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This post is a little long. Anyone who is curious, Rodney Mullen invented the 1st flip trick on skateboarding and about 80% of the flip tricks you see today on video or tv. He has an interesting take on skateboarding where he states you have to try and fail over and over with physical pain to land 1 trick. This process of physical failure to achieve, gives skateboarders a good lesson in life.

I just said its not a right. So to equate it to other rights doesn't make sense.

Education isn't a right. It is a choice.

Toss education into the private sector, problem solved. The market will sort out what education formats perform best - what else you guys want to talk about?

Kabam lol

This is an unfortunate over simplification (for both responses). Argument towards invalid data is stating an assumption- "Most of our experiments have nothing to do with each other" < that isn't a scientific method. Its simply an opinion that you are taking no effort to gain clean data - meaning the truth.

If a scenarios exist that can invalidate your findings, then you use every scientific method to avoid them not enable.

"Pinterest is a pretty big website, so it's unlikely that our experiments affect each other in ways that'd make our tests invalid." << This is the very reason why you will have an attribution problem.

"We have hundreds of A/B experiments running at anytime" which means you have a very big attribution problem.

Can you share a slide within a blog post without using an iFrame

I will summarize real quick. "Rich" and "Poor" are 2 variable of millions - And no matter how many variables you address you cannot escape one simple fact about "who gets ahead" - "If its important to you, you will find a way, if it is not, you will find an excuse."

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You are going in an infinite loop trying to equate something (gold) to nothing (bitcoins). Typing zeros into a screen will not equate to a hand full of gold coins. The value of gold or any other metal is not a relevant argument because in a free market you can have competing currencies. Bitcoin could compete if the USA was a free market (its not) and if it was backed by something (its not). Thus the reason why investing in Bitcoin in any manner has risk. The argument with the asteroid doesn't support simply bc the metals will still be around after it hits earth. Your hard drives with stored zeros will be annihilated (much like your premise).

Gold has intrinsic value because 1: Its rare 2: Its tangible 3: People want it. Look at history and you will see gold wrapped around everyone's neck and fingers. As mentioned before, a currency has to be back by something. Bitcoin is backed by nothing - nothing cannot be something - no matter how much you exclaim - that is the risk of investing any time with Bitcoin. Just because you like the utility of of bitcoin almost has nothing to do with it being a currency. Example - You can have 50 coins of solid gold or 50 zeros on a computer.

Aluminum was more expensive than gold until a cheap way to purify it was developed. Now we wrap our food in it. Gold is only valuable until the first metallic asteroid is placed into high Earth orbit. Not tomorrow, but probably sooner than you think. reply << Has nothing to do with Bitcoin being back by nothing. Even if gold did lessen in value other forms of metals/currency can take golds place. Gold is specifically a variable for anything however it is "some thing". (the root point).

If gold wasn't used as a store of value its value would be very maybe a hundredth of what it is now: Gold-plated jewelry in our modern era is essentially indistinguishable (even at the level of a physics lab using scales/xrays/etc if need be) from solid gold jewelry. Gold, for all intents and purposes, is also "backed by nothing". << again has almost nothing to do with Bitcoin being back by nothing. Gold is the item of value it doesn't need to be backed, it is the back'er.

Bitcoin, no matter how you word it or rationalize it will always have a root problem and inherent risk...it is backed by nothing. Users today think its usage gives it market value and it can but to a limit. Money (USD) originally (the dollar bill) worked because it was back by gold. A metal that worked because everyone on the planet wants it. That dollar bill was a "check" or agreement stating, this dollar bill represents this much gold thus the value of money. The USA today does not have gold backing its money-- so as you can see we already have a bitcoin and the USA will not allow you to complete with its money - enjoy

You are talking about 1 element, out of a million, pointing to it and saying this is a falsehood. For example, you are basically looking at 1 tree saying its not growing, while ignoring the forest around you - enjoy.

In the USA

The American Dream isn't about a price of annual income. The American Dream is about the possibility of having an annual income. Originally American was free which brought on the Enlightenment Period, the Industrial Revolution and allow with it, the concept of making money. The dream is you can make money. This is an important concept to understand back then because making your own money was impossible with the enslavement by kings and variants of Statism. Today American isn't free there is no American dream. Today we are more taxed and more regulated than ever. The concept of making money only exists by having 50% of it redistributed - enjoy.