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by smcl 3y ago
Your example was clumsy because you have to construct elaborate weird scenarios that don't ever happen for crypto to make sense. Guys have to come up to you in the street and buy your shoes. Entire economies and payment systems have to
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by smcl 3y ago
> Do you dispute that trust in the government and the banks is steadily declining? Yes. Was that it?
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by smcl 3y ago
Ok then in that case everyone flocks to the other reserve currencies for all normal goods and services and crypto remains the primary means of exchange on the Ape JPEG market
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by smcl 3y ago
Ahhhh you nearly said the line - "this is actually good for bitcoin!" Alright look the only outcome here for me is good. Either cryptocurrencies melt away into nothing and you guys all go off and find a new Thing. Or Cryptocurrenc
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by smcl 3y ago
> The straw man you're attacking seems to be a reflection of your own general idea that USD is the 'supreme' currency and anything having comparable properties in any way is some foundational challenge to this multi-facete
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by smcl 3y ago
Ok but the last couple of years is littered with crypto projects outright failing, being rugpulled, found out to be scams, taken down by bumbling idiot CEOs... So looking at the millenia that currencies have existed we can say that it&#x2
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by smcl 3y ago
The assumptions here are: 1. USD fails 2. All the other currencies are "dying" 3. (let's say) Monero exists and is not dying So yes in the scenario you've constructed where everything but a cryptocurrency dies or is dyin
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by smcl 3y ago
I'm not sure how crypto is becoming more useful, or how traditional finance is becoming worse.
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by smcl 3y ago
I thought my comment was pretty self-explanatory but I'll restate it. I don't believe people when they make talk about how their particular favourite flavour of crypto is better/stabler/stronger than reserve currencies l
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by smcl 3y ago
> I have a lot more faith in the value of my Monero than the USD I've heard people say this about various cryptocurrencies over the last few years and I just cannot take the statement seriously. It just always comes across as a deli
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by smcl 3y ago
This would also be an issue in the UK too - mixing client money with company money is a big no-no. I imagine plenty of other countries have similar regulations.
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by smcl 3y ago
I’m not sure five minutes is even enough for browning
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by smcl 3y ago
Oh boy GitHub does not like those Mac line endings
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by smcl 3y ago
I talk about cooking and food a lot with my Czech teacher (not just because I like to cook, but if I'm low-energy it's such an easy topic) and I brought this idea up - something along the lines of "What do you think about all
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by smcl 3y ago
Honestly the lyrics are so good, I cannot fault them. My only problem is that, as I said, it's a little hard to listen to a lot of him - he really leaned hard on a few stock keyboard beats so when you put on a whole album it's a l
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by smcl 3y ago
Just wanted to add something in case anyone thinks Wesley Willis was just a bit of a joke act people enjoyed ironically[0], there is one album produced by Steve Albini where he performed with a band under the name "The Wesley Willis Fi
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by smcl 3y ago
I don't know about every time but honestly the fact that it'll just fill in the gaps when it doesn't know means that you have to treat all responses with a bit of suspicion.
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by smcl 3y ago
I don't think this is quite the same thing. It's nice that godoc autogenerates documentation on the functions + types each module in the stdlib provides (like here: https://pkg.go.dev/compress/bzip2@go1.20.4 )
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by smcl 3y ago
Oh that's neat, but I've no problem using the little emoticon style 8< or >8
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by smcl 3y ago
I really hope that "--->8---" catches on here as a way to quote an extract from something nicely :)
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah I have read the original Literate Programming text and played with tangle/weave a bit before realising jupyter notebooks were more suitable for what I was doing. I'm just wondering if there is something in particular the subm
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by smcl 3y ago
That's ... a lot of articles. Is there any article in particular worth checking out?
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by smcl 3y ago
Oh yeah these things do sound necessary. And additionally the freehold/leasehold system was a shock to me when I first learned of it, it's not a thing north of the border. I'm just surprised that the Conservatives would imple
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah I had to read a the headline a couple of times to be sure I understood it correctly. It's a little unbelievable to me that they'd actually do something beneficial like this, and I'm a little suspicious ...
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah after seeing it so many times a "large boulder the size of a small boulder" is just the size of the boulder in the picture of that tweet to me :) But I think it was a typo, and they meant to say "A large boulder the size
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by smcl 3y ago
I mean while we're speculating we might as well throw in the other possibilities - like working from home might make you happier, resent your job less and less likely to try to fuck over your employer. In reality we don't know, bu
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by smcl 3y ago
In English the word "planet" and the planets themselves are gender neutral. "Venus" may have originally been the name of a female god, but the planet itself is it/it: > Venus is the second planet from the Sun. I
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by smcl 3y ago
See also: the large boulder the size of a small boulder https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315
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by smcl 3y ago
If this song is the reason Americans use "mos-cow" I am 100% here for it and will back any campaign to change the British pronunciation to match :)
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by smcl 3y ago
I think you’re fighting a losing battle here, mos-co will sound as wrong to an American as mos-cow sounds to us. I presume both US and UK both used “mos-co” originally, and the US broke away with the newer bovine pronunciation at some point

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