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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by sethrin on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @02:04PM (#16225365)
What libertarians deny is reality itself. Government is defined as a monopoly on violence. Non-coercive government is a contradiction in terms.
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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by dang on Saturday January 27, 2018 @03:49PM (#16248021)
> What libertarians deny is reality itself.

Please keep generic ideological bickering off HN. It's always the same, therefore never interesting in the local sense of the word.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by pjkundert on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:30PM (#16243442)
What straw-man libertarians deny... what real libertarians do is agree with bounds on government power that respect the liberty of all,to as great an extent as possible while protecting the community from attack.
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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by VVyattPrentice on Friday January 26, 2018 @10:27PM (#16244676)
So slavery? cool? You're cool with slavery? Just want to be sure we're using the same definition of liberty here.
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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by dang on Saturday January 27, 2018 @03:48PM (#16248018)
Could you please not use HN for ideological battle? That's destructive of what the site is for, so we eventually have to moderate accounts that do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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