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by defgeneric 5y ago
It's not a big deal. The phrase "solar noon will occur at 12:59pm" is perfectly intelligible. The scheduling of human affairs is political. The time shift is completely rational and even points to the fact that we as humans t
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by defgeneric 5y ago
The English-speaking media is way behind on the general sentiment regarding Bitcoin in El Salvador. Most Salvadorans I know are enthusiastic about Bitcoin. Any opposition fizzled once those who had no experience or were confused by it saw n
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by defgeneric 5y ago
> there wasn't any legitimization of "alternative" information It seems to me this is really the cause far beyond any other factor. The fragmentation and "democratization" of media over the past 15-20 years led t
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by defgeneric 5y ago
But that's not really a counter example. Discovering a silver mine would not alter the price (in silver) of an arbitrary basket of goods and services.
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by defgeneric 5y ago
One last point: Taleb's claim that Bitcoin is an earnings-free asset with no residual value would be true if the protocol was immutable and never amenable to change. But even most Bitcoin maximalists accept that at some point in the fu
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by defgeneric 5y ago
I think Nassim Taleb's nay-saying does have a useful purpose. He's effectively saying that the dominant ideology of the Bitcoiners (e.g. the "libertarianism" of the Chicago school) is not itself adequate to explain or ju
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by defgeneric 5y ago
Your argument is with materialism or rationalism, not atheism per se. Atheism is the rejection of theism. There are many varieties of theism but they're pretty well defined (by the theists themselves, even painstakingly so).
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by defgeneric 5y ago
Etymologically, spirit originally seems to have meant something like breath or life (hence "aspirated"). The reification of that sense into an otherworldly Being is a later development. So maybe there's some room for an athei
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by defgeneric 5y ago
It's a lot easier to leave when you have another community to go to. That's why there's nothing wrong with "sneaking around" or living a separate private life while you build up relationships and friendships.
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by defgeneric 5y ago
The crypto- prefix has been used in all sorts of contexts. In politics, for example, terms like crypto-fascist/crypto-marxist/crypto-Royalist are used in texts from at least the 19th century where the meaning adheres to the origin
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by defgeneric 5y ago
Stephen Diehl has been colossally wrong for YEARS on crypto.
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by defgeneric 5y ago
Not really. It's because the interfaces in C tend to follow a common pattern that verbose variable names can get in the way. If we have int alter_struct(some_struct_t *s, void *xp, size_t xn); then it's pretty obvious that
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by defgeneric 5y ago
> I don't think it adds any value and it just takes up extra space, making the code less readable. I agree here. What they want is to be able to get a superficial understanding at a glance of what the code is doing--in other words t
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by defgeneric 5y ago
I found it to be quite neat. The separation of compilation units alone shows the author knows what he's doing. Perhaps you have trouble with C idioms.
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by defgeneric 5y ago
That seems to accord with what the fox does at 1:08 here: https://youtu.be/D2SoGHFM18I
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by defgeneric 5y ago
Are there real statistics on just how many people are being turned away? Hasn't it always been the case that people sometimes have to be turned to another hospital? Wouldn't reform of the horrible mix of public/private hospit
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by defgeneric 5y ago
You need a DUI (Documento Único de Identidad) or Passport number for the Chivo wallet.
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by defgeneric 5y ago
> This is why there is an evolutionary pressure for all diseases to keep your host alive Lethality should be distinguished from "keeping the host alive." For example, HIV is more than 90% lethal (untreated) but can take a decad
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by defgeneric 5y ago
> That's what happened with the four other coronaviruses that are in wide circulations in humans. They are thought to have caused terrible pandemics when they first got to humans which were deadly in adults but not bad in children.
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by defgeneric 5y ago
I refuse to massively change my lifestyle and limit my freedom because some people have incorrect beliefs. Post-vaccine, we are not all in this together.
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by defgeneric 5y ago
Still, on the other end of the trade the capital remains parked or "hoarded" in gold. It is removed from circulation.
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by defgeneric 5y ago
I understand this argument, but if I had to choose right now which coin would be the best for my country, I would still go with Bitcoin. You don't get to choose which coin has the most backing, or the most diverse set of players from
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by defgeneric 5y ago
In English the name of the country is "El Salvador".
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by defgeneric 5y ago
The whole point of Bitcoin is that the bank itself cannot steal your money.
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by defgeneric 5y ago
That analogy would hold if the additional energy produced for bitcoin mining had some negative impact on the existing energy infrastructure. It doesn't. If anything it creates an incentive for making energy production more efficient. T
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by defgeneric 5y ago
If you want to opine on a country at least learn its name: "El Salvador".
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by defgeneric 5y ago
What exactly is ridiculous about El Salvador? What an ignorant and racist comment.
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by defgeneric 5y ago
No, it's a growth-oriented move designed to attract capital to the country.
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by defgeneric 5y ago
> But that wouldn't help the officials who pushed this get rich from their stash of bitcoin... The price didn't move much after the announcement. The whole point is to attract those who have already gotten rich from their stash
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by defgeneric 5y ago
This is one of the best explanations of what's actually going on there. The level of condescension elsewhere in this thread combined with total ignorance of the actual events taking place is stunning.

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