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Comment by ziddoap | Hacker News Reader

This is always posted like some 'gotcha', despite it being right there in the transparency report.

In case you trust any company blindly: any company that wants to keep playing the money game will follow the laws forced upon them by the government they are beholden to.

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Isn't this what seasteading, and other jurisdiction avoidance schemes attempt to address? I wonder if anything like that has ever worked out.

There seem to be two popular approaches to avoiding the need to trust institutions.

One is technical: e2ee, implementation transparency, and similar.

The other is social: have fewer institutions.

I have never understood people who think the latter is a good approach. Like, "I don't trust these people who use their real names and are registered in a jurisdiction that has strong privacy obligations, so I'm gonna trust some randos on an abandoned oil rig instead."

I can't imagine seasteading is going to be able to avoid a nation's navy.

> I can't imagine seasteading is going to be able to avoid a nation's navy.

Seasteaders: "My Libertarian non-aggression principle trumps your cruise missiles!"

Navy: "No."

interesting way to put it, "the money game".

did you see that somewhere?

I first heard that in the 1990s. And the TV show "The Wire" (c2004?) made frequent use of the phrase "the game" to describe the process of street-dealing drugs, and the money, and the police, etc. As in "it's all in the game" - ie: all's fair in love and war.

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