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Re:Long Island Iced Tea Soars 500% After Changing Its Name t... by moduspol on Thursday December 21, 2017 @10:59AM (#15979710)
They don't need to read about tulip / dot-com bubbles in every single thread. It's not as if this viewpoint is novel, or some kind of secret. We get it.

> You do realize that economic bubbles rise and fall in the span of years, right?

Yes. And everyone making these bubble / tulip comparisons should acknowledge how the view is unfalsifiable.

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Re:Long Island Iced Tea Soars 500% After Changing Its Name t... by andrewmcwatters on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:42AM (#15980291)
Yeah, people get it; which is why people are talking about it in the first place, how dense can you be?
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Re:Long Island Iced Tea Soars 500% After Changing Its Name t... by moduspol on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:50AM (#15980384)
We don't need it in every thread.

Cryptocurrencies and blockchains are significant technological innovations. There is more to discuss than making the same tired tulip comparisons.

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Re:Long Island Iced Tea Soars 500% After Changing Its Name t... by spookthesunset on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:13PM (#15981859)
> Cryptocurrencies and blockchains are significant technological innovations.

Hardly. The Blockchain uses the same kind of underpinnings as git. In fact, for many applications git might even be a better data store than The Blockchain--it doesn't require a bajillion miners consuming several hydroelectric dams worth of power to stay online.

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