Goladus

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by Goladus 7y ago
> connection to the US situation Tenuous at best. That was a different place and a different time. Different circumstances, different timelines, different politics, and even different differences. Brown vs Board of Education was decide
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by Goladus 8y ago
Because it's not just a bubble. Bitcoin is, on a technological level, specifically designed to be an inflationary digital asset that primarily benefits the founders. Whatever utility it has as medium of exchange is incidental to its
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by Goladus 8y ago
There is. The Schemer is Satoshi Nakamoto and anyone else involved with bitcoin's initial creation. They stand to profit handily by selling off their coins at many times their original, minimal value. But unlike a ponzi scheme or py
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by Goladus 8y ago
Do you mean domesticated as in breeding for traits, or just raising them to be socialized with humans?
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by Goladus 8y ago
Well, the problem is that these are researchers claiming to have empirical evidence relating to wisdom. Their precise definition of the term matters if you want to understand what they're actually saying.
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by Goladus 8y ago
I can't. It isn't simple. And certainly to me, doesn't justify the catchy "assumption-challenging" title of the paper, which appeals to an obviously informal definition of the term. === In our work, we proceed fro
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by Goladus 9y ago
You're still just cherry-picking. It's more sophisticated cherry-picking but what you are not doing is taking a balanced cross-section of people with a varying array of personality and cognitive traits and then tracing them throu
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by Goladus 9y ago
The Ward/Jakoby thing was a really sad excuse for the same old buddy cop dynamic we've seen a thousand times, but done better in almost every other case. This seems like a matter of taste then. I don't see any real critici
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by Goladus 9y ago
The difficulty here lies in actually doing a reasonable compare/contrast that looks at the entire system. You wouldn't compare the salary of a PhD principal software architect to a registered nurse at a pediatrics office. Just l
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by Goladus 9y ago
That is just silly hyperbole. It had plenty of strengths despite also having many flaws. Will Smith played Will Smith, but that was fine for the movie. Joel Edgerton's performance as Jakoby was great. The dynamic between those two t
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by Goladus 9y ago
Which are not at all like Bright.
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by Goladus 9y ago
If I dismissed every movie or show with left-progressive propaganda I would have nothing to watch.
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by Goladus 9y ago
I liked Bright. It can be difficult to defend because it certainly has some substantial flaws, but people seem to just love love love crapping all over it like it's the worst thing they've seen all year.
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by Goladus 9y ago
Bright is Urban Fantasy, which is a rather rare genre for feature length films. It's not a great movie but it's a lot better than you'd think if you just listen to critics.
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by Goladus 9y ago
Perhaps although this sort of reinforces the point that the design of git tends to encourage creating a lot of individual, single-purpose repositories, leaving it up to the user to string them all together with gitlab or github or a custom
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by Goladus 9y ago
Rotten Tomatoes claims not to have found any evidence of tampering with the audience score for The Last Jedi [0]. Certainly, an assessment of fan reactions in comment sections and on youtube shows a quite genuinely divided reaction to the
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by Goladus 9y ago
On Eye of the Beholder 's incomplete use of the D&D Ruleset: Looking back on that I can imagine that hardcore roleplayers would be miffed, but to a newcomer like myself it was perfect. I did as the manual suggested and created a
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by Goladus 9y ago
The question is, if gold did not have properties that made it useful as an ornament and symbol of high status (and therefore high mate value), would it have ever become accepted as a store of value?
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by Goladus 9y ago
Jewelry and artwork are used for adornment and to signal status. Artwork is also used to decorate or define your living space or working space. It can manipulate your emotional state, serve as a conversation piece at parties, or signal som
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by Goladus 9y ago
Yes, but nearly anything can function as a store of value by that standard. While it's true Bitcoin has name recognition and that is an advantage, it's not exactly a big advantage.
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by Goladus 9y ago
Yes, gold is a very special case. Gold also has a very, very long history of being used as a global currency, which lends far more confidence in it than is probably warranted. Bitcoin has not even 10 years of history as a currency, and mos
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by Goladus 9y ago
... and stocks are a legal claim to some percentage of the assets of a corporation. The only things that I can think of that are somewhat similar to cryptocurrency as a "store of value" are things like baseball cards.
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by Goladus 9y ago
> Lots of assets have value without people buying things with them. Gold, houses, stocks, etc. That value is predicated on the notion that they're worth something to the holder apart from their market price. Gold can be used for jew
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by Goladus 9y ago
I had 3 points to make. Was it too much for you? Frankly I could have written a great deal more. 1. There's excellent non-culture war criticism of the movie. 2. TLJ made its own bed with regards to the culture war. 3. Disney has d
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by Goladus 9y ago
Be careful, The Last Jedi is definitely part of the "culture wars" effect somebody mentioned elsewhere. I don't buy it. The Force Awakens is at 88% and culture warriors fought over that one, too. Both films have severe
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by Goladus 9y ago
> But no, I wouldn't think it offensive if it were relevant to the topic at hand. Which it isn't in your imaginary version None of your criticism of Damore was relevant. You just jumped on a bandwagon of hate. You picked up a
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by Goladus 9y ago
Really? I would find that story interesting reading if you'd be willing to share.
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by Goladus 9y ago
How would you define "overvalued"? The difference between the price of bitcoin versus the price of bitcoin as it would be if it was only used as a medium of exchange rather than a speculative asset.
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by Goladus 9y ago
> Fake news is real, but it's not what Trump says it is. It's also not what this Wired author says it is. === Originally, the term "Fake News" was created by mainstream news organizations (aka old media) to d
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by Goladus 9y ago
Or perhaps a tangled web of rent-seeking gatekeepers. It's hard to predict at this point.

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