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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
Those are all true? I mean sure "some X" is a great way to say almost nothing about X, but the literal statement is true
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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
Whew I wonder which of your sentences caused downvotes
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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
Shh, coins !
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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
I think there are two groups, one that shapeshifts and moves goalposts for the purpose of selling coins at a profit (either offloading a huge stash or being on the right side of the bubble cycle), and another that treats it like a portfolio
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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
I ponder, are there more rooms getting listed that weren’t before (increasing supply and dropping price) or are existing rooms on the market becoming more marketable (increasing price directly with a fixed supply as you suggest). “Both” yes
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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
I thought it was possible they didn't have "safe, secret" backups (the implication here hopefully being obvious from context clues. A general principle of good discourse is to assume the interpretation that makes the most sen
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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
Is this official confirmation that everything is safely secretly backed up?
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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
You are rejecting the negative connotation of the word “print” but the fact is that the bank can do a financial operation that would be illegal for a non-bank and which most humans would call printing money, and make a profit
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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
Personally I am peeved that I can’t individually make fractional reserve loans in genuine fungible currency (costs ~$30m to be a bank), so I’d like to choose a zero-sum point where the rich don’t get richer by default
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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
Do you also get taxed if paid in bitcoin Why not just do a 10% wealth tax on all of a person's assets on top of their income tax
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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
It comes off as slightly autistic but the concept is introduced to most people in terms of exactly the notation he used.
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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
Not everyone is depressed or parasitic by nature
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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
You definitely shouldn't!
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by jabgrabdthrow 8y ago
Do you own Streamr coins?
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
And death! Meme barf buddies!
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
As a Cis White Male, you don’t understand what race means to other people, but don’t worry, others will be sure to treat it as a racial issue even if you refuse to.
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
Anonymity lets you induce cognitive dissonance in people you disagree with without real life social consequences. The troll derives pleasure not just from anger or frustration, but knowing they’ve left a logical knot which will require unta
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
> The very first name we came up with was “stdlib” and, through a stroke of fate, “stdlib.com” was available. maybe everyone who thought of that name before you laughed and said "I'm not that kind of person"
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
Your comment reads like an insight from an authoritative and trustworthy source, but you have no idea what you’re talking about and your intuitions are totally wrong.
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
In the first step, he says roughly "assume half of the nodes change protocol". I named by dog Bitcoin too but he doesn't have the same UTXO state as the main chain.
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
It’s like a reverse Haiti and Certain African Countries. I’m sure Larry Page personally randomly picked 9 states and there is no predefined context. ANY state can relate! Jobs jobs jobs!
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
Why is this on Hacker News?
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
Here's something similar: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0011076 I found that article from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregeometry_(physics)
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
At which number would you no longer make the point you just made? 100 failed startups? 50,000? You’ve got a lot of faith in people. My number is maybe 5.
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
Can you explain your point more clearly? Are you saying that he’s not credible because he got rich off of it?
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
Rent-seeking and design by committee. Imagine they charged dollars instead of their own coin (it would be cheaper to do so).
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
I just bet myself 5:95 odds (lose means donate directly to the org - they just missed out on 12.5k) that there would be only rent-seeking or “voting” in the “token use cases”. These guys don’t know what they don’t know. Also, HA HA HA. I us
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
You make me glad the 2nd amendment exists! Did you study economics as your undergrad? I hope your prediction comes true and you refuse to put 10% of your money into btc until regret drives you to personally lead the revolution to seize the
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
So bitcoin is like art-as-store-of-value, that makes sense, it could lose 100% of its value unlike national currencies which can only suffer 91% loss in case of a bank run and only 99.9% loss in case of hyperinflation. Does your portfolio a
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by jabgrabdthrow 9y ago
Would you feel better if people stopped calling it a currency? Also do they really have to ban it, can’t they just seize it all? It might be really embarrassing if we ban it and all the capital flees to Russia.

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