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by jf- 8y ago
Sorry, but I don’t think I can engage meaningfully if you expect me to prove a negative for the claim that you are making. That’s either a logical error or an attempt to make me do all the work, and the ‘claim’ ‘evidence’ part of your post
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by jf- 8y ago
And lots of other things that were stores of value still are. Anyway I’m done with this, I don’t even have a horse in this race.
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by jf- 8y ago
Try this: why?
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by jf- 8y ago
Yeah, it doesn’t really have utility. It’s a thing other people will trade things for based on a kind of collective insanity. It just happens to be the same kind of collective insanity that we apply to lots of things, only we dress this thi
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by jf- 8y ago
Artworks, antiques, gemstones. None of these are of any practical value, yet they hold value. You’re over systematising and not getting it. Value isn’t inherently rational. Also, what was the false equivalence?
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by jf- 8y ago
After re-reading the blog, I feel a bit bad about the negativity I and others expressed here. If you do read this xylon, don’t take it to heart! Also thanks for sharing your circuit, it certainly provoked an interesting discussion.
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by jf- 8y ago
What am I falsely equating? I don't think that the store of value argument is absurd, even with real world assets like gold their value is really just socially constructed. I don't see why it couldn't in principle be the same
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by jf- 8y ago
Sure, there's no rational way to predict what bitcoin "should" be worth like with a startup, or any other company. Exactly because it's less a technology and more a social construct, as you say it's based on momentu
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by jf- 8y ago
BTC is still around $3500, not bad for something that was worth a few hundred three years ago. I'm not willing to call it dead just yet. There are plenty of assets that make little sense to value, and yet they are. The bias here is to
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by jf- 8y ago
I wonder, how low does crypto need to fall before coinbase becomes non-viable?
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by jf- 8y ago
Wow. I'm sorry to be snarky but if this level of reasoning is representative of the cryptocurrency community then there's a reason it's failing.
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by jf- 8y ago
Anything that can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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by jf- 8y ago
You could have started by putting forward an argument in support of your position, rather than an appeal to your personal authority.
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by jf- 8y ago
Then does the bias you assume others to have not apply equally to you? It doesn’t matter what arguments are made here, if you’re all-in on blockchain you’re not going to listen to any of them. Also, how do you account for such scepticism fr
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by jf- 8y ago
Serious question: do you have a personal financial or professional stake in blockchain that may be colouring your view?
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by jf- 8y ago
The problem with your argument is that blockchain isn’t comparable to the internet. It’s an energy inefficient immutable public ledger. There just aren’t many, if any, applications that require an immutable public ledger, or that derive any
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by jf- 8y ago
> APPLE IS A SYMBOL OF PRETENTIOUSNESS AND IGNORANCE - YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW HOW YOUR PHONE WORKS Is this guy for real? I don’t know the nitty gritty of how most of the things I use work, I’m only concerned that they work. Sounds like s
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by jf- 8y ago
As long as I can remember it’s been this way, authors have always made very tiny percentage royalties on physical books. I don’t know what the figures are like for digital distribution but if they aren’t better it’s a travesty.
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by jf- 8y ago
Author needs to add a patreon link to the article.
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by jf- 8y ago
It depends on how far down the line you want moral culpability to apply. To take this to it’s logical extreme, it effectively makes the developer responsible for anything the end user decides to use their software for. The same reasoning is
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by jf- 8y ago
At some point in the development of a large app you run into irreducible complexity. The logic and moving parts are just necessarily complicated and nobody is going to fully understand the system. It doesn’t matter what architecture you use
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by jf- 8y ago
I think I’m now at the point of jumping aboard this movement away from google. Not because their services are bad (they objectively are excellent) nor even because of privacy concerns (though they are legitimate), but because of the argumen
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by jf- 8y ago
The question doesn’t really have significance in an everyday sense. To have free will means to be able to choose between options. To ask questions about determinism may be intellectually interesting but is of little practical consequence.
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by jf- 8y ago
You seem to be painting this as an issue of ability: intelligent people do real computer science. These people would never need a user-friendly course introducing them to a topic. Seems both uncharitable and untrue.
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by jf- 8y ago
> I now always keep one eye on sales at Udemy, and will be spending 200€ on a single course in the following day. Are these not covered by the perma-sales?
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by jf- 8y ago
Rule of thumb: if there’s a perpetual 9.99 sale on, down from 120, it’s Udemy. They surely hold the record for most frequent sales events of all time.
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by jf- 8y ago
> Sorry, to be clear, there usually isn't any machine learning involved (at least not in the examples I'm familiar with), but the rest of the process is very similar. No problem, shame though! It seems to me there must be scope
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by jf- 8y ago
When I look up the subject I see several structural function prediction methods. This being so I don’t accept that having better structure does not assist in predicting function, at least when using these approaches.
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by jf- 8y ago
> You're describing what protein design researchers have been doing already for years already. If that’s so, can you link to any supplementary material about it? Particularly with respect to how machine learning is being used, how t
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by jf- 8y ago
Question: Are there any other recession signals which have also recently presented themselves? I know very low unemployment, which we have, is one. Are there others?

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