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Open thread, 25-31 August 2014

25th Aug 2014

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I agree that "hate" isn't doing much here besides giving emotional valence to empiricals, but this

My feelings about Bitcoin remind me of a fractal. It's a bad idea, and you zoom in at any part of it and discover new bad ideas, and there is in fact infinite resolution on how bad those ideas get. I have been working on a Why I Dislike Bitcoin For Technical Reasons essay for almost a year and cannot just hit publish because I don't know if i'll ever be able to finish it.

sounds a little stronger to me than "finds no use for".