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by kaonashi 13y ago
So Bitcoins aren't a get-out-of-taxes-free card. Isn't that it's primary practical draw? What volume of Bitcoin transactions involve black-market activity?
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Was the article changed, because it doesn't seem to mention anything about transporting documents.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Well, if you can hide the fact you ran over someone, did you really run them over?
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by kaonashi 13y ago
That's more a testament to Western propaganda than the historical restraint shown by Western governments.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
The guy playing jobs seems like he's reading off cue-cards.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
> Private sector financial assets as a percentage of GDP have ballooned to over 200%. Doesn't sound so bad when you phrase it that way.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Kyle Bass advocates shorting Japanese debt. A trade colloquially known as the 'Widowmaker'.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
>Numerous economists have made the point that a large trade surplus can be a sign of economic weakness Exports are real costs, imports are real benefits. A trade surplus can help you keep net government spending low, but there's no
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by kaonashi 13y ago
I guess it pays to read the instructions. >.<
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by kaonashi 13y ago
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by kaonashi 13y ago
They could have handed over encrypted files, is there something to suggest they handed over plaintext messages?
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Increasing the amount of available reserves doesn't really transmit to inflation as it's constrained by demand for loans. The loanable funds model which says that increases in reserves leads directly to increases in loans doesn&#
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by kaonashi 13y ago
The Fed controls reserves, not net financial assets. The net result from a fiscal injection and a financial composition shift is not the same at all.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
(For Americans) If you earn income in bitcoins, you still have to pay tax in USD. If you earn income in Euros, you still have to pay tax in USD. Bitcoin does not absolve you of your tax obligations, even thought it might help you to evade
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by kaonashi 13y ago
> Why would any successful government ever voluntarily give up that control? They really can't give it up. It's the foundation of government: the ability to issue debt and place an obligation on citizens to offer their goods a
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by kaonashi 13y ago
The 'default' (and I'm not sure how now declaring your variables with var qualifies) depends entirely on what's bound to 'this'.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Real money is a government IOU that can be redeemed to fulfill your tax obligation. Bitcoin fulfills neither of these. It's simply a receipt for wasted electricity.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Since you seem to be unfamiliar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
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by kaonashi 13y ago
It definitely inspired people to resolve its core hypocrisy, which led to positive effects.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Then realize it was written by a bunch of Aristocratic slave-holding white men, who implicitly meant for the document to apply only to people like themselves. What the traditionally disenfranchised are thinking is: welcome to the fucking cl
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by kaonashi 13y ago
> How does this have anything to do with capitalism? Unemployment is a creation of Capitalism. Even in Feudal and slave societies, people had homes and jobs.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Creating laws against the poor harms the poor. It's not a dichotomy at all. You can't help a group by actively harming them.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
So a white guy gets targeted by the laws meant for minorities, and all the sudden the walls are falling down?
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by kaonashi 13y ago
So don't do anything to unseat the two major parties until the two major parties pass a constitutional amendment making unseating them possible?
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by kaonashi 13y ago
I think what he's saying is that the poor and minorities have been suffering under a regime much more oppressive for a very long time. It's not that he approves of NSA surveillance, he just finds it indicative of a privileged poi
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Because challenging it from a solitary confinement cell might not sound that appealing.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
What does it mean exactly to 'take proprietary code'? You mean he had a copy on his laptop so he could work from home? Isn't that what most of us do?
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by kaonashi 13y ago
Hockey stadiums/large outdoor stadiums; clubs were less severe.
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by kaonashi 13y ago
That's been standard procedure for concert security as far as I remember (started going to them mid-90's).
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by kaonashi 13y ago
BTC can function perfectly well as a supplement to traditional currencies, but it cannot replace them. The needs for currency by the private economy is not fixed, tying an anchor around your political ability to respond to those changing n

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