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by zepto 5y ago
> If you want to advance the idea that it's only China mainland had this idea of Taiwan is part of China, then you already made a US centric view that is very likely to be wrong. As I said elsewhere - if you can provide us a link to
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by zepto 5y ago
> So I think it's useful to hide my identity and make throw away account to just reflect a point. You made the throwaway account 3 years ago, and only started to use it two hours ago. > Otherwise, people would start associate my
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by zepto 5y ago
Yes, this is a fair point. I was referring primarily to the fact that the UN doesn’t recognize Taiwan as a separate entity and doesn’t give it a seat independently from the mainland - e.g. The WHO has been blocked from doing so by the CCP.
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by zepto 5y ago
I think it’s clear that there is nothing to support your claim that there is any ‘international law’ that establishes that Taiwan is part of the mainland. It is literally only a position of the CCP and nothing more. As I have pointed out, y
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by zepto 5y ago
No - see the other commenter. There is no international law stating that Taiwan is part of China. If you can provide us with a link to the law in question, we might be able to go into this question in more detail. Until then I think it’s
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by zepto 5y ago
Not so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29677497 Also, I see your account was created 3 years ago, but only became active in the last hour to post defenses of the CCP and China. https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by zepto 5y ago
In the multilateral case, recognition of Taiwan by the UN has long been something that China has had veto power over. In the unilateral case, China prevents individual countries from recognizing Taiwan or even implying it’s independence thr
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by zepto 5y ago
Not obvious as far as I can see. Just moving cryptocurrencies around isn’t necessarily useful.
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by zepto 5y ago
Can you summarize that?
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by zepto 5y ago
> So first, Taiwan is not sovereign nation. Under international law, Taiwan and mainland is one nation. This is the CCP position, yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=justicezyx
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by zepto 5y ago
The build up of troops on the border of Ukraine, and the Chinese military incursions into Taiwan’s airspace have not been drummed up by the US news.
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Taiwan has had the protection of and deep economic cooperation with the USA.
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by zepto 5y ago
> and it can vary for reasons completely different from the industrial processes considered for an "intrinsic value". Nobody disputes that bubbles and sentiment exist. What is in dispute is the idea that they are the only t
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by zepto 5y ago
Only you and other NFT advocates seem to be drawing that conclusion.
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by zepto 5y ago
They are good for you, but you don’t know 99% of the digital artists on this planet or what is good for them. Indeed you haven’t even told us how many digital artists you know. Only that you are one.
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by zepto 5y ago
Everything is valued this way. All purchases are based on what people think the thing is worth. Discounted cash flows, etc, are all ways people use to come to their ‘subjective’ conclusions. It ends up being circular though - yes, huma
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by zepto 5y ago
Yes, just like with the Tulip Bubble! It might never have burst, and then we would never have needed NFTs because we’d still be trading tulips.
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by zepto 5y ago
It seems like you are in full agreement with me that the way we value NFTs is exactly equivalent to the valuing of Tulips during the bubble of 1637. > Had the tulips kept their scarcity, They did. > and had social interest remained at
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by zepto 5y ago
That isn’t an answer to my question, but it does explain your financial interest in defending NFTs throughout this thread.
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How many artists do you know?
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> they give owners rights Generally not. > NFT's are just tokens on the open blockchain that you can exclusively control. Exactly this, and nothing more.
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Such as?
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by zepto 5y ago
Sorry - I edited my comment while you were posting this. Feel free to reply to my full comment, since I address the consequences of this line of reasoning there.
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by zepto 5y ago
> If you use "what someone last paid for it" as a measure of intrinsic value, then they have intrinsic value. Clearly this doesn’t meet the requirements of an objective measure . A single tulip bulb was purchased for 2500 fl
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by zepto 5y ago
This is a property that NFTs can never have, so claiming that NFTs are equivalent to physical collectibles is certainly false. If you are saying that something requires a ledger entry to have value, then you are simply proving that it has
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A bubble inflated by people rich from crypto-currencies.
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by zepto 5y ago
> The reason that something is valuable to collectors is the social contract between creator and recipient. No, it’s because the valuable object is physically scarce, and exists as a material historical artifact independent of any ledge
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by zepto 5y ago
Because unless you are an academic what good would that do? Employers would still know you had obtained the degree and at worst there might he a small discount on your starting salary. You wouldn’t be fired for losing it.
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by zepto 5y ago
The idea that financial predators are by design, is indeed bizarre. However the idea that they are one of the kinds of threat that a democracy needs to be vigilant against doesn’t seem bizarre in the least.
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by zepto 5y ago
Yes, it could also be an operation by another unit within the navy.

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