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by keymone 6y ago
> where is the "intrinsic value"? there is no such thing. not in bitcoin, not in usd, not in gold. all value is extrinsic and assigned by market. > tons of other things do! E.g. why not invest in amber, it's probably on
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by keymone 6y ago
last night was in 2021, last time i checked.
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by keymone 6y ago
There’s a balance to be struck between conciseness and readability. Don’t be terse as APL and don’t be as verbose as Java. Clojure hits the sweet spot for me, it’s subjective ofc.
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by keymone 6y ago
Author describes a nice feature, but that’s not what makes repl-driven development tick for me. Repl really shines when editor integrates with it - send a form to evaluate, instantly get result back into the editor, eval a form and replace
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by keymone 6y ago
I would contest every point. Ethical: cruelty is bad, so responsible production of meat is preferred but there’s no reason why killing animal for food should be bad, such that same argument can’t be applied to veggie production. Environmen
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by keymone 6y ago
Would those positions not reverse for described “time-reversed” waves? Or would the simulated time-reversion look like normal wave because, after all, it’s generated normally?
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by keymone 6y ago
And if the concept described in the article is valid, how do you differentiate between plain and “time-reversed” version of those waves? Length compression and other relativistic effects, as I understand relate to those properties measured
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by keymone 6y ago
Interesting to think about the experiment of copying some chunk of the universe with a wave in it and letting the time tick in a simulation: which direction should the wave propagate? Surely there must be some information encoded somewhere
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by keymone 6y ago
This may be extremely dumb question, but given a snapshot of a wave, what properties of that snapshot tell you which direction that wave is moving in?
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by keymone 6y ago
> Bitcoin has been consistently "around the corner" from mass market for a decade now do you even know how old bitcoin is?
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by keymone 6y ago
> 'security feature' of BTC, which happens to be related to energy has nothing to do with currency it's literally the mechanism that solves double spend problem, which i'm pretty sure is quite important for a currency
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by keymone 6y ago
No, I think you are missing the point. It’s not the need to use energy, it’s a security feature that you can’t create it without using energy. It’s defense mechanism against debasement. Gold has that mechanism by being a rare metal - ther
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by keymone 6y ago
Go create me a zillion of bitcoin and let’s see how much energy it’ll take.
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by keymone 6y ago
Bitcoin exists IRL - you can write down you private key on the piece of paper and that piece of paper suddenly is worth however many bitcoin is behind that key. The informed investment decision is that crypto is entirely new asset class and
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by keymone 6y ago
Bitcoin isn’t useless, it’s useful for storing or transferring Bitcoin in a permissionless way.
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by keymone 6y ago
Is decade a lot? How long did it take gold to settle as universal currency?
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by keymone 6y ago
Bitcoin is the use case for blockchain.
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by keymone 6y ago
Ok, so there’s correlation between tether market cap and cryptocurrencies market cap. But that’s expected. How do you demonstrate causality?
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by keymone 6y ago
> its clear orderbook spoofing so when everyone wakes up, it's happy about the price again sorry, you have to provide a tad more solid evidence for claims like this. when sentiment changes, exactly 0 volume is required for that to r
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by keymone 6y ago
On low volume price reacts to changes in sentiment more than on high volume, this is not evidence of anything shady. Tether has been discussed many times and for all the doom prophecies of past five years, it’s been quite anticlimactic. Aud
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by keymone 6y ago
> I certainly haven't seen any proof of that and I haven't seen anything to even remotely suggest that good developers gravitate towards Clojure What about stackoverflow survey? Clojure is the most paid language (evidence that
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by keymone 6y ago
Apple’s hardware game is very impressive in recent years. I’m prepared to be impressed further.
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by keymone 6y ago
> Bitcoin has not proven market value beyond a speculative instrument and a vehicle for financial crime. In particular, it has failed in its original goal to be peer-to-peer electronic cash. Very much has. Wild speculation moved on from
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by keymone 6y ago
How many more years of clear correlation between value and chain difficulty must pass for you to recognize that there’s something in there? Also, bitcoin is scarce because it’s hard to get more of it, what the hell is your definition of sca
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by keymone 6y ago
Well if you believe any fork of bitcoin is bitcoin I have lots of cheap bitcoin to sell to you. There’s an attribute that you can’t substitute - chain difficulty. I’ll let you figure out the rest.
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by keymone 6y ago
it's like saying gold isn't scarce because there are other metal compounds. you're not making sense at all. if you want to interpret scarcity this way - feel free, but be informed that pretty much everyone else will look at y
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by keymone 6y ago
Bitcoin is scarce. Applying the term scarcity across multiple cryptocurrencies means you have no idea what you’re talking about.
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by keymone 6y ago
The entire legacy of ashes book is compiled from such declassified documents.
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by keymone 6y ago
you only have knowledge about CIA because they willingly declassify information after some time. KGB doesn't. people that talk suddenly get polonium in their tea or novichok on their door handles, and that's how they operate on UK
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by keymone 6y ago
KGB did not go anywhere since USSR’s collapse. They literally operate a mafia superpower with nuclear capacity right now in form of Russia. They are also more sophisticated in terms of people operations since they’ve been at it for quite a

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