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Comment Re:Bitcoin will go to zero (Score 0) 59

Apparently you don't understand how futures markets work.

I understand very well actually but this has nothing to do with the futures marked, all you need is the ability to short that is present on so many exchanges. He could easily put a small sum down that would not be liquidated (i.e. he short $10 while having $10,000 in his account). That way it would have to reach the lofty heights of 1000 * what it is now (somewhere about $35,873,900 per bitcoin if you were using bitcoin) and he still won't be liquidated.

However, since his prediction is $0 he will make an infinite amount of money. Wouldn't that be nice!

(Of course, there is the "off chance" that he is a moron, I find people that make absolute predictions like this often are).

Comment Re:Bitcoin will go to zero (Score 2) 59

The prediction is 100%, he sees no other possibility. If I saw a chance like that i.e. I believed it absolutely like he does and there is no risk and I would be jumping on it.

(Of course, there is the "off chance" that he is a moron, I find people that make absolute predictions like this often are).

Comment Re:Remember when (Score 4, Funny) 148

President Bush was baffled by the checkout at the grocery. Might have been the same thing.

I think there is a fairly large difference between the two but lets explore it, for it to be the same thing it would make it one of the two possibilities:

1. The prisoner was so wealthy in jail to had emploiees that did all of his mobile phone operation for him

Or

2. President Bush was locked up for so long he missed the invention of grocery store checkups.

WHat one do you think it is?

Comment Re:did you think censorship would stop with Trump? (Score 1, Insightful) 194

Everybody who doesn't tow the line nowadays is spreading 'hatespeech, glorifying violence, and spreading misinformation'

And only a week ago spreading hatespeech, glorifying violence, and spreading misinformation WAS towing the partly line.

Funny how things change.

Comment Re:I'm an astronomer (Score 1) 129

Thanks for the useless link to "whataboutism"

You did not seem to be familiar with the logical fallacy you you were engaged in, I was being helpful.

it doesn't invalidate the fact that you are throwing a hissy fit over satellites when there are far worse things to worry about that you seem to be able to live with. It's like complaining about some peeing in the ocean when you are about to be eaten by a shark.

What hissy fit? Me saying that we need to just deal with it? The part you finally decided to agree with me on?

You seem to have done far less astronomy than me if we are going by knowledge levels. First, you didn't know that image stacking is the way most astronomy is done. Second, you obviously didn't know things like meteors, clouds, even airplanes, are a non-issue when you stack thousands of short exposure images in software like registax. How can we take you seriously?

Again, you know shit and your lies pretending to don't impress me. Just your statement about turning off camera sensors tells me that much.

Dude, you need to calm down and take your head out of Elons ass. Just because I say something that you perceive to criticize him (but did not actually) you have gone on an internet tantrum. Get over it.

Comment Re:I'm an astronomer (Score 2) 129

So clouds, water vapor, various atmospheric phenomena, birds, and airplanes are totally fine with you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

IR astronomy from Earth being crap is why we're launching JWST.

JWST is better, but IR astronomy is not crap.

As for radio astronomy, I havent seen NRAO file a complaint

That is because they are just going to deal with it for the greater good.

I've done it before

I actually don't believe you. You know too little to have actually done any actual astronomy.

Finally, global broadband is far more immediately valuable to the world today that fake Earth-bound astronomy.

That is LITERALLY what I said in my post that pissed you off so much. Go home, take a chill pill and relax, you're too angry to internet.

Comment Re:I'm an astronomer (Score 4, Interesting) 129

Stop spreading the myth that this will F up the night sky.

Your using hyperbolic language there, I did not say that.

The satellites are only visible at dawn and twilight because beyond that the satellites are well in the Earth's shadow and can't reflect sunlight.

And radio astronomy? Radar? Infra red? You need to learn a bit more about astronomy before you are qualified to comment.

Furthermore the positions of the satellites are known and predictable down to the millisecond in advance so any camera can briefly shut off the sensor for the instant a satellite passes its field of view).

The cameras used in astronomy are not your average cell phone camera and they literally do not work like that. It takes minutes to hours of continuous photon counting to produce one frame that will be one of thousands used in post processing to create a single image.

Comment Re:I'm an astronomer (Score 5, Insightful) 129

As an anature astronomer I get where you are coming from and I feel your pain.

As someone who has lived and worked in some of the most underserved places on the planet where they barely have access to any sort of information infrastructure and all the things that go along with it (education, banking, heath etc...) I can see the difference that this is going to make to billions of people's lives.

It sucks for us night sky lovers, but we are just going to have to suck it up and work around the problem.

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