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Ham Sandwiches posted:Help me understand something. If you think bitcoins are dumb you are justified in posting whatever you want and it's cool. Just post on SA following the consensus. Hey buuuuuuuddy... you can recognize that something is a terrible idea and not do it. You can also say to someone who is arguing in favor of the obviously bad idea "well, have you done the bad thing? How did it go for you?" This is not actually a contradiction of any kind. I don't need to hit my dick with a hammer to say "show me how unbruised your dick is, guy on the internet who is in favor of people hitting their own dicks with hammers."
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Wait wasn't Ham Sandwiches the dude playing devil's advocate about vaccines causing autism (or rather *he* doesn't think so but just in case...) a couple of weeks ago?
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Jun 9, 2017 16:27
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You can't cash out without trust and a total lack of anonymity, which are the two major reasons for Bitcoin to exist. I think it's been a long time since anybody claimed it was impossible to make money (at least in paper) speculating on a wildly fluctuating commodity (albeit a deeply stupid one).
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Jun 12, 2017 04:51
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I refuse to believe that any single human being can be this obtuse. You have got to be trolling. Anyway, even if you are totally correct to wave away the massive difference between what BTC is worth on paper and what any given user is actually going to get back out, you're still committing a huge logical fallacy. Say I have a friend who decides to dump all their money into a single penny stock. I tell them that this is a terrible idea. The next day, some Gordon Gecko type picks that particular stock to pump and dump. My friend makes a fortune, retires at 30, and comes to laugh in my face. The thing is, MY INITIAL ADVICE WAS STILL GOOD ADVICE. His investment was still incredibly dumb, and wasn't less dumb just because he got lucky.
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Jun 14, 2017 17:41
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I know a dude trying to sell about a thousand dollars in festival tickets right now that, had he used real money, would have been refundable. But of course he used bitcoin, so...
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Jul 28, 2017 03:07
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Ham Sandwiches sounds like someone who, pre-crash, would mock people questioning Bernie Madoff's investment firm. "You idiots, it's gone up 15% EVERY YEAR! But here you are, still calling it a scam and telling people not to invest. You said the same thing LAST year but it's still going up!" The fact that people have not yet en masse realised that the emperor has no clothes does not, in fact, mean that the people pointing out that they can see his dick are the idiots.
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Oct 5, 2017 23:44
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Ham Sandwiches posted:Things bitcoins are like: Your defense against my making fun of you is literally the argument I was making fun of you for making. You didn't even state it in a different way.
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Oct 6, 2017 00:16
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I mean if anyone has discredited any of the arguments people have made out sure as poo poo hasn't been you...
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Oct 11, 2017 19:30
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Oh my god please stop mentioning that banks have looked into it as though that's some measure of legitimacy. Banks are enormous organisations. They do a lot of stuff. A ton of it is speculative. "Banks are involved" means literally nothing. I have no particular background in any of this and no dog in this fight, I just think Ham Sandwiches arguments are so hilariously specious in their face that I feel I have to comment. It's even better because he seems not to realize.
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Oct 11, 2017 22:03
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Ham Sandwiches posted:No I didn't consent to any stupid poo poo, get hosed THE PACT IS SEALED
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