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Re:Google starts testing its replacement for third-party coo... by an_opabinia on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:07PM (#24033517)
You right away jump into something unknowable like the exchange rate of “data” and “fiat currency,” in exactly the kind of economic positivist framework (really crypto anarchist jargon) that is incommensurable with policy.

Like obviously the price of doing Google searches and visiting YouTube is zero so I don’t know, even if I accept your premise at face value anything exchange for zero is possible interpreted as a zero or undefined exchange rate.

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Re:Google starts testing its replacement for third-party coo... by ocdtrekkie on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:09PM (#24033527)
I think cryptocurrency is stupid but I thought "fiat" was still a good term to use here. Data absolutely has value, and both Congress and these companies know that and consider it uncontroversially true.
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