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A comment on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin.

Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by focom on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:24PM (#16215277)
A pretty correct analysis imo

> [Bitcoin] not good enough to buy your decaffeinated expresso macchiato at your local virtue-signaling coffee chain.

Plus he has some humor.

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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by zengid on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:33PM (#16215374)
His books are also quite funny, particularly Antifragile.
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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by huphelmeyer on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:43PM (#16215482)
Was Antifragile supposed to be funny? I thought Taleb just came off as stuck-up.
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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by zengid on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @05:59PM (#16218712)
It's not really 'laugh-out-loud' funny, but he has a humorous dry wit interspersed throughout his essays.
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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by Pent on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @04:26PM (#16217866)
It's obvious that he writes for a specific audience
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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by josu on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:05PM (#16219996)
Actually, you can indeed buy an expresso with bitcoin:

https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/955870434230132736

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