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by snitko 12y ago
The blog cypherpunks.ru written in Russian contains a lot of spelling and grammar errors, as well as typos, which to me indicates the quality of the content in general.
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by snitko 12y ago
Nobody forced them to participate. There are many employers out there. Developers could find other jobs had they wished so. An employer cannot be considered an authority because he and the employee enter a job contract voluntarily and both
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by snitko 12y ago
Actual anarchy is not chaos, it's non reliance on authority.
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by snitko 12y ago
Do not register a company. Accept Bitcoin and provide great service people want.
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by snitko 12y ago
Of course it has a philosophy. Which is freedom from government regulation and coercion in finance (and, consequently, in everything). I challenge you to prove this isn't so when even Satoshi himself said that.
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by snitko 12y ago
>"Our philosophy is to ask for permission, not forgiveness", Cameron Winklevoss said. So, a complete opposite of what Bitcoin philosophy is. Gotcha.
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by snitko 12y ago
Exactly. This is outrageous. The only decent chat app these days is Telegram, really. Even they still want you to use your phone to log in (but only once). But I guess that's the way it is for now. Frankly, I hope those apps will all b
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by snitko 12y ago
I'm a little concerned that over time, it is going to become more difficult and less private to move money out of Coinbase. Even now they ask you "where do you send your money? is it another website?" when you try to withdraw
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by snitko 12y ago
Ah, yeah. Well, that's ok. I never downvote people with whom I have discussions here either. I think for some it's easier to downvote than to reply, which is fine with me.
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by snitko 12y ago
If you re-read your comment you will see that there's no logical proof in what you're saying, nor is there any evidence. Saying things like "your point is just magical thinking" will not prove me wrong. Furthermore, plea
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by snitko 12y ago
It's very simple. If you looked at Hong Kong vs China, or South Korea vs North Korea, or Western Germany vs Eastern Germany, you only needed to follow the people's footsteps. Have people been lining up to go from the former to the
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by snitko 12y ago
This is why I believe in Bitcoin and work on its infrastructure. It doesn't need government. You don't need to ask for permission. There is no way you can massively steal it from individual wallets or in many cases even know that
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by snitko 12y ago
oh, but I agree. I'm not advocating government spending. I'm only saying that in principle, ANY government is corrupt and the most wealth is accumulated by being close to the power (either by lobbying, favoritism, coercion or plai
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by snitko 12y ago
I agree with you that a healthy society is the one where the gap between the poor and the rich is small. However, I believe this must not be achieved by any kind of coercion coming from government. It may work sometimes (as in Scandinavian
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by snitko 12y ago
A society where inheritance is not possible or heavily taxed are doomed to spiral into short-term entertainment consumer economies. That is, people, knowing they can't leave anything to their children, will spend as much as they can on
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by snitko 12y ago
It's bizarre to me that people prefer to focus on how much somebody owns rather than if he earned it honestly. If a person didn't steal, cheat or coerced anybody in the process of making his money, he is entitled to it. I don&#x27
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by snitko 12y ago
Well, yes, I agree then, it does leak. I still think this is way way way better than using Coinbase or Bitpay. There's really no other alternative right now when it comes to accepting Bitcoin payments. I think, given enough effort, we
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by snitko 12y ago
I think Bitpay recently released an opensource library (haven't looked into it yet) that accomplishes just that. So I will probably take a look at it first. As for leaking the data, I'm not sure about you mean. What adapters do is
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by snitko 12y ago
So, first of all, Straight currently uses two blockchain adapters, one for Blockchain.info and another one for Helloblock.io. If one is down, it will automatically switch to another one. I will be adding more adapters in the future. It will
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by snitko 12y ago
This thing would be million times more useful with Dart, which runs both in the frontend and the backend and is a stable language with some rich features. Still, a move in the direction though, I like it, but I think I'd never use this
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by snitko 12y ago
Should've called it sculder.
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“Patriotism and Government”, an Essay by Leo Tolstoy(dwardmac.pitzer.edu)
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by snitko 12y ago
So, you are essentially discriminating against ugly sex workers.
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by snitko 12y ago
I think your question is a very smart one. Indeed, if most opposed taxation, wouldn't they simply vote against it? The problem is, it's kind of a vicious cycle. Because state cannot exist without taxation, it is in its best intere
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by snitko 12y ago
Again, that's not an argument. I can say "governments never work" and 90% of the time I would be factually correct.
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by snitko 12y ago
But what if I don't want any representative? Where does that vote go? If I believed your first statement to be true, does it then follow then I'm free to not pay taxes and IRS wouldn't try to confiscate my property and jail m
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by snitko 12y ago
Property rights is not a state invention. It's a concept. It wasn't invented by a bureaucrat. What state does is it provides a service of enforcing those rights for the taxes I pay. However, I cannot choose another service provi
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by snitko 12y ago
>- Free-for-all (disaster is an understatement) If you mean the US system in which insurance companies and government were always in bed, and in which the FDA regulated the shit out of the drug market, making it necessary to spend bill
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by snitko 12y ago
Slavery was also prevalent in most of the world until the 19-th century. Was it a good idea too? The difference is in quality of the heist, not the nature of it: both slaves and taxpayers are robbed off the fruits of the labor. And how did
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by snitko 12y ago
> if property rights were a good idea, you wouldn't need fences, locks, laws, police And indeed, only in crime-ridden communities you actually need to lock your doors and fence things. And who made most of the things illegal that

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