frankenst1

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by frankenst1 6y ago
> In your example of steak, there are macroeconomic changes which may well cause the specific commodity to change in price substantially over time. Inflation isn't determined as a function of "steak" but rather as a functi
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by frankenst1 6y ago
Please stick to the arguments at hand and don't attack the person/character. Sure, you could rely on account age and post history to determine if you "believe" what somebody says. The other option would be to actually re
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by frankenst1 6y ago
To be fair I actually thought that inflation was measured using a fixed basket of goods. Apparently that was changed in the 90s. An example I read (of which I am not sure if it is entirely accurate) was: "if steaks become too expensive
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by frankenst1 6y ago
What is your response to the argument that - CPI(-U) is not a suitable measurement of inflation anymore since it discarded fixed basket goods somewhere in the 90s and that - inflation measures with "old-school" fixed baskets repor
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by frankenst1 6y ago
You really shouldn't trust articles that use metrics like CO2/tx or that claim to have "proven" Bitcoin's environmental impact. At the same time you shouldn't use such a "proof" as an excuse to dismis
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by frankenst1 6y ago
Bitcoin's high electricity usage comes from finding the block (header), not from processing the transactions inside it, i.e. the same energy is used to find a block with 0 transactions or 10,000 transactions. So, more transactions don&
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by frankenst1 6y ago
Sidenote: It currently costs miners ~$10K to produce 1 BTC.
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by frankenst1 6y ago
Tether is also a "crypto position" and does not hold any special tax exemption status. If you exchange your crypto asset A for any other crypto asset B (e.g. Tether) it creates a taxable event under most jurisdictions.
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by frankenst1 6y ago
> And if you don't cherry pick a time period which contains a market crash? This chart covers January - November and includes an almost 50% drop in march. And it is still not as volatile as e.g. TSLA. >stocks represent a real sta
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by frankenst1 6y ago
Blacklisting addresses based on where they received money from doesn't make any sense. Blacklisted wallets can just send microcents (dust) to whitelisted wallets, which would now have to be blacklisted as well. You can make it illegal
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by frankenst1 6y ago
If you don't trust a coin to operate according to your expectations (e.g. a 21M limit), you can verify the source code and/or run a node yourself. This way you can yourself guarantee that all transactions happening on the network
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by frankenst1 6y ago
I was talking about 3-month volatility in 2020, you are talking about daily volatility today. But even on daily %-change in 2020, BTC doesn't look different to other stocks: https://imgur.com/a/mE7bSI4 (the green
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by frankenst1 6y ago
Here is a chart[0] of the daily changes showing BTC, AMZN, AAPL, NFLX, TSLA from January to November. Can you tell me which one is BTC (hint: the green one is TSLA)? BTC has higher volatility than other assets on short timescales (e.g. <
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by frankenst1 6y ago
Like most posts critical of Bitcoin it ignores that - Bitcoin becomes less volatile over time - Bitcoin was less volatile than TLSA, AMZN or AAPL in 2020 (3-month realised volatility) [0] - Bitcoin becomes less risky over time
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by frankenst1 6y ago
Nocoiner Frances Coppola: "Bitcoin is not scarce because each coin is subdivided into satoshis". These comments are entertaining but seem to get more ridiculous with every year.
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by frankenst1 6y ago
Closed-lid + External Monitor + Power Supply = awake Closed-lid + External Monitor + Battery = sleep Closed-lid + External Monitor + Battery + Amphetamine = awake
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by frankenst1 6y ago
Apparently the Macbook will only experience this issue while running on battery.
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by frankenst1 6y ago
> I don't doubt it has its uses, but is it really OS functionality? Example: Closed-lid Macbooks with external display will go to sleep without this tool.
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by frankenst1 6y ago
> Most people don’t have significant cash savings. Unfortunately those are often the same people that get hit the hardest once inflation increases the sales prices while their salaries remain stagnant and they can't afford hedge opt
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by frankenst1 6y ago
> I expect the government to do so. I suspect many don't and many underestimate the effect inflation has on their savings. > Conversely, I expect that when Bitcoin goes wrong and the 21 million unit limit is replaced (call it “Bi
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by frankenst1 6y ago
You can't trust the government (or the central banks) to not dilute your savings by increasing the money supply - something they have already been doing in 2020 at an unprecedented rate which will continue in 2021. While Bitcoin might
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Personal data of ~273K buyers of hardware crypto wallets exposed in public leak(twitter.com)
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by frankenst1 6y ago
I would argue that extending "improved syntax" beyond readability to carry "addition of new features" blurs the lines between syntax and semantics. The point was that modern JS is more convenient to use: Const/let,
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by frankenst1 6y ago
The issue here is that for some reason I often struggle to remember which function sorts in ascending order [(b-a) or (a-b)]. In fact, your example suffers from the same problem: It sorts in descending order (20,10,2,1) instead of ascending
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by frankenst1 6y ago
To go maximum pedant, your `increment` is an array instead of a function which returns that array: var increment = function() { return [1,2,3,4,5].map(function(num) { return num + 1; }); }; Moreover
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by frankenst1 6y ago
"lessening screentime may reduce the symptoms of depression" Can anybody explain how they could possibly distinguish these two scenarios: - A) Depressed people watch more TV/screen. - B) Watching more TV makes people depresse