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by snitko 13y ago
The point is, that when it's me with a shotgun or a hired private protection agency, we enforce property rights at the expense of property owners. When it's government, it takes someone else's money by force to provide this s
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by snitko 13y ago
And who enforces the value of Gold, or Silver, or Bitcoin? And why is it impossible to enforce property rights without a monopolistic protection service, which is government police force? >Why do you believe the entire society you know
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by snitko 13y ago
It diverts my attention and somehow I think that some activity goes on at the top of the screen. It actually makes me think a new tab was opened. I don't understand why we need this.
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by snitko 13y ago
I certainly wouldn't advocate tax evasion, it would be immoral to ask people to risk the leftovers of their freedom and confront IRS. What I meant was, don't give them a cut unless your transactins can be effectively tracked. When
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by snitko 13y ago
>We have to learn how to play politics. There will be voices who call for revolution, or who publicly declare that playing this game is tantamount to aligning ourselves with government. I don't believe that these are productive dis
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by snitko 13y ago
If taxes were voluntary, they wouldn't be taxes anymore, but rather payments for services. No one would have to elect anybody - not more so than we need to elect officials who decide which car everyone should buy - people would just st
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by snitko 13y ago
It's not a good way to protest and people don't jump on that bandwagon simply because government is gonna make their lives very very unpleasant. That's why I say that I wouldn't advocate it - it is immoral to demand from
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by snitko 13y ago
Right. So what happens if a company decides to protest and not pay taxes? Government is going to make its life very difficult, to say the least. How is this a company's fault if a gang of bandits steal money from it to finance nasty th
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by snitko 13y ago
Why boycott companies? It's not companies who did this.
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by snitko 13y ago
Money. The less government money you use, the less they can tax. Cash or Bitcoin. Don't give them a cut. I wouldn't advocate tax evasion, although the truth is, if you pay taxes, you finance this bullshit.
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by snitko 13y ago
Now this number is scary.
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by snitko 13y ago
How can one compare government to mafia? What is wrong with you people? Mafia doesn't waste your time by conscripting you to be a part time accountant before you pay it. Mafia doesn't hold elections among those who pay it, pretend
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by snitko 13y ago
Fixed. Thank you.
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by snitko 13y ago
I think you're wrong. A lot of very smart people in the Bitcoin community are working on some really clever ideas. Zerocoin, colored coins implementations, stock exchanges, distribution of shares to name a few. A friend of mine, for ex
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Show HN: Sell tickets to your events or services for Bitcoins(cointicket.com)
25 points by snitko 13y ago|10 comments
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by snitko 13y ago
Don't worry. Next time there will be a candidate who promises to never be like Obama and never lie to the public. He (or she) will give you hope that maybe this time things are going to change. And you are going to be believe it, becau
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by snitko 13y ago
There's only one way to fix things: voting and participating in a political process. You solve nothing by calling government a sadistic monster. The fact that each new politician elected turns out to be a scumbag and nothing really cha
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Things to commit before you quit your job(gist.github.com)
26 points by snitko 13y ago|8 comments
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by snitko 13y ago
Left-anarchists never managed to convince me how are they gonna have this society in which everyone is equal and has no private property without forcing people not to. I mean, if everyone agreed, I'd have no problem with that. But I
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Contracts without trust and third parties(blog.oleganza.com)
4 points by snitko 13y ago|0 comments
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by snitko 13y ago
So you're saying if I believe a state is unnecessary I deserve no freedom. Gotcha.
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by snitko 13y ago
It's horrifying until you realize that all the same things you fear actually happen today, except that the entity doing those things is a monopoly which is less accountable and more hostile to the public than any corporation ever could
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by snitko 13y ago
If you would like to understand this question and accept the possibility that your assumptions and conlusions might be wrong, I suggest you start with this article "Law As A Private Good" http://www.daviddfriedman.com
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by snitko 13y ago
> People will not have the option "not to pay", because the law says those people have to be put in jail, and the jail is private I think you misunderstand the idea. The only system in which you have to pay is when you have
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by snitko 13y ago
I agree. You'd still have to figure out what to do with violent sociopaths, repeatedly breaking laws and not showing any signs of change. I would probably agree to pay to keep em locked until (if ever) they are considered not dangerous
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by snitko 13y ago
I quite agree that the way it currently works, private prisons are the worst. However the root of the problem is not that they are private, but rather that they are still paid by the government. Private prisons have all the incentives in th
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by snitko 13y ago
Well, then maybe we could argue the same about religion: atheism and then pantheism didn't really work, so we invented organized religions with one major god. Relying on the wisdom of ancestors is a sure way to avoid growth and to not
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by snitko 13y ago
Extracting all info out of the brains would be impractical. A lot of the things humans do we do because we are humans. Our emotions only make sense because they are mechanisms of survival and passing our genes. They would be quite impractic
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by snitko 13y ago
The author is obviously some kind of crazy anarchist. Private law system? You mean that all of a sudden people would become customers of multiple legal firms instead of subjects of one big system and will be able to choose laws they like wh
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by snitko 13y ago
I'm not quite sure what do you mean by saying "losing everything". It's not like anyone ties you to Coinbase. Have your own Desktop wallet for large sums and transactions, use Coinbase to handle small ones.

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