>I can’t imagine what’s going on in his mind right now. Massive amounts of Selegiline, probably.
>Even gold, at least I can wear it and display my wealth. You can’t even display your crypto wealth like that I'd feel much safer displaying large sums of wealth online by posting a wallet than by wearing luxury goods…
Your mistake is valuing cryptocurrency purely as a currency. In reality BTC and other cryptos have combined properties of currencies, commodities, securities, as well as unique elements that can't be found elsewhere.…
>Education and stock market are not analogous Why not? A company is just an aggregate of people working towards a shared mission. Not unlike a society.
This is a fallacy, similar to thinking that a portfolio should be invested into the worst performing stocks because "they have the most room to improve".
There is a certain brand of person who is obsessed with redistributing resources from the most productive to the least productive. They don't see how allocating the best teachers in the world to students who are…
>But everyone notices when every aspect of their society is led by people of one race. I didn't go to China and become resentful when I noticed their leadership was Chinese. But I did immigrate to America, then…
This is what I was referring to: https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1195528833157386240 I feel like my interpretation of that quote is fairly accurate.
>Can someone explain this in logical, non-political, terms. Probably not, because it's ultimately a political phenomenon. In left-leaning circles it's popular to deny that there can be significant statistical…
James Watson had evidence on the subject, he was stripped of his titles and harassed by ideologues who are convinced everyone should be exactly equal. Scientists have realized it's not worth it to sacrifice their career…
All he said is that some ethnicities are less intelligent than others. What is the statistical likelihood that 100% of ethnicities, which have evolved in drastically different environments across the world, have all…
Good. The last thing the world needs is discord users getting rich off crypto.
>The Crypto-USDT pairs will quickly go no-bid History has shown that this does not happen in crypto. Even for coins like Bitconnect and Confido that plainly turned out to be scams, there were still buyers long after the…
>I’ve been shorting a few bitcoin-related public companies on the theory that in a run on Tether they will have to liquidate large bitcoin holdings I doubt a run on tether would even cause a 50% drop in BTC price. Hope…
>Consider cryptocurrency to be the newest version of Beanie Babies, and act accordingly. I find it hilarious that people can seriously equate a 2.6 trillion dollar industry with Beanie Babies. Beanie Babies did not…
At one point Pfizer paid out the largest health care fraud settlement in history of 2.3 billon (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...). It's a shame many people would consider me a conspiracy…
>Bitcoin is only fuelled by people's poor understanding of what money is. Citation needed. I majored in economics and BTC is a huge percentage of my portfolio.
>1) no benefit in the meantime for the holder (such as a dividend There is no fundamental difference between an asset paying dividends or simply appreciating in value. At the end of the day all an investor cares about…
>First, police disproportionately arrest people of color, especially Black people. That's similar to saying that police disproportionately arrest men relative to women, therefore they must be sexist.
I've taken all my other vaccines. But because I don't want to take one vaccine with unknown long term side effects for a disease that I've already had, I'm suddenly an antivaxxer? I disagree.
Banning mandates that restrict freedom is ultimately consistent with valuing freedom. Calling that in itself anti-freedom is the same logic as "you aren't truly tolerant unless you accept my intolerance".
Your phrasing makes it sound like people should be grateful that their generous employers pay them so much. Employers don't do that because they're nice, they do it because tech workers generate enough value to justify…
It's disingenuous to pretend like "black lives matter" is merely a phrase that any decent person should agree to without question. BLM is a political group with a radical left-leaning agenda that encompasses much more…
Nitpicking based on your definition of "investment" isn't really a dig at Bitcoin. I would argue that even fiat currencies are often used as investments to hedge against various types of risks. Bitcoin is not "supposed"…
Fair distribution is not only completely subjective, but also meaningless. Given enough time, any valuable asset's distribution will be heavily concentrated in the hands of the rich.
>I can’t imagine what’s going on in his mind right now. Massive amounts of Selegiline, probably.
>Even gold, at least I can wear it and display my wealth. You can’t even display your crypto wealth like that I'd feel much safer displaying large sums of wealth online by posting a wallet than by wearing luxury goods…
Your mistake is valuing cryptocurrency purely as a currency. In reality BTC and other cryptos have combined properties of currencies, commodities, securities, as well as unique elements that can't be found elsewhere.…
>Education and stock market are not analogous Why not? A company is just an aggregate of people working towards a shared mission. Not unlike a society.
This is a fallacy, similar to thinking that a portfolio should be invested into the worst performing stocks because "they have the most room to improve".
There is a certain brand of person who is obsessed with redistributing resources from the most productive to the least productive. They don't see how allocating the best teachers in the world to students who are…
>But everyone notices when every aspect of their society is led by people of one race. I didn't go to China and become resentful when I noticed their leadership was Chinese. But I did immigrate to America, then…
This is what I was referring to: https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1195528833157386240 I feel like my interpretation of that quote is fairly accurate.
>Can someone explain this in logical, non-political, terms. Probably not, because it's ultimately a political phenomenon. In left-leaning circles it's popular to deny that there can be significant statistical…
James Watson had evidence on the subject, he was stripped of his titles and harassed by ideologues who are convinced everyone should be exactly equal. Scientists have realized it's not worth it to sacrifice their career…
All he said is that some ethnicities are less intelligent than others. What is the statistical likelihood that 100% of ethnicities, which have evolved in drastically different environments across the world, have all…
Good. The last thing the world needs is discord users getting rich off crypto.
>The Crypto-USDT pairs will quickly go no-bid History has shown that this does not happen in crypto. Even for coins like Bitconnect and Confido that plainly turned out to be scams, there were still buyers long after the…
>I’ve been shorting a few bitcoin-related public companies on the theory that in a run on Tether they will have to liquidate large bitcoin holdings I doubt a run on tether would even cause a 50% drop in BTC price. Hope…
>Consider cryptocurrency to be the newest version of Beanie Babies, and act accordingly. I find it hilarious that people can seriously equate a 2.6 trillion dollar industry with Beanie Babies. Beanie Babies did not…
At one point Pfizer paid out the largest health care fraud settlement in history of 2.3 billon (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...). It's a shame many people would consider me a conspiracy…
>Bitcoin is only fuelled by people's poor understanding of what money is. Citation needed. I majored in economics and BTC is a huge percentage of my portfolio.
>1) no benefit in the meantime for the holder (such as a dividend There is no fundamental difference between an asset paying dividends or simply appreciating in value. At the end of the day all an investor cares about…
>First, police disproportionately arrest people of color, especially Black people. That's similar to saying that police disproportionately arrest men relative to women, therefore they must be sexist.
I've taken all my other vaccines. But because I don't want to take one vaccine with unknown long term side effects for a disease that I've already had, I'm suddenly an antivaxxer? I disagree.
Banning mandates that restrict freedom is ultimately consistent with valuing freedom. Calling that in itself anti-freedom is the same logic as "you aren't truly tolerant unless you accept my intolerance".
Your phrasing makes it sound like people should be grateful that their generous employers pay them so much. Employers don't do that because they're nice, they do it because tech workers generate enough value to justify…
It's disingenuous to pretend like "black lives matter" is merely a phrase that any decent person should agree to without question. BLM is a political group with a radical left-leaning agenda that encompasses much more…
Nitpicking based on your definition of "investment" isn't really a dig at Bitcoin. I would argue that even fiat currencies are often used as investments to hedge against various types of risks. Bitcoin is not "supposed"…
Fair distribution is not only completely subjective, but also meaningless. Given enough time, any valuable asset's distribution will be heavily concentrated in the hands of the rich.