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Re:Coinbase and the IRS by dang on Sunday January 15, 2017 @11:16AM (#13404619)
Generic ideological discussions (and "taxation is theft" is a poster child of those) are what we don't want on HN. Please don't post them here. They're predictable, which makes them boring, and they rile people up into a froth, which creates flamewars. Just look at the trainwreck we ended up with below.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13402805 and marked it off-topic.

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Re:Coinbase and the IRS by lacampbell on Sunday January 15, 2017 @07:36PM (#13407450)
Generic ideological tangents (and "taxation is theft" is a poster child of those) are what we don't want on HN.

Should I flag any of those I see? Because I see it all the time here, but they are "generic ideological tangents" that are more popular and universally accepted, so they seem to create no controversy.

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Re:Coinbase and the IRS by dang on Sunday January 15, 2017 @09:18PM (#13407837)
By all means, please flag them.
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