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Comment yahoo (Score 2) 171

i thought yahoo was a porn site. we used toronto freenet, which was kinda of a menu based system, buy allowed searches for things like nude images. i didn't know what search meant, but there in the list of nude images sites, was yahoo over and over again, and it made sense. that would be a great name for a porn site. anyways, we'd spend way too much time downloading big text files and uudecoding to show a scan of a playboy centerfold.

Comment Re:Lead!!! (Score 1, Insightful) 183

i was being sarcastic. my point is how ridiculous things have gotten in the world with scientifically illiterate people forming options outside of their mental capacities and knowledge. i know there would be no danger of the Pb in this material, but i have some knowledge of the industrial uses of Pb.

Comment stand outs (Score 1) 239

two items stand out, one is 44 years and the other is the omission of error bars. 44 years is being presented as a long term. i saw the graph of overlaid daily temps and it looks very precise. are there no potentials for errors in the graph? is it possible that we are we within the upper end of a normal range? i'm not a climate change denier, btw.

Comment Biases (Score 1) 57

per "Basically what we're trying to do is amplify what's considered good behavior and then de-amplify what's considered bad behavior"... is this scary to anyone? who considers the behavior? as for biases, if you think about evolution, biases are part of nature, and in this, our world adapts and moves forward. we may not like all the biases though. when one suppresses a natural truth, then the system is diminished.

Comment important fact missing (Score 1) 83

this study shows the quantity of wallets in a gain or loss position. what it doesn't show is the $$ losses. someone buying at 60k has lost 44k. someone who bought at 10k has made 6k. the 1 gain offsets the one loss, however, the net difference is 38k. there have been many more $$ losses in bitcoin. you can also look at the volume and guess that a certain percentage of buyers above 20k are still holding. since this is a speculative 'asset', that % is going to be pretty low, but probably 20-30%, meaning the average bitcoin buy and hold types are in at around 30k, very roughly.

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