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by discombobulate 9y ago
> without strong fundamentals I've used Bitcoin to buy medication from India. When ppl say shit like this, I get confused. Literally sit there & use it whilst ppl say it can't work. Really odd. It works. I've used it.
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by discombobulate 9y ago
Programmable money makes coders powerful. For some reason, a large fraction of HN hates crypto. They seem to like getting fucked up the ass by everyone. Groveling to VCs for funding. Looked down on my MBA-types. Coders/hackers should b
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Learning by doing(nickgrossman.is)
1 points by discombobulate 9y ago|0 comments
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by discombobulate 9y ago
Hadn't realised about the gas market. Mises is a big clue. I like to hear both sides. I've got some Marx to learn before anything else (econ). Maybe with a focus on the Frankfurt School.
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by discombobulate 9y ago
You lol. I took that as incredulity. Is there such thing as a perfectly competitive market irl? There's a canonical example used by the Mises Institute -- water after a hurricane. I watch a lecture half a decade ago. I don't have
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by discombobulate 9y ago
> when they actually have the skills to do it more honestly. That crossed my mind. That's why I think accepting failer is an inherant factor in business. Risk/reward. May win. Could lose.
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by discombobulate 9y ago
What someone will pay & what someone will sell @. Normal basic econ. Edit: (I can't seem to reply) I think non-gov monopolies are ok. You'd make a ton of money in your example, & then be able to create more drugs. Generall
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by discombobulate 9y ago
Here's something on Wikipedia. I've not read it, yet. Not having a basis in economics is a reasonable argument, imo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging#Opposition_to_la... Edit: I'm trying to li
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by discombobulate 9y ago
I wanted to eat dinner (it's late in the UK) & took the time to type out the comment. Yes. Edit: I've also already said I would wait in future. Not sure what else you'd like.
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by discombobulate 9y ago
Gouging is a debatable economic concept.
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by discombobulate 9y ago
Pricing something correctly isn't immoral
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by discombobulate 9y ago
I'll keep it. I'm going to try & not do it it again. At the very least wait before saying anything!
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by discombobulate 9y ago
It's insurance that pays, I believe . So it's a function of price. He changed the price based on market condition. Agree on the second point. Personally, I don't think that's relavent.
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by discombobulate 9y ago
I've been around HN for a while. It went from 2 points to 0 to 1. I had already written the edit. I decided to keep it. I probably shouldn't have. I thought it would help. I guess it shows I'm human. I don't want to come
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by discombobulate 9y ago
I wouldn't describe him as personable. Being smart is a trait I admire. I learned from him. Especially from his mistakes.
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by discombobulate 9y ago
Maybe that's true. I unfollowed him on Twitter b/c of the trolling.
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by discombobulate 9y ago
I believe he corrected the price of a drug. & no one went without. Those unable to pay for insurance got the drug for free. Also, I said two major flaws. Obviously, ppl have many flaws. Edit: It's economic illiteracy if you don&#
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by discombobulate 9y ago
I quite like Martin. I talked to him a few time on YouTube, whilst he was live streaming. He's whip-smart & knowledgeable. He does, however, have a couple of major flaws. 1) He trolls. Hard. 2) It seems he lies. Which I picked up f
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From barter to blockchain: A history of money(techcrunch.com)
1 points by discombobulate 9y ago|0 comments
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by discombobulate 9y ago
More Coinbase spam.
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by discombobulate 9y ago
They didn't change the title from a fake-news title with the 'Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream' story. 15 hours ago! I think the mods are on holiday.
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by discombobulate 9y ago
Is this the same as tokensale.pro? Token Sale as a Service. I came across them yesterday. I've seen at least one job posting for a dev to code a token sale/ICO. Seems like there may be demand for this type of thing.
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by discombobulate 9y ago
Can we stop with this Coinbase spam?
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by discombobulate 9y ago
http://polychain.capital Edit: I believe you invest in hedge funds directly. That's the impression I've gotten. I do my own investing. So have never used a broker.
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by discombobulate 9y ago
I don't know much about them -- if you're asking me. Edit: I'm focusing on the underlying protocols, ATM. Edit2: & security. A lot of security.
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by discombobulate 9y ago
That's obviously bad. But kids have always bought drugs. That is an example of how kidos can create their own economies with crypto. Money is something everyone understands. Even penguins & chimps understand trade (for sex, with th
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by discombobulate 9y ago
> and trade on GDAX. So you don't trade on Coinbase yourself? Edit: It's almost they have one exchange for ppl who know what they're doing, & one to fleece noobs (3.9% on BTC/USD. I think).
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by discombobulate 9y ago
> When I switched to this new upstart called Google it wasn't mainstream. It was in schools by that time. Youngsters could well embrace crypto long before the rest of the normies. I would have loved it when I was a kid. Anyone g
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Ethereum Scam Database(etherscamdb.info)
93 points by discombobulate 9y ago|22 comments
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by discombobulate 9y ago
> In the same way that today's web users don't care about html, http, or urls, digital currency won't be mainstream until they don't have to care about private keys, bitcoin addresses, or even (gasp!) the blockchain.

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