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by thisiswrong 13y ago
By reading the top comments here it feels like Cameron's fascist gvt also has a "super flagger" up-voting status on HN. I mean come on, it feels like I'm on Reddit [1] all over again. Only a sock puppet [2] would say thi
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> In the US, at least, a bank would have a very hard time doing something this irresponsible. Did you completely miss out the part where Goldman Sachs drafted gvt regulation to its advantage and conducted insider market manipulation that
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
This article lacks so much information that it could just be said in one Tweet. Are the 'reporters' at Bloomberg so scared to attempt getting into the technical details ? A big of tech-insight would have been a nice read. It'
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
The Google search monopoly - such a flawed system. Its 'secret' search algorithms are gamed by insiders and blackhats alike. Competitors now attack each other by building bad links & pointing them at whichever site they choose
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Are you serious? Why would you even say that? People like you are the problem. Linking to something, just like talking about something, is protected in most countries by free speech. The simple fact that this journalist was arrested is disg
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Actualy, the NSA - just like the CIA, is known to carry out false flag acttacks to achieve a certain outcome. This point should not be overlooked. In this case Meetup is a perfect NSA 'false-flag' target because it's not a fi
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> Saddam Hussein faced the consequences of law too Rather - Saddam Hussein faced the consequences of trying to sell his country's oil in something else than the dollar [1]. As did Gaddafi [2]. [1] http://www.theguardian.c
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
You are very detached from reality if you think the mainstream media is here to inform (rather than dis-inform) the people.
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Why would they need to do that? The mainstream media's role is to make people politically apathetic and scared of terrorists™.
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> Should there be the same laws kick in if they drive the price up, by say, adding fake orders on their exchange? I don't even think that should be illegal. I strongly agree, and I do believe that there's price manipulation goi
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Maybe because the french encourage healthy competition [1] rather than US-style 'free-market' monopolies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Comcast... [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/business&#x2F
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> The median position of a bunch of half-informed individuals plied with advertising is not something I have a lot of confidence in. And here lies the problem. In the US the 1% actively disinforms the 99% through media manipulation and
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> When there are conflicts between people we need to somehow resolve them, and a systematized way of doing that is called government. Certain governments seem to making, not resolving conflicts between people. And they purposefully make
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> How would you even express babysitting or lawnmower-borrowing as a program? What if all you needed to do was sent x btc to 13cyfKGfbyyuyiJVLj8S1QZ34x281X1neh which would trigger a lawnmower algorithm [1] to scan all available wifi conn
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Andreas is an impressive character. Only by listening to him speak will you understand the passion [1] and potential this guy has. He is well versed and articulate and has a background in distributed systems. Like some of us here he once w
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> Even if they don't happen to take place in the richest nations on earth. Germany 1930s - hyperinflation; Argentina 1990s - hyperinflation; USA 2010s - quantitative easing. These can also be real problems even for the richest natio
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
"Allow for some non-intrusive advertising" This is what scared me about Add Block by default on browsers. Essentially what's happening is the monopolies (Google & FB) get to keep their profitable business models while all
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Really? Don't you see the Trojan horse here? I tend to feel that this is a European version of FISA 'improvement' act. Merkel and Holland are politicians of a special kind. Politicians & their intelligence thugs caught in
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> China kicking out Google doesn't seems so crazy now. The American government is a worldwide aggressor that cannot be restrained. You're touching on something here. What you're saying is that Google = American government
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Wow this makes a lot of sense. I personally believe that this is yet again another one of BTC's large dips that will eventually recover onto it's upwards path. But then if people panic and see how hard it is to get back into fiat
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> If it goes down, I'll say "GREAT. Now's the chance for reddit and twitter and G+ and others". You cheer on centralized corporate systems that have business models based on censorship, vote manipulations, surveillanc
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Correct. Hence the higher USD price of BTC on MtGox. The extra price represents the opportunity cost of having to wait 3 months to withdraw fiat. Simply said: ''I'll only sell my BTC on Gox if i get more than on Bitstamp - be
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
And thank the lord that governments like those of the UK don't already send out unlawful extrajudicial domain termination requests to registrars. Thank god systems like NameCoin and P2P distributed websites are not being developed as w
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
>Right now, connections to the web look like a tree, where a whole bunch of connections get funneled through an ISP This is very true. More so if you look at countries like the UK where ISPs have recently been consolidated into MAFIAA-co
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
This is why it's time for a post-Google internet. No matter what you say about copyright, crucial videos like these are of high public interest and must be available to all individuals. Sadly the state of our current internet allows po
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
Sure you did. Keep on telling that to yourself buddy. Meanwhile we'll stick to reality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
While you provide some solid arguments, I feel that you are overlooking certain key elements. I myself feel that the likelihood of Argentina switching to BTC after its upcoming financial collapse is quite low. However I feel that certain ni
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
You tell me!? The USD is being deflated like crazy & prone to collapse anytime soon [1]. While Bitcoin has seen 1000% annual increases. [1] http://mises.ca/posts/blog/murdoch-tweets-about-money-printi...
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
This time round things could be very different. Remember how the Cyprus savings confiscations in 2013 provoked a previously unseen rally on bitcoin [1]. When Argentina's financial system implodes a significant part of the economy could
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by thisiswrong 13y ago
> It is time for a reboot, this time with much more focus on security. Here's a helping hand for those that don't know where to start: http://prism-break.org/

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