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4381  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Libertarians and gun rights activits here is how the rest of the world sees you on: December 11, 2013, 02:16:13 AM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=366520
4382  Other / Politics & Society / Re: ElectricMucus so afraid of admitting fallibility deletes comment instead on: December 11, 2013, 02:12:02 AM
In all honesty, I'm impressed he didn't nuke the entire thread and lock it Tongue

its sort of amazing to me. it really seems like my argument is simple and should be crystal clear to ANYONE. it really baffles me how he is able to act as if he still doesn't understand what i am claiming. his responses indicate that he is under the impression that i am claiming that libertarian methods of justifying acquisition are legitimate when i have as of yet made no such claim. its like he looks at the words but rather than reading them as they are, he interprets them to mean what ever they need to mean in order to allow him to beat what ever dead horse he has already set his mind on beating. it almost feels like he is failing the turing test Grin
4383  Other / Politics & Society / ElectricMucus so afraid of admitting fallibility deletes comment instead on: December 11, 2013, 01:44:57 AM
ElectricMucus felt so threatened by the that he might have to admit that he said one thing in his entire life that was not correct he deleted my comment from his thread. Of course i would like to continue the discussion but i can not play rock paper scissors against someone who will just shoot dynomite any time he feels that he is losing so I invite ElecticMucus to continue the discussion here on neutral ground where censorship will not take place. Seeing as how deleting a comment is defacto admitting that you have lost the argument, he can be assured that i will not delete his comments.

Libertarianism is the bastardization of Anarchism. It takes a philosophy based on a simple principle (Authority must be justified) and exempts the concept of property from said principle.

Elwar gets bonus godwin points.

what??? perhaps we are wrong about what does and does not justify acquisition, but your claim that we do not believe that property ownership must be justified is prima facie ridiculous. we are CONSTANTLY debating ad nausium amongst each other about what does and does not justify acquisition. If you actually believe that we do not believe that property ownership must be justified than you clearly have made very little effort to understand our position.

tip: Ownership can't be justified with a circular argument - as such not by any term used in describing capitalism.

But lets assume you are right and I haven't researched your position: Then I should be baffled by a fitting explanation of that position by you.
Yes just write it down in your own words and lets see where it leads us. Smiley

Ok so I would love to talk with you about this it is one of my favorite topics but before we move onto a new topic i need to make sure that the previous one is settled. Do you believe that i have made a convincing argument for how your previous statement with regards to whether libertarians believe that property ownership must be justified was incorrect? Not meaning anything rude by it, i often myself find that i have said things that are incorrect, i just want to be clear.

As previously said, I often read from the Libertarian standpoint that property supposed to be either a) natural or b) a "god-given" right or a mixture of both.
Analogies like "two people can't eat the same apple" are used.

When it comes down to it I have seen no proper justification for the authority to claim property at all. What I often see is muddling property with consumption (which is justified by need).
I have not seen any proper justification for the authority over ownership of land for instance, you might start with that if you don't know where to start. If you know better it's fine if you start somewhere else.

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This is perfect. Unfortunately this sort of rhetorical trickery works on me far too often. This is more than anything where i need practice in my debating so thank you for providing me with a really good opportunity to practice what i need the most practice with.

In this comment you are moving the goalpost and pretending as if this new similarly worded but entirely different claim is exactly the same as the original claim. You are hoping that since the wording is so similar that i will not notice that the goal post has been moved. Often i do not notice and it is often my downfall (i have a bad memory), fortunately this time i have noticed  Grin.

Before you said:
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It takes a philosophy based on a simple principle (Authority must be justified) and exempts the concept of property from said principle.
Earlier you made the claim that libertarianism exempt property from the principal that authority must be justified.

In this comment you say:
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I have not seen any proper justification for the ownership of land for instance
this time you are saying that libertarians do not make proper justification for ownership. Notice that it does not matter whether the justification is proper. All that has to happen for your claim to be false is for them to attempt to make any sort of justification for the authority that flows from property ownership.

