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Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)

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Re: Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)

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post #11

"I have no way of proving to you" well what about some events from "your past" and our future? like what big will happen in 2018? anyways fun read

If I suddenly dropped you in Poland on June 11, 1371, how would you go about convincing a reasonably well-informed person that you're from the future?

I doubt i can ever convince someone from over 600 years ago about anything.

Someone who is reasonable well-informed, but living in the year 1371 is still a whole different level of information than someone who is reasonable well-informed today. Lots of concepts have not been discovered/invented and another whole bunch are lost.

Re: Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)

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post #6

Not the best writing style but still a fun read. Could change a few things to create a big budget Hollywood script out of it: Terminator x Mad Max x Big Short x In Time . I'd probably watch it too.

I'd call it 12 million monkeys. :)

Re: Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)

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post #9
post #4

If I were a time-traveler from 2025 to 2013, and things were roughly as described, you can bet I would go straight to Reddit and tell, in lurid detail, the tale of this digital dystopia. Not because I expect it to change the outcome. Time travel doesn't work like that. No, I would do it because I would need to do it -- because in a sense, I had already done it. I would, in all likelihood, already be aware of having d…

These sort of arguments seem to solidify the notion that time-travel is not possible in the current setup of the universe.

Time Travel totally works in forwards.

In backwards it's probably more like winding up a tape; you can rewind all you want but the tape contents won't change.

Re: Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)

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Will bitcoin worths $100.000 on 2019? I mean, seriously.

That's $100,000 for anybody who's not insane. Seriously, why use the "decimal point" as a digit separator? You might as well start using Roman numbers too!

In countries where the dot is used as the thousands separator, it is not a 'decimal point'. In fact, much of the world does NOT use . as a decimal separator:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Hindu.E2.80.93Ara...

Re: Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)

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Will bitcoin worths $100.000 on 2019? I mean, seriously.

That's $100,000 for anybody who's not insane. Seriously, why use the "decimal point" as a digit separator? You might as well start using Roman numbers too!

That's $100'000 for sensible people, the comma or dot is confusing no matter which you pick.

Re: Bitcoin: I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop (2013)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's $100,000 for anybody who's not insane. Seriously, why use the "decimal point" as a digit separator? You might as well start using Roman numbers too!

In countries where the dot is used as the thousands separator, it is not a 'decimal point'. In fact, much of the world does NOT use . as a decimal separator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Hindu.E2.80.93Ara...

The number of countries using it does not justify the usage. I'm saying that the symbol "." is a decimal point in English. When writing English why won't you obey the rules of the language?

Consider how Americans write dates MMDDYYYY. It's fucking stupid, no matter if 300 million Americans use it. Same deal with this.

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