Because as we all know, HN users are experts at meteorites. They are also not at all interested in trying to convince people of how smart they are by calling others wrong.

What.

So if the average person could think critically for themselves, gays wouldn't want to marry?

I guess you just missed the parts like,

Or,

So you didn't actually read the articles about this at all?

The warming trend has not "paused for the last 18 years". That is a lie you have been told.

Well, no. It does not.

Difficulty rises until they all get about 5% of all bitcoins and the previous people get their share of the remaining 50%.

No. Proof of work has to be hard to do, easy to check. With raytracing both are essentially equal.

Wait, so we like trademark law in this thread? Because I just came from another thread where trademark law was literally Hitler, and I forgot to change.

I don't think I have much of a problem with others deciding for me that hired killers are bad for me.

Yes, hired killers are only illegal, certainly not bad.

Bitcoin has grown immensely in the last year.

Yet volatility is just as high as ever.

People keep saying that more users and more value will drive down volatility, but this is only ever wishful thinking. Reality does not bear this claim out.

I literally can not think of a single way that making sure bad things are only available to a few is better than bad things being available to everybody!

That's what he said, you know.