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Re:The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (2014) by dredmorbius on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @07:53PM (#14354406)
Answering your question above: no, it is not.
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Re:The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (2014) by maxerickson on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @08:42PM (#14354657)
Sure it does. If it becomes trivial to conjure the equivalent, then it doesn't matter if oil is gone.

My framing is sloppy (because I only talk about the future value of oil rather than the cost of obtaining the equivalent), but I think the point survives it, because the value of oil would drop to the cost of obtaining the equivalent.

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Re:The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (2014) by dredmorbius on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @12:47AM (#14355722)
Your framing is exceedingly unclear, frankly.

I'm not sure if you're aggreeing with me, disagreeing with me, or purple the unicorn umbrella ran ran syzzygy!!!

If you've got a specific question or point you'd like to make, please make it or ask it.

But to clarify, my statements above are made in all earnestness and as my best-faith effort to model and understand the world I see.

You?

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