toolz

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by toolz 4y ago
I stand corrected, I only looked at exaggerate and not the past participle, which apparently does fit your interpretation. Thanks
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by toolz 4y ago
> playing vocabulary whackamole likely will be more of a distraction than anything else exaggerate, as far as I can tell after looking at some dictionaries, never means "more than the norm". It is not a comparison, it is an act
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by toolz 4y ago
So you're saying literally every time this topic comes up, you hear anecdotes that the remedy went too far? Sounds like evidence the remedy has gone too far.
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by toolz 4y ago
What should he be doing if he wants people to apply? Should he wait for the articles to spread the word that kraken isn't in a position to hire?
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by toolz 4y ago
> If you're accusing I'm not, I agree that if I was then I would need evidence.
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by toolz 4y ago
Geez, some people really go out of there way to make things hostile. My opinion does matter, just ask my mom! I simply gave people some context and terms they can google if they're invested in this story. I'm not invested, and rea
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by toolz 4y ago
Whatever the motives (from whomever), the smear campaign from WaPo against musk is obvious enough that I've seen many people talking about it and even a twitter post detailing the many articles painting musk in a negative light and com
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by toolz 4y ago
I agree it's not clear, but speaking specifically to japan, check out their income inequality https://twitter.com/jmschles/status/564624643781189632 It seems like maybe a datapoint in favor of the hypothesis
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by toolz 4y ago
The paper the article links doesn't seem to address inflationary trickle-down economics. You have to have a theory as to why it doesn't work. Simply showing it doesn't work doesn't really show why it doesn't work. I
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by toolz 4y ago
> However, if we do that with the broader stock market, I suspect it'll exacerbate the wealth gap issue you lament the most widely used cryptos either have fixed inflation or noteably no inflation with bitcoin. These are merely a to
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by toolz 4y ago
> Crypto isnt like gold: there isnt a limited supply. There is a much stronger guarantee that there is limited bitcoin when compared to gold. We have no idea what tech advancements will allow mining gold from comets or neighboring planet
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by toolz 4y ago
no worries, but yeah it's widely considered an insult the top ranked definition on urban dictionary > A nerd with too much spare time and video cards. Thinks he is smarter than you because he buys and resells burnt forests. Will ign
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by toolz 4y ago
> That really doesn't make cryptocurrencies look any better. or any worse.
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by toolz 4y ago
> crypto-bro let's all do our best not to turn hacker news into yet another platform for ad-hominem flamewars
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by toolz 4y ago
The existence of past bubbles is in no way an indicator that something rising quickly with a lot of volatility is a bubble. We're talking about an asset that has national buy-in. When's the last time a national currency went to ze
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by toolz 4y ago
Being worthy doesn't really have anything to do with whether something survives the test of time. That's a different, subjective, argument.
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by toolz 4y ago
If people want it, it'll be unstoppable. Just look at drugs and sex trafficking. Specifically with sex trafficking the on-ramp is literally kidnapping humans and as far as I'm aware that industry isn't shrinking (granted I kn
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by toolz 4y ago
Well ignoring the fact that beanie babies still sell for thousands of dollars today, they also never became a countries legally enforce currency (el salvador) or were utilized by the EIB (europes federal reserve equivalent) to issue bonds.
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by toolz 4y ago
No, it has the authority - it does not have the means. You'd need a surveillance state far more powerful than we have today.
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by toolz 4y ago
You're aware that cryptos market cap is up 900 billion in the past 5 years, right? That means people in crypto are up 900 billion in 5 years overall.
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by toolz 4y ago
How do you propose we ban algorithms communicating over networks?
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by toolz 4y ago
personally I think this is a signal that our financial system is too absurd. I strongly doubt anyone would think "this seems reasonable" if we all didn't hear stories of people winning millions on options trades. I personally
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by toolz 4y ago
> But to argue that Bitcoin is a better currency because it doesn't get used to fund military spending I don't see anyone arguing that. The contrived argument I made was that USD requires a military to be stable. Bitcoin only r
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by toolz 4y ago
I intended for that to be an example of an obtuse, divisive argument - it is not an argument I'm actually attempting to defend. Sorry if I didn't make that as clear as I could have.
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by toolz 4y ago
I hope I'm wrong, but I suspect answering that question would take longer and all they needed was enough material to justify the title, which was the real value proposition all along, as the title was enough to get clicks.
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by toolz 4y ago
sorry, I was confusing that with the US spending nearly half the worlds budget on defense - thanks for the correction.
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by toolz 4y ago
no, I didn't - although admittedly I left that data point out to achieve a more shocking progression, if I'm being honest LOL but the point is still very self evident even with that data point.
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by toolz 4y ago
Was this intended on negating my comment about crude oil being used to establish USDs relative stability? Because I don't think this fact does anything of the sort, although it's still informative and interesting, I'm just no
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by toolz 4y ago
I hope this is not a revealing comment on who you are, because I read that as "you should hope to speculate on some asset to make money off of other people simply because they were wrong" I'd much rather see a stabilized cryp
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by toolz 4y ago
bitcoin falls 99% in one day to 1 cent - 2011 bitcoin falls 56% - 2012 bitcoin falls 83% to $50 - 2013 bitcoin falls 84% to 12k - 2017 bitcoin falls ~50% to ~30k - 2021 "crypto is not looking good long term" - numerous people on h

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