If someone has allodial title to their property then government cannot tax it. They can only tax property they own and rent out, which is almost all land in the U.S. that hasn't been purchased or confiscated from land owners.

If record of that allodial title is destroyed or lost, then you will have a difficult/impossible time proving you own your land.

I'll second this. The whole tone of the article doesn't make much sense because to me a hacker has always been someone who strives to impress themselves rather than other people.

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I actually thought this was going to be an article about whether people with a smaller risk appetite have more stability, but nope, really is about chicken.

Voting is already an act of violence.

His father was suffering agony every day because government and its voters decided if anyone in that condition wants to end their life, that the course of action be to put anyone who showed him mercy into a cage or worse.

I've just started playing around piecing together one. I'm using node.js as the server, redis as the database and virtual file system, ace for the text editor, jquery and some jquery ui plugins for the rest. My goal is to build something I can roll out and run with a raspberry pi and use as something like a pocket cloud ide.

Also for editing the actual html and other files, I wrote a small console app in c# that uses the FileSystemWatcher class to monitor a htdocs folder, which updates the redis key/values in realtime.

I would prefer government to spend money on feeding people, rather than killing them. For that reason, I don't think people should be ashamed of taking food stamps, they may be indirectly saving others by doing so, since money spent feeding them is money not spent on military.

The money comes from separate budget and you can bet that if they need to cut costs they'll cut social benefits before military spending (not that I opposed people using welfare, that's what it's for).

This is a little different.

Self-confidence is important when you are trying to accomplish something big, and feeling like someone else is bailing you out undermines that.

Everybody is different, but some people need to know they can bounce back from the hardest circumstances and the only way to do that is to face them head on as they come.

Its good if you have that safety net of friends and family to help out. Not everybody has that, and there is never a guarantee that you always will. This is where one would find comfort in knowing that even then, they can survive.

If you can survive the worst, your personal definition of impossible is redefined.

> If that guy did not have some kind of insurance like banks do, how can he refund anyone?

Bitcoin is a relatively new thing, would not be surprised to start seeing bitcoin insurance for these types of services.

> Is that guy a US citizen ? can he be sued by his clients ?

I think it would depend if his clients have contracts, otherwise its a caveat emptor deal, especially when dealing with bitcoin.

There was actually a Bitcoin "insurance" provider for a while. Like everything else in the Bitcoin economy, it was entirely unregulated, basically a scam, and ran with everyone's money.

Normal bank insurance is done by the central bank, which can lend unlimited money to cover this kind of hole.

(A large part of the Euro crisis was the Euro central bank refusing to backstop banks itself, delegating that to national central banks which can't print money and can therefore run out themselves)

Looks like he may not have had enough variation in his replies.

If you have only 20 different tweets, its easy for them to look like a typical bot to automated filters. Even if you are posting them slowly, it wouldn't be a stretch to assume one flag would be a ratio of similar tweets.

The response criteria could be another thing raises a flag. It wouldn't be difficult for a filter to recognize someone only replying to specific key phrases.