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Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen

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Re: Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen

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Post by jrockway »

Claudus wrote: post #334
jrockway wrote: post #284

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How is he being an asshole? He is exactly right. Watching Bitcoin from a detached and neutral position is absolutely pure entertainment. "Hey y'all, let's make a web page for transferring money and drugs!" "But I'm not very good at programming." "No worries, there's CRYPTO!!!!!" "Oh excellent, we'll sure screw over our oppressive government now! Down with the rule of law!!" "Uh boss, someone just untraceably and anon…

Theft can happen under any form of government, I'm not sure why you would think otherwise.

Yeah, my bank loses all my money all the time. If by all the time I mean "not once ever".

Re: Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen

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Post by jrockway »

smtddr wrote: post #314
jrockway wrote: post #284

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How is he being an asshole? He is exactly right. Watching Bitcoin from a detached and neutral position is absolutely pure entertainment. "Hey y'all, let's make a web page for transferring money and drugs!" "But I'm not very good at programming." "No worries, there's CRYPTO!!!!!" "Oh excellent, we'll sure screw over our oppressive government now! Down with the rule of law!!" "Uh boss, someone just untraceably and anon…

>>How is he being an a__h___? He is exactly right. Being a a__h___ and being right aren't mutually exclusive. :) Sidenote: BTW, now that we're talking, if you have a coworker at Google who can get this comment[1] removed from my channel, I'd appreciate it. I reported it as hate-speech like a month ago or something. 1. https://www.youtube.com/user/SMTDDR/discussion For posterity's sake - http://i.imgur.com/6kpYvcM.png

That's pretty bad. I'll look into it.

Re: Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen

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Post by bashcoder »

bodski wrote: post #373
zedshaw wrote: post #133

This is seriously the most hilarious thing I have read in a long time. Here we have a group of objectivist libertarians who believe that there should be effectively no laws other than the law of economics and self-interest who run an illegal website devoted to the pure greed of cashing in on contraband, and this is what they write: "I’ve included transaction logs at the bottom of this message. Review the vendor’s dis…

Fuck off Zed, its just people selling drugs man, get over it. Not everyone agrees with prohibition. Between you and Miguel Icaaza there's enough 'Bitcoin schadenfraude' to power a small town.

You don't see the hypocrisy of the "they broke the law and stole our money" outcry?

I guess it's just people stealing money then, so they should get over that. Not everyone agrees with allowing people to keep their stuff.

Re: Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen

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Post by smtddr »

jrockway wrote: post #402
smtddr wrote: post #314

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>>How is he being an a__h___? He is exactly right. Being a a__h___ and being right aren't mutually exclusive. :) Sidenote: BTW, now that we're talking, if you have a coworker at Google who can get this comment[1] removed from my channel, I'd appreciate it. I reported it as hate-speech like a month ago or something. 1. https://www.youtube.com/user/SMTDDR/discussion For posterity's sake - http://i.imgur.com/6kpYvcM.png

That's pretty bad. I'll look into it.

Thanks!

I'm sure Google gets like a million of these a day. I'm probably in some queue somewhere.... and I've never dated a white girl. ;-)

Re: Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen

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Post by jrockway »

smtddr wrote: post #405
jrockway wrote: post #402

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That's pretty bad. I'll look into it.

Thanks! I'm sure Google gets like a million of these a day. I'm probably in some queue somewhere.... and I've never dated a white girl. ;-)

Also take a look at this:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802268

It seems like you should be able to just delete the comment and block that asshole. If you've tried that and it doesn't work, I'll escalate.

Re: Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen

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Post by ChuckFrank »

zedshaw wrote: post #133

This is seriously the most hilarious thing I have read in a long time. Here we have a group of objectivist libertarians who believe that there should be effectively no laws other than the law of economics and self-interest who run an illegal website devoted to the pure greed of cashing in on contraband, and this is what they write: "I’ve included transaction logs at the bottom of this message. Review the vendor’s dis…

Actually they are not saying that they need the government. What they are saying is that for any social enterprise to work, there needs to be honor and trust. And that this person broke that honor and trust. And yes, that is in the interest of the community.

Re: Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen

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Post by [deleted] »

DerpDerpDerp wrote: post #164
mbillie1 wrote: post #91

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That is very true, but there's still an enormous chasm for your average person between being mostly-law-abiding (I'm not counting things like jaywalking or going 5mph over the limit) and participating in drug sales, which could land you life in prison. Hell, I think drug laws are incredibly unjust in the US, and that the government is overstepping its bounds left and right. By no means should you infer from this that…

Having dealt passingly with a large number of marijuana dealers, I disagree strongly with your assessment. Do you have any statistics to back this up, or just the naive reasoning "Well, it's a /serious/ crime, so they'd probably commit others, because only bad people commit /serious/ crimes"?

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Re: Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen

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Post by rodgerd »

zanny wrote: post #214
cleaver wrote: post #198

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Serious question: Would it be safe to say that not all self-professed libertarians agree on the definition of libertarianism? I've suspected this is the case.

Liberals and conservatives won't agree on their defintions either. Communism has been routinely redefined throughout history. A philosophy of society is always a malleable nebulous concept.

Libertarians, however, seem mongst the quickest to head straight to the No True Scotsman fallacy.

Re: Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen

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Post by res0nat0r »

baddox wrote: post #391
res0nat0r wrote: post #371

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Ask Somalia.

I'm no expert on recent Somalian history, but I have heard people suggest that Somalia improved during its period of "anarchy," while others contend that it wasn't really anarchy, but rather a battleground of neighboring states and factions battling to be the "one government." Also, Somalia's government before it failed in 1991 was a military dictatorship; hardly something even most advocates of government would advo…

Feel free to list your choice of countries without any government and we will see what their quality of life ranking is vs. standard countries with functional government.

Here is a handy chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequality...

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