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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, paying researchers to 'review' could be a solution but incentives are still misaligned - there's far too much upside in publishing vis-a-vis reviewing. It's a prisoner's dilemma type thing and it would require
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by jariel 6y ago
'Authors' i.e. researchers are generally paid to do research and publish, it's absolutely the assumption or implication of their role.
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by jariel 6y ago
US animosity (i.e. firings for utterances of a word, lambasting any org. that doesn't meet certain criteria as 'White Supremacist', politicians blatantly lying about the election and running procedural coup attempts, lying on
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by jariel 6y ago
This is insightful, thanks, but there's a little problem here: The cost is borne one way or the other, the $500 is a matter of comp, not cost. If someone is going to review your work, that's an act of very material labour. That th
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by jariel 6y ago
You're blaming the bad faith actions of the 'far right' on a thread about the bad faith arguments of the 'far left'? I am empathetic: I have insane family members who believe Trump is God, and anyone who questions
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by jariel 6y ago
No, this it totally upside down. White teens on a vacation cannot be 'deeply offended by a historically offensive term of subjugation'. The power of the word in this context is not 'material offences' to those who have s
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by jariel 6y ago
You're fabricating a narrative based on speculation. Several times over in your post. You're not making a 'technical defence' you're just 'making it up'. In a reasoned post, you could have made the implica
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, I agree the civil war was mostly about slavery from a geopolitical perspective - but it was not mostly about slavery for those involved. Soldiers in the South were not going to kill the Yankees so that the 5% richest among them could k
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by jariel 6y ago
All of these are assumptions are based on fabricated conjecture. Major Red Flags.
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by jariel 6y ago
Ironically it's this comment that raises Red Flags. There's really nothing whatsoever in his articulation that is flag worthy. He's clearly a little bit curmudgeon, and probably disagreeable and there's nothing wrong wit
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by jariel 6y ago
Try to grasp that 'what they represent' is maybe not what you think they do. The Washington Monument was built by slaves, in the name of a man who owned slaves, in a nation full of slaves. Does it represent slavery? Or that era? E
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by jariel 6y ago
If you cannot 'trust the system' then nothing works - there is no avoiding it, everything breaks down. If you do not want to accept USD for reasons relating to 'trust' then there is no way to effectively exchange with t
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by jariel 6y ago
"is a safe and stable store of value" First - currency is not a store of value, it's just a means to facilitate exchange. If you have more than a few thousand dollars, and want to store it for a while you can literally ask th
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by jariel 6y ago
I won't respond to every point, but I will say that yes - none of the responses I articulated are guaranteed outcomes, it' not black and white, however, they are rational, moreover there is a 100% chance that effective monetary po
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by jariel 6y ago
1) No, crypto will never replace fiat. Thought the risk if printing money is always there, it's much much worse to have zero monetary policy implied with a fixed currency. A 'super hard' currency (i.e. 1 USD = 0.001 grams of
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by jariel 6y ago
This has nothing to do with BTC and the precipitous drop in M1/M2 Velocity has everything to do with macro trends + COVID which are worth discussing. BTC is not used as a currency the 'velocity' of it is basically irrelevant.
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by jariel 6y ago
No. Your attempt to project hyperbole into what I 'feel' is not rhetoric. If it's a small group of heretofore unknown people with a major stake in a new, exotic and opaque, 1 Trillion dollar asset pool, then describing them a
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by jariel 6y ago
'into it' for what reason? That's where the Ponzi part comes from.
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It's factual, noteworthy and reasonable in the context.
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by jariel 6y ago
I said it clearly: it's private information. It would be like some random person on the internet sending you an email, asking about specific details on your cap table.
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by jariel 6y ago
It's an bad question to ask outside the context of a relationship. It's like asking a very personal question of someone before even meeting them for a first date. 'Who the LP's are' is basically none of your busines
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by jariel 6y ago
What I see in those photos are Muslims, Jews and Gays, even Arabs and Iranians getting along ... all because their greed trumps their mutual hostility! Go capitalism?! Otherwise this is the face of Globalism, and to the extent there is 1) M
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by jariel 6y ago
It's called: Value investing, technical investing, speculating. 'RobinHood' style 'investing' means that people have access to 'data' which makes them feel 'informed' but for the most part they a
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by jariel 6y ago
This - but add 1) it's aspirational work which distorts some things (a lot of jobs are like this) and 2) probably lack of good Guild or Union. Markets actually rarely function very well on their own because participants often don'
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, all the best bankers in the world are idiots? They are not idiots, the only question is strategy. Inflation is actually in check, which is odd because they are spending a lot. The concern right now is not inflation or deflation, it&#x2
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, of course. The notion of making a currency based on a precious metal has one advantage only: fixed supply. And this is not much of an advantage. As far as currencies go, if you want such a currency, then based one off of Gold, not BTC.
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by jariel 6y ago
"Inflation benefits you unless you're in the top 1 percent." Not really - inflation generally means wages go down relative to wages and those who spend a higher portion of their income on 'stuff' are generally worse
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by jariel 6y ago
"But for high value products. Why not." The question is not 'why not?' the question is 'why?'.
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by jariel 6y ago
So build a non-distributed trust-based system based over top BTC instead of something else? Gold would be a much better thing to do that with? " without going through the traditional gatekeepers of our current financial system. "
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by jariel 6y ago
They did save the whales so, so 1 for 2 on the big items.

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