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Fixing Tao
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Fixing Tao is a personal blog at fixingtao.com about economics and politics. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Point-By-Point Response to Mike Hearn’s Final Bitcoin Post”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment links this post, and it discusses a back-and-forth about the post's footnotes and its argument that opting out of copyright means leaving Canada. The post covers copyright law and tractor repair.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Point-By-Point Response to Mike Hearn’s Final Bitcoin Post3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-19
- /2016/01/lunatics-terrorists-and-the-three-noble-truths-of-systems/2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-01-14
What Hacker News says?
> ...reading your comment was like going down a choose-your-own-adventure maze. I guess you don't read many academic or technical papers. My ratio of words to footnotes is very , very high. :) From your linked comment: > This is not entirely accurate, you can certainly opt-out by leaving Canada. Right. You're advocating expatriation (whether through emigration or secession). This is exactly as I said in footnote #1,…
Comment linking /2016/01/lunatics-terrorists-and-the-three-noble-truths-of-systems/
on “Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have to Fix Copyright Law”Submitted Settling My Debt with John Kiriakou, Torture Whistleblower as a story · 6 points
HN discussionApologies, reading your comment was like going down a choose-your-own-adventure maze. For footnote [3] my reply is that representative democracy is one of a vast variety of possible systems you could use. That ratio of yours becomes much less meaningful in say, a liquid democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegative_democracy These two links should (hopefully) address any further questions: https://fixingtao.co…
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on “Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have to Fix Copyright Law”Submitted Point-By-Point Response to Mike Hearn’s Final Bitcoin Post as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThat's a fair point, but from what you've shared it sounds more like an invasion of sorts than an actual secession movement. Do you know how much of a majority they had? If it was on the order of 51% of a tiny town that just doesn't seem sufficient. As you say, it helps for the place to be self-sufficient. A good example actually are the Amish. Their towns are almost completely composed of Amish and they're entirely…
Comment linking /2016/01/lunatics-terrorists-and-the-three-noble-truths-of-systems/
on “Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have to Fix Copyright Law”Submitted Moltbots Quickly Turned into Panic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'll copy a reply I wrote to a similar question elsewhere. This is a reply that was written in response to a comment on this post: https://fixingtao.com/2016/01/lunatics-terrorists-and-the-th... And is copied from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comments/40uevh/lunatics_t... <Begin> > The system is forced onto Canadian Citizens, there is no way to opt out. This is not entirely accurate, you can certainly opt…
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on “Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have to Fix Copyright Law”Submitted "Grok is this true?" as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Show us what you've done. My C.V.: https://fixingtao.com/cv/ EDIT: just noticed you stealth-edited this in: > And I mean what you've done about withdrawing the consent, not about tech projects. Tech projects can fall under (4). Tor, BitTorrent, Bitcoin, Silk Road, etc. were all tech projects representing withdrawal of consent through the creation of "new establishments". Creating a new country (if that's what you'…
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on “Before I Can Fix This Tractor, We Have to Fix Copyright Law”Submitted Maybe Bitcoin Isn't Dead. Response to Mike Hearn’s Final Bitcoin Post as a story · 3 points
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