Imitate, assimilate, innovate - Clark Terry

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing - Salvador Dali

Yes, I forgot to mention that though theoretical rarity is similar as you say, practically orders of magnitude more mined gold exists than platinum. So they cannot be said to be similar from a practical perspective.

Given the physical dissimilarities, calling them similar is very wrong.

So to measure the worth of Coca Cola, you need to spend lots of money in establishing another cola company and make it sell no name brand cola. This is not practical. If the company is imaginary, it doesn't come under "easily established", it comes under "educated guess" that the GP was mentioning.

If the value of this imaginary company is assumed to be zero, you are essentially saying the value of Coca Cola company is same as the value of the Coca Cola brand. This is clearly wrong.

They are extremely dissimalar.

1. Platinum is harder than pure iron - though matches gold in ductility and malleability if enough force is applied. It is much much harder to work with than gold.

If you have raw gold as money, you can divide it into pieces with relatively little skill or force. Not so with platinum.

2. Platinum is much much rarer than gold.

Diamonds break easily along some lines. Once they break along those lines, the value of large diamonds is greatly reduced.

1. Somewhat less easily verified than gold.

2. Not divisible - the worth is proportional to fourth power of size, depending on other factors. And serious technology is required to divide it, except along the lines at which a piece of diamond wants to be divided.

So you have a diamond worth 20 horses, but you want only one horse. By dividing the diamond into 20, you have reduced the worth of your diamond by many orders of magnitude. IF you are able to divide it into 20 at all.

Wrong. At least according to a popular theory which you are too stupid to understand.

1. People claiming to want to study opposing viewpoints are a dime a dozen.

2. Atypical people don't matter anyway.

3. The revenue generated from ads, normalized by adblocking people, is so little that most people would be limited by time to view all the material rather than the money to pay for it. Except for badly scaling pricing models - but when bad models are assumed, any number of things can wrong, viewpoint bubbles are the least of worries.

Come on! These are movie people. They might call Bruce Willis to deal with a hostage situation.

1. Human psyche isn't amenable to looking at things disagreeing with them. Any system evolved / used by humans will have that problem. Even without internet.org / zero / facebook / lots of paid websites - most people live in their own bubble.

2. Even without internet.org/zero - facebook already puts you into your own bubble. Things similar to those you like are shown more. There is no dislike button for similar deliberate purposes. Facebook blames this on users, but they know that showing you things that you like is a good way to keep you coming back for more.

3. In effect you are saying paid websites would "put viewers in a bubble where they're unwilling to look at a site with opposing viewpoints", whereas without the paid websites they are already in the same bubble. I don't see a difference.

It is not disagreement when straw men are being invoked in your every post.

You refuse to try to understand any of my posts in this thread . Expected, since you hang out on Slashdot.

You say so, you might even believe it. But it is highly misinformed according to many Muslims I know, and also according to a much more popular interpretation of "La ilaha illillah". Allah is NOT god.

I am not saying that by cancelling they become non-religious. Each individual religious group remains religious.

I am saying that popular disbelief* of Muslims in god makes belief in god wrong. And popular disbelief in Allah by Christians makes Allah wrong according the the wisdom of the crowds.

And by disbelief I don't mean merely indifference. If it were merely indifference, it would not cancel the other group's belief. But they are warned strongly against "false gods" in their gospels and by leaders. I mean active disbelief and denial.

Email? Instant Messenger? Issue tracker with email/SMS notifications? Phone?

Whatsapp? If Wuthering Heights can be played in semaphore, surely people creating software should be able to find a method to communicate?

Can any one give a reason for the graph being r-theta, or polar coordinate graph? This would have worked fine in a regular cartesian, or an X-Y graph.