but they are the laws and that's enough" are so utterly unconvincing in light of this that I find
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by etherael 14y ago
Interesting case, the formatting of the article is a little foreshadowing of where my research into this led me. The scenario with the state taking credit for the decline in crime based on their policing rather than as is very convincingly

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