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by fthssht 6y ago
The correct comparison is with the transaction and storage costs, in electricity, of storing gold in fort knox and moving it once a century in a boat across the ocean. Tesla's 1.5 billion USD in bitcoin probably won't move in your
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by fthssht 6y ago
Too rude for Quora? There will always be a place for you here. Welcome home.
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by fthssht 8y ago
Its really amazing that you would try to defend free press in a discussion about Assange. Locking up Assange is an attack on free press. Trump calling CNN liars actually isn't. Obama calling Fox liars wouldn't be either.
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by fthssht 8y ago
This study says the effect was small. http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf Even Nate Silver acknowledges the effect of Russia was modest. Maybe he's changed his tune now? This was written b
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by fthssht 8y ago
What is the extent of the Russian interference really though? Studies show it didn't change the outcome. We still don't really know who hacked the DNC, whether it was Russia as a hand selected group of people from intelligence age
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by fthssht 8y ago
True, evidence looks more like this: Two well-done meta-analyses of statins for primary prevention showed no mortality benefit. After the exclusion of four trials with serious risks of bias, the relative risk of cardiovascular events associ
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by fthssht 8y ago
The thing about statins is if you believe the hype, and don't believe the fear mongering they still barely work, according to the pharmaceutical funded studies. Just enough to claim its got a benefit but how big is this benefit?
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by fthssht 8y ago
If this were the first of its kind yes, but given that there are numerous studies suggesting that exercise is good for the brain its reasonable hypothesis. Rather than a non-story I'd say it adds to a body of evidence for a strong hypo
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by fthssht 8y ago
My point only is that the total value is relatively very high and its price would be as difficult for one individual to move around as a large cap stock. Your hypothetical 1 trade a day isn't reality. Click this link and look at the de
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by fthssht 8y ago
Are you referring specifically to certain Chinese exchanges where this could be done without a commission? Have there ever been any accusations that U.S. exchanges like Coinbase and Gemini engaged in wash trading?
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by fthssht 8y ago
It applies to all these transactions: https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins
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by fthssht 8y ago
I think "not entirely true" is an understatement. Bitcoin has a 115 Billion dollar market cap and is traded all around the world in arms length transactions for local currencies and is treated as fungible. Like to gold market peop
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by fthssht 9y ago
I think what you're describing is a subset of the character of your neighborhood changing in a way you don't like. For example, your neighborhood becomes expensive, or gentrified, or crime filled or you don't like the noisy g
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by fthssht 9y ago
You make a good point that the value of regulations for Uber is negligible. Regulatory capture is an understandable motivation by industry but its weird to see the public embrace it. I see a lot of people in this thread complaining about ho
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by fthssht 9y ago
Have you learned that you wish Uber and AirBNB were strangled by regulation before they got off the ground?
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by fthssht 9y ago
800ms is pretty slow for a sober human I think https://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/statistics
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by fthssht 9y ago
I find it hard to imagine any sane person intentionally writing ambiguous contracts with the plan to hash out the details in court in the future. The last place you want to end up is in court because of the time cost and uncertainty.
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by fthssht 10y ago
It seems to me that Amazon gets a tremendous amount of bad press singing the exact song you just sung. However, I think the analogy is more like Uber drivers for package delivery. A union won't stop a job from becoming obsolete due to
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by fthssht 10y ago
Agree no paradigms shattered with a driver in the seat from an economic POV. Im not sure safety gains have to be marginal. This thing, scaled over millions of miles, paid uber driver in the seat with a system that chimes to make driver take
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by fthssht 10y ago
The problem lies that nobody thought the lawsuit against Gawker was a miscarrage of justice until they learned a billionaire was involved. Its become more about fear of rich people than the facts of this specific case and this specific comp
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by fthssht 10y ago
#3 actually seems positive.
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by fthssht 10y ago
Your problem with ideology is that its not as comforting as religion? I think ideology can help take a 10,000 foot view of highly complex situations. There are many factors in a political or economic decision but we can easily say that free
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by fthssht 10y ago
An attack on liberalism. The Guardian really is a very poor quality publication.
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by fthssht 11y ago
There ought to be a check against a DA pursuing a vastly unpopular prosecution or pursuing a case with highly disproportionate threats. The incentives are messed up. A DA spends public money going after a case that might be good for their c
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by fthssht 11y ago
That's sort of like saying doctors are so focused on cancer patients they should focus on people who are perfectly healthy. This story is tragic. That is why people write about it. It also illuminates a lot of problems with our society
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by fthssht 11y ago
Looks like you've been reading Bostrom. I was actually annoyed about the amount of time he spent on the whole notion of genetically engineering smarter humans. I think his intent was to rigorously prove that even if technology for some
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by fthssht 12y ago
Comcast has a monopoly because regulations and high costs of infrastructure make it difficult for competitors to emerge. Somehow you think they deregulation of the taxi industry will recreate this situation. Cost of a car and the regulation
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by fthssht 12y ago
People have to work because they have no capital. They are drowning. A job is a life preserver. The solution is to demand a bigger life preserver from he business man (minimum wage) the solution is to remove the pool (citizens divided guara
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by fthssht 12y ago
I think it's a tad misleading to suggest user or silicon valley are setting policy. When the government "sets policy" that's really just making things illegal. Silicon valley can offer a service and the government can de
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by fthssht 12y ago
Is overwhelming consensus a joke or are you genuinely that close minded arrogant and misinformed? ???

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