Except for the fact that they aren't, and there are reasoned, logical, and very verifiable ways to predict, yea -- your gross oversimplification is totally accurate! But I know how easy it is to pretend the details are mysterious when you haven't spent 100+ hrs doing your own research and investments.
Why didn't I buy the mining rigs? Because the calculations demonstrated that ROI would only be achieved within the first month, and I knew a mining rig manufacturer could just give it to me late. So I didn't. This is all very predictable stuff. Most pools pay out on calculated effort regardless of if they hit a reward, or not. When you're doing billions of calculations, you absolutely can predict what you are going to make.
But, y'know, wave your hands and pretend you've spent time looking into this stuff... If it makes you happy.
Only way I've lost money on BTC is the currency fluctuation itself. My cryptostocks are beating my NYSE stocks by virtue of not being down.
It's not a coin toss. Your metaphor is not a model. You don't understand details, so you simplify. Which is understandable, until you try to present your simplification as reality. That's just douchey. Most pools payout based on effort. Whatever you put in, you get out. The amount is proportional to your computing power. If you don't get the power you paid for, you lose a measurable amount of money. No coins are tossed. Network difficulty is the only thing that ever changes, and it's calculatable and predictable and follows set rules. In hindsight, you could calculate to the penny exactly how much money was lost by changing a single cell in a spreadsheet.
But yea, pretend it's a coin toss if it makes you feel better.
Why do you think it came late? They probably had it running by the promised date, realized they'd make more money keeping it, kept it, then tried to sell it once it couldn't provide ROI. Of course they deserve to be sued.
It is absolutely not speculation, and is governed by mathematically laws. Furthermore, there will be existing data for the delta between delivery date and now; data on network difficulty, which gets harder and harder. You literally make all your money in the first month or 2 of buying a mining rig. It is worthless 6 months later, and won't provide ROI even 1 month late.
But, y'know, keep pretending things you haven't investigated the details on are speculation, if that's an easier way for you to understand our world.
I know it's a possibility that leaving a rock in my walkway may cause someone to trip and die. If they do, am I guilty of manslaughter? No. Your assertion is false.
I love how you get to define single-point rules that say "if X, then not Y", as if you are an authority on a nebulous concept that hasn't been defined.
Guess what? America has a weed culture, but because it is illegal, people don't usually brag about their use of it, despite our use being one of the highest on the planet.
His private emails were not private. They were public. Just like a governor's text messages are public record - another ruling from today. If you are on a project the public paid for, writing an email with time the public paid for, IT'S PUBLIC. Judge is wrong. Case law supporting this ruling is wrong.
I'd say "A killing spree is not targeted. That's not the case with school shootings. When you go on a killing spree, you want people dead. You don't care who gets to bite the dust" is the very opposite of choosing your target. You specifically said they don't care. Then when I said they did care, you said, "That's what I said". I'm not seeing it in the sentence I just quoted, and am frankly disinterested in continuing this hair-splitting.
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Why didn't I buy the mining rigs? Because the calculations demonstrated that ROI would only be achieved within the first month, and I knew a mining rig manufacturer could just give it to me late. So I didn't. This is all very predictable stuff. Most pools pay out on calculated effort regardless of if they hit a reward, or not. When you're doing billions of calculations, you absolutely can predict what you are going to make.
But, y'know, wave your hands and pretend you've spent time looking into this stuff... If it makes you happy.
Only way I've lost money on BTC is the currency fluctuation itself. My cryptostocks are beating my NYSE stocks by virtue of not being down.
FUD
But yea, pretend it's a coin toss if it makes you feel better.
Why do you think it came late? They probably had it running by the promised date, realized they'd make more money keeping it, kept it, then tried to sell it once it couldn't provide ROI. Of course they deserve to be sued.
But, y'know, keep pretending things you haven't investigated the details on are speculation, if that's an easier way for you to understand our world.
While it may be funny, it's perfectly valid.
No, we would not.
It couldn't possibly be that conservatives love football and hate change.
But it didn't cause your psychosis. It exacerbated it. You had me until your 2nd to last sentence. ;)
I know it's a possibility that leaving a rock in my walkway may cause someone to trip and die. If they do, am I guilty of manslaughter? No. Your assertion is false.
Plague doesn't have a vaccine.
Except they can't, or we'd all have already been doomed from the days vaccines didn't exist.
Fire the police, everybody! We don't need investigators! All criminals brag about their crimes! At least, if it's rape!
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Guess what? America has a weed culture, but because it is illegal, people don't usually brag about their use of it, despite our use being one of the highest on the planet.
Your logic is shit. Convenient (for you) shit.
You don't know that nobody on your team did that. You think it.
There will also be many people masturbating. Equally relevant.
No. You are definitely wrong.
Circular, assholey logic. Someone who cares more please, refute him.
By that logic, the Nazis who killed Jews were just doing what they were hired for. Fuck you and your fallacious logic.
His private emails were not private. They were public. Just like a governor's text messages are public record - another ruling from today. If you are on a project the public paid for, writing an email with time the public paid for, IT'S PUBLIC. Judge is wrong. Case law supporting this ruling is wrong.
I actually think you're gracious, because I do not think I was right, at all. I was an ass :D
You mean, the single-most thing reported by those that survived.
i finally saw the "not". Yup. that really does change everything you said. Now I get it. Sorry for the disturbance.
I'd say "A killing spree is not targeted. That's not the case with school shootings. When you go on a killing spree, you want people dead. You don't care who gets to bite the dust" is the very opposite of choosing your target. You specifically said they don't care. Then when I said they did care, you said, "That's what I said". I'm not seeing it in the sentence I just quoted, and am frankly disinterested in continuing this hair-splitting.
You're wrong on #2. Klebold and Harris specifically let people who didn't bully them live.