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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) by azernik on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:33PM (#20619871)
A particularly clever member of the Twitterati: https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/1062816091892674561

@Theophite: the existence of nonzero interest rates implies the nonexistence of time travel.

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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) by taneq on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:27AM (#20622698)
I see what they did there but I don't know if I agree. The market can stay irrational for longer than it takes to invent time travel...
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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) by azernik on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:15PM (#20630606)
The whole point of time travel is that it doesn't care about time; once time travel exists in the future, people in the future will be able to do all kinds of fun arbitrage with it.
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