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I hate Ayn Rand period
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

"... I hate Ayn Rand but this frequently cited fact -- that she took social security payments -- is often cited to allegedly prove her hypocrisy. But her argument was, the government stole from her, so she was justified in recouping some of the stolen money by filling out the paperwork etc. Her logic makes sense to me given her ideas so I don't think it was hypocritical, even if wrong. Also more broadly, should outgroups steal from one another? The best argument I see in favor is they are dangerous outgroups, so harm them to protect you and yours. The best argument I see against is the more one interacts with someone (even to inflict damage), the more one (if one is goodhearted? prosocial?) starts to empathize with that individual and wants to help them recondition rather than continue to harm. Thoughts? To tie it into cypherpunks just use as examples warring factions/tribes in the hacktivism/transparency landscape..." It may not be the strongest argument against her - but hey - they got Al Capone for spitting on the sidewalk. As to the second point - I was just reading Orwell's experience being unable to shoot a fascist with his pants down. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-ot… I like to think those days of ' Marquis of Queensbury ' rules are long gone. However sometimes I acquire a grudging respect for an opponent. Probably cos no ideology has a monopoly on wisdom.

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Like farting in church
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Louder the better Bitcoin is back above $50,000 again, but its rate of growth will be eclipsed by other tokens, eventually rendering it obsolete, the founder of Avalanche says News Nation USA Bitcoin is going to be “eclipsed” by other systems, Emin Gün Sirer, the CEO of Ava Labs told Insider. Value is “leaking out of bitcoin”

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Hacker steals government ID database
by zeynepaydogan 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

https://therecord.media/?p=8167 Sent from ProtonMail for iOS

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Science News Magazine: An atomic clock measured how general relativity warps time across a millimeter
by jim bell 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Science News Magazine: An atomic clock measured how general relativity warps time across a millimeter. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/atomic-clock-general-relativity-time-wa… Jim Bell's comment: Who really knows what time it is? https://youtu.be/7uy0ldI_1HA

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FBI move in on Batshit-Crazy
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-russian-tycoon-next-door-putin-… Putin ally is tied to one of D.C.’s swankiest mansions

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Bitcoin is the catalyst - not the product
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

https://newsnationusa.com/news/finance/banking/bitcoin-is-back-above-50000-…

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Peter Thiel's cocksucker blues
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

https://theworld.com/~mhuben/mason.html The Economics department of George Mason University has been strongly shaped by tens of millions of dollars of donations by the libertarian Koch Foundations of the billionaire Koch brothers

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German chancellor protests Austrian fascism
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Michael Burleigh called Adolph Hitlers complaint about Dolfuss, " a rare case of Hitler taking the moral high ground ". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Dollfuss Hayek was beaten like a drum by Keynes before completely disgracing himself in Latin America. He's like the Donald Trump of economics. https://crookedtimber.org/2013/06/25/the-hayek-pinochet-connection-a-second…

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Anarchism works in practice . . .
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

But it will never work in libertarian theory. https://web.archive.org/web/20140403012916/http://www.finney.org/~hal/ Politics Unlike many early Cypherpunks, I never viewed cryptography as a gateway to a libertarian society .. ." https://libcom.org/library/collectives-spanish-revolution-gaston-leval

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Austrian economics considered harmful
by professor rat 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

In practice this discredited and bankrupt form of quack economics has aided Dolfuss style fascism in Austria ( Mises ) and Pinochet in Chile ( Hayek ) Murray Rothbard told these idiots they could never be anarchists https://mises.org/library/are-libertarians-anarchists They are as deaf as the are dumb. Austro-libertarian Kochsucker economics OR crypto-anarchy. Choose one.

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