felipeko

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by felipeko 3y ago
Yet most patented inventions are pretty obvious on how to copy without the need to look at the patent, same with this case. So we have no benefit of "open access to the mechanism" but with the deleterious effect of the "tempo
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by felipeko 5y ago
It is a good thing to be encouraged to saving instead of spending. No one needs incentive to spend. You will spend if you have plenty to spend. Having a currency which gains in value will take you there.
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by felipeko 5y ago
They can make this difference disappear by accepting bitcoin then.
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by felipeko 5y ago
There's no "could be" here. Not wanting to go to jail is a subjective preference. That most people prefer the same thing, does not make value objective. If it did, Bitcoin would also have "objective value" from it
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by felipeko 5y ago
Value is always and everywhere a subjective phenomenon.
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by felipeko 6y ago
Value is subjective. For me, Bitcoin has value because it can't be inflated, and I can carry it on my head over any country's frontier without governments harassing me because of it. Sure, Bitcoin is a means to an end, I can only
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by felipeko 6y ago
Yes, that is my understanding. But I'm asking in the case of naked short, which is what is being defended as "superior system" in this thread.
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by felipeko 6y ago
But it will make it more expensive than otherwise to raise capital. That can make or break any company.
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by felipeko 6y ago
And what happens in the shareholder meeting? Would the previous majority shareholder group lose their majority even if they had sold no shares? Or would the new majority shareholders have no decision making power even though they have more
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by felipeko 6y ago
Exactly. It is understandable that having an model of an observer can be useful to a brain. But how/why does that opens a window to an actual observer, and not just a model, is the question. And we only know that - an actual observer e
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by felipeko 6y ago
By inner experience, we mean that there's a subject which gets to have perception of such models. There's no need for such subject to exist. For example, most people assume that, so far, computers do not have any inner experience.
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by felipeko 6y ago
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I am anarcho-capitalist, and I have no trouble being absolutist about freedom of speech inside one's own property. So there's that.
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by felipeko 6y ago
There's nothing intrinsically superior to either SCOTUS or any group or organization's interpretation. I'm pretty sure you are able to interpret it as not allowing even in the worst and most extreme cases, you just don't
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by felipeko 6y ago
Is allowed under some interpretation of the first amendment. It is not allowed by the first amendement per se.
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by felipeko 6y ago
I don't think the Brazilian government has this responsibility as it is the most at fault for Brazil's lacking free market. Maybe when it becomes a champion on that, removing barriers of entry, protectionism, subsidies and it&#x27
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by felipeko 6y ago
I'm not denying that it is harder to fake a death than to just order a hit. But if he had a dead man's switch, it could be worth the cost. And with how unusual the whole 'suicide' was, accepting the official story at fac
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by felipeko 7y ago
I don't see what is the point of your criticism. Either the epistemological grounds of Austrian economics is correct or it is not. It should not matter what austrians feel about central banking.
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by felipeko 7y ago
You can predict trends, not laws, using large groups observation. Austrians would not deny that. Trends are not a useful tool for economic policy, are only good tools for entrepreneurship.
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by felipeko 7y ago
I may be way of my field here, but my understanding is that the whole point of the Austrian school is that human behavior is (purposeful, but) unpredictable. This is a testable claim, and you can bother to observe, experiment and test this
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by felipeko 7y ago
If you are expecting a currency crisis, the best asset to buy may be gold. And people having been buying it a lot lately.
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by felipeko 7y ago
A functional government? Does this even exist?
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by felipeko 7y ago
Privately owned courts do not have the institutional force of the state, their decision is as strong as their reputation.
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by felipeko 7y ago
Only if the billionaires don't spend, invest or hold it in a bank. Any of the three, it will go back to the market and result in inflation.
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by felipeko 7y ago
I make "no perfect market" or "perfect information" assumption. I am pretty confident that people will take stupid risks, as I am confident that people who want to be safe - buying from reputable sources - will be able t
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by felipeko 7y ago
The other drug market has fewer people selling than otherwise, at a higher price (for the quality) than otherwise. I'm not sure how you are able to the opposite conclusion.
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by felipeko 7y ago
Your tone seems very uncalled for. All I am arguing is that if you prosecute people from selling drugs, or make more regulations, fewer people will sell drugs - at a higher price. It shouldn't matter people are cunts, if they have comp
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by felipeko 7y ago
As far as I am concerned, the problem is not with people who make drugs and want to profit from it, but with people who regulate competition away. If people weren't prohibited from buying whatever the drug they want at their own risk,
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by felipeko 7y ago
There's Anarchism as the social/economical/political movement and then there's anarchism as the greek word for "no leader/government"... Anarcho-capitalism is not a type of the former, but it is a type of
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by felipeko 7y ago
The libertarian type of anarchism is called anarcho-capitalism. It's based on property rights and the non aggression principle.
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by felipeko 8y ago
You should be able to answer things about it: Is it a fundamental or emergent property of the universe? What is the smallest/biggest structure possible for a consciousness to happen? (we should be able to tell what is conscious and wha

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