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Other than "gee, i wonder if all the people who bought in at $1,000 are feeling good now", maybe. Oh, and whether the people who were touting it are yet ready to admit that maybe Bitcoin is pretty much exactly what we've said it is all along -- a speculators' commodity that is far too volatile and with far too few upsides to ever be useful as a currency.
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You are incorrect. Here, let me break it down for you as logic 101. p = Bitcoin is a currency q = Bitcoin lost a huge chunk of value in 2014 compared to $LIST_OF_CURRENCIES Jhunter/I: !p. psion: p. Article: p and q. Me: Oh, look, an article saying q. Not surprised. Jhunter: Not surprised either. psion: Ha! because article, therefore p! You admitted p! p! please p? Us: No, because p and q have no defined relation. Both truth values in this combination remain valid: if q, then p && q == TRUE (bitcoin is a currency and lost value compared to currencies) if q, then !p && q == TRUE (bitcoin is not a currency and lost value compared to currencies) psion: BUT YOU MUST HAVE ADMITTED pppppp Us: Nope. We still say !p && q. You: OMG NOT LOGICAL ...demonstrating that you don't actually understand logic yourself. Did you ever actually take a class in it? Mine was in 11th grade, but that's not so long ago that I can't still remember the basic principles. Oh, and hey, you didn't answer this:
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Uh Oh! It looks like yet another epitaph.
ftfy. And you accuse me of listening to the words in my head? BTW regarding your "mastery" of logic:
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I'm just requoting my prediction from long ago, which is that the people who were buying in at $1k were fools. Turns out I was right. Big surprise there.
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Another comprehension/logic fail. What do you think "&&" means?
p && q == TRUE means that both the statements p and q are true while !p && q == TRUE means that both the statements !p and q are true (or p is false AND q is true). Neither line can be inferred if q is true. "It's just English. Try it sometime." |
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Both remain valid possibilities, as the truth of p is unrelated to the truth of q. Which is what the post said in the first place -- you just would rather play silly buggers than admit anything at all.
Of course, if you had just read the original post in the first place rather than conjuring up feverish slashfic in your mind according to the rules of some immature game where you ignore what people actually say in favor of claiming "NO NO YOU SAID THIS I KNOW IT", you wouldn't have this problem. It isn't a rational approach to discussion to assume that a person who has held opinion A for a long time has suddenly ceased to hold opinion A simply because he agrees with another person on a tangentially related matter, even if that other person happens to hold opinion B. It's even less rational to follow him around a thread repeating such rubbish when that person has directly stated "No, I still have opinion A." You aren't a mind reader, and pretending you are in this manner is childish. Seriously. Read the words on the screen. Respond only to those. People have been telling you this for several years now. You can do it; I have faith in you, if you put in the effort. |
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I was going to buy a coin (or wallet, or whatever) at $350 just for novelty's sake (and on the extreme off-chance Bitcoins would increase ten-fold).
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The people who bought in at $1,000 last year are probably feeling pretty crappy about it, but the people who bought in at $20 the year before (and didn't sell) are probably feeling pretty relaxed.
Bubbles tend to burst sooner or later. Render-farming, perhaps. (I'd suggest Litecoin mining, but the prices for that have collapsed as well.) |
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Talk about illogical!
The statements p &&q == TRUE and !p && q == TRUE may be valid possibilities but your conditional statements if q, then .... are FALSE for the reason you gave. You could have written if q, then p && q == TRUE || !p && q == TRUE but by the law of absorption, that reduces to the trivial case of if q, then q == TRUE. You know about as much about logic as you know about what I have posted. I have never questioned that bitcoin prices have fallen. I have only said that calling bitcoin a currency was ironic (and ironic doesn't mean anything other than ironic). If you would just acknowledge this irony instead of "playing silly buggers" you could end this exchange and stop making yourself look foolish. |
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http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/5/749...tcoin-exchange Oh, the bet was specific to coinbase.com? Nevermind. |
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