I even anticipated this and accounted for it in my previous comment here
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perhaps we are wrong about what does and does not justify acquisition, but your claim that we do not believe that property ownership must be justified is prima facie ridiculous

So now i ask the same thing that i asked in my previous comment again.
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Ok so I would love to talk with you about this it is one of my favorite topics but before we move onto a new topic i need to make sure that the previous one is settled. Do you believe that i have made a convincing argument for how your previous statement with regards to whether libertarians believe that property ownership must be justified was incorrect?

sorry for being so... mechanical about this. I learned a lot from debating with crumbs and mostly what i learned is that you have to be mechanical like this or you will never get anywhere  Grin
4384  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Illuminati JPM Chase makes move to kill BTC on: December 11, 2013, 12:16:38 AM
This is awesome! bitcoin has opened the flood gates for a competitive market in privately issued currency. as evil as we all know JPM is i for one welcome additional competition! may the best crypto win.
4385  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: hello i have 100 usd to invest on: December 10, 2013, 11:56:59 PM
If you want to gamble i would go with NXT. Its still closed source right now but if he releases the source code and its legit than the value will prob go through the roof relative to what people are willing to invest in a closed source project. Good gabling opportunity.

if you arnt looking to take a huge gable than what are you doing with altcoins?
4386  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I am pretty confident we are the new wealthy elite, gentlemen. on: December 10, 2013, 11:49:54 PM
http://astrohacker.com/ahc/bitcoin-is-the-economic-singularity/

After reading this, the scale of black market and digital economies and the effect Bitcoin will have on them I am pretty certain we are going to be very wealthy men -- even with a sum as small as 10 Bitcoins. It's just so hard to believe. We are only in the beginning storms with these significant rallies from 10 to 20 dollars. I will not be surprised to see prices from hundreds to thousands in the coming months.

The world just isn't going to be the same and we have been blessed as the pioneers.

What are you going to do with your Bitcoin wealth once your coins hit upwards of $10,000 a pop?
But what can you do.
stop making the same mistakes more than once?
4387  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Libertarians and gun rights activits here is how the rest of the world sees you on: December 10, 2013, 09:49:01 PM
Libertarianism is the bastardization of Anarchism. It takes a philosophy based on a simple principle (Authority must be justified) and exempts the concept of property from said principle.

Elwar gets bonus godwin points.

what??? perhaps we are wrong about what does and does not justify acquisition, but your claim that we do not believe that property ownership must be justified is prima facie ridiculous. we are CONSTANTLY debating ad nausium amongst each other about what does and does not justify acquisition. If you actually believe that we do not believe that property ownership must be justified than you clearly have made very little effort to understand our position.


tip: Ownership can't be justified with a circular argument - as such not by any term used in describing capitalism.

But lets assume you are right and I haven't researched your position: Then I should be baffled by a fitting explanation of that position by you.
Yes just write it down in your own words and lets see where it leads us. Smiley


Ok so I would love to talk with you about this it is one of my favorite topics but before we move onto a new topic i need to make sure that the previous one is settled. Do you believe that i have made a convincing argument for how your previous statement with regards to whether libertarians believe that property ownership must be justified was incorrect? Not meaning anything rude by it, i often myself find that i have said things that are incorrect, i just want to be clear.
4388  Economy / Speculation / Re: The Bounce is Official on: December 10, 2013, 05:59:15 PM
Two words:  low volume.
Now that might change but until it does it doesn't show any conviction in the reversal.
I don't quite buy the low volume argument (whatever it may indicate for future price movements).
http://data.bitcoinity.org/#caaaaddgaa
Yesterday there was quite a bit of volume, in particular on btcchina. Not as much as in the last few days during the crash, but more than last month's average.

thats what i was thinking. if the price action was following a different market than there would be an objective quantified number that you are trying to reach therefor there wouldnt be any disagreement among bulls and bears in the trailing market, no debate about whether the price should be higher or lower. That would lead one to expect low volume. I think this is what we saw, mtgox was trailing btcchina and on btcchina we have very normal volume.
4389  Economy / Speculation / Re: Invest or not invest into crypto currency? here is the question on: December 10, 2013, 12:54:03 AM
i cant tell you whether you should buy something or not. what i can say is that its very strange that you would be more willing to buy at 1200 and now that the price is cheaper you are less willing to buy in because the price is cheaper. thats very strange and very backward.

It shows that you are focusing on technicals rather than fundamentals and other information in this post indicates that you know very little about trading technicals. Unless you are a very experienced investor than you need to focus on fundamentals. Buy things that are fundamentally undervalued and hold as long as it takes until they become fairly valued. Also diversify because sometimes things wont pan out.
4390  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2013-12-10] Bitcoin mentioned on The Simpsons on: December 10, 2013, 12:28:05 AM
only crusty could do poorly in the bitcoin market  Grin
4391  Economy / Marketplace / Re: Why are you not selling stuff on Bitcoin Classifieds? on: December 10, 2013, 12:11:10 AM
very nice!

how do i limit it down to only things in my area?

is there any sort of reputation system?

any plans to try to pick up where bitmit left off? we really need a new bitmit and coingig is buggy.
4392  Economy / Economics / Re: Can Bitcoin replace the dollar? on: December 09, 2013, 11:33:08 PM
these tired arguments have been debunked so many times. but you know that dont you. you arnt here to have an open minded discussion. you are here to spread fud. ignored.
4393  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How long would it take for Anarchy to start working? on: December 09, 2013, 10:49:21 PM
Regarding my answer to an argument of practicality vs morality, I think I have already given an answer in one of my previous posts.  In my opinion, we shouldn't apply ethics framework to governments or states, that is, we shouldn't measure them by moral standards, but rather stick to effectiveness or expedience criteria...

without moral standards you have no criteria by which to judge what is and is not effective. should a government protect people from harm? if so than arnt you making the claim that people shouldnt be harmed? if so than why shouldnt people be harmed?
4394  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Libertarians and gun rights activits here is how the rest of the world sees you on: December 09, 2013, 10:40:36 PM
Libertarianism is the bastardization of Anarchism. It takes a philosophy based on a simple principle (Authority must be justified) and exempts the concept of property from said principle.

Elwar gets bonus godwin points.

what??? perhaps we are wrong about what does and does not justify acquisition, but your claim that we do not believe that property ownership must be justified is prima facie ridiculous. we are CONSTANTLY debating ad nausium amongst each other about what does and does not justify acquisition. If you actually believe that we do not believe that property ownership must be justified than you clearly have made very little effort to understand our position.
4395  Economy / Speculation / Re: The Bounce is Official on: December 09, 2013, 10:12:54 PM
not trusting the exchanges with too much of their money at one time, they will take advantage of this time to continue to cash out.

this is a good incite. i hadn't thought about it that way.
4396  Economy / Speculation / Re: The Bounce is Official on: December 09, 2013, 09:57:15 PM
that is my impression also. new highs on the horizon.
4397  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: I have 7k and I don't know where to spend it. on: December 09, 2013, 09:50:37 PM
localbitcoins.com
4398  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How long would it take for Anarchy to start working? on: December 08, 2013, 11:33:46 PM
Why should I adjust, or rather, why minority should adjust in the first place? If we have to, then it is not much different what state actually does. Are you still missing my point?

No, I understand your point: both anarchism and the state are forms of government.  I think we've established this point already.  Can you address the point about the state being involuntary and anarchism being voluntary, please?

I don't quite understand what you mean here by the state being involuntary and anarchism being voluntary. If you point is that the minority would walk away somewhere if they disagree with the majority, I don't think this relocation will be by their free will and accord. Actually, they will be coerced to do so by the majority. It happens daily in life even without state and its laws. But exactly the introduction of state in the form of the law allows to break this otherwise circular argument...

You are describing panarchism not anarchism. Also most anarchists are pro law, we imagine a society that has plenty of laws. We just imagine that those laws are provided in a competitive marketplace so that they can improve with time for the same reason that microprocessors get faster every year and cars get better gas mileage every year. So if you dont like the laws that you are presently governed by than you dont have to move away, you just change service providers.
4399  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: solution to scalability? storing hashes in blockchain instead of transactions. on: December 08, 2013, 07:09:50 PM
What if instead of storing transactions in the blockchain we stored hashes of transactions and the owner of the coins stored the record of transaction history associates with those coins instead of the blockchain. Then the recipient could just check the transaction record against the blockchain to verify that the coins had not been double-spent.

So the record in the blockchain would have a couple of parts. it would need to record a signature for the address of each input to insure that you didnt use the same inputs for two different transactions and it would need to have a hash of the transaction so the recipient would know that it was payed to him instead of someone else.

One concern i think would be the question of fungibility since some coins would require more hard drive space to store than others but i was thinking that you would only need to reference previous transactions far enough back that the total spent on transaction fees exceeded the balance being payed with some allowances for the fact that the producer could be a big shot miner or stake holder or insert similar proof scheme here. Meaning that yea some coins would be more desirable than others but only to a point and the storage requirements would never get too out of hand.

So then my final questions would be: Is this possible? if so would it actually save space in the blockchain? if so how much?

This would completely centralize the whole system, defeating the point ^^

how so? Its just the same as bitcoin except instead of forcing everyone in the world to store your transactions, YOU store your transactions. The blockchain would still be just as decentralized and if im imagining it correctly than the people who store their transaction histories wouldnt have any way to cheat the system.
4400  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / deleted on: December 08, 2013, 07:00:15 PM
this was all wrong ignore this
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