lottin

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by lottin 2y ago
> Price of Bitcoin is mostly that speculation price + instead of material some mathematical properties. Mathematical properties don't provide economic value. The demand for bitcoin is almost all speculation, and a tiny bit is for pu
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by lottin 2y ago
Dividends don't matter. What matters is profits (regardless of whether they're distributed to shareholders or not).
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by lottin 2y ago
I don't think anyone can disagree. If you ask someone to give you an interpretation of the works of, say, Allen Ginsberg, or of the theory of relativity, and they come back with a pile of documents ordered in some fashion, you won&#x27
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by lottin 2y ago
No, I wouldn't say that. I mean they could try to influence what sources I check first, but I'm the one doing the interpretation.
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by lottin 2y ago
The criticism isn't that they are forcing me to use this tool.
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by lottin 2y ago
What do you mean?
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by lottin 2y ago
> Getting one sentence direct answers is a much superior UX compared to getting 10 links you have to read through yourself. If we assume that people want a 'direct answer', then of course a direct answer is better. But maybe s
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by lottin 2y ago
Maybe it's just me but I have no interest in having a computer algorithm interpret data for me. That's a job that I want to do myself .
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by lottin 2y ago
Thanks. I think we've always had the ability to publish content on the internet without relying on external services, and we still have. It's just not something that most people are willing to do, because it takes expertise and r
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by lottin 2y ago
Your point being?
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by lottin 2y ago
That's nonsense. If they want to remove doubts that the money is all there they should get an audit. Refusing to get an audit is an enormous red flag.
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by lottin 2y ago
This is just Tether's unaudited financial statements.
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by lottin 2y ago
The refresh rate doesn't slow down, but the speed at which things change does, at high speeds.
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by lottin 2y ago
Space has no 'fabric'. Space is not a physical entity, but a set of coordinates.
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by lottin 2y ago
Copyright laws.
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by lottin 2y ago
But if the measurement isn't representative of your actual blood pressure what's the point of taking it? It's completely non-informative. Another problem is that even under very controlled conditions, I sometimes find big d
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by lottin 2y ago
Exactly, this is my concern as well. They say you have to be seated for 5 minutes at least, completely relaxed, not hungry, not having to go the bathroom, in a quiet a room, it must not be too hot or too cold, with both your feet on the gr
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by lottin 2y ago
The Fed has a public mandate, and the Congress has the responsibility and the power to make sure that it fulfils such mandate. Therefore it is accountable and it is subject to democracy, and at the same time independent from the electoral
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by lottin 2y ago
It's not just willpower but also lifestyle. It's rare for people who are physically active, and have a balanced diet, to suffer from obesity. I can eat A LOT without putting on a ton of weight, and it's because the types of
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by lottin 2y ago
Of course. And that is a problem that a cryptocurrency won't solve.
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by lottin 2y ago
Independent doesn't mean unaccountable. The Fed is accountable to the Congress.
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by lottin 2y ago
Sorry, but you're delusional. Central banks are held accountable through a system of checks and balances and the rule of law.
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by lottin 2y ago
Whether a stock pays dividends or not has no relevance to the stock returns.
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by lottin 2y ago
Thanks for the tip. I didn't have it enabled, but to be honest I've never noticed any lag when playing back videos or in any other situation.
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by lottin 2y ago
Why would anyone use a private blockchain instead of a regular database?
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by lottin 2y ago
Yes, the difference is absolutely critical. Being unable to differentiate imaginary from real is a serious mental disorder.
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by lottin 2y ago
I don't know that we do that. For instance, physicists are able to describe motion in physical terms and don't insist that it literally is a vector. It only happens with quantum fields.
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by lottin 2y ago
My point is that physical reality cannot be made of something that doesn't exist physically, such as mathematical objects, abstract concepts or more generally ideas of any kind. Do you not agree that this must be true?
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by lottin 2y ago
Let's say we describe a particle as being an excitation of a field. Can't we describe any physical phenomenon in the same way? For example, describe a football as an excitation of the football field. I think we all agree that
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by lottin 2y ago
So you think the universe might be made of, say, subordinate clauses?

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