amarkov

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   by amarkov 9y ago

   If the money in my bank losing value is robbery, isn't Bitcoin robbing me all the time? Bitcoin price changes may not be intentional, but I don't see why that should matter to me.
2. 152.▲
   by amarkov 9y ago

   > You see, Bitcoin was created after the 2008 crash where the banks, the organizations we've trusted with our money for a century, made some deliberate and knowingly poor decisions and they lost a lot of money for many of us. I hadn
3. 153.▲
   by amarkov 9y ago

   This includes a lot of crypto-crypto volume. Just in the top ten, there's $168m Bitcoin Gold, $145m of Bitcoin Cash, $95m of something called "PowerLedger" that I'm hearing of now for the first time, and $84m of Neo. I
4. 154.▲
   by amarkov 9y ago

   Where are you getting this number from?
5. 155.▲
   by amarkov 9y ago

   Copyright can't protect ideas, only specific expressions of them. If my code contains a brilliant and truly novel idea for efficient data storage, you're free to write your own code implementing that idea without violating my coyr
6. 156.▲
   by amarkov 9y ago

   If you own seven apartments with an average rent of $1k, your yearly revenue (not profit!) is $84,000. That's microscopic by any reasonable standard of company size.
7. 157.▲
   by amarkov 9y ago

   I think that, if a random Google engineer wrote an essay about why climate change isn't real, it would be weird and inappropriate to insist something be done about it.