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Re:A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in M... by ACow_Adonis on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:55PM (#16110965)
Reminds me of:

"Oh, Father. You're so wrong. Let me explain.

[Puts and empty water glass on his desk]

Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Now take this empty glass. Here it is: peaceful, serene, boring. But if it is destroyed

[Pushes the glass off the table. It shatters on the floor, and several small machines come out to clean it up]

Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people, who will be able to feed their children tonight, so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain of life. You see, father, by causing a little destruction, I am in fact encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business.

Re:A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in M... by slg on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @07:04PM (#16111392)
Re:A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in M... by digitaltrees on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @06:29PM (#16111157)
Fifth element. That’s a Deep cut.
Re:A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in M... by djsumdog on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @06:58PM (#16111344)
I don't remember this scene. I might have to watch it again.
Re:A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in M... by celticninja on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @07:06PM (#16111404)
When Gary oldman is talking to the priest, then he chokes on a cherry and none of his machines can save him.
Re:A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in M... by gwern on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @10:14PM (#16112306)
Re:A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in M... by roywiggins on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @07:03PM (#16111384)
Aha, that's the broken window fallacy, I think.
Re:A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in M... by armenarmen on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @06:45PM (#16111250)
Aaah Keynesians
Re:A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in M... by dang on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @03:38AM (#16113380)
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, let alone ideological flamebait. Those are just the sort of things we're trying to avoid on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html