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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Yes. Nobody doubts the future is electric (or partially fuel cell-based). But at least for the next half decade or so, we'll still see lots of internal combustion engines being produced. There will also still be some progress in making
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
True, a news agency like Reuters aims to be a neutral observer whereas a polemical site like Breitbart wants to influence politics. Reuters succeeds to the extent that it sticks to transmitting basic facts to newsrooms around the world. Whi
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Well, it'll be hard to let you know when that happens. I can tell you this. We have multiple sources of news. Much more than ever existed before the internet came to our homes. I don't see how the EC can improve on this situatio
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
No, it's worse: I doubt the existence of reliable journalism :) Reading 20-year old "quality" news magazines makes me think so. Numerous personal experiences make me think so. Ads in quality newspapers and their subtle or not
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
"[balance] fundamental principles such as freedom of expression, media pluralism, and the right of citizens to diverse and reliable information" Typical EU-style communication. The word "balance" conjures up images of he
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
So is this really fundamentally different from the plans in EU and Germany? https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/call-appl... It's a dangerous illusion of modernity that you can just pick u
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
What's interesting about Hussman these days is that he always claims that he started using a revised method for market timing since 2014. (Yes it somehow took him ~5 or 6 years to "revise his method", all the while his custom
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Is it me, or does cursorcolumn really give Vim a bit of a sluggish feel?
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Having a free day, it's cold and rainy, but this actually made me come out of bed to crank up vim :-)
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Btw Steve, do you see a role for Rust in web development?
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Too bad, there's bobkes even on that site :-) But thanks, I'll keep an eye on it.
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
I'm studying Rust as we speak, took 3 weeks off for it. The documentation is absolutely top notch, thank you Steve & team! It won't be easy to find a project in Rust or to get a customer to start a project in it, but I sure wo
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
What do you mean with backdoored for the x86 family?
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Yes it's true, you can send bitcoin wallets through email. But only if you really must, which is never. I'm not entirely sure how sending bitcoin wallets through email would solve liquidity issues though. But again, you're ri
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Yes I mean 11 as in Spinal Tap 11.
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
To clarify: by this, Taleb means simply that there are no options on bitcoin (there aren't any, right?) With options you'd buy OTM puts. You could maybe even succeed purely on rising vol if they crank up the volatility even higher
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Lack of skin in the game is killing capitalism. We've had 20-30 years of ever escalating bailouts. Heads: you win. Tails: the public looses. "Capitalism", or rather the free market, works by moving from failure to failure. Wi
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Welcome to the real world. It's not "efficient".
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
I agree, unlikely but not quite zero. As is the general rule with complex things. But again, until a show stopper is found, I would say that bitcoin will never be popular as a means of payment. People would increasingly use it as a vehicle
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
I'm not going to get dragged into a discussion on "efficient markets". You win by forfeit.
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Why would the same principle not apply to any situation where a person owns two kinds of money (both fungible, liquid, universally accepted), regardless of exchange rate rules? People will always prefer to hoard ("save") the bette
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Whenever a person owns two kinds of things which are money-like (fungible, liquid, universal) they will prefer to pay using the bad money. Bad means things like "diluted gold content", reckless behaviour of the emitting central ba
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
The obvious speculation aside, Bitcoin's behaviour is revolving more and more about good vs bad money, aka Gresham's law . "Good money" (bitcoin) is being hoarded because people are starting to trust it as a long term s
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
I would think Apple would have released an update by now... but nothing yet. Can tell us something about the complexity of the code they need to change. Anybody an idea about how quickly they could release security updates?
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
So this bunch of idiots can't access the legal system or expect justice, unless they fully accept the inevitability of currency debasement or the revolving-door system between banks and government? That's exactly why I love bitcoi
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Explain to me how getting back some 5% of what you're owed, when they recovered 80% of it, is "socialized losses"? Also explain to me how this is similar to 2008.
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Yes because bitcoin is all about not having courts. /sarc
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
So legal system and monetary system are a package deal now? We can't sue a criminal unless we cease the search for alternatives to currency debasement, bailouts and finance cartels?
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
Has this guy ever done anything else but be vague?
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by unknown_apostle 9y ago
It's not just and it won't happen. I requested my bitcoins back in the paperwork. If I understand correctly, they're holding 80% of those bitcoins. Give them back.

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