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Ability to print money might seem evil, but alternatives, like gold, sliver, etc. lead to deflation which is 100 times worse for economy than inflation. I agree all crypto is in it's nappies, many problems but I can't see how they will be solved.
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When you realized that SAVINGS are stored Calories (or stored prior work effort).
Deflation is the NATURAL Evolution of a growing Society.
Everything gets cheaper, over time, because we learn more efficient ways, over time.
Deflation is GREAT for savers. Inflation is only good for the Bankers and Debtors.
Fun fact. The more people we bring out of poverty, the larger the wealth gap becomes.
It's mathematical tautology. (The distance from the top to the middle expands as the bottom expands).
But I would MUCH PREFER Deflation. I could actually retire now.
But calculate what you need to retire at your current living standard. For 30 years.
Now do it with
-5%, 0%, 5%, 10% annual inflation.
and YES they lie about the inflation being lower than it really is. ENERGY and FOOD are 2 things WE MUST purchase to live.
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Exactly.
One of the Crypto Guys has a phrase: Inflation is Theft.
It truly is.
Wrap your head around joining a poker game. You buy in your chips for $100k.
In fact, 10 people do. So there is a $1mln pot. That makes sense.
Now, 3 players show up, with their own chips, that are identical. From another table.
But you don't know, they were given to them. They play. Someone wins $1mln. They are happy.
But as you do the math, you realize there were 1.3 mln in chips.
That's monetary inflation. It drives the prices higher. Which pushes you into a higher tax bracket.
Imagine the govt looking and taxing you on the number of chips you made! and what their SUPPOSED original value was. Not what you collect. (That part is transparent when you don't exchange the chips, like we do not with our currency).
I think BleedLove is the guys name. He's sharp. And Michael Saylor at hope.com covers why you should be looking into crypto.
As Programmers: Money Supply that is controlled by CODE, so it cannot be expanded/inflated.
This is the OPPOSITE of Globalists View of a currency they control.
We are taught to believe lies. Like gold has no value. Yet bankers are buying it. (Because the dollar is losing value, and Gold is an asset).
Finally, I use this stuff. It is far easier for me to pay someone with Coins, than with Wire Transfers. Now, some coins are cheaper than the wire transfer. Lately, BTC and ETH are not...
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I am thinking that our whole monetary system is such.
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Yup, the case of Squid Game cryptocurrency showed us how cryptocurrencies are scam, in general. Most people have difficulty in trusting certain countries currency and keeping their money in that currency. Many people in my country choose to save money in SGD or USD.
Yet people believe in crypto currencies, which is not backed by any country, but run by an anonymous?
Now it finally happened: The maker can simply close the whole thing and run away with everyone's money. I hope more people's eyes are opened after this.
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Daniel Will wrote: Now it finally happened: The maker can simply close the whole thing and run away with everyone's money. I hope more people's eyes are opened after this.
Man... are you trustful.
This is exactly the same as with the cloud... and do you see any trend towards reduction?
Einstein told it about not being sure about the infinite of the space  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Yeah, except that BTC is not centrally run. All of the miners would have to quit.
And they don't take the money and run... They lose their investment.
You are 100% right. There are tons of sh!tcoins out there. Avoid them.
Here is the good part. You can tell. If the coin has no upper limit in it's supply (like BTC does),
how does it maintain scarcity?
Next, ETH has (had) this issue, But through burning fees, and by design, it is becoming deflationary.
Finally, you can buy a fraction of coin. Just to track it. Never risk more than you can afford to lose, or an amount that affects your sleep at night.
But when you go down this Rabbit hole, you realize that bankers used the current banking structure to SUCK VAST sums of value out of our economies, to line their own pockets. They are the middlemen in all transactions, and there is no need for a central bank. And especially a DEBT based society.
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You can't get higher than monkey around og drug (6)
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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58 minutes and counting ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I had to after yesterdays one 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nope, damnit - I've forgