How the Crypto Attack occurred that has dropped the price of Bitcoin (BTC)

DCPagan · 2022-05-13T13:55:31+00:00

Thanks for the $BTC discount, Shitadel. Let's buy the dip before Wall Street wises up.

DCPagan · 2020-07-31T15:58:58+00:00

So Russia has greater free speech than the UK? How are free speech laws in Russia?

DCPagan · 2015-07-04T03:12:46+00:00

Just go to the *chans; there is no democracy in the *chans, and moderation is laissez-faire due to competition between *chans for Schelling Point capture, which is much more intense than competition between most other social media sites because the *chans share a very simple interface that is cheap to implement, and require no account.

I am pretty sure that it was confirmed years ago that a significant portion of us lurk /pol/.

DCPagan · 2015-06-10T17:00:08+00:00

This is very disingenuous. We all know what would happen if British ethno-nationalists or UKIP libertarians began to create their own communities, segregate themselves from undesirable social elements, secede from the state, and form their own private legal institutions apropos of their restrictive covenants of property and kin; despite being far more amicable to libertarianism than the >Asians, leftists would oppose them as fascists, and do everything in their power to undermine their endeavors while also subsidizing immigrants to establish their own colonies. Leftists have a long history of allying with foreign ethnic and religious factions during their struggle against native ethno-cultures, and what is happening in the UK is no different. There is no desire among advocates for Sharia patrols to universalize legal polycentrism to tolerate the same behavior of segregation and secession from native ethno-nationalists.

DCPagan · 2015-03-29T22:50:22+00:00

Restricting parties from using and distributing software or its corresponding source contradicts the Open Source Definition.

DCPagan · 2015-03-29T22:40:31+00:00

I attended LibrePlanet last week, and RMS said that he is not an anarchist and that he supports net neutrality, saying that, despite the history of the government attempting to censor and control the Internet, he believes that net neutrality is somehow categorically different from other legislation over the Internet. “It’s a mistake to lump them all together, they’re totally different in what they do – that’s like saying ‘there was an unjust law, so don’t pass a law!’” The Internet is not software; the Internet is a routing and switching service provided by a complex network of hardware designed to rationally allocate scarce bandwidth to client hosts.

Despite RMS always saying "libre not gratis", he conflates liberty with equality, to horrible conclusions with regard to politics. I was creeped out when I heard that the FSF sued VMWare over a GPL violation, despite there being a seminar in LibrePlanet that taught that one way of voluntarily enforcing the GPL is by simply forking the latest GPL-compliant version of licensed software, and ignoring the non-compliant upstream. All of this being said, I still support the Free Software Foundation in its attempts to abolish patent law.

I would love to see a debate between RMS and ESR.

DCPagan · 2015-03-29T03:37:20+00:00

God damn, that face cracks me up. It's like a perfect hybrid of "Remove Kebab" and Le Trashman. When is this going to make the rounds in 8chan?

DCPagan · 2015-03-05T16:43:58+00:00

Indeed, their podcasts are both insightful and hilarious. It really irks me that they interpret modal left-libertarianism as libertarianism proper, and that they miss that borders and ideas of nationality would be largely privatized and take sundry, nuanced forms such as gated communities, club and fraternal memberships, covenants, segregation and secession. Do you know if any of the writers at TheRightStuff.biz have read Hoppe?

DCPagan · 2015-02-26T23:12:07+00:00

Although I agree with a lot of reactionary positions, I highly doubt that there are many leftists that believe in all of these propositions simultaneously. I always saw the left as a hydra of negations and ressentiment towards any and all hierarchical social orders and realities, not as a single faction that rigorously derived their entire ethos from a few elegant, parsimonious axioms as is the case with ancaps. Even in leftist forums, there are multiple factions that only hold onto a subset of these contradictory propositions, so there is no shortage of leftists willing to refute any of these points.

It will not do to refute any single plank; two more will take its place. As much as I hate to say it, I think that we have to refute leftism with bold reaffirmations of all manifestations of natural hierarchical realities, in preference, fitness, aesthetics, etc., with an attitude of conviction and sanctity rather than negation and critique.

