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by zby 12y ago
This is two years old article - as far as I know the German pirates now are rather leftist (actually too leftist for my liking - but as a whole the pirate movement is rather balanced between the two poles). Pirate Party as a new and mostly
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by zby 12y ago
That is why you should join the Pirate Party! We are a targeted group - we must organize.
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by zby 12y ago
There is a body of literature on the subject how self governing groups escape the tragedy of the commons. For example: http://www.amazon.com/Governing-Commons-Evolution-Institutio... This is all empirical studies.
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by zby 12y ago
"surveillance competition"!
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by zby 13y ago
What is lacking is 'channel negotiation' between the sender and the receiver. The sender knows what he sends - the receiver knows what he wants to receive - neither of them has the full information and they need to collaborate on
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by zby 13y ago
Not necessarily - an honest mistake would do as well - the point is that the companies that make that mistake get the funding.
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by zby 13y ago
You'll never have one feed perfect for everyone. What we need is to decentralize the social network back - and let everyone control what his node does - what information is taken from in-feeds, what is presented to the user and what in
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by zby 13y ago
I don't like how they use 'sharing' when it is about paying for something.
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by zby 13y ago
If we had these progressive taxes and this global wealth tax - would we still have capitalism? And if yes - would that mean that 'r > g' is not inherent to capitalism but rather to some special kind of capitalism?
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by zby 13y ago
For more examples see: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.h... And join a Pirate Party of your location!
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by zby 13y ago
Is brain a machine? If you don't believe in souls and that kind of thing - then the brain is material and thus a machine for me. Can you replicate the way brain works in another machine? If it is a machine than most probably yes. Can y
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by zby 13y ago
Why are you sure that it is only the folks who got burned and not those who made money?
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by zby 13y ago
There is no thread at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=85.0 about that - so I guess it is just a manipulation attempt.
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by zby 13y ago
What a mess! But it looks like sexism was not the number one problem.
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by zby 13y ago
Maybe the author of bitcoin used the name Satoshi Nakamoto because he knew that journalists would find Dorian Nakamoto?
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by zby 13y ago
"engaging in a foreign language increases psychological distance and promotes deliberation" Wasn't Latin a great invention? It was foreign to everybody (I mean after the fall of Rome) - looks like ideal for a language of dipl
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by zby 13y ago
I would add to that that the only part that requires this proof of work when decentralized is the timestamping. We can have a system where everything is decentralized with a timestamping subsystem (that can also be composed of many computer
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by zby 13y ago
They have also blocked in Germany the streaming of Norwegian Pirate Party General Assembly: http://piratetimes.net/gema-is-blocking-the-live-stream-of-t...
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by zby 13y ago
This is essentially the founding idea of the Pirate Parties.
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by zby 13y ago
This is not really sure that it was the government that kidnapped them. You have to take into account that there are more players there than just the government and the opposition.
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by zby 13y ago
Maybe from turists? I don't know about Argentina - but in cases like this turists are often forced to buy the local currency by using the official exchange rate.
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by zby 13y ago
But if it is an open source compiler - then there are ways to counter the attack: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/countering_tr...
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by zby 13y ago
Money as an abstract 'value store' is not stable. It worked in the past with gold, because we did not have too many ways to speculate on it and transfer value from one asset to another. But it stopped working already in the beginn
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by zby 13y ago
There is a worldwide action tomorrow - who is #WaitingForEd? https://joindiaspora.com/posts/3457714 , https://www.facebook.com/events/1448773218676476
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by zby 13y ago
For reference - discussion of the source article from Der Spiegel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6979239
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by zby 13y ago
And now Amazon also loses some customers.
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by zby 13y ago
You don't need this amount of computing power to send messages. All that these processors do is guarding against 'double spending' - but 'double spending' is a peculiar problem of distributed cash - a centralized cu
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by zby 13y ago
"BC is nothing like Money" - care to explain this? What does it mean to be money? I like the definition that money is what we value not for its usefulness in itself - but because we speculate that we'll be able to exchange it
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by zby 13y ago
An idea: A dialectic platform - when two users disagree someone should write a third post that both agree with.
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by zby 13y ago
The problem with Peercoin is that it is centralized by the reliance on checkpoints. That makes it completely missing the point - after all you can have a centralized crypto-coin without mining at all. I am still waiting for a true decentral

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