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by oraphalous 6y ago
>Are you willing to provide a more sophisticated explanation for USD demand? I don't particularly feel the onus is on me to provide a full explanation. You are the one providing one in order to show Bitcoin demand is illusory or fo
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by oraphalous 6y ago
>Citing "latent demand" or "induced demand" as counter-evidence to my original statement shows your (mis)understanding of basic economics. Your original statement: >The demand for USD is robust because people need
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by oraphalous 6y ago
"The demand for USD is robust because people need USD to pay taxes..." You cite this a priori - but it's so much more complicated than this. Demand is intimately connected with supply in many cases. Soemtimes this can be beca
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by oraphalous 6y ago
"and many enthusiasts don't seem to understand enough about Bitcoin to even realize it." Yeah because - smart people in the bitcoin space NEVER spent any time thinking about energy consumption. https://www.youtube.
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by oraphalous 6y ago
Having a reliable store of value - is itself extremely valuable. At least to me... and to quite a few others apparently, with more and more by the day.
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by oraphalous 6y ago
Interesting that you're reacting against the Typescript trend... I'm personally starting to wonder if/when the backlash against Typescript will gain steam.
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by oraphalous 6y ago
Human trafficking is a second order effect of bitcoin. Honestly... Why don't you find yourself a real villain... I hear oxygen is the great enabler of all sorts of evil.
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by oraphalous 6y ago
Yeah - I mean, why wouldn't it attract a bunch more shorts that open their positions at the current highs? Wouldn't surprise me if Melvin hasn't really closed their position - but it wouldn't be irrational to think that
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by oraphalous 6y ago
Gotta start somewhere...
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by oraphalous 6y ago
Costly signalling theory is what I'd suggest to all the folks on this thread that struggle to wrap their heads around the wastefulness of it all...
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by oraphalous 6y ago
Can I challenge the argument of self-contradiction being made by many here? (disclaimer - I'm not advocating for / against the action either way). In civisilised society / discourse one must assume rules of engagement in ord
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by oraphalous 6y ago
Cool your boots... The claim was that there is a trade off - which is a pretty common sense assertion... The comment you to which you are responding even asserted that basic research does have value - and does not assert that the trade off
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by oraphalous 7y ago
Yeah well - next time I read a proof by a mathematician that skips several steps that to mathematicians are unimportant or "obvious" yet fundamentally blocked my understanding of the proof overall - I'll think on this reactio
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by oraphalous 7y ago
I'll just leave this here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-adds-104-5-billion-to-finan...
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by oraphalous 7y ago
I love it...
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by oraphalous 7y ago
What I find deeply ironic is that you probably only have a frame of belief that finds a politically neutral frame of engagement with tech 'deeply disgusting' precisely because of the tech that was created under that neutral rubric
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by oraphalous 7y ago
No - I meet lots of people who don't struggle with meeting people at all.
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by oraphalous 7y ago
I'll grant that in these days of crowdfunding etc... your counter has more plausibility than it would have in days past.
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by oraphalous 7y ago
Do you claim that the establishment of precedent has no value in increasing the plausibility of a claim?
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by oraphalous 7y ago
How are the ringleaders surviving? Not a lot of bank to made protesting I suspect. I resent the claim tho that my comment supports the "general narrative" - I explicitly disavow the Chinese regime as authoritarian that "dese
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by oraphalous 7y ago
pjc50 - it won't let me reply to you directly. I just mean it as a demonstration of the links between local HK authorities and foreign intelligence services. It wouldn't take much for the CIA to leverage those links. Keep in min
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by oraphalous 7y ago
Economic realities tend to determine political events - not the other way around... historically speaking.
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by oraphalous 7y ago
I'll just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yellowbird
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by oraphalous 7y ago
The protesters may not clearly understand their own endgame, but the CIA certainly understands its own... which is to precipitate an armed crackdown that diminishes Chinese prestige - giving the U.S. further leverage in the current battle f
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by oraphalous 7y ago
I once had a manager try to recruit me for this purpose... literally tried to feed me what they wanted me to say when discussing implementation approaches - so they didn't look like the one trying to push an agenda... Hinted at a prom
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by oraphalous 7y ago
See my reply to Chris_Newton's earlier response to my comment. :)
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by oraphalous 7y ago
>By some people, sure, but separating state and business logic from presentation and rendering logic was a well-known idea many, many years before React was around. My claim is that this isn't a good representation of the FE culture
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by oraphalous 7y ago
I think this article - and many of the comments on this thread are forgetting the context of how DOM manipulation was typically done when the virtual DOM approach was introduced. Here's the gist of how folks would often update an eleme
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by oraphalous 8y ago
Lol - I wrote that expecting the flimsiest of retorts to roll in - knowing they would be good for a laugh. I mean - it doesn't even achieve what it's aiming for. I haven't been in either of those two cities - so by your own
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by oraphalous 8y ago
Read my edit in my post above... you are completely missing the point.

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