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by shit_parade 12y ago
This comment reads very much like astroturfing. I hope the admins of HN take a look at who registered this account and who up-voted this comment to make it the current top comment in this thread. As mentioned by others, this account is near
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Putin is no hero, but Russia's response to a USA sponsered coup of a Democratic Ukraine is hardly surprising. God-honest Nazis run Ukraine, i'm not joking, NEO-NAZIs, that is the sort of people US policy planners are willing to su
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>3. ISIS are not the result of the Iraq war So killing hundreds of thousands of civilians had no effect whatsoever in allowing extremism and hatred of the US to thrive? How about our arming of the Syrian rebels, do you also believe our p
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While another realist would point out that being caught spying on our fellow allies has seriously damaged our relations with them.
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Free speech zones, excessive pursuit of whistle blowers, proposed restrictions on cryptography, extensive use of national security letters, resisting FOIA requests, defending NSA programs, killing US citizens in secret. I'm flabbergast
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The problem is implementation, do you really trust the US government to give it even more power over its people by allowing to hand out 'basic incomes' to everyone? I'm sure it will only become yet another tool to oppress dis
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by shit_parade 12y ago
A better answer is removing expensive barriers of entry to allow small businesses to compete with larger companies, removing artificial boundaries to allow labor to go where it is most needed just as capital is allowed the same today, and _
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I assume law enforcement will be largely exempt from these rules, the US military certainly will be.
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Extensive gerrymandering, equating money with free speech, and the two party system has made voting a waste of time in the US.
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Sure thing citizen, strong privacy regulations will be written into the secret laws and looked over in secret by a secret judge appointed to a secret court, we're the government elected in democratic fashion so you know you can trust u
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by shit_parade 12y ago
And the US continues on its way to corporatism and corporate fascism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism#Fascist_corporatis...
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Authorization for the Use of US Armed Forces(whitehouse.gov)
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Thanks for the argument from authority, it is really adding to this discussion.
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Another way to think about debt is that central banks are currently purchasing more global sovereign debt than is being issued[1] resulting in negative yields for many bonds. It is hard to fully articulate how perverse this is, but governme
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They could of also gone for jury nullification.
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> rather than the fact that he went to Yemen and took up arms against the United States while inciting violence against the country. It is difficult to call it a fact since there was no trial, no due process, nor evidence cited by US gov
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Don't worry about it, because you too can go volunteer for the Whitehouse and make America a better place one tech at a time.
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>So, let me be frank: Greece's debt is currently unsustainable and will never be serviced, especially while Greece is being subjected to continuous fiscal waterboarding. Despite the rhetoric this is the problem of not just Greece bu
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Insider trading laws also practically do not apply to members of congress -- prior to 2013 congress was exempt to insider trading restrictions and they have since scaled back reporting requirements. As a class, congress magically out perfor
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It's a beautiful idea but the problem is implementation. The government of most countries is already a powerful and corrupting force, giving it even the additional power and discretion to 'hand out' a basic income is terrifyi
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>The entity that’s conducting the most extreme and far-reaching surveillance against most of the world’s communications—the National Security Agency—is bound by United States law. This seems clearly wrong -- when people like clapper can
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The US government's system of justice seems increasingly opaque, arbitrary, and solely for the purpose of maintaining the status quo and those already in power. Meanwhile, much worse crimes by those in power such as torture go unpunish
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by shit_parade 12y ago
Credit card fraud results in billions of dollars in losses every year, this is a problem bitcoin will very likely solve at a fraction of the cost.
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This issue is being addressed via invertible bloom lookup tables. https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/e20c3b5a1d4b97f79ac2
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Your comment contributes practically nothing, insider trading exists in every market, bitcoin is no different in that regard.
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Because the libor scandal, gold fixing, and central bank puts don't happen in the real market? US congress can even legally get away with inside trading, having laws against it really only allows those in power to punish those withou
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exchanges like bitfinex allow shorting.
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Funny how officers deem their lives worth more than the lives they take or families they destroy with no accountability.
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Absolutely, freedom must include the right to dissent or disagree.
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Japan is moving towards the 'kite' formation common to aging populations which throughout history resembled more of a pyramid, and more often today look like a cylinder. The simple solution would be immigration which will occur ev

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