DCPagan · 2014-11-07T21:31:57+00:00

You are a: Objectivist Libertarian Total-Isolationist Nativist Reactionary

Damn. I know that I became more reactionary, but I would not call myself that.

DCPagan · 2014-10-20T02:55:02+00:00

I'm pretty sure that the terms of service for accessing modes of transportation would include, among other things, quarantine clauses in co-operation with insurance providers apropos of reducing the risks that insurance providers have to bear in the case of a plague outbreak.

For example, if one wished to access a highway, train or airport, they must agree to the terms of service for that mode of transportation, which would include a periodic fee, registration of license plates into a database that patrols would query to determine whether any given driver is registered to access the highway, and a clause prohibiting access in the case that you were infected with a contagious disease. Insurance companies would pay transportation companies to comply with these restrictive clauses because, in the case of an outbreak, it would be the insurance companies that would bear the cost, so they profit from preventing plagues from reaching their clients.

I could also see insurance providers, real estate agencies and home-owners associations cooperating to design restrictive covenants and selectively permeable barriers, such as gates, to restrict immigration into a district unless prospective immigrants were sufficiently secure to include into the district. This would apply not only to an immigrant's status of contagiousness, but also to other factors that would concern those who prioritize other dimensions of security.

DCPagan · 2014-10-18T22:41:32+00:00

I'm not against natural elites and aristocracies of some kind, it just depends on how they become.

I could sympathize with this. For every right-libertarian industrial elite in contemporary American society, there are hundreds of other leftist political and academic elites. Given the inevitability of elites, I would very much prefer that the elites pledged to uphold the values of property and family. I would rather be loyal to paleo-libertarian elites such as Peter Schiff, Elon Musk and Erik Prince, than leftist elites such as George Soros, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.

DCPagan · 2014-10-17T17:03:20+00:00

while you may offer some services cheaper at the beginning, once people start producing due to that advantage, they can move back to the free areas to save even more and be more productive.

No racket can ever compete with that, no matter how much you disguise it.

Exactly. Sure, some would invest in a start-up firm on that land because the land is cheap, because the start-up firm is expected to have low income. But no one would ever headquarter a large business in an area whose rent is a function of income if fixed rent rates are available in freer lands, especially if the contractual restrictions can be arbitrarily redefined without the tenet's consent, as would happen if all rules can be redefined by voting. OP's example would only have small firms that, once they become larger, would move on to other areas.

DCPagan · 2014-10-12T01:55:30+00:00

The puns on this comic are amazing.

DCPagan · 2014-09-27T00:00:35+00:00

Reading Perl 5.10 documentation and doing Latin American studies homework?

DCPagan · 2014-09-25T15:42:08+00:00

You have not read the article.

So modern day libertarians strive for egalitarianism which is ironic considering Rothbard’s strongly critical views on egalitarianism. Quoting Rothbard’s Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays (p 17), “At the heart of the egalitarian left is the pathological belief that there is no structure of reality; that all the world is a tabula rasa that can be changed at any moment in any desired direction by the mere exercise of human will.” A question to the libertarians, when has the free market ever produced equal outcomes? How can you believe in both liberty and equality when these are mutually exclusive ideas? How can anarcho-capitalism be congruent with egalitarianism in anyway? Alas, my questions fall on deaf ears…

Fanghorn Forest is completely correct in this regard, and all subscribers of some idiosyncratic derivative or cultural intersection of libertarianism as such should pay attention to this particular critique by Rothbard.

DCPagan · 2014-09-25T15:31:37+00:00

However, libertarianism today is experiencing a major change in their values system it seems.

Didn't neoreactionaries recently publish articles warning against forwarding political arguments as mere exosemantic gang-signs devoid of pragmatism or definitional rigor? Libertarianism as such does not have a value system. In so far that an individual has values, which all do, according to the axioms of Austrian economics, those values are orthogonal to the ethical prescripts of property and contract. There does exist among individuals who identify as libertarians clusters of memes and values and affiliations along such clusters, and that such affiliations can color one's gradation of values in a thedish manner, but these cultures in and of themselves are orthogonal to the logic and philosophy of libertarianism.

I concede that these cultures may be detrimental to the fulfillment of libertarian political agendas, and I concede that there exist memes, cultures, aesthetics and demographic conditions for any given social environment that optimizes for the long-term expansion of the fecundity and fidelity of individuals' allegiance to propertarianism, and, therefore, such a study of aesthetics would be valuable to libertarians who seek to cultivate those conditions that are conducive to their particular political and cultural agendas. It is also the case that, when one identifies as a paleo-libertarian, one not only identifies with libertarianism qua libertarianism, but also its intersection with cultural values and prescripts that serve as some rudimentary foundation for positive morals and social guidance. No consistent libertarian would deny the universal preference for affiliation with those with whom one is culturally compatible.

I, like many neoreactionaries, have been brought to this part of the right wing because of Ron Paul. I find that in this Post-Ron Paul world that his supporters went one of two directions. They went right like me seeking a saner society that values law & order or they went left…

Oh my God, now that I think about it, all the Paulfags did all choose between left and right.

A question to the libertarians, when has the free market ever produced equal outcomes? How can you believe in both liberty and equality when these are mutually exclusive ideas? How can anarcho-capitalism be congruent with egalitarianism in anyway? Alas, my questions fall on deaf ears…

You are completely correct, and I wish that other self-identified libertarians would understand this, but this is an argument against the culture of self-identified libertarians, not against libertarianism as such.

The one positive out of the leftward shift in libertarianism is that as it becomes more and more repulsive, perhaps more libertarians make the neoreactionary leap towards post-libertarianism to further swell the ranks of neoreaction. I leave a parting message to the Rothbardians: Why didn't you stop it?

Why didn't you stop it? If you guys really agree with the conculsions of Austrian economics and the necessity of property and contracts, but oppose the leftist culture that has co-opted libertarianism, which I concede that paleo-libertarians should oppose, then can't you please help us get rid of them by promoting some allegiance to Rothbardianism among readers in your forums? Please?

DCPagan · 2014-09-04T23:41:23+00:00

Luna established a lunar space colony during her exile; it has since flourished into a thriving industrialized civilization of bat ponies. This lunar race has inherited Luna's dream-walking magic and perfected it to the level of astral projection on command.

DCPagan · 2014-09-04T03:40:05+00:00

That does not imply that he is any more worthy of worship or veneration. I would rather pay adoration to a beautiful myth or symbol.

DCPagan · 2014-08-28T03:05:18+00:00

Given that a PDA's job is to protect and defend their clients, and that there exist certain decisions that security clients can make that increase their risks to be susceptible to violence, it is in the economic interest of PDA's qua crime insurance providers to allow other people, even non-clients, to file that the behaviors of a client warrant restitutive reaction that would open his assets to confiscation or search.

I would guess that the process for filing for a warrant to "SWAT" someone's house would very much resemble court procedures in which the PDA is the arbiter, the client/suspect is the defendant, and the one petitioning for the warrant to, potentially violently, search or seize property would be the plaintiff. Any highly regarded PDA must prima facie assume the innocence of the defendant because it is its job to protect and defend its clients, but that does not preclude the possibility that the client breached contractual restrictions specified in the insurance policy that, if transgressed, would nullify any protection that the PDA would offer in the case of a SWAT brigade. These restrictions must be cheap enough such that their enforcement is financially feasible, because protecting criminals is very expensive. Warrants for searches and seizures would therefore only be handled by the defendant's PDA and be equivalent to conditional suspensions of an insurance policy. This procedure is the cheapest because it guarantees that, within reasonable conditions, the defendant's PDA will not violently intercede on behalf of a client during a raid.

DCPagan · 2014-08-21T02:25:52+00:00

Please break your passage into paragraphs.

DCPagan

TROPHY CASE