georgecarlin

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by georgecarlin 9y ago
I agree printing money != printing wealth, in fact it has the exact opposite effect, it debases wealth. My argument is against the fallacy that since bitcoin's price is set by unregulated supply and demand, it has no value or is some
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by georgecarlin 9y ago
This doesn't make sense. You don't get anything for the company performing economic activity. The price of a (non-dividend-paying) stock is set strictly by supply and demand. You only get anything when you sell.. i.e. when s
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by georgecarlin 9y ago
No. "stocks/bonds/land/etc" are not actual assets backed by anything OTHER than scarcity. Land has value due to scarcity and utility (everyone needs somewhere to live). Stocks have value almost exclusively due to ca
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by georgecarlin 9y ago
This makes less than zero sense
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by georgecarlin 9y ago
You used emacs for 10 years and never used cscope?
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by georgecarlin 9y ago
I think the fact that there is no Satoshi means that 1. his/her/their vision is up for grabs and 2. whoever did create Bitcoin didn't want people continuously asking him/her/them what their vision for this is. It ha
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by georgecarlin 9y ago
Excuses excuses my friend!
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by georgecarlin 9y ago
Is this really the kind of thing we need to argue semantics about? We're doomed as a society if this is the top voted comment.
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by georgecarlin 9y ago
This is rly cool
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by georgecarlin 9y ago
-20 degree winters will do that to you if rain doesn't
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by georgecarlin 10y ago
The problem is collecting all this quality writing in an easy-to-consume and easy-to-access fashion. Of course we all know 10+ bloggers who we read and who offer great perspective, quality writing etc. The idea is to consolidate this conten
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by georgecarlin 10y ago
Tbh this sounds like more work than just reading the book