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by cgmg 9y ago
Which aspects of his politics are you referring to?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why do you think philosophy is useless?
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by cgmg 9y ago
I'm not sure the holocaust did anything good for science.
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by cgmg 9y ago
You raise some good points. What's a better measure, in your opinion?
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by cgmg 9y ago
That's not how it works.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> That too late thing is coming sooner than later. Not saying it's not coming, but can you estimate the time frame? Otherwise, this statement basically contains zero information.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why is it a 'flawed' argument? You specifically said 'the only value it actually generates is for X' and I showed that your claim was factually incorrect. Why do you think that is flawed? Because you were wrong?
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by cgmg 9y ago
On the contrary. It generates massive value for people living in countries with unstable currencies and governments. I assume you're living comfortably in a country with a stable currency, but not everyone is. http://www.cbc
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by cgmg 9y ago
1. You accuse me of being disingenuous. Yet the purpose of my comment was to challenge the assumption that someone is guilty because they settle. Whether a person is poor or not makes no difference to that point. Please tell me why you thin
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by cgmg 9y ago
> as a fixed-quantity asset it is inherently noxious as a currency Why?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> Do people honestly think that Goldman Sachs paid 5 billion dollars in settlement money because they did nothing legally wrong? No, they agreed to pay such a large settlement to avoid criminal convictions, because what they did was a cr
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by cgmg 9y ago
Looks like you lost your way mate. This is HackerNews, not /pol/.
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by cgmg 9y ago
The problem with the NFL theorem is that, in a sense, it doesn't apply to the real world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_in_search_and_op...
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by cgmg 9y ago
> hypocritical coming from the UK I don't understand what you're saying. Can you clarify?
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Bitcoin in Venezuela: A matter of survival(cbc.ca)
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why do you think such views are 'trying to thread a needle', 'contrarian', and 'functionally tripe'? You are exhibiting a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that there are (god forbid!) dissenting views from your o
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by cgmg 9y ago
To quote bitwize from this thread: Well-done anime has a way of focusing on the mundane in order to establish an emotional connection to the setting. For anyone who wants to understand this aesthetic, I strongly recommend watching The Garde
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by cgmg 9y ago
> It seems likely that their audience includes lots of 4channers, shitlords, extremists, racists, or any other group of people known to be generally offensive. It seems likely that you're generalizing way too much from your own ex
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by cgmg 9y ago
> It's a bit trickier when the dimension is infinite For those who are wondering, 'every vector space has a basis' is equivalent to the Axiom of Choice.
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by cgmg 9y ago
> You might argue the price fluctuations are the price-discovery function of markets screaming "there is no correct price because there is no actual value" That makes no sense. If the market were really 'screaming there is
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by cgmg 9y ago
> That world will be terrifying Why?
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by cgmg 9y ago
> What value? $13K of value, and counting.
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by cgmg 9y ago
Why would it be a 'relief' if the price crashes back to $1K?
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by cgmg 9y ago
Haha, what? Please explain how ruining someone's life, which he believes deserves to be ruined due to their taking advantage of the poor, is 'hypocritical'.
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by cgmg 9y ago
If by 'neoliberalism' you mean economic liberalization and free trade, the evidence points toward the complete opposite.
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by cgmg 9y ago
It's unfortunate that questions which invite clarification and education are constantly downvoted on HN.
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by cgmg 9y ago
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
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by cgmg 9y ago
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
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by cgmg 9y ago
The best 'physical' model of computation is probably the reversible 3D mesh (R3M) model: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0957-4484/9/3/005/... .
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by cgmg 9y ago
That sounds like a false dilemma.

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