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Sounds a lot like MS wants to have OpenAI but without a boards that considers pesky things like morals.
by nottheengineer 3y ago
Sounds a lot like MS wants to have OpenAI but without a boards that considers pesky things like morals.
- Fluorescence 3y agoTime for a counter-counter-coup that ends up with Microsoft under the Linux Foundation after RMS reveals he is Satoshi...
- Justsignedup 3y agoRMS (I assume Richard Stallman) may be many many many things, but setting up a global pyramid scheme doesn't seem to be his M.O. But stranger things have happened. One day I may be very very VERY surprised.
- fsflover 3y agoThere is nothing related to pyramids in bitcoin. It's just an implementation of a novel, trustless electronic money, also it's free software.
- Justsignedup 3y agohow would you define an asset that has zero intrinsic value other than the value people have already committed to it? house of cards?
- fsflover 3y agoMoney.
- Justsignedup 3y agobut money has intrinsic value. It is directly tied to the economy of a country. So if a country was to collapse, so would it's money. The point here is that if a country collapses, then you got bigger problems than the loss of whatever stored currency you got. Even if your money is in the hypothetically useful crypto, you got far bigger problems that the money you own is useless to you, you need to survive. But aside from that extreme scenario, money is not the same thing. Another way to think of it: There is nothing in the world that would prevent the immediate collapse of crypto if everyone who owns it just decided to sell. If everyone in the world stops accepting the US Dollar, the US can still continue to use it internally and manufacture goods and such. It'll just be a collapse of trade, but then even in that scenario people can just exchange the dollar locally for say gold, and trade gold on the global market. So the dollar has physical and usable backing. Meanwhile crypto has literally nothing.
- fsflover 3y agoThere were many currencies in history that have lost all or almost all its value upon serious economical crisis in respective countries. It seems you wouldn't call that money? Crypto is simply an alternative currency. See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_currency https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_currency
- Justsignedup 3y agoRight, INTERNAL economical crisis is what causes the collapse of currency. But just because the rest of the world doesn't recognize it, doesn't mean it is worthless, it simply converts. Bitcoin has nothing in and of itself. Also private currency like script was awful, please don't take the worst financial examples in history and claim that bitcoin is similar as an argument as to why it is valid.
- fsflover 3y ago> Bitcoin has nothing in and of itself. I don't understand what is "in and of itself" in an ordinary currency of an ordinary, small country. > INTERNAL economical crisis is what causes the collapse of currency Which is why it is very unlikely to happen with bitcoin. > But just because the rest of the world doesn't recognize it, doesn't mean it is worthless, it simply converts. Can't you say exactly the same about bitcoin?
- tmerse 3y agoYou mean the GNU Linux Foundation?
- ric2b 3y agoThe year of the Linux Microsoft.
- code_runner 3y agoagain, nobody has shown even a glimmer of the board operating with morality being their focus. we just don't know. we do know that a vast majority of the company don't trust the board though.
- xiphias2 3y agoSam just gave 3 hearts to Ilya as well... I hope the drama continues and he joins MS at this point.
- jdthedisciple 3y agoWhose morals again?