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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> You're assuming rationality. Then explain why the people using bitcoin are being irrational. Are the miners processing transactions and receiving fees in return being irrational? Are the people using bitcoin to send and receive fu
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
On what basis do you claim this? Personal speculation? To speak plainly, I highly doubt you believe what you're claiming to believe (that cryptocurrecy is being used solely for speculation), which leaves dishonest rhetoric as the only
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> or benefiting any human being If bitcoin isn't benefiting any human being, why are so many human beings using it?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Not at the cost that it currently takes. Personally, I ascribe... Based on what? And if people aren't getting value from using the blockchain, why are they using it? > far, far, far less value (if any) Can you put a number on t
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> The fact that it's extremely one-sided There's a fucking crisis destroying this country and you're complaining about this article being "extremely one-sided"? Any accurate portrayal about what's going in
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> economic that such things would operate to defend a rich patron country Economic to defend which country? Based on what evidence? > I'm curious to know why I should assume this question is posed by a Venezuelan How do you propo
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> HFT should be banned What do you mean by this?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> probability... can be founded on linear logic instead Do you have any links or more details about this?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
What you find boring, other people find interesting , and thus not a waste of time. I’m curious about why you bothered to post a rant about how these discussions are “preventing you from living”, followed by a public announcement of how yo
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> laziness and naive political cynicism What are you referring to?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> We are all nominally market economies "Nominally"? What planet do you live on? The definition of a market economy, in case you're unfamiliar with it, is an economic system in which decisions regarding resource allocati
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> a communist society with appropriate consequences in place is completely plausible Example?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
As a Venezuelan, I'm curious to know what about this article makes you think it's a "propaganda piece".
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> That is just Rasmussen's false opinion. Why do you think it's false? I can't fathom why you think Denmark is not a market economy. Have you ever been there? How do you think the Danish economy functions? > The housin
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> such that that claim is even coherent, much less accurate I don't know where you're getting this idea. There are coherent and accurate ways to measure how liberalized an economy is. > standard of living measurements tend
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Western Europe and most of the Anglosphere are very socialistic Literally none of the Western European countries are socialist. They are all market economies. As the Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said: I know that some pe
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Are there any examples where the representation of a number matters in physics?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Isn't the difference that, empirically, the more socialist a country becomes, the more its living standards deteriorate , while the more liberal a country becomes, the more its living standards improve ?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Can you explain your comment?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
I ask a simple question and you call me a “troll”. Do you always get offended when someone presses you for details?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
The thesis that there is no hard problem, or the thesis that we don't understand our own consciousness?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> When people imagine their consciousness/free will faculty as its own object, they sometimes see a theatre/stage, where they are in the audience and can observe the central point where consciousness ends up forming, or a deam
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Man, If I had a nickel every time someone used that reply... Perhaps the reason you see it so frequently is because it's obvious? > An illusion is simply a fact that, when taken at face value, entails a false conclusion. An il
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> there's experimental data to back it up To back what up, exactly?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> consciousness is essentially an illusion This sounds like a contradiction. What is being illuded? If there is no subject, there can't be an illusion.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> But subjectivity could very well be an illusion. This sounds like a contradiction. What is being illuded? If there is no subject, there can't be an illusion.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> I generally think that the CSA/drug wars or something like them may have been necessary to keep this country together. The problem with mind altering substances is that they work, and there were people who wanted to use them to ch
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Elaborate?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Be specific. As it stands, your comment says basically nothing. Think about it from the perspective of a random reader who comes across your comment. How on earth will they know what you're talking about?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
What exactly are you disgusted by?

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