MrMan

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by MrMan 6y ago
WSJ, Economist, New Yorker have all been hollowed out.
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by MrMan 6y ago
I don't mean to quibble but I would say that even though bit coin is not a quote unsuited real currency you can apply purchasing powrr parity valuation to it and compare purchasing power of bitcoin compared to other currency like instr
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by MrMan 6y ago
Please whomever has the power to downvote don't allow this to be the top comment, or China wins
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by MrMan 6y ago
Critical thinking is largely an illusion itself, a form of cognitive bias
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by MrMan 6y ago
I am happy about this but I don't understand the fake meat thing. Our household reduced our meat consumption by 95 percent, we don't use any fake meat. It is highly processed and to us doesn't taste very good.
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by MrMan 6y ago
A BTC is a receipt for compute wasted
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by MrMan 6y ago
I will be very happy if the US lays down its arms- I can employ former soldiers as mercenaries to seize bitcoin wallets and mining complexes.
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by MrMan 6y ago
Can you explain how a currency or hard asset replaces a bank?
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by MrMan 6y ago
i agree that voting is another oldster NIMBY legacy tactic, and soon they will be swept away
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by MrMan 6y ago
In which editor? This would really help me. IdE support and no pandas/numpy are the main things holding me back from full nim adoption
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by MrMan 6y ago
FX dealers I have dealt with definitely want to know who they are trading with. The information is extremely useful. It's not better for them not to know. If you lose trust in a counterparty, there is a reason. Exchanges all over the w
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by MrMan 6y ago
This statement about technology removing middlemen is not true it can be disproven with some handful of examples.
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by MrMan 6y ago
Trust is a lower energy state than distrust. I find it unlikely that society wants to incur the massive expensive of climbing that trust gradient for no benefit. Any society that adopts trust will be able to compete very well against a soci
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by MrMan 6y ago
Do you have any sense about what happens in the limit, like what if literally every person is sitting on a bunch of Bitcoin they earned at their job, which now pays in Bitcoin. Everything is denominated in Bitcoin, which is always going up
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by MrMan 6y ago
Antigravity for finance. The ages long problem of how to integrate debt and money into society is solved.
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by MrMan 6y ago
Why don't we use dollars
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by MrMan 6y ago
If a bitcoin is functionally equivalent to a dollar you still need the entire stack of the financial industry, bitcoin doesn't in any way obviate finance
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by MrMan 6y ago
It's not better or worse it's just a price
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by MrMan 6y ago
Yeah! Anyone who buys a house is a bad person
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by MrMan 6y ago
So you are saying if we tax advertising housing prices will ease? I agree with you
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by MrMan 6y ago
The whole population of the US is not growing, there are just a few places where there is growth.
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by MrMan 6y ago
This anti-NIMBY astroturfing on HN is fascinating. There is a repetitive hammering of a short list of talking points. I am from the East Coast which is very built up. We largely don't have this weird NIMBY anger. In a lot of places her
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by MrMan 6y ago
Bitcoin is a tiny part of that world and simply becomes part of it.
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by MrMan 6y ago
But I have to trudge though your non-subtantive rant as the top comment. How about addressing the issue discussed in the posted article instead of opting out because you don’t like the language the author uses in an attempt (perhaps unskill
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by MrMan 6y ago
But we are all easily manipulated, which is the danger. The link in your post supports this conclusion.
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by MrMan 6y ago
The wizard of Oz humorous reference is from https://ew.com/article/2012/10/26/wizard-of-oz-movie-descrip... I think many people are aware of it, or were in 2012.
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by MrMan 6y ago
Some of our applied social scientists are being allowed to work with very large datasets at places like Facebook and I believe they are increasingly in a position to make quantifiable statements on what racists or any other cluster-able gro
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by MrMan 6y ago
I never read that blog and don’t read the NYT but I will say in response only to your comment that racists and sexists don’t seem to enjoy Star Wars like they used to. Someone should write a (hopefully thoughtful-seeming) long form ruminati
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by MrMan 6y ago
For my money buffet > Dalio, this superficial framing of The Whole topic is a case in point. Who challenges dalio on his submerged assumption that a gold-like store of value is really of any value to rank and file investors compared to t
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by MrMan 6y ago
These people don’t care

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