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

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

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Post by odonnellryan » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 4:36 AM UTC

hluska wrote: post #50

dingo_bat wrote: post #46

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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…

So the comment he was complaining about was wrong too!

I am happy python let's us use _ now to separate thousands positions.

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

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Post by odonnellryan » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 4:37 AM UTC

zaarn wrote: post #28

dingo_bat wrote: post #19

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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.

$100_000 !

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

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Post by dEnigma » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 12:07 PM UTC

xtracto wrote: post #67

dEnigma wrote: post #10

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Well, when this was written in 2013, the numbers for 2015 and 2017 probably provoked the same response (haven't read through the Reddit thread to check it). That being said, I'm with you in doubting Bitcoin will ever be worth $100,000.

There are two ways to achieve that... either Bitcoin increases value or your "$" decreases value... I mean, 1 Bitcoin equals 10,775,501.53 South Korean Won

Sure, but I just don't feel like either of those factors will be strong enough for Bitcoin and the US dollar to reach a 100k$ price.

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

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Post by baldfat » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 1:39 PM UTC

dvdkhlng wrote: post #48

cowmoo728 wrote: post #45

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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

If I jump on a ship and travel near light speed (Not possible yet) and then land on the same spot I would not have spent the same time as those on the earth.

Now at a tiny level anyone ever on an airplane also will have spent less time than those who never have flown.

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

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Post by cmroanirgo » Wed, Nov 29, 2017, 9:21 PM UTC

Not a real time traveller, of course. He keeps mixing up his tense:

"On average, every year so far.." "From now on..."

A person from the future would state dates and times categorically, because to them it is history. Fakes are easy to spot.

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

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Post by Tomminn » Thu, Nov 30, 2017, 3:05 AM UTC

bencoder wrote: post #27

dingo_bat wrote: post #19

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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...

Actually this raises an interesting point (gah), how is "1,25" vocalized? Do they say "1 point 25" like non-Europeans do? Because if they do a case can be made that "point" more naturally corresponds to the symbol that looks more like a point, making the non-European system unambiguously more logical.