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JoshuaZ comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 13, chapter 81 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 29 March 2012 03:30:15AM 5 points [-]

Upvoted for an essentially accurate analysis. However a minor nitpick: The marginal fees and resources involved will likely make this not very profitable if one started out with a small amount of money. So it would make more sense to start out with say at least a hundred Galleons or so. (Incidentally, why are Galleons capitalized? Is that convention? Other currencies like pounds, dollars and euros aren't generally capitalized.)

Comment author: billybobfred 30 March 2012 06:29:34AM 2 points [-]

It seems to be a convention of fiction. Lots of fictional terms are capitalized when real-world analogues are near-universally left lowercase. (Species names immediately come to mind.)

Comment author: Nornagest 29 March 2012 04:01:16AM 2 points [-]

The coin names are capitalized in the Potter books, yeah. Don't know why.