A Heroin Store
ShadowOfHarbringer:
Quote from: FatherMcGruder on December 08, 2010, 10:31:15 PM
I wasn't really talking about your circumstances specifically. My point is, and I recognize that we've gone well off topic, that an addict's problem isn't necessarily the addiction itself, but rather the cost of his addiction. Therefore, it's kind of unfair to compare an addiction to a video game to that of a narcotic. I would guess that a decent heroin addiction in the United States might cost an addict at least hundreds of dollars a month just on the drug itself. Now add the cost of neglecting obligations and the risks of consuming tainted product or getting pinched. I can't imagine that any video game addiction would entail similar costs.
/pedant
Yeah you're right - when taking into account all costs of heroin addiction, including non-money costs such as health problems, family problems, social problems, then heroin has waaaay higher costs than anything else (but actually only because it is illegal & unclean/tainted).
casascius:
Someone much earlier in the thread mentioned geocaching as a way to execute a trade.
I thought of another way. There's this group of people who do this thing called "geohashing" (google it). Basically they take a hash of the date plus some figure not known until that day (in their case, they use MD5 and the NYSE closing price) and compute a lat/long with it. And they meet up (whenever possible) at that place.
Something like this - merely the idea of a pseudorandomly selected meeting place - could make a trading system viable, nobody would need to go to any known specific place... (that is, after the algorithm being refined so it chooses places people can actually go inconspicuously, rather than in the middle of some farmer's field).
Further, it could be arranged so that the pseudorandom location generator had some sort of duress input, whereby a drug user turned informant by force could simply give a duress input that would break the function of the algorithm and leave the cops showing up to a random place all alone...
Just random ideas, I don't see them as viable all by themselves without major refinement
FatherMcGruder:
Quote from: casascius on December 17, 2010, 12:21:39 AM
Someone much earlier in the thread mentioned geocaching as a way to execute a trade.
I thought of another way. There's this group of people who do this thing called "geohashing" (google it). Basically they take a hash of the date plus some figure not known until that day (in their case, they use MD5 and the NYSE closing price) and compute a lat/long with it. And they meet up (whenever possible) at that place.
Something like this - merely the idea of a pseudorandomly selected meeting place - could make a trading system viable, nobody would need to go to any known specific place... (that is, after the algorithm being refined so it chooses places people can actually go inconspicuously, rather than in the middle of some farmer's field).
Further, it could be arranged so that the pseudorandom location generator had some sort of duress input, whereby a drug user turned informant by force could simply give a duress input that would break the function of the algorithm and leave the cops showing up to a random place all alone...
Just random ideas, I don't see them as viable all by themselves without major refinement
http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page
acrylicist:
Quote from: casascius on December 17, 2010, 12:21:39 AM
Someone much earlier in the thread mentioned geocaching as a way to execute a trade.
I thought of another way. There's this group of people who do this thing called "geohashing" (google it). Basically they take a hash of the date plus some figure not known until that day (in their case, they use MD5 and the NYSE closing price) and compute a lat/long with it. And they meet up (whenever possible) at that place.
Something like this - merely the idea of a pseudorandomly selected meeting place - could make a trading system viable, nobody would need to go to any known specific place... (that is, after the algorithm being refined so it chooses places people can actually go inconspicuously, rather than in the middle of some farmer's field).
Further, it could be arranged so that the pseudorandom location generator had some sort of duress input, whereby a drug user turned informant by force could simply give a duress input that would break the function of the algorithm and leave the cops showing up to a random place all alone...
Just random ideas, I don't see them as viable all by themselves without major refinement
You'd have to hire mules to make deliveries to locations and dozens of red herring mules to wonder around the city randomly to default surveillance. It would be quite effective and have a even stranger side effect of spreading out the potential area that law enforcement would need to monitor. No more "drug districts." Now search and replace "heroin" with "resistance orders" and now you've got a courier system for a revolution.
How soon will it be before its illegal to own a GPS? ;D
Nefario:
Very interesting thread. I was thinking bitcoin and geocaching would be useful for drug crops futures contracts. The contract would say which country it will be in, and once the date for delivery of the crop has arrived the contract owner would receive the gps location (probably berried in the desert or in a forest). This would be useful for wholesale of the product with the last mile covered by the dealer friend network. It would also make it easier for planning production of the drugs.
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