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"... For the machine is immortal." But the machine does break. That's why I'm here.

But without it, how would people be kept from raw milk?

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Watching nostr:npub1h8gzew8am6cezuq7cpjgudldra40hgnruqrqlsrqnxnzs5wjtczqztps02 is better than watching a couple bloviated dorks talk about themselves.

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This is very true.

Understood.

I'm saying it's still too new and different that fixed roles have yet to emerge. Primary developers are largely driven by personal interest and experimentation.

I look forward to hacking on the protocol at some point, but currently have all my time tied up in a fairly new, small business.

It has the hook-like form of a neurological disorder.

from Germanic languages and Middle English for a small strap used to fasten armor to Modern French and the Age of Sail as asmall strong cord used to secure something or as a handle for pulling.

#etymology

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The "banality of evil".

That hasn't mattered for years. Operational rules are "take action, let the courts decide later".

Replying to Avatar Jeff Swann

Anarcho-capitalists aren't utopian. We simply recognize that the only meaningful distinction between a govt & any other organization is the ability to violently maintain a monopoly & forcibly extract money from people.

Minarchist libertarians regularly make the claim that a world with no govt is utopian & that any effort at organization immediately qualifies as govt. In the words of Hayek, "The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, & against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better."

Many newbie libertarians and minarchists will at the same time go as far as calling taxation theft & suggest that govt should be voluntarily funded. If they do this you actually already have them in a logical contradiction...

If a govt is voluntarily funded then it has to compete for monetary support from customers (or patrons of some sort) just like any business or charity. An organization forced to compete for supporters cannot maintain a monopoly on anything, & can quite easily go out of business. That, by definition, means it is not a govt, it is instead a business or charity providing some voluntarily supported service like any other.

Get them to agree to voluntary funding, as a way to humanely organize society, as a way to keep govt in check, as a way to ensure there is a feedback mechanism with regard to govt performance. Once you get that, everything else will eventually fall like dominoes. Anyone who believes govts should be voluntarily funded is necessarily an anarchist whether they realize it or not.

#libertarian #ancap #voluntary #voluntarism #minarchism #anarchism #capitalism #freedom #bitcoin

Much of the issue comes from self-labeled, identity clinging types espousing overly-simplistic an-cap rhetoric.

(That was a lot of hyphens)

Pure Ideology never survives first contact with reality.

Using anarcho-capitalism as a first principals framework is still a very good way to approach one's interactions with the world and goals to work toward.