This user is Greg Maxwell, who works full-time on internet arguments on behalf of AXA ventures, the organization that deliberately crippled Bitcoin in an attempt to monetize sidechains. Since that failed, he has been relegated to simple FUD while his handlers accumulate ETH.
That could be true, but it’s still a good measure of IQ. This “cultural” angle is a narrative that started from criticisms of SAT vocab tests and critics of IQ tests latched onto it and hope they can convince everyone that IQ isn’t real and everyone is equally smart in their own way
You can learn to identify literal paid shills by their consistent messaging across distinct forums/media and use of certain rhetorical tactics. For certain subject matters it is practically guaranteed some of the participants are shills. There are a lot more shills on the internet than most people realize.
So how does this invalidate the parent comment’s point? If Dogecoin was a better hold than Bitcoin does that somehow imply that Bitcoin is a worse hold than dollars?
And before you lecture about the function of fiat currency, remember the bottom half of society is forced to keep their entire net worth in cash because they are in a continuous financial emergency...
Actually, measuring the value of money as something other than the measuring stick to compare capital assets doesn’t make sense, regardless of how fashionable it is to defend money printing by verysmart internet economists.
Is it ever acceptable to tell someone they aren’t cut out to be a founder? I feel we are responsible for making “startup founder” so sexy that people feel unfulfilled if they can’t succeed at something that is frankly mind-breaking for most people.
> But those engineers determined that their fix would only successfully transition the helicopter into flight mode 85% of the time. So Thursday's attempt may have fallen into the 15% of instances in which it doesn't work.
I really hope we get to see the postmortem on this. Any guesses what kind of software issue could cause a known but not fixable 15% error rate?
