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by toenail 3y ago
> it doesn't support the publisher/developer. Huh, resale value supports higher sales prices. Nintendo was paid on the original sale.
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by toenail 3y ago
Of course, on an article about bitcoin, and a comment specifically about bitcoin, somebody has to spam monero.
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by toenail 3y ago
> Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Yeah, criminals may not be the smartest bunch. Everybody who understands how the bitcoin blockchain works knows transactions can be traced.
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by toenail 3y ago
Because in reality all salaries went up exactly the right amount to compensate for inflation? Hm, the system doesn't seem to work like that.
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by toenail 3y ago
> for every dollar someone has gotten out of the system, someone else has put a dollar in. That's a feature and in the fiat economy the same is almost true. If Bitcoin is a "zero sum game" then fiat is a "negative sum
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by toenail 3y ago
Are you saying the global financial crisis was MUCH smaller than previous busts?
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by toenail 3y ago
Sure, then you're a person who doesn't like how some people solve some problems with bitcoin. That's fair, you don't have to like that.
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by toenail 3y ago
> Bitcoin may go to a billion and it won't change the fundamental premise: Haha, bitcoin never even attempted to solve your "fundamental premise", and never made any such promise. Bitcoin is like fiat money in that regard,
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by toenail 3y ago
Haha, ok, all successful investments are charities.
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by toenail 3y ago
> For every bitcoin millionaire, there's someone that pumped real dollars into the system Are you blaming bitcoin for gambling addiction and bad investing now? That's funny. There more of that with the USD, by several orders of
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by toenail 3y ago
> And more generally, determining the optimal level of the money supply to match the needs of a dynamic economy is not trivial No, we don't need some grand wizards in an ivory tower to finely tune the amount of money in the economy,
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by toenail 3y ago
Did the USD or EURO gain +7000% in the last decade? Didn't think so.
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by toenail 3y ago
If you bought bitcoin 10 years ago you should have had enough time to figure out that you can simply get credit/debit cards that convert your bitcoin into fiat, if that's what you want?
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by toenail 3y ago
Why the condescending tone? Please read the commenting guidelines. And maybe you should also read the post again, or did you miss this entirely? > because the bank will cancel my accounts Good luck cancelling my censorship resistant paym
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by toenail 3y ago
That's one of the reasons I'm in bitcoin. I also like to pay with cash.
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by toenail 3y ago
> It turns out that refusing to build housing Refuses to build? If there is demand and nobody builds the market sounds broken.
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by toenail 3y ago
> this is the answer i would get from enterprise devs usually when pointing this out Yes, exactly what I thought, that's what you would hear from somebody who has experience working on large code bases with many contributors.
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by toenail 3y ago
> I barely ever have unit tests flagging real issues That sounds like you work alone and haven't worked for a long time on a code base with unit tests. Or the unit tests are bad.
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by toenail 3y ago
> and a long tail of too-small-to-upgrade-their-tech-and-processes ones Sounds like a business opportunity. Heh, I wonder why the market is so broken that this wasn't fixed yet, there's obviously money in dealing with money.
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by toenail 3y ago
Ah yes, we need more too big to fail institutions.
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by toenail 3y ago
> And choosing to use your privileges to patronise people whose lives are entirely beyond your experience and comprehension, is a choice Not sure how that way of thinking is productive. Patronising people is bad in itself. Thinking that
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by toenail 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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by toenail 3y ago
> I suppose that maybe this website could be re-labelled ‘source-available’ to appease purists that actually care about this. Huh, maybe? Words have meaning. It's not about "appeasing purists", it's about not spreadin
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by toenail 3y ago
What smells funny is hashicorp pretending to be open source to win market and mind share, and then doing a rug pull. Everything that follows is a reaction to that.
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by toenail 3y ago
If inequality was the problem, redistribution could fix it. If redistribution is the problem, simply doing more redistributing won't fix anything.
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by toenail 3y ago
The inequality is not the problem, it's a symptom of the wealth redistribution from the bottom to the top.
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by toenail 3y ago
After 14 years that's the best you can come up with?
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by toenail 3y ago
> Linux, Postgres, etc. All great! But have been assimilated. I cannot really consider them a win. Are you trying to argue that free software becomes less free because specific groups of people contribute to it?
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by toenail 3y ago
> Its one of the last remaining pieces of major news that could have potentially negatively affected the industry Lol. Tether imploding anyone?
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by toenail 3y ago
It sounds wonderful when the biggest worry you have about money is how to file your taxes. If that were true for most people on this planet bitcoin would probably not be needed.

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