Re:Satoshi was wrong
by 0xcde4c3db on Thursday October 12, 2017 @09:57AM
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I think the simple answer is that it's clickbait. A while back there was a relatively well-known pop science magazine with a cover story "Darwin Was Wrong". I'm having trouble finding the actual article now since the title is such a common phrase. It turned out to be something like him being wrong about the "tree of life" because genetic studies proved that horizontal gene transfer was extremely common in the earliest generations, hence there's no single common ancestor or "trunk". Not, as any reasonable person might conjecture from that headline, a debunking of the overall theory of evolution by natural selection.
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Re:Satoshi was wrong
by emodendroket on Thursday October 12, 2017 @09:58AM
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I don't see how crypto-currency dogma is on the same level with evolution. It seems to me a lot of the criticisms have been borne out. Bitcoins are worth a lot to speculators but they remain infrequently used as an actual currency.
Re:Satoshi was wrong
by 0xcde4c3db on Thursday October 12, 2017 @10:03AM
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> I don't see how crypto-currency dogma is on the same level with evolution.
That's not a claim I have any interest in. I'm just drawing the parallel of an article "debunking" someone while actually agreeing with their central thesis.
National Geographic, fwiw: https://i.imgur.com/GGKLx.jpg
Re:Satoshi was wrong
by 0xcde4c3db on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:40PM
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I was thinking of a different one, an article in New Scientist. The full title of the article is apparently "Darwin was Wrong About the Tree of Life", but the cover much more prominently featured "Darwin was Wrong". [1] [2]
[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126921-600-why-darw...