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by eric_cc 3y ago
> Most people in the field would not be willing to put it at >50% odds at this point. Do you have a source for this claim? It sounds like you just made it up.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Fair point that it reads negatively. I was smiling while I wrote it. A 10 year period of time does not invoke the word veteran to me. But it’s not a big deal and I’d rather not bring the negative vibes.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> 10 year career veteran A 10 year career does not make you a veteran..
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by eric_cc 3y ago
I’m comparing apples to apples.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
No it is absolutely not. The dominion lawsuit does not have anything to do with how utterly biased the NY Times is.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> It might be too late when NYTimes podcasts are openly talking about how the reporters dislike using it anymore. Nytimes is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They pretend to be better than something like Fox News but they’re the same thing. T
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by eric_cc 3y ago
This is a total us vs them take. They’re empty. There’s nothing to them. Us, on the other hand.. They bad. We good. Classic tribal caveman-level thought process.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
According to a WSJ report. Which may be true. But where’s the evidence? Why not stick to provable facts instead of this type of tabloid content? This is Reddit-level discourse.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> Elon is doing ketamine How do you know what he’s doing? Even if he’s said something positive about it and/or used it in the past doesn’t mean anything. I have positive things to say about psilocybin but haven’t done it in 20 years
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by eric_cc 3y ago
While I do think changing twitter to X is foolish, this post is garbage. > huckster > has done so many horse tranquilizers as psychedelics that something broke and he is flipping out > after too many horse tranquilizer trips. He&#x
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Bitcoin IS money. Record high numbers of people are onboarding to bitcoin and not coming back to fiat. It’s just as much an “investment” as the US dollar is.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
There is a lot of hate here for crypto but you have seen nothing yet. The cognitive dissonance is going to be a sight to behold in the next 365 days.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> Forgive me, I know little about crypto, and am bearish on it Forgive me, how can you form a bearish opinion on something you know very little about?
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> The fact that the platform is now explicitly transphobic is a case in point. Musk has made transphobia part of his policy position. Hacker News has become Reddit. ${the thing I hate} is racist and transphobic!! And mindless anti-Musk
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> You're delusional. Twitter before the acquisition was extremely politically neutral and gave extremist right wing voices way more leeway than should be socially acceptable. LOL wow.. calling somebody else delusional is serious pro
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Bitcoin
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Can’t argue your point on governments. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out when Bitcoin reaches the next leg up.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Easy to prove every point you’ve dropped here wrong. But your TL/DR is: you don’t like bitcoin.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Bitcoin is priced in fiat which is itself volatile. Bitcoin must detach from fiat to gain true stability.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
It absolutely does. What leads you to believe that it doesn’t?
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Bitcoins user experience has taken time to evolve for the better. The real draw is that it’s immutable decentralized money with a predictable print schedule. When it reaches user experience parity with the dollar then it comes down to the t
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> crypto.. failed You realize it’s still here, adoption is increasing, utility is increasing, etc Just because it’s not a hype cycle does not mean it’s dead or even close to dead.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
“Proper monetary policy” Want to elaborate? Bitcoins monetary policy is beautiful in its simplicity and predictability. In that sense, it stands in stark contrast to fiat.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Its adoption is growing every day. Read up on bitcoin lightning network growth.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Bitcoin still has the potential to become the worlds reserve currency. That’s pretty legit.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Bitcoin has the potential to become the world’s reserve currency. Your smug dismissal of it is ignorant at best. Consider how power structures (eg nation states) may change in such a future.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
If wanting an immutable currency that is not controlled by a central government means I’m in a cult of like-minded, then guilty as charged.
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Source?
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by eric_cc 3y ago
> No one is tethering their home purchase budget to BTC. Whether you tether the purchase of a home to bitcoin or the US dollar is more a state of mind, tribalism, etc. Both the US dollar and bitcoin have no intrinsic value. They both der
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by eric_cc 3y ago
Good points. Consider all the different investment instruments out there. Abstractions on top of abstractions on top of abstractions of buying power. Yes, a stable currency is desirable. But volatile abstractions are also beneficial to powe

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