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by fineman 11y ago
That's true but not very meaningful. Imagine the difference if only US citizens would take USD (and only so much of it) instead of it generally being preferred world-wide. So yes, a government could set up an e-currency and make us use
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by fineman 11y ago
It's not the issue of the speech in lobbying, it's that lobbying in politics means gifts of money. I can "lobby" a police officer not to give me a ticket, but when I offer him a $20 all of a sudden he'll call it a b
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by fineman 11y ago
I see, so all the protestors were stealing pringles? And thus the race problem in America is the blacks' fault.
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by fineman 11y ago
It's not a media-generated event. People are upset about having their friends shot and automatic rifles pointed at their faces as they protest.
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by fineman 11y ago
Because it's the hierarchy that defines you. An Alpha, alone, is indistinguishable from an Epsilon. See Veblen Good; if nobody looks at your rolex it's just a heavy timex.
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by fineman 11y ago
> [...] I wonder if this is what Chinese Democracy looks like. No, tautologically because it's not a democracy. Balance of power issues pretty much mean that a democracy can't stalk its citizens and still claim that they have a
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by fineman 11y ago
> No, it's not. Exchanges are few and (supposedly) extremely well regulated. The number of "bad actors" (spoofers or otherwise) is also small and under strict regulation. Almost everything you said is directly refuted in t
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by fineman 11y ago
Are most analogies valid if you replace one party with nazis? Murder isn't an economic action bordering on indistinguishable from normal interactions. Publishing some bids you don't really want accepted is.
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by fineman 11y ago
> a smarter move [...] The goal is getting the job, or being a smart ass? As an interviewer, I'll put this one to bed. Pick up the white-board marker and start writing. The intern can look up libraries; I want to see if you can unde
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by fineman 11y ago
It wasn't really a legitimate question though. Even if it was murder we were discussing we'd want it to be harder for the police to falsify evidence and force unreasonable searches.
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by fineman 11y ago
We can't legislate that you don't spoof - it'll simply be an arms race. If you want to participate in a market without spoofers, simply require a deposit for offers cancelled within a certain period of time. The problem is th
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by fineman 11y ago
> He claims that he sent dozens of e-mails, but has yet to produce a single one [...] He hasn't tried to placate people like you for the same reason Obama didn't both answer the birth-cerificate Truthers even if it would have b
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by fineman 11y ago
Making six $3k deposits in a row isn't a crime. Doing so to avoid the reporting limits, is. It might turn out that because of some quirk of law that intentionally getting around donation restrictions isn't illegal (which is presum