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by javert 5y ago
Bitcoin itself isn't the Wild West, and that's part of what the author is saying.
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by javert 5y ago
Vitalik is a saint in comparison to Hoskinson, but that doesn't mean Ethereum is sound money. It is what it is; lots of good innovation there, but sound money, it is not.
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by javert 5y ago
Bitcoin has chosen consistency with its original principles over "innovation." A good choice, in my book. What we should think of as constituting sound money has not changed since 2008. That is what bitcoin is supposed to be - sou
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> Bitcoin has also forked, many times. This is a false comparison. The bitcoin blockchain maintains the original monetary policy of bitcoin, which is effectively set in stone. That is not true of Ethereum, and that is the purported probl
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by javert 5y ago
It's OK. I forgive you. It wouldn't be right to let a good deed go unpunished on Hacker News. Or unflagged.
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by javert 5y ago
You're welcome.
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by javert 5y ago
> Lest ye incur the wrath of dang, HN newbies, accusing others of astroturfing or hidden agendas is against the guidelines. For people who are having trouble parsing that: I am not an HN noob and I did not accuse anyone of astroturfing.
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by javert 5y ago
Since inflation can cause the value of debts to decrease, it's more expensive to borrow money. All monetary distortion (including inflation) translates into economic distortion (suboptimal allocation and waste).
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by javert 5y ago
"- The highest capital gains tax bracket in the USA is 20% [2]" Not really, because they can arbitrarily change it and backdate the change at any time, and they are currently planning to raise it to 43% and backdate the change. In
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by javert 5y ago
The US government doesn't work like that. There isn't some logical person making logical decisions. For this change to occur, many senators and representatives would have to be directly and personally incentivized to make the chan
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by javert 5y ago
> As soon as they have physical access to the owner, it is seizable. This is incorrect. If the owner doesn't reveal the private key, the government cannot seize the bitcoin.
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by javert 5y ago
What is depression caused by, in your opinion? I have my own view, just want to see if yours is similar to mine or is interesting in some other way.
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by javert 5y ago
The incentive system that academic scientists live under explains why they don't push for studying metascience. If that's going to happen, it has to come from outside the government-science complex. Good luck with that...
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by javert 5y ago
Exactly my thinking. Very well said.
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I have a personal rule: If I need a comment, it goes at the beginning of the function. This neatly groups the comment with the code it applies to. Occasionally I have to make a function "just" for this grouping purpose, but that&#
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by javert 5y ago
I disagree. Code is not just for controlling the computer. Just as importantly, it's also meant to be read by humans. So, code should be written in a way that is easy for a human to read and understand. Code should easily and natural
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by javert 5y ago
The dev deserved to be treated kindly, by default. But by being unkind himself, he surrendered that privilege. So now he won't and shouldn't get what he asked for. I don't understand how an adult human could fail to understan
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by javert 5y ago
Why hurt the middle class to help "consumers"? Nah. If you wanted to make the tax system "more fair" it would mean lowering the outrageously high taxes on the middle class, but that's not within the Overton window a
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by javert 5y ago
Also, it might be useful for HN to require submitters to provide a year for the URL they are submitting. The year is automatically appended to the title as ($YEAR) unless it's the current year.
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by javert 5y ago
If bitcoin becomes the world currency, nation states can mine in order to protect the system. I think an equilibrium would be reached. For example, the US is probably OK with Russia having 10% of hash power if the US has 10%, and so on. How
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by javert 5y ago
I wonder if an equivalent to the AeroPress could be made out of metal or glass or ceramic. I'd pay for that. I'd pay a lot for that. It seems crazy that the best coffee maker in the world is only available in plastic.
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by javert 5y ago
I lost my father at 15 and my mother at 32. My mother did not live long enough to see me get married; in fact, I'm now 34 and nowhere close to getting married. But she really would have wanted to see that. Hope this is something slight
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by javert 5y ago
Many people are proposing "fixes" for this kind of behavior in the comments. Fundamentally, there is no way to fix it, because the system is self-disregulating. In other words, there is no mechanism to bring the academic system ba
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by javert 5y ago
People don't own land just because their ancestors occupied it. Do I have a claim to parts of England and Scotland? Literally all land has been stolen at gunpoint in the past. What we should be doing is progressing as a civilization, w
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by javert 5y ago
All labor in Cuba is slave labor. No, the suffering of slaves under communism is not comparable to hippies whining about pipelines.
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by javert 5y ago
Cuba is Communist. Do some research about the actual conditions there. It's a slave pen and a hellhole.
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by javert 5y ago
Yet our transportation infrastructure is decaying; our healthcare is among the worst in the world--the governments pays AND we pay out of pocket AND it still sucks; and our education sucks.
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Sad. Cuban cobalt is definitely not conflict free.
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If you take away rich people's money, other kinds of "insiders" will still pull the levers to enrich themselves and benefit their cronies at the expense of the public well-being. The regulatory state, even if democratic, is f
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Both of those things are definitely untrue. When I lived in the US, the vast majority of my taxes went to the federal government and didn't come back in local benefits like schools and roads. (Sure, federal money comes back to universi

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