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Thank you for the detailed and interesting comment. I wish I could maintain my productivity for extended periods of time like you do. Unfortunately I find that my cognitive abiliti…

Or perhaps these people simply aren't hedonists that orientate their lives around momentary pleasures. Instead, they derive pleasure from achievement and building things. Recreatio…

If I was interested in such a discount, how would I contact you? (Also, how much is a "large amount"?)

> a link to the white paper. no idea what this does/use case From the white paper: "Velocity is an automated system for hedging risk on asset prices. It allows anyone to establish …

> The community that already understands it isn't doing a very good job making it so that others can reach it Where I disagree is that I don't believe that all ideas/concepts can b…

Noun, 1. money laundering: Concealing the source of illegally gotten money. Do you have any evidence that suggests that all users of mixers obtained their Bitcoin illegally? This H…

Well if you don't want to be connected to the Ethereum blockchain then you probably should just use a webserver. The advantage of using a blockchain like Ethereum is that it is ver…

I find it amusing that you spend so much time commenting on every Ethereum post on hacker news. For someone who is so dismissive of Ethereum as a technology, you sure spend a lot o…

I noticed last year that ubuntu.com - despite being the source from which most people download Ubuntu .isos - has no HTTPS capability and doesn't offer any checksums or gpg signatu…

Encryption enforces privacy. In a world with no privacy vulnerable people are easily abused by people in positions of authority. Also note that the legal system is not a perfect ma…

> There is NOTHING that ethereum can do that you can't do with bitcoin. That is factually incorrect. Bitcoin is not turing complete, Ethereum is. Eg: You can't do loops in Bitcoin,…

Thank you for the detailed post - very helpful for me. If I may ask, what were some of the factors that you used to determine the demand for a property in a given area?

Yeah so you just agreed with the above comment - you want control on where your money goes. So does Zuckerberg.

I don't think that would be the case. If a couple of western Governments "ban encryption" it would probably just mean that they weaken the crypto (e.g. backdoor). The traffic of we…

>Taxation is not partial slavery because the money is not yours to begin with Ah, we have found the key contention. An interesting thought is to consider a world of fully mobile pe…

Yes I absolutely believe that there are diminishing returns associated with arbitrage. I would personally think that exchanges should put some lower limit on the 'time resolution' …

Arbitrage definitely adds value to society. Without arbitrage, traded assets could exist with arbitrary values. The process of arbitrage involves observing a mis-priced asset and t…

Yeah I presume he means 'bitcoin exchanges', since bitcoin itself is obviously still here.

> who will enforce the redundancy? Who enforced the redundancy of humans possessing two kidneys? If you are a creationist, then I guess we have different starting assumptions. Assu…

> A market is a system which can have temporary flaws I guess this is where our assumptions diverge. I don't believe that a fluctuation in the market price can ever be considered a…

> He [Nassim] is actually big fan of slow and dull, tightly controlled systems ("antifragile") Please watch the first 5 mins of this interview (or all of it) with him: https://www.…

Reasoning by analogy is not a sound way to make an argument. In fact, reasoning by analogy is always wrong to some greater or lesser degree. It is much better to directly address a…

> great if you want to extract money other's productivity but not so great for the market as an economic structure No this is not correct. Options are derivatives that are traded o…

>Laissez-faire economic systems are in no way capable of keeping themselves stable. This is the point - Laissez-faire economic systems function well on their own, it just happens t…