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Well you've flipped now to discussing the definition of useful, no? First, gold is plenty useful outside value store: only ~30% of new gold per year is used for investment (this is…

I can roughly see the relationship but not smart enough to see immediately what it means without more thought. FWIW AFAIU the broken window parable is itself not without controvers…

My guess is that the increase of employment per increase of gold mined is higher than the increase of employment per increase of bitcoin mined.

> he inherited an estate worth $100 million. It’s not exactly difficult to turn that into $1 billion (compared to, say, turning $10,000 into $100,000.) And turning $1 billion into …

You're right that there is always a race to build a new hardware platform. You're wrong that one literally replaces another.

How much of what you see in your browser do you retain?

To borrow the spirit of your impassioned comment - could someone point to a criticism of Sowell's work/ideas?

I agree that it's a terrible format but why exactly is it a bad format to be graded on? If you are able to construct a good 5 paragraph essay then you certainly have demonstrated t…

...you're seriously nitpicking on the least important things here and then using it as evidence to say it's 'too weak for practitioners'... come on.

Although not completely related, this reminds me of Asimov's famous story... The Last Question. Must read. http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm

This really does depend on how "reliable" is defined. At the code level, reliable is dependent on the actual programmer. This code must then be compiled/interpreted in order to to …

Wasn't expecting such an awesome response - thank you!

While this is interesting, it really strikes me that there isn't that much data available. Would this pattern hold if you saw another 100 years into the past? Will it hold an addit…

This is not my experience at all. I have noticed an increase in the number of ads but also not anywhere near what the author demonstrates. I have to ask though, how many connection…

This isn't quite fair. The difficulty of writing completely secure software is out of comparison with the difficulty of finding vulnerabilities. First, it's a numbers game. There a…

I think the exploration of the answer to this question is about the most frightening implication of this whole mess