mgamache

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by mgamache 4y ago
Another lazy rhetorical tactic, Association Fallacy. Not everyone is making all those claims, in fact I only made one: The lab leak is still a better explanation for the origin of COVID. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As
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by mgamache 4y ago
Labeling something as 'conspiracy ranting' is convenient low-brow tactic to dismiss a supported point of view without consideration. This is also a pattern on HN.
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by mgamache 4y ago
They cite no data in the paper to support their claims. Outside of the paper there is additional data / reasons to suspect the lab as the source.
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by mgamache 4y ago
Sorry this is an unscientific conclusion. The lab leak is more plausible based on the animals required and known and proposed research at that facility. It's simply another polemic. Without information / data from the lab you cann
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by mgamache 4y ago
Methodology is part of fraud and maybe ethics. It's also required in the future for meta analysis. It might be that published papers disagree on the topic. If there are problems with methodology you can't really use the data as it
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by mgamache 4y ago
Retracting a paper should only be done in select situations, like fraud, plagiarism or violating ethical guidelines. Was any of that present? If you retract papers that were just 'wrong' you would be retracting at least 50% of the
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by mgamache 4y ago
I agree, it can be a boon to creativity, but it’s precisely because the UI is bad (limited).
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by mgamache 4y ago
Guitar pedals have shit ui. They may be bullet proof, but try and recreate an exact sound using a series of pedals now switch that sound for the next song now switch mid song for the bridge. Each time you would spend at least a minute. Sure
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by mgamache 4y ago
Crypto is microscopic vs the larger markets. More of a canary and coal mine.
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by mgamache 4y ago
Well they are suing [Will Argue SEC Violated Administrative Procedure Act and Securities Exchange Act of 1934] https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/06/30/247173...
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by mgamache 4y ago
when you try to convert it back into real money Right, currently cash under $10K USD is loophole in the surveillance system and it will be closed in the future. If goods and services become denominated in BTC that will be "real money
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by mgamache 4y ago
Is it? Try and move more than $10K in cash and see how far you get. It's not yet pervasive, but there are many retail places that don't even accept cash. Once CBDCs are in place there will be a massive incentive for the US to fu
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by mgamache 4y ago
Of course this is only for the Netherlands... https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/trading-and-funding/se...
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by mgamache 4y ago
Cash's days are numbered. It won't be a thing in 15 years.
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by mgamache 4y ago
Cash is close to being outlawed. Once CBDCs are a thing cash will be phased out. They'll claim paper is too expensive or helps criminals or terrorists or whatever.
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by mgamache 4y ago
Cash is being phased out (censored) and can't be sent via the internet.
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by mgamache 4y ago
Here's the punchline -- Robert Reich thinks something is a Ponzi. Can't keep a straight face.
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by mgamache 4y ago
Then you should invest and reap the 4 year reward, what's the problem?
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by mgamache 4y ago
but most (not all) Goldbugs are crypto sceptics
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by mgamache 4y ago
Yes, that's why the term 'Diamond Hands' is used by the hard core.
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by mgamache 4y ago
HODLers are not defined by an external source. They are self-defined. It's like saying 'Catholics are leaving the Church'. And you say: 'Well if they leave the church they aren't Catholics". That doesn't m
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by mgamache 4y ago
We'll see, but the HODLers are not selling (AFAIK). A lot of this latest deep pullback was driven by over-leverage and margin calls on BTC backed DeFi (like Celsius). The margin calls on staking tokens in particular are a new factor ad
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by mgamache 4y ago
Dead? No. But it's not the wildly popular service that people thought it would be. Clubhouse is mostly a dumpster fire. Someone might figure out the right way to do it, but right now it's a clunky mess of toxic rooms with the occ
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by mgamache 4y ago
The 20% rape is a fiction. Patriarchy in university is a fiction based on the number of females graduating (even in science). Organizing protests is not a part university's mission.
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by mgamache 4y ago
Is this meant as parody? I can't tell sometimes.
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by mgamache 4y ago
Right, if you want to self-host you can run something like Wowza (paid product, but it's a complete solution) https://www.wowza.com/
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by mgamache 4y ago
note: you can't really have 1000 people on a call. It's just a live streaming event at that point. You can use standard live streaming techniques for doing this. Yes, it will have 10-20 second latency (or more), but in large calls
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by mgamache 4y ago
One of the things that makes Zoom (and for-profit streaming) better is noise cancelation. Zoom has spent a lot of money perfecting video calling without requiring headsets. This is not easy. A second reason is they use some proprietary stre
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by mgamache 4y ago
What would be an inflation hedge that isn't an asset that just goes up in value greater than inflation? FTA: "An inflation hedge is an investment that is considered to protect the decreased purchasing power of a currency that resu
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by mgamache 4y ago
What a waste of time: *Not An Inflation Hedge* (it's appreciating much faster than inflation over its life) *Bitcoin Actually Created Inflation* (What? the FED pumped money from thin air and it's Bitcoins' fault) *Unresponsiv

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