Re: From Barter to Blockchains - WTF is… Money?

On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Razer wrote: > > Fuck Graeber and everything he ever wrote. Even if he has any valid thesis > it's not an original thought and I can find similar elsewhere. Hes a hack. > I neither know, nor very much care, about Graeber's personal & professional

Re: From Barter to Blockchains - WTF is… Money?

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 4:44 AM, juan wrote: > lolwut?? > Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Re: From Barter to Blockchains - WTF is… Money?

On Aug 6, 2017 18:00, "Zenaan Harkness" wrote: This might sound exceptionally unusual to those who have not experienced this absud and strange type of human behaviour, but this "ledger keeping" or "documentation of barter" simply does NOT happen - not even in "modern 2017

Re: From Barter to Blockchains - WTF is… Money?

On Aug 6, 2017 5:24 PM, "juan" wrote: OK. Let me translate. People who know fuck about economics and are brain-dead statists will enjoy their echo chamber in the form of some shitty propaganda written by some charlatan-apologist of the banking

Re: [pf...@pfinr.org: [ PFFR ] Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes 'Internally Viral']

On Aug 6, 2017 4:18 PM, "juan" wrote: right wingers and lefties are closely related fucktards. Leftist = rightist = centrist = financialist. Using these obsolete terms does nothing but stultify the conversation. Let's try to find a more expressive and useful

Re: From Barter to Blockchains - WTF is… Money?

People interested in economics may enjoy reading historian David Graeber's excellent book, *Debt: The First 2000 Years*. (Available free at https://archive.org/details/Debt-The_First_5000_Years) Graeber argues that a) no actually-existing historical society used barter as a primary component of

Re: Welcome to Anarchast

On Jul 14, 2017 11:53, "jim bell" wrote: I've long believed that people should stop using the term "capitalism" when they probably mean, "free market". "capitalism" might be the 1800 equivalent of "crowdfunding". I agree people should use the word "capitalism" more

Re: The world's most secure password for websites, games and private data.

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > I am really lousy at memorizing gibberish. > If you do want gibberish, it's hard to beat pwgen: $ pwgen -y -s -1 64 7(5Ip]cZZas745u5y;9zm/)^IG%j~1/DUd\d#k*T4tA3EI%C_AKZh#4^Et0h#/b+ $ pwgen -1 32

Re: Quantifying systemic pressure towards injustice

But, but, but... it's DUH LAW! On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > (Posted on behalf of an anonymous thoughtful person.) > > > To paraphrase an associate from some years back: > > Many of today's "justice system" problems are the >

Re: McDonalds serving "Gay unfriendly fries" for 77 years now, finally gets PC - was [jim.sovere...@optusnet.com.au: McDonald launches gay friendly fries to back Washington DC’s Gay Pride parade.]

Who cares? On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I'm shocked I tell you, truly shocked, that McDonalds has been > serving Gay-unfriendly fries for so long, indeed 77 years no less! > > I'm surprised that McDs is so open about their White Supremacist past >

Re: who are the right people?

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:21 AM, Ryan Carboni wrote: > > keep in mind, just how many computers run Intel. We don't backdoor > encryption. We backdoor everything. > The back door is a *feature*, not a bug, right? For instance, this company is quite proud of their back door

Re: Qubes - more shit from the american pentagon nazis

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Homogeneity of targets, makes for easier 0-day 0wnage of said > targets, when one such target becomes of particular interest. > I, for one, run an OS that I wrote myself in TI-BASIC, on hardware salvaged from the

Re: Is the revolution over?

Just because under tyranny good men fear to speak their minds in public, does not mean there are no good men around. On Mar 5, 2017 12:06, "\0xDynamite" wrote: > Honestly, I'm back to this list shell-shocked. I left this > civilization, thinking things were on track,

Re: Long, but very good: About Anti-Fascists and Anarchism

Leftist = Rightist = Centrist = totalitarian capitalist C'mon folks, the tired left vs right narrative has almost zero power to explain real politics. Everytime you play along and use those bogus terms, you obscure your own position and make the public discourse stupider. -- sent from my robot

Re: New low for the intercept : censorship.

Three cheers for censorship! Hup, hup, hurrah! On Dec 26, 2016 03:57, "juan" wrote: > > > Now pay-pal-ebay-greenewald's "The Intercept" features Censored > Comments. > >

Re: Why could this list be a target for (paid) trolls?

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Georgi Guninski wrote: > I hear that this list is target of (paid) trolls and browsing it > appears to support this. > Where did you hear said claim? > I don't see enough "value" in the list for such attack, Alternatively, one could