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by javert 5y ago
You haven't intellectually engaged with anything I said, you've just called it a "conspiracy" and tried to laugh at it. That's says a lot. You totally ignored the essential point of my post which is that many things
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No, because there were other variables with the banking crises that occurred in the gold era (which, incidentally, was nonetheless the greatest era of economic growth in human history). You cannot simply extrapolate directly from that era t
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by javert 5y ago
I don't agree with your interpretation of what this passage really means, i.e., what its message implies and what is essential vs. accidental. The Fed is the ultimate "middleman." Anyway, I do not think the philosophical unde
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by javert 5y ago
As a bitcoin fan, I think that's missing the point. Bitcoin is about ending US monetary hegemony over the world. That dominance allows the US to grossly abuse its own citizens (future generations in particular) and people around the wo
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by javert 5y ago
> What are we doing this for? The "Homeland Security" apparatus is hungry and must grow. It's about jobs, power, and money for these bureaucrats. The "Homeland Security" apparatus is the most powerful political f
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by javert 5y ago
Including the people who manufacture the sale of indulences for their own personal profit? Do they really believe in the tenet of having living people pray for the dead? Is the medieval mind capable of such cognitive dissonance? More impo
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by javert 5y ago
Well, I'm aware that there are people that believe this stuff today. But Jakob Fugger, if you actually read about his life, does not appear to have a moral bone in his body in the Catholic sense. That informed my comment. I personally
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by javert 5y ago
Seems doubtful that the patron actually believed that people praying for him would help him in the afterlife. But maybe I'm totally misunderstanding the medieval mind.
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by javert 5y ago
Complaining to the Pope is not equivalent to taking the further enormous leap of breaking away from the Catholic Church. I don't know the history and would love for someone to fill me in, but I'm just not convinced that you are ri
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by javert 5y ago
Hey, no need to have an attitude. The source of the discrepancy turns out to be that we define "middle class" differently, which was one of my leading suspicions. Not sure what country your experiences are based on, but I consider
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by javert 5y ago
There is a reversion to mean among the children of highly successful people. Just because your dad made $100M in business doesn't mean you are that capable; you probably aren't (statistically speaking). Taking a "middle class
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by javert 5y ago
What specifically makes you say that middle class people have highly stressful lives? I don't have that association, personally, but maybe I'm out of touch.
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by javert 5y ago
The author didn't miss anything. It's a practical guide, not a social commentary. Why do you have to insert social commentary? It's off topic.
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To add to that: when people buy gold to hold onto it as an investment, it takes gold off the market and puts dollars into the market. Gold is more scarce, and dollars are less scarce. This has two effects. 1) reduces the price of dollars an
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by javert 5y ago
That seems more applicable to your comment than the one you're replying to. But maybe that's just my cultural biases speaking.
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by javert 5y ago
"Slandering" would be spreading a potentially untrue assertion without evidence. Providing precisely the evidence you have, as OP did, is perfectly intellectually hygenic, and is not slandering. Anyway, my personal sense, as a f
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by javert 5y ago
If someone would make a tutorial that replicates the process you just described, that might be a good way to teach monads.
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by javert 5y ago
This article is full of blatantly faulty "logic." Maybe de Grey is guilty as charged, but this article is just irresponsible, reprehensible noise. It's OK up to the cryonics comment, as far as I can tell; after that it just b
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by javert 5y ago
I appreciate the mathematical precision there. Still, my intuition is that it wouldn't work very well for large payments. I mean, if the average payment is $1 or $5 worth of value, but sometimes someone wants to buy a car or a house, h
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by javert 5y ago
Wouldn't this make double spend attacks very practical? I mean, if I spend $X, someone is incentivized to steal if the fee I pay is less than $X. I realize this gets better as more blocks are added to the end of the chain. But it seems
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by javert 5y ago
My explanation was incomplete, to make for a good and clear example. If I hadn't seen airplanes and flown in them, I'd still be open to believing they exist. My belief would depend on what other evidence there is (broadly speaking
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by javert 5y ago
Rationality is a process, but it has to have data to work with. That data comes from perception of the world (sight, hearing, etc.). There is no such thing as "pure" rationality without sense data to work with. Evidence for the bi
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by javert 5y ago
I agree with that, yes.
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by javert 5y ago
I feel lucky to hear these stories and "hang out" with these engineers, even if I can't personally get access to what they're discussing. I think it's absolutely awful that you and others in this thread are actively
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by javert 5y ago
For a critical thinker, the baseline facts come from the person's own direct experience. They have to. For example, I probably wouldn't 100% believe that hundreds of people can cross the sky in a metal tube (i.e., modern jet air
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by javert 5y ago
I didn't find the question to be rude.
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Just making blocks bigger isn't enough to scale bitcoin to Visa levels, so making on-chain bitcoin payments work for small payments was never on the table. It would have required a radical redesign of bitcoin to even have a chance of
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by javert 5y ago
Bitcoin can be sound money after the price stabilizes, which will probably take decades if it ever happens. Nothing else in the world ever could be sound money except commodity money, like gold, but I'd argue that bitcoin is better.
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by javert 5y ago
Despite the tagline from the whitepaper, it's always been clear to me that bitcoin was an Austrian-style sound money system and could not scale to be a network for small payments. I think bitcoin has remained consistent with the origin
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by javert 5y ago
That is just an emotionalistic assertion. You aren't interacting with the actual content of the article.

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