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The government. That's your own example! But as I noted earlier, the Nazis were the legitimate government of Germany and had broad popular support for...
December 29, 2017 at 01:29
Taxation is theft. If a street gang said, "Give us 30% of your income and we'll protect you from the other gangs," that's a crime. But when the govern...
December 29, 2017 at 01:02
Nothing pejorative intended. Just noted some of your previous comments. I do agree that Marx identified many of the problems of late stage capitalism ...
December 28, 2017 at 23:18
I think that's confusing the map with the territory. Time, whatever it is, just is. The modeling of time via mathematics requires a variable often lab...
December 28, 2017 at 22:17
On the contrary. Everything the Nazis did was strictly according to the law. Of course the law itself became corrupt. Perhaps that's what you meant. B...
December 28, 2017 at 22:00
(double post)
December 28, 2017 at 02:09
Marx? Perhaps we'd have to agree to disagree. Marxism has been a disaster everywhere it's been tried. Seen Venezuela lately? I'm not thinking of the s...
December 28, 2017 at 02:06
If it worked out that way in practice I might not be so opposed to the idea. But those tax revenues will end up in the hands of government bureaucrats...
December 28, 2017 at 01:54
Now that I can agree with. One of the recent trends is "assortative mating," in which upscale professionals mate and create privileged offspring. We h...
December 28, 2017 at 00:30
Isn't that assumption open to question? You are saying that in school, the kid that works hard, studies every night, forms study groups with his or he...
December 27, 2017 at 21:46
It gives physics a much worse name. There are people who take this idea seriously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse Right ... and the clone is...
December 27, 2017 at 07:02
That's an example of two different names for the same thing. But under the assumption of the multiverse, these are two distinct, separate universes co...
December 27, 2017 at 04:38
LOL! I think I'll join you.
December 27, 2017 at 02:41
Well if they're two humans then they're not one human. So your statement's a bit unclear. If a human is cloned, that results in two different people w...
December 27, 2017 at 02:37
Dude you're losing it. Again. I made no observation. I tossed out a casual example of the kind of specific example OP might be thinking of.
December 26, 2017 at 21:26
OP said nothing about that. You're tilting at a windmill where there's no windmill. You want to argue with me about a thesis I haven't put forth.
December 26, 2017 at 21:10
You are trying too hard to make something out of a very loose point that I tossed out as an illustration of the kind of example the OP might consider....
December 26, 2017 at 21:04
DNA perhaps. Although you could say that DNA is more like a programming language so that's not a great example. The analogy I'm trying to get at is th...
December 26, 2017 at 21:02
It's impossible for me to respond to a comment that's so far from anything I said that it appears to be directed at someone or something else. I have ...
December 26, 2017 at 01:51
Can you explain what I'm missing about the basic operation of a traffic light?
December 26, 2017 at 00:57
You're right, it wasn't that recent. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. Twelve pages worth starting here. Although to be fair, OP's ...
December 26, 2017 at 00:11
Didn't we beat this story to death in another recent thread? In any event, you would be two different people. It's no different than running the Chrom...
December 25, 2017 at 22:58
Perhaps you can give a specific example of what you mean by your question. What do you mean by every outcome being realized? A traffic light realizes ...
December 25, 2017 at 21:58
"Bitcoin futures are financially-settled and therefore do not involve the exchange of bitcoin." http://www.cmegroup.com/education/cme-bitcoin-futures-...
December 24, 2017 at 08:03
I get that you are interested in this. I just don't follow your reasoning. I don't know enough about the compression theorem to have any opinion at al...
December 24, 2017 at 06:24
That wasn't much of a thread. In it you said, "I'm probably spouting nonsense." It didn't seem to get any better from there. I'm not being harsh, ther...
December 24, 2017 at 06:11
You are saying that emergence has some connection to the compression theorem? I'm afraid I don't understand that. Explanation please? In any event, em...
December 24, 2017 at 05:50
The futures are cash-settled. No bitcoins trade hands in the futures market. The futures are simply bets on the price of bitcoin.
December 23, 2017 at 20:25
How about defining intrinsic value as value that's not derived from common agreement. Food, for example. The value of food does not depend on people b...
December 22, 2017 at 08:21
I'm no specialist in these things. I was pretty good at set theory but logic made my eyes glaze. I recall the compacness theorem says that if every fi...
December 22, 2017 at 05:50
It's a tree. To pick a familiar example, take set theory ZF. This is Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, the standard basic set theory used in modern math. T...
December 22, 2017 at 01:05
More blockchain philosophy. While bitcoin is not by any means a traditional corporate entity with earning statements and a board of directors, it coul...
December 21, 2017 at 03:28
On the one hand, the luckiest people are those who love their work. On the other hand, why make work out of the thing you love? I'm always reminded of...
December 21, 2017 at 02:56
Read some Jung. Collective unconscious perhaps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious. Or maybe not. Not sure how Jung relates to the c...
December 21, 2017 at 02:51
Yes I agree with your dystopian vision. This reminds me of the Chinese social credit system. Just like you have a credit score, Chinese citizens will ...
December 19, 2017 at 23:36
Even in the best of times it can take at least ten minutes to confirm a transaction because the system creates a new block of transactions only once e...
December 19, 2017 at 04:16
I read that people are putting mining rigs in their cars and parking them at electric vehicle charging stations! Anywhere there's free or cheap electr...
December 18, 2017 at 02:26
The crypto world is full of surprises and delights. I just ran across Primecoin, trading symbol XPM. Their mining operation involves finding new Cunni...
December 17, 2017 at 07:20
I'll be watching. Actually everything I know about the subject I learned from Scott Aronson's blog and his periodic debunkings of D-Wave. My understan...
December 16, 2017 at 19:47
Couldn't agree more. That is the counterargument. The evil banksters who have run the world since the beginning of civilization will continue to do so...
December 15, 2017 at 05:36
OMG I finally got approved at Coinbase. I gave up on them last week when they told me they could not possibly verify my account. I've spent about a we...
December 14, 2017 at 05:15
The key concept is distributed trust. Consider our conversation. How do you know that I'm me from day to day, and how do I know that you're you? We bo...
December 13, 2017 at 21:33
What do you say to my example of a car staying in the same place overnight? In your quote above, you ask me to consider a closed system. No change in ...
December 13, 2017 at 20:17
Interesting point in the light of physics and math. Imagine a particle that moves according to the rule f(t) = 0. At every instant of time, it's at po...
December 13, 2017 at 08:11
I find the entire space hugely interesting. The price action of bitcoin is all the public knows about. It's a tremendous distraction. Distributed ledg...
December 13, 2017 at 05:40
The reports are of alien origin? You mean the aliens send us reports that there are aliens, but there aren't really aliens? Exactly what I suspected. ...
December 11, 2017 at 23:27
Back to Zeno. At any particular instant the arrow is at rest. How then can it move? I agree with you that the mathematical continuum is not an accurat...
December 11, 2017 at 22:40
I gave up on Coinbase and I'm stuck for days in Gemini's approval process. I'm going to try Cex next. So in the end I'll have to give my personal info...
December 11, 2017 at 00:42
Bitcoin FUTURES will be traded. These will be "cash-settled" futures, meaning that no bitcoin are harmed in the making of this motion picture. No bitc...
December 10, 2017 at 18:43