heterodoxxed

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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
A killer app would prove utility. Something that shows that it has use outside of the ideological and invested. In other words, something that someone on the outside can use. The internet is decentralized and produced "killer apps&quot
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
This comment perfectly encapsulates the logic of neoliberalism and inadvertently provides insight into how it is sending us full speed on an ecological collision course.
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
It's been around for 12 years and nothing even close to a killer app has come and it's one promise of utility (as a currency) has proven to not be scalable.
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
> Bitcoin is a store of value That's what's said now because it failed as a currency.
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
Remind me again, are we talking about an asset or a currency?
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
Imagine using Žižek to argue for Bitcoin.
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
Tether is a real Michael Burry moment for me. They claim to have 30 billion in reserves right now and are "printing" a billion tethers at a time. Yet nobody can confirm their reserves and the company itself is absurdly opaque. Eit
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
> The U.S. government can print as much dollars as they want, whereas BTC cannot. In a macroeconomic sense, this is a strength of the dollar and a weakness of Bitcoin.
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
I'd love to hear the justification (no pun intended) for this.
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You assumed the extreme opposite.
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
> I’ve seen anti-union propaganda. You yourself haven't even had the experience of going through life without seeing a significant amount of anti-union propaganda. Yet you believe there are people who miraculously have.
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
> if they were dead inside I'm not the original poster, so I'm not sure why you're responding to me as if I were. > Thats your experience Yes, that's my experience. My experience is extremely common. Have you not
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
> you’re so unfamiliar with the actual case against unions How can the average American worker be so unfamiliar with the case against unions? We are inundated with anti-union propaganda practically from birth. Barely any of us are unioni
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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
NAKED might not be an accurate representation of NAKD since the phrase "naked short" is used so frequently.
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This isn't a surprising outcome but it goes against a commonly used argument against everything from a UBI to a social safety net to a cooperative society. People want to work, they want to produce and they want to feel accomplished. I