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901.
by lend000 9y ago
This one seems far more relevant, being higher frequency than cell phones. Not a big fan of government-imposed radiation.
902.
by lend000 9y ago
> Intrinsic value has a well-understood meaning in economics. Bitcoin, like any currency, has no intrinsic value, regardless of these neat features. I don't think you understand the definition of intrinsic value -- it has nothing to
903.
by lend000 9y ago
Hashrate and adoption are important though -- anyone can create the smallest tweak to Bitcoin that may improve it to some degree, but the market can't swap chains every day to accommodate these changes. Bitcoin is good enough for now,
904.
by lend000 9y ago
For a celebrated economist, Krugman has a poor grasp of certain facets of economics. It's probably a subconscious way of rectifying his political views, which many of us are guilty of. In this case, he does not understand how Bitcoin c
905.
by lend000 9y ago
Painful to read. Paul Krugman is a laughing stock in the crypto-world, which he has been wrong about so confidently, so many times. As an aside, the US had active monetary policy for about a century, and it has enjoyed plenty of bubbles and
906.
by lend000 9y ago
Would it also horrify you to learn that when you transfer money from your savings to your checking account (at the same bank), those transactions are not cleared by the Federal Reserve?
907.
by lend000 9y ago
How much time and money would it cost you to send a gold bar to the other side of the world? Many people misunderstand the true value proposition of Bitcoin, which is to replace something like ACH (and use second layer payment processors fo
908.
by lend000 9y ago
> The body needs variation in neurons so they can recognize themselves millimeters away and not connect with themselves. Do you have a source for this? How would a neuron with a mutation be any different from the outside in terms of its
909.
by lend000 9y ago
The conspiracy culture around the Koch brothers is cringeworthy. Yes, they are rich, very politically active, and they lean libertarian (although they often choose the conservative side over the liberal side when they come head to head). Bu
910.
by lend000 9y ago
> Cells’ uniqueness is explained by epigenetic. No, I think cell differentiation is a completely different topic -- gene expression/inhibition and cell specialization has nothing to do with random errors to DNA, as far as I understa
911.
by lend000 9y ago
There was an article on HN a few months ago claiming every neuron in a human brain is genetically unique (my interpretation was that this was due to random errors). So essentially, you won't be able to find a single cell to clone a mul
912.
by lend000 9y ago
> The FDA deals with how drugs can be marketed, not what people can take. If that's all it did, the FDA would be an ideal system. However, that's not true; the FDA also deals with which drugs can be marketed. Effectively, the
913.
by lend000 9y ago
True for some altcoins, but not Bitcoin. You can see the hash rates here: https://blockchain.info/pools And even then, most pools are largely decentralized and heterogeneous -- controversial political/technical changes
914.
by lend000 9y ago
> It doesn't even have market makers or any real rules yet. Blatantly false -- you clearly don't monitor crypto exchange order books full time (I do). Even most small-cap altcoins have active market makers running 24/7 for
915.
by lend000 9y ago
Bitcoin is too big for a few "whales" to have a sizable effect on major price trends -- even if significant groups of them were somehow coordinated. This explanation is commonly used in general cryptocurrency forums and even some
916.
by lend000 9y ago
That's just how the US Bureau of Labor defines it, allowing elected officials to make the economy seem better than it is.
917.
by lend000 9y ago
Is this a legitimate news source? I have a difficult time believing this part: > The events unfolded as Zimbabwe is in deep crisis. The economy has halved in size since 2000, an estimated 95% of the workforce is jobless and as many as 3
918.
by lend000 9y ago
It was short lived, much like the battle between ETC and ETH. You can see the updated hash-rates here: https://fork.lol/pow/hashrate This might equalize with BCH's fork today, which will give them a free difficult
919.
by lend000 9y ago
> because that's equally absurd and harmful. Do you have a reason? Did you forget to read the rest of the comment?
920.
by lend000 9y ago
I see nothing wrong with only agreeing with a subset of a person's politics. I support some of his tax reform ideas (especially the common theme of simplifying the current system) not because they are perfect, but because they would be
921.
by lend000 9y ago
Many of the same people who get angry about the complex tax acrobatics used by big corporations also deride people like Rand Paul who have suggested a one page tax code. But what about my deduction for this? What about the deduction for tha
922.
by lend000 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)
923.
by lend000 9y ago
I made a similar point on a different article about housing prices in Seattle, and just like you, I was down-voted into oblivion for apparently challenging whatever preconceived notions people have. Yes, the root problem is population growt
924.
by lend000 9y ago
Sensational pseudo-journalism making an issue out of nothing. There will rarely be a company that has the luxury to turn down funding on some misplaced moral high ground. Should we enact an embargo? Sanctions always work, right? Or at least
925.
by lend000 9y ago
Fascinating -- as much as I enjoy to be active and stretch out, I imagine the benefits of sustained exertion could be entirely replaced by an artificial mechanism. This would be a nice time saver, and if it provides the same good feelings t
926.
by lend000 9y ago
> Which begs the question on how one collects taxes without aggression? That is what the Rothbardians do not understand -- there is always aggression in the world. What you do not understand is that even though there is aggression in the
927.
by lend000 9y ago
> No True Libertarian No True Scotsman! Just like you are closely aligned with Fidel Castro and other autocrats on all issues, because you probably believe in socializing certain things, right? :) Libertarians are extremely intellectuall
928.
by lend000 9y ago
I quickly found this link which quotes $1000/ton of CO2: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/switzerland-giant-new... At some point, the government either needs to generate bids for a contract in the
929.
by lend000 9y ago
Unfortunately, the Libertarian Party (capital L) does not fully embrace this line of thinking in their official platform. However, it's a logical interpretation of their base philosophy to which I subscribe, and many of the millennial
930.
by lend000 9y ago
You must find the easy libertarians to debate. The answer is that maximizing liberty involves minimizing net aggressions, and externalities are aggressions. Therefore, a society is more free if the government proactively prevents/taxes

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