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by fianchetto 13y ago
> there are plenty of people who should know better singing the praises of online financial currencies and other broad operations that operate outside the controls and oversight of governments. "If the natural tendencies of mankind are
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by fianchetto 13y ago
We had a mistake in communication. I thought you were referencing the Liberty Dollar topic I had raised. I have no issues with people moving their money around as they see fit. Why not outlaw cash if "money laundering" is a concern?
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> it was demonstrably used for criminal transactions. I'm sure you have proof of this.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> BitCoin isn't a "threat" to the money issuance monopoly You are mistaken. Look at what was done to Liberty Dollar.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
My own disappointment with EFF comes from many years of watching them go from a grassroots group to being an established thinktank in DC. I don't feel like they represent me and that feeling was certainly reinforced during the past two year
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by fianchetto 13y ago
EFF taking Bitcoin is good for Bitcoin but they won't get a single satoshi from me. I joined EFF not long after the Steve Jackson days and supported them until relatively recently. I didn't believe their original "we don't want to be the st
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by fianchetto 13y ago
I'd trust Google with my money just like I'd trust them with my real world information. /s
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> a "crime" that was rooted in negligence rather than malicious intent. Speculation, not fact.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
I think there are many little police "fiefdoms" in the US. Bakersfield itself sounds like one.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
Beating people death and then intimidating witnesses into handing over evidence sounds like a police state to me.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
I think it will get worse before it gets better. The momentum behind the security state will wind down through inertia as the economics of maintaining it will prove untenable but before that happens, many large American cities will be under
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by fianchetto 13y ago
Sadly, some people are looking forward to the compulsory anal probes that are on deck.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> At the time Zimmerman said that, PGP probably wasn't on the list. It wasn't on the list yet, proving his point about volatility. > full force and effect of the law. All decrees, from Hammurabi onward, have the same qualities.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> How did this manage to survive first amendment challenges? This goes back to what Phil Zimmerman said about ITAR and such almost 20 years ago when they threw it at him for PGP: "The Government has made it illegal in many cases to expo
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by fianchetto 13y ago
Bitcoin is cryptographically pure but programmers aren't quite as perfect.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
Not necessarily. Robert Lucas, for instance.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
A Nobel doth not a genius make.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
That is awesome! Many thanks.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
I ran across this book while I was researching the caloric engine. Momentary obsessions can be very rewarding sometimes. :)
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Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1868)(books.google.com)
111 points by fianchetto 13y ago|25 comments
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by fianchetto 13y ago
I don't think developers care about that issue. Per the lead developer: "If you have a better suggestion for fixing the problem of new users wasting lots of time gathering tiny drips and drabs of bitcoins, and then getting upset when they c