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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 by hluska »

dingo_bat wrote: post #30
bencoder wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm not sure whether you're trolling or whether you truly don't understand the issue here, but your hostility is not only rude, it makes for an incredibly boring thread.

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

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Post by conmarap »

Do you all remember when Gold went up to ~$1850 in 2011 (about $2015 in today's money) never to reach those prices again (today's gold spot price is $1294.57)? The price did skyrocket, but what goes up must go down, especially in the financial field. Also, BTC reached the price of about $1150 in November of 2013, and then didn't get to that point until January of 2017 (If I'm reading the data on coinmarketcap correctly). The prices of BTC at the moment were largely driven to this point due to rising political and social upheaval and uncertainty in the market. Bitcoin is currently a bubble that's ready to burst. Also, if you want "privacy" use Monero or Zcash, not Bitcoin.

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

#44

Post by kpdxxx »

dingo_bat wrote: post #36
kpdxxx wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice US imperialism you got going there

I'm not even American! This is akin to Americans putting the month before the date in MMDDYYYY.

I'm not reopening the years-old discourse on how stupid American notation schemes are; just wanted you to know that your rude response is not welcome.

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

#45

Post by cowmoo728 »

baldfat wrote: post #13
kumarvvr wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Time traveling backwards is not possible. Time Traveling forward happens the faster you move. Satellites have to compensate for the fact that time is different the faster you go.

I think it's "time traveling forwards happens slower the faster you move."

The easy explanation is that we're traveling in a 4 dimensional space at the speed of light, and any increase in speed in the 3 spatial dimensions must subtract from your speed in the orthogonal time dimension.

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

#46

Post by dingo_bat »

hluska wrote: post #41
dingo_bat wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm not sure whether you're trolling or whether you truly don't understand the issue here, but your hostility is not only rude, it makes for an incredibly boring thread.

I'm sorry if I came across as hostile or rude. I genuinely feel that using decimals as digit separators is distracting and technically wrong when you're writing English.

Full disclosure since some people are assuming I'm an American imperialist: I am not an American, nor have I ever been to America.

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

#47

Post by uptown »

gonational wrote: post #31

READ CLOSELY: I don't think it's possible to travel to the past, but I've figured out how to travel 1 hour into the future. It works 100% of the time. Here are the instructions: 1. Visit https://news.ycombinator.com/news

I find this works better:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

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

#48

Post by dvdkhlng »

cowmoo728 wrote: post #45
baldfat wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Time traveling backwards is not possible. Time Traveling forward happens the faster you move. Satellites have to compensate for the fact that time is different the faster you go.

I think it's "time traveling forwards happens slower the faster you move." The easy explanation is that we're traveling in a 4 dimensional space at the speed of light, and any increase in speed in the 3 spatial dimensions must subtract from your speed in the orthogonal time dimension.

Maybe in an Orthogonal Universe [1,2], but not in ours :)

The way you state it, traveler's time would speed up (as the resting frame's time of journey would be decreased).

[1] http://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/00/PM.html

[2] http://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/02/Motion.html#LR

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

#49

Post by SimonPStevens »

dingo_bat wrote: post #30
bencoder wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The "." symbol is not called a decimal point. It's called a period or full stop. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop

You only call it a decimal point because of your cultural bias.

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

#50

Post by hluska »

dingo_bat wrote: post #46
hluska wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure whether you're trolling or whether you truly don't understand the issue here, but your hostility is not only rude, it makes for an incredibly boring thread.

I'm sorry if I came across as hostile or rude. I genuinely feel that using decimals as digit separators is distracting and technically wrong when you're writing English. Full disclosure since some people are assuming I'm an American imperialist: I am not an American, nor have I ever been to America.

First, I don't care where you're from and I generally dislike engaging with people who will say things like "American imperialist", particularly when it relates to communications standards.

Second, it's okay to have opinions, but in this case, groups with significantly more clout (ie - the Conference on Weights and Measures) disagree. In the early 2000s, the conference resolved that the symbol for the decimal marker could be either a period or a comma. Both are completely acceptable. The Conference on Weights and Measures also does not approve of the use of thousands separators, so technically, these are both correct:

1 000 000.25 1 000 000,25

But this is always wrong:

1,000,000.25

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