fredBuddemeyer

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by fredBuddemeyer 13y ago
any way you slice it people are going to die and make grave errors. but open transactions between researchers and free human beings would have drugs evolving much faster than unaccountable and corruptible overlords. reputation systems could
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by fredBuddemeyer 13y ago
willfully stupid is a perfect description - of your government. had you opened the process to any kind of competitive process you would find your coffers filled. i did this work ages ago and paid several hundred dollars just for the right
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by fredBuddemeyer 13y ago
exercising choice is exercising freedom. pleading for rights from entities that have seized them without your consent is truly depressing because it is hopeless.
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by fredBuddemeyer 13y ago
its a very bad thing that bitcoin is subject to government control. very quickly it will be used to tax and arm in order to .. tax and arm and its potential to break that loop will be lost.
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by fredBuddemeyer 13y ago
moralism is irrelevant in the face of producing simple intelligence. bet on it, prohibition is futile. it can serve good as well.
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by fredBuddemeyer 13y ago
arrington needs friends in silicon valley a lot more than he needs your clicks. whatever you think of the man this is an honest and indignant post and it's an example of the courage he speaks of. it is fascinating that this concept is
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by fredBuddemeyer 13y ago
because participating in a hopelessly corrupted system is demoralizing. "activism" brings at the very best a delay followed by a shady deal as soon as your back is turned. viva btc
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Coping w/Mt Gox's false BTC price(littlebiggy.org)
1 points by fredBuddemeyer 13y ago|0 comments
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
inspiration produces better everything (software) than lucre but if you wanna talk $ rewards its obvious theres a mass market for privacy developing.
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
the best part will be enforcement; each state can create an air force to protect us from such potential threats.
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
perhaps but the real prize for an authoritarian is just this kind of fear.
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
and when we wake up we go nuclear on innocents step 1 fear mongering like this step 2 an attack that makes good headlines step 3 legislation requiring registration of computers (pick a means)
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
if a politician can be described in such terms at the end of a career (in no less a house of "compromise" than the us congress) his accomplishments are not over.
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
does anyone have any ideas on what we could do to help this person?
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
by fighting the war on drugs these traitors are advancing terrorism! by countering terrorsim these scoundrels divert precious resources from the the nation's war on drugs! whats needed is another agency to resolve this conflict.
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
perhaps paul's intuition is right - there is something wrong here. certainly real world business success is not so binary as this. if there is a 500 pound supposition in the room it's liquidity. if the only way an investor can achieve it i
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
i must wonder how many here realize what the aspirations of an ipo or even a corporate investment mean in this age. so many of us are working for what we disdain - without even realizing it. yet we are the same people that can make the most
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
naturally cuban thinks baiting suckers is a winning tactic, it describes his own success at taking yahoo's billion dollars for a company that didn't really exist. but note it also describes his string of tech failures ever since.
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
if you're trying to help this guy tell him what your browser, os, and screen resolution are. if you're trying to stifle those that would make contributions to this community then keep doing what you are doing.
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
0 marginal cost goods and organized, free labor test the foundations of capitalism and necessitate the development of new institutions. this project adresses both of these - and the economic possibilities of patronage/tipping. why the hell
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
millions of honest people around the world that have lost their savings when a fiat currency changed its valuation for political reasons. you do not need to be a zealot to appreciate any attempt to create a free currency; you simply need to
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
oh dear indeed. if you dont have the courage to even sign in, you never will know now will you? if instead you speculate and fear monger, well, then you are just what we are trying to counteract in this society; what you've expressed is exa
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
during the ows protests it dawned on me that citizens shouldn't camp outside of buildings hoping to influence those inside; they actually hold the money/power and just don't see it. so as a side project we made taxKilla to counteract the ro
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Show HN: taxKilla helps us turn the game around(taxkilla.org)
2 points by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago|3 comments
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by fredBuddemeyer 14y ago
is there any evidence that the loss of privacy is more than the gains we share from being open and sharing? is there any reason to believe that even such thoughtful posts about privacy will not look quaint and absurd in a couple of years? a
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by fredBuddemeyer 15y ago
its not just the pigs in animal farm that turned into the wicked rulers they ousted so justly; on many levels it is every group that ever successfully revolted. one of the earliest steps into the dark is using the tactics of the enemy. no
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by fredBuddemeyer 15y ago
historically true but coding is a much different pursuit than it was a generation ago. the population of programmers is changing from the legacy of i.t. department hermits towards people coding the internet as a means of self expression. as
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by fredBuddemeyer 15y ago
our companies bigredwire and littleBiggy are 100% remote worker based. the only person left in our office is the accountant who just seems to like it better. a cupla observations: set meeting times are a substitute for proximity. and audio
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by fredBuddemeyer 15y ago
selling a country's freedom? un-american? its hard to even conceive what on earth this means or how your consideration of what is american - or treason - means anything. and adidas is german.
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by fredBuddemeyer 15y ago
given two competing anythings the one that plays most aggressively wins in the short run (see ww2) but these tactics usually turn out to be short lived crutches. the path of user choice and openness (which starts with emptiness) is not goin

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