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Alice: "You can't buy stuff with it." Bob: "That's technically false! The truth is you mostly can't buy stuff with it." Whatever; the point stands. Separate
by mundo 7y ago
Alice: "You can't buy stuff with it."
Bob: "That's technically false! The truth is you mostly can't buy stuff with it."
Whatever; the point stands. Separate from that, you might put some thought in to why the HN guidelines say "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation" instead of "Please try to phrase your comments so carefully that there is only one possible interpretation."
- LMYahooTFY 7y agoThis is, frankly, ridiculously dismissive, and you violated both guidelines. If you've never heard of Bitpay, I'd suggest looking it up. I can purchase software on Microsoft's store, hardware on Newegg, a phone line from AT&T, whatever from Overstock, I can travel via Expedia among other travel brokers, I mean seriously... "You can't buy stuff with it" has no obvious interpretation. Did you mean specifically in some part of the world? Specifically from Amazon or Target?
- mundo 7y agoI phrased it vaguely because I meant it that way. Is there one specific thing keeping Bitcoin from being widely used? No, there are a bunch of challenges. Why do you think I should've listed them? Don't you pretty much know what they are? Is it not safe to assume that the other people this deep in a HN thread on the subject do too? Sure, I should've said, "...enough stuff" or "...easily enough" or some other minimizing qualifier, to keep uncharitable readers from mentally inserting a maximizing one. (I would've edited it in, but the edit button was already gone) But I also don't think anyone involved had any genuine trouble figuring out that it was implied. I mean, it's common enough to merit its own bullet point on the HN Guidelines list.