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Economy / Economics / Re: Why bitcoin isn't currency.
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on: November 18, 2013, 02:39:49 AM
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High IQ individuals tend to come across as arrogant.
There's no relationship between intelligence and social incompetence. Nor do you strike me as intelligent anyway. You remind me of kokjo, a confirmed autist, who often gets things wrong because he has presumed he is correct. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: How long would it take for Anarchy to start working?
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on: November 17, 2013, 07:12:05 PM
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Anarchy would never ever ever work. Human nature is not anarchical but hierarchical.
Ahh, the human nature fallacy...gotta love it  I follow Darwinism (aka Science) - so, logically, humans are a kind of animal and our behaviour is a consequence of genetics. I do not believe there is anything special about hierarchies, except as a description of one type of animal's social organization. But the test is survival, and it seems that people survive based on their ability to raise children, rather than the ideology they happen to prescribe to at arbitrary point in history (unless that ideology limits/improves their ability to pass on their genes) I would have to agree with you there; the animals which survive are those most adaptable, and humans aren't a whole lot if not the ultimate adapting creature. I just don't believe we should identify something humans are doing, e.g. killing for gain, as something within human nature, while something else humans are doing, e.g. acting out of free will, as something completely unnatural; it would seem to me, if humans are doing it, it is within the nature of humans to do so. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: How long till the end of the USDollar?
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on: November 17, 2013, 03:23:10 AM
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I can't find never in the poll, everyone is so pessimistic about USD?
Fiat currencies have never lasted through history before, why is the USD special? Because you use it? nothing in this universe has ever truly lasted anyway.. so the question is, how long have great empires lasted? the roman empire lasted 400+ years. america's been around since 1776 basically, but we haven't been the world superpower for more than 70 years. Yeah; the Romans had their own way of exploiting the currency, but that didn't last either  It's almost like people are raised in these bubbles where they're told America is this perfect place and nothing wrong could ever happen...but that'd be crazy. |
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Other / Meta / Re: Forum Category for Female Bitcoiners
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on: November 17, 2013, 01:29:00 AM
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There are lots of Local forums. Do you feel compelled to vet the Korean forum, to keep non-koreans out?
A women's sub-forum shouldn't imply "no men allowed" any more than the hebrew forum should imply "no gentiles".
Those are more so for geographical location and language, neither of which most of the folks here would understand. Let's not place women, over 50% of the population found in every parts of the world, in the same category as culture and language. Anyone who thinks women are alien in this way aren't very familiar with women on a deep level. |
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Other / Meta / Re: Forum Category for Female Bitcoiners
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on: November 17, 2013, 01:22:48 AM
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Aside from all that, I agree with flower, there's no need to make a women's category any more than there's a need to create a black category. I won't take "but it's different" for an answer I'm afraid  |
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Other / Meta / Re: Forum Category for Female Bitcoiners
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on: November 17, 2013, 12:28:49 AM
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There's just not enough women here to constitute an entire section for women; also, the last time a thread was started geared towards women, it was trolled to death by the usual riff-raff that have difficulties seeing women as people.
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: any free state project fans (or haters) here?
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on: November 17, 2013, 12:20:04 AM
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I'm reluctant to join, simply due to the fact that it's easy to cut off the head of a centralized source; the last thing I'd want to do is surround myself with other libertarians, I'd rather just put a giant red target on my back.
or could it be that separated, one is easily not noticed when gone? Possibly, but I'm not a very vocal libertarian IRL so it's doubtful I'm a target to anybody ATM The other possibilities are somewhere along the lines of meteorites hitting the earth and killing all governmentals, but not all of the people.
Naw; you can't kill an idea, it's completely dependent on society to shape their government. Left alone and without any advancement in rational thought, we would recreate the state in the belief we couldn't survive without it. |
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