julian_1

I would argue that indigenous inhabits as private citizens have the better claim by virtue of tradition and generational succession, than the 'state' as defacto beneficiary and law-maker everytime. The dispossession of native peoples by colonial governments is just another example.

Government confiscation of private wealth in the name of perceived inequality, should be examined very carefully when modern economies are structurally indebted, and budget for foreign policy objectives over domestic improvement.

Why do laws that appropriate private citizens wealth need to be justified?

Well, the alternative is wonderful stuff like civil forfeiture law. Whereby a policeman without evidence or proof of criminal wrongdoing can take that $2000 in your glovebox in the name of a defacto beneficiary (the state), because on a balance of probabilities he thinks he has a better claim than you do.

> The land you inherit is not "justly yours". It was the previous owner's thing. You are getting it but it is not your divine right, except that you won the birth lottery by being born into this family.

Of course those arguments apply to governments as well, since they don't derive their law-making authority by claim to divinity - at least in modern times. Why should a government be specially privileged over a citizens wishes to provide for their family and/or community after death?

So you would be in favor of taxing someone's social security or charitable receipts - since the benefits are not earned?

> the tax system treats unearned income and wealth more favourably than earned income.

The income was taxed when it was earned. What reason is there to tax it twice?

> how you feel about in increase in unearned income flowing to the wealthy I guess.

Or about how you feel about the government's use of it's citizen's resources. Why should wealth earned by the breadwinner of the family, not remain with the family? It's arguably better than expropriating citizen's wealth to fund expaditionary warfare.

Where is Minix OS mentioned? How many preemptive processes are running? Which orgs - internal or external to Intel have review-power or signoff on the code running ?

Up until a few weeks ago, people speculated the firmware blobs included a small amount of low-level bootstrap code used to configure IO and to switch from 16 bit to other modes etc.

Nobody suggested there was a parallel multi-process operating system running, with full bus arbitration, and mmio capability.

Edit. Not sure why I am being downvoted reddit style. Every-time these threads come up - it's necessary to trot out an explanation of the basic differences between ARC core, psp, arm cortex and trustzone etc, and who uses what technology, what is known about the software/OSes that are running - jvm versus minix-os, amt versus ME etc, what is new knowledge, what is official, and what has been uncovered from private research. I base my statements about lack of general awareness on these topics from actually following HN submissions.

Just a few days ago, someone in a thread was speculating on using low-level op-codes in bootstrap code to subvert the BIOS, apparently in complete ignorance of the depth of the embedded stack.

Do you know technical details - like how many processes are even running under the Minix OS?

Also which internal or external groups lead the code development of those processes?

Is the code accessible to any employee/engineer with a technical relationship to IME?

> were going to run a lot more stuff -- think a full JVM

Is a JVM really a lot more stuff than Minix OS?

Isn't this why monero exists? By using ring signatures to guarantee fungibility of spendable outputs by making them untraceable?

Also, you don't need to resort to property torts, when there are crimes of stealing and fraud and statutory remedies like restitution available.

> A $5000 super-duper giga-hash miner barely breaks even, takes forever to ship, and and in a year becomes a paperweight.

The fundamentals that make bitcoin so scarce and difficult to mine/acquire, are what gives it value.

Not sure anyone is conflating ability to mine, with ability to profitably mine.