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by snitko 12y ago
I agree. Inflation is a form of taxation and is an immoral thing as well.
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by snitko 12y ago
The only question one should ask is where does the money come from. If it comes from thin air, fine. But they come from taxes. Government doesn't have any money, it takes someone else's money and gives them to other people. If you
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by snitko 12y ago
Then it's a whole different story. It's a contract between the landlord and me that I voluntarily signed. Neither me, nor anybody else never signed any contract with government saying I cannot sublet.
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by snitko 12y ago
>No. By that way of thinking, people should be free not to wear a seat belt or a helmet when driving, and that's wrong. (Now that we're talking about weird analogies...) Exactly, they should be free to do that. How does not w
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by snitko 12y ago
> Not my own security, but the security of the person who pays for the room. Can a person decide for himself whether to stay with a government licenced business like a hotel or with someone who wants to rent him a room without any spec
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by snitko 12y ago
Why do you think your security should matter more to your neighbor than his ability to make money by renting out his property? He's got family to feed too. Why do you think collecting taxes is what everyone considers a just thing to do
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by snitko 12y ago
Talking about private property. People can't even rent it without government permission and then you hear voices saying "you wouldn't have private property if not for the government". Well, guess what, it's not your
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by snitko 12y ago
It's funny how your first thought is not to go to your neighbor, ask around and see whether this is going to be any trouble for you at all and if it is, try to work out a solution you both would agree on. Your first thought: permit, go
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by snitko 12y ago
You should try Vim Command-T plugin, kicks ass in terms of reaching files quickly.
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by snitko 12y ago
> Vim: The Editor You Need To Read (At Least) Two Books On To Use Well No. You need to start using it for 2 weeks and then you can no longer look back on any other editor. You don't need to read two books. Stopped reading the arti
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by snitko 12y ago
You made a perfect case for Dart.
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by snitko 12y ago
Being a Ruby developer for quite a while, Underscore.js always struck me as an attempt to bring some of the native functionality of Ruby into the language that had none of it. Internal iterators being the most immediate example. Problem is
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by snitko 12y ago
For those things you're talking about my parents paid their fair share of taxes, not me. You have to realize, it's parents who pay for their children's education and healthcare, not children themselves: this is true whether w
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by snitko 12y ago
I just don't understand, how is it that in your mind voting is a better way to let consumers decide than actually giving them choice? Alright, let me stop right here. I know where this is going. You like state and regulations. I don&#x
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by snitko 12y ago
My argument is that market should decide. If some people want cheap and unsafe, let them have it. If some people want expensive and licenced - let them have it too. In Europe and the US you currently have a situation where those who want a
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by snitko 12y ago
Where I live anyone can be a cab. You raise your hand on any street any time of day and some car will stop. As a result, prices are normally 3 times lower compared to the US. You negotiate the price with drivers beforehand and you don'
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by snitko 12y ago
If their knowledge is of any value to consumers, consumers are going to choose them over Uber. If not, then nobody should care. I can learn how to program stuff for MSDOS, doesn't mean it'd be worth anything these days. As for reg
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by snitko 12y ago
Calling me a radical and a dissident is not arguing. I can call you a statist and an accomplice to murder because your taxes finance wars that kill innocent people all over the world. But that won't matter. What matters is that taxes a
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by snitko 12y ago
Good lord you're a nitpicker. You said "tax reporting" was voluntary. Fine. What happens if you don't report and IRS finds out? Are people scared of not reporting? Tax reporting IS NOT voluntary.
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by snitko 12y ago
1) Yes it will, the tax system already relies on voluntary reporting 2) they don't want to not pay their taxes and risk getting caught Talking about logical abilities. Taxes are voluntarily paid because people don't want to b
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by snitko 12y ago
I'm sorry, but the problem is that due to Bitcoin's inherent properties you cannot completely detach it from political and economic agendas. Its deflationary nature, its pseudonymity, it's decentralization - how do you detach
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by snitko 12y ago
Well, why do you suppose Satoshi created Bitcoin? Because he wanted everyone to keep paying taxes and governments keep printing fiat? Or is it because he was a fan central banking and couldn't wait until Bitcoin is heavily regulated an
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by snitko 12y ago
The solution is to encourage everyone to become richer, not equalize people. If you argue that rich people should not get better treatment in court, then why not argue for the rich people to buy the same cars as everyone else, the same hous
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by snitko 12y ago
> I'd suggest you look into how things work out in the real world. In the real world the rich already have access to "better courts" because they can afford to hire top lawyers. My argument is that it's not going to
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by snitko 12y ago
> There would be no courts for those who cannot afford to pay for them. That's one major difference. There would be no police, fire agencies, etc etc, I highy recommend you watch this video, it's an illustrated talk by David
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by snitko 12y ago
Hoarding is productive because if you're incentivized to hoard (as with Bitcoin) that means you will only most likely invest in projects you truly want to invest for some reasons: either because people really need the product you are g
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by snitko 12y ago
> Trying to avoid taxation entirely would involve a complete lifestyle change for everybody; somehow, everybody would have to be small-scale producers and buy things from other small-scale producers, while we're now used to the eas
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by snitko 12y ago
The moment I buy anything within the country. Or something that requires my ID. But what about things like breakfast? Or a taxi ride? The IRS cannot track cash with which you buy small things, nor will it be able to track bitcoins. I mean
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by snitko 12y ago
You have no idea what you're talking about. Trading on the blockchain is insane and no one is really attempting to do it.
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by snitko 12y ago
To regulate and tax, you must first know someone has bitcoins. Furthermore, you must know how much they have or have an opportunity to effectively find that out. Now, with a bank account it's not a problem: all IRS or some other three

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