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by kaonashi 13y ago
Speaking about this: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf ? He/she/they talk about a need for finical transaction capability without the need of a trusted third party, but I'm not seeing how that was in any way ov
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Document? Going by Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pliers . Venezuela.info has quite a bit of info going back a decade or so. The point of the comment is not to definitively state anything, merely con
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by kaonashi 13y ago
The capacity of Bitcoin is capped.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
>Yes, but that is completely contrary to the whole reason Bitcoin exists in the first place. Not really. Satoichi has shied away from the political motivations of a lot of the community.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Half of most apps I know of live in the /lib directory.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Are or were? Were, there's plenty. Are -- well we're talking about a covert agency, no?
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by kaonashi 13y ago
They've been involved for years… they're going to sit this one out?
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by kaonashi 13y ago
There are kinds of taxes that don't have penalties for non-payment?
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Horrible working conditions are not excused by the voluntary nature of employment.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
> Money is a tangible object Money is an entry in a ledger. It can or cannot have a tangible manifestation (coins, bills), but it is not always the case (reserves are purely electronic).
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by kaonashi 13y ago
There's a very black-ops feel to the Venezuela protests…
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by kaonashi 13y ago
When you're under full assault from the US intelligence agencies, sometimes you overreact.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
No, real resources are scarce. Money is anything but -- it is issued by fiat.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Perhaps he doesn't want to have to start from scratch building a team…
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by kaonashi 13y ago
The money system is provided by the government. It is not abstract, is a very real arrangement of actors and conventions.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
> Ownership as a concept is useful specifically for non-violent resolution of conflict over scarce resources. But you outlined precisely when it breaks down: when 'ownership' cannot be determined because the thing in question i
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by kaonashi 13y ago
This points to weaknesses in the concept of ownership.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Being enforced with violence and being violence aren't quite the same thing.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
The economy is owned by its participants.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
They're the gradient in the system that drives economic activity. If you must acquire a particular currency to pay taxes to avoid jail, then you will offer your output in that currency.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
If you try to walk into a baseball game or a movie without paying, it's called theft. If you try to participate in the economy without paying your dues, likewise it's theft and you will suffer the punishment.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Taxes aren't violence, they're dues for engaging in the external economy.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Nothing free about any market, since the bounds of said market is inevitably dictated by whatever social coordination mechanisms are available (the most wide-spread being some form of government).
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by kaonashi 13y ago
ITT: perfect illustration of why he left, and why you should probably follow suit.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
> PS Arguments that corporations should not be allowed to have freedom of speech or that spending money is not a form of speech really do not belong here. Sounds like a really ridiculous argument when you phrase it so explicitly, but OK.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
It's not just the 'Youtube thing' (as derisive as that sounds), it's that G+ has supplanted many services I used to use and enjoy. So now I have fewer services with constant nag screens prompting me to use something in
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by kaonashi 13y ago
G+ is what people who used to use Google services because they wanted to now have to endure for those same privileges.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
It was a historical reference meant to mark the beginnings of the word in the english lexicon, not as any particular fully-formed ideological system. Like saying "from Stonehenge to the Big Ben" when speaking of English architect
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by kaonashi 13y ago
He was the first guy to ever use the term libertarian; so from that point until the late 60's, libertarianism was something Rand was ostensibly against. Most libertarians today embrace the Randian critique of the libertarianism of her
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by kaonashi 13y ago
I guess just what libertarianism was from Belsham into the 20th century, before the influence of Rand and Rothbard. The comment was in response to a statement saying that Rand spoke against libertarianism, which was true.

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