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Reminds me of ashidakim[1], a website that works adds into Zen Koans:

The pupils of the Tendai school used to study meditation before Zen entered Japan. Four of them who were intimate friends promised one another to observe seven days of silence.

On the first day all were silent. Their meditation had begun auspiciously, but when night came and the oil lamps were growing dim one of the pupils could not help exclaiming to a servant: "Fix those lamps."

The second pupil was surprised to hear th first one talk. "We are not supposed to say a word," he remarked.

"You two are stupid. Why did you talk?" asked the third.

"I am the only one who has not talked," concluded the fourth pupil. It can be very difficult for people in Western culture to be silent. This is especially true for any person who talks for a living, such as a Columbus criminal defense attorney. Generally Westerners have a negative view towards silence, where members of Eastern cultures tend to embrace it.

[1]: http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/71learningtobesilent.html

I wonder how Amazon calculates decisions like not selling competitors hardware. Suppose a company that produced dish washers asked Amazon to stop selling their competitor's stuff. Surely Amazon would demand a lot of money for that. Likely more then it is worth to the dish washer company, since otherwise such deals would already have been made. But then how can it be a good decision for Amazon to refuse to sell it's own competitor's stuff? The loss in reputation is the same whether a customer doesn't find something from an Amazon competitor or something from a company that doesn't compete with Amazon.

If you want to have blue eyes, it helps a lot if your dad has blue eyes.

Hard to believe that any one who could credibly predict this would give it away, instead of making money with shorting Bitcoin.

Seems more plausible that this is itself something that's supposed to crash Bitcoin, so that the owner can make money selling it short. If it isn't, someone will hack it and ...

> intended to convince its user that he or she is journeying to the great beyond, he said.

wtf? nothing with suicide, but ...

yeah, sound money is not nearly 1% as important as getting from one place to another a little faster.

But how will they find out I lie?

Aviation causes a hundred times more greenhouse gas emissions then Bitcoin.[1] (And imagine how large you could make that look if you used "more then x countries" rhethoric.)

[1] https://medium.com/@cryptarchist/how-much-greenhouse-gas-emi...

If anything there's more purely instrumental music now.

"Economic growth today is about -2% per year. Why is this? If you own more than 0.01 Bitcoin, chances are you don't do anything with your money. There is no inflation, and thus no incentive to invest your money."

See, if you don't invest your money you simply make everyone elses money more valuable, until someone actually does invest it.

You need to stop looking at money and start looking at resources, time, etc.. Those stay the same, no matter how much money is spent.

"Just like the medieval ages had no significant economic growth, as wealth was measured in gold, our society has no economic growth either, as people know their 0.01 Bitcoin will be enough to last them a lifetime."

You know the Industrial Revolution happened when wealth was measured in gold.

Do I really need more excuses to stop reading this bullshit?

> US installing a dictator to prevent dictatorship in a democracy has to be the most insane arguments that I keep seeing that makes me question the entire education system!

It worked though. Chile is a democracy now, no communist country is.

Thief?

He strictly followed the terms of a contract by people who were very clear that "code is law" and who did not want institutions were the result is decided by human judgement.

> I mentioned that the toll of the “horrendous crime” of 9-11, committed with “wickedness and awesome cruelty” (quoting Robert Fisk), may be comparable to the consequences of Clinton’s bombing of the Al-Shifa plant in August 1998

There is still a moral difference: Al-Qaida tries to kill as many american civilians as they can. The US doesn't try to kill as many arab civilians as they can.

> The only inaccuracy in this brief account is that the numbers should be multiplied by 25 to yield per capita equivalents, the appropriate measure. I am, of course, referring to what in Latin America is often called “the first 9/11”: September 11, 1973, when the U.S. succeeded in its intensive efforts to overthrow the democratic government of Salvador Allende in Chile with a military coup that placed General Pinochet’s brutal regime in office.

I'm trying to imagine what Chomsky would have said if the US had supported a coup against Hitler, a democratically elected socialist leader in an alliance with russia, before the second world war.

There would have been a civil war in germany, and even the right side of it would have mistreated some prisoners, caused some collateral damage, like every side in every war.

Like Hitler, Salvador Allende was democratically elected, but he was turning Chile into a dictatorship. Chile's Parlament literally wrote a letter to Pinochet asking for the coup.

Anyone starting a discussion about libertarianism and anarchism or Bitcoin in general in this thread is probably trolling and not interested in a serious discussion, so don't waste your time.

(Maybe HN should have 1 Mega-Thread for all this stuff, like many subreddits have?)

Bitcoin can enforce property rights, like barbed wire.

Satisfied my intellectual curiosity for the day ...

Yes. Always and never submitting will both cost you your freedom. If you always submit you'll never get to to do anything you want, if you never submit you'll literally go to jail.

But some people might be so submissive by nature that "Never Submit" is good advice for them, because in those situations where they really should submit it will never even occur to them not to.

Trump literally hides his tax returns and they just kind of go "we're going to break federal law to publish them"