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by wamatt 14y ago
Two issues: 1)Having insights and owning bitcoins can be mutually independent variables. In other words, it's entirely possibly you have it completely backward, and that upon arriving at a lengthy deliberation, some rational actors, are th
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The implicit assumption that there is a bitcoin bubble, is not a fact. Was the .com speculation the last two decades a bubble? Is Facebook stock circa 2007 a bubble? etc Rational arguments can be both ways and I'd be wary of anyone selling
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The difference between a normal currency and bitcoin with regards to deflation is that bitcoin is almost infinitely divisible, whereas traditional currencies are not. Divisibility acts in opposition to deflation to create liquidity. The ide
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>"It seems there's a hesitation of spending bitcoins knowing if you just wait a day it will go up" So this argument seems to be rather popular, and on the surface it does seems to make sense. However, it glosses over an important cons
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Curious, but why would Target care too much if the credit card was stolen? My understanding (which could be wrong) was the credit card companies or end users absorb the losses (depending on circumstances).
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"no one has the ability to make the distinction between a quack and real medicine" (paraphrasing OP) What utter nonsense. If someone presented you with a homeopathic dropper [1] saying it would cure cancer vs a new gold nanoparticle exp
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Snark aside, we are somewhat in agreement. I tend to dislike elitist thinking (or though I'm still guilty of it at times), not for moral reasons, but simply because empiricism, in my admittedly subjective opinion, is routinely lauded over c
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>"lay people have essentially no ability to distinguish between potential 'last shots'" I'm sure you mean well, but this type of thinking really bothers me. For example, many of us here on HN, possess the critical reasoning skills to
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>That said, I immediately dug an old LightScribe CD recorder out of my junk bin to start playing around with making graphene sheets :-) You serious? Sounds interesting, do tell us more.
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Agreed. Additionally one might go as far to suggest false positives are more problematic than the occasional spam mail.
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Planck's most detailed map ever reveals an almost perfect Universe(phys.org)
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JSShaper: JavaScript syntax tree shaping(jsshaper.org)
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Cree XLamp XM-L2 LEDs(cree.com)
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Greg's Cable Map(cablemap.info)
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I welcome your additional precision and those those are good points. However, I think that you should hold the word "never" to the same standard. I certainly used to preach the same view as you to anyone that would listen, but over the year
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Never ? The does seems like a strong word. It could be argued that there exists quite a few businesses built almost soley around credit cards for transactions and hence income. This in turn requires playing by Visa/Mastercard's rules, whic
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Nice to see more competition in this space. I've found newsletter email filtering to be a godsend and it's changed how I deal with email. I used to setup tons of filter rules manually, but now I just subscribe to anything of interest, and d
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The author himself shows a little more humility: "You’re exactly right. This is a risk, an experiment. " -rob [1] . I find it incredible that you will not concede any significant difference between D3 and D2 or between K1 and K2 groups. Wh
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>And I am saying that just because you want to pretend there's magic pixie dust that we need to live, doesn't mean it is actually true. Another misrepresentation. I started the thread by saying that the human body can take a lot of ab
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>"No, it is arrogant to claim that you know everything and this guy is a total moron because he did a great job of 100% completely and totally covering all vitamins " Emotionally charged strawman. He's done some homework. My argumen
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Not as far as nutrition is concerned. Some studies have indicated that D2 is slightly less potent, but the majority have shown equal efficacy. The evidence does not support that claim. If anything we don't know, and that's my point. [1]
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>When in reality, the human GI evolved to support an extremely broad range of inputs as it's most significant factor. While we can agree that innovation should not be stifled, the idea that we can determine the processes by which the
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So it's obviously satire, and I'm a huge PG/YC supporter, although consider this: PG (through the voice of another YC faithful) is in a way attacking the "dullard VC", lampooning them for being formulaic and unimaginative. But, in a sense h
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Thingsquare Mist - Connect Everything to the Internet(thingsquare.com)
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Caltech builds self healing chips(phys.org)
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>Physicists would hardly be intimidated by being shown the algebra of Bayes's Theorem. Well no they probably wouldn't, but my point wasn't about intimidation and not sure how it's relevant. Personally I'm a huge fan of Bayes theory bo
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>MWI certainly does make falsifiable claims. Would you mind stating an example of such a claim?
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From your link: "This is Bayes's Theorem. I own at least two distinct items of clothing printed with this theorem, so it must be important." - Eliezer cringe . "Here's a bunch of math so I must be really smart. Trust me guys." Math i
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> Since the Many Worlds Interpretation is the simplest one, it is also the most likely one The simplest defeasible claim in 2013, is still: "we don't know". Consider, 'How does the sun come up every day?' Answer A: God makes it happ
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HTTP Archive tracks how the Web is built(httparchive.org)
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