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by oleganza 13y ago
If everyone believes in different rights, what's the point? Anyway, what's the purpose of rights? Is it to give a sanction for violence to yourself when you think you deserve it? If you are not using violence, but do a conversatio
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by oleganza 13y ago
Rights are fantasy. 95% of your life is anarchy: voluntary relationships with others based on like/dislike, mutual respect and agreements. It's not based on rights, laws or other abstractions. Rights do not exist. Individual agree
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by oleganza 13y ago
U.S. citizens did not freely elect that military machine and millions of suits around it. They only could vote for a person to extract taxes. All citizens are victims of their ruling mafia.
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by oleganza 13y ago
Actual translation: because of the behavior of U.S. government, E.U. government(s) will make it hard for E.U. citizens to trade with U.S. citizens. So normal people get spied on and bullied by one government, then because of that their li
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by oleganza 13y ago
> So basically you say that the children must pay for the crimes of their ancestors far back in the past? How do you derive this from my words? Children are created by adults who may use peaceful methods to raise them, or use violent met
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by oleganza 13y ago
You are describing a relationship with the state as a contractual agreement. Then I guess you have some theory of property rights (btw, I myself don't have any such theory, I only advocate not using violence while resolving issues). Th
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by oleganza 13y ago
Do you want to say that you say "hello" to your wife because of some law enforcement? I think, no amount of enforcement will make your children or wife happy if you decide to leave them. Voluntarism and peace does not mean everyon
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Bitcoin sale is tax-exempt in Germany after holding 1 year(reddit.com)
1 points by oleganza 13y ago|0 comments
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by oleganza 13y ago
99% of the time we all successfully exercise disobedience in our personal life. We meet with people we like and then do not meet when we don't like them. It includes relatives, friends, coworkers, small shops, big shops etc. 99% of the
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by oleganza 13y ago
As far as I understand, this NDA is used to make big newspapers publish reviews of the new OS at the same time to make a concentrate PR effort. If every big newspaper was free to review Mavericks, by the time it got out, no one would care a
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by oleganza 13y ago
Lets see. As we both probably agree, the nominal money supply does not matter. E.g. there is no functional difference between 1 million dollars in total supply and 1 billion. All prices are nominally higher in the latter case, but the relat
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by oleganza 13y ago
Manning dumped a whole lot of private data concerning killers who are funded by billions of printed and confiscated money from you, who then kill much less powerful people overseas, making everyone angry up to the point to provoke more and
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by oleganza 13y ago
Recent events raised never ending question of "could the government place a backdoor in DES/AES/SHA/etc.?" My personal perception (based on available evidence) is that government crypto is as strong as possible, but
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by oleganza 13y ago
I guess so. But for those who want to avoid paying it, buying things daily is less risky than going through the bank. Just like with earnings in cash that you spend in brick and mortar stores.
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by oleganza 13y ago
A lot of Bitcoin holders bought/mined them at much lower prices than current $100. Compare this 7% premium when buying things to a potential 20-30% capital gains tax you'd have give up when cashing out via exchange.
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by oleganza 13y ago
And I don't trust Apple either. But I'm not disappointed at them, because I did not and could not have a strict privacy agreement with them in the first place. What I can do, though, apart from keeping my data secure elsewhere, is
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by oleganza 13y ago
To make it clear: we all were paying roaming charges not because "evil companies" arranged in a cartel, but because some politicians (who control telecom licenses) were deciding prices and rules. Now they decided to drop some requ
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by oleganza 13y ago
I'll put this note here. If you are being angry at Apple, Google, Microsoft and others for being dishonest about managing your data, you are being dishonest yourself. Apple does not have army of policemen, courts, flying drones, space
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by oleganza 13y ago
Most of Founding Fathers were also slave owners. Could we stop bringing people of the past with their dubious morale into the modern times when we all are more educated? Otherwise, we could equally use What Would Jesus Do principle. http:&
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by oleganza 13y ago
You seem to extrapolate something from his words and then make a judgement. Can you give an example of one "shallow" thing that shouldn't be replaced by "being intellectual" and makes peers "wise in ways"?
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by oleganza 13y ago
I don't believe in moral imperatives. I simply try to teach people things I understand when they are willing to listen. I'm not obliged to do that. They are not obliged to listen. But if it happens that I tell you arguments why go
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by oleganza 13y ago
I don't hold people responsible for their actions until they've been exposed to an argument against them. E.g. ancient doctor is not responsible for not using antibiotics. But if he does not use them when he knows about them (and
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by oleganza 13y ago
I'm not going into politics. People cannot be convinced. Only practical solutions can make certain moral claims irrelevant. E.g. internet makes it irrelevant to discuss "is it good for people to read these heretical books". P
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by oleganza 13y ago
Americans as a group do not exist. It's a conceptual label. Individuals exist. And if your analysis of what's good for a "group" leads to suffering of individuals, you have some problem. My view of the "group"
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by oleganza 13y ago
Those who do not vote have the right to complain. And those who do, also have the right because everyone is brainwashed. Government is not some magical entity, it is a group of armed bandits who claim to represent the whole society for the
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by oleganza 13y ago
Typically, people were beating shit out of someone who was not behaving "correctly".
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by oleganza 13y ago
I am voluntarist who doesn't believe in convincing people, but believes in economics. If there are tools that benefit most of the people and keep risks low, people will use them. Crypto is one of such things. Politics and revolutions a
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by oleganza 13y ago
Rights have "due process" attached to them, as you noted. This is exactly what creates violent religion called "state". My suggestion is to use "contracts" as a basis for all social agreements. People voluntari
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by oleganza 13y ago
Teaching that "if you steal, people won't like it" is not a commandment with a death sentence attached to it. It's just teaching how things work in society. But making a commandment or a law, and forcing people to obey i
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You have no rights(blog.oleganza.com)
18 points by oleganza 13y ago|19 comments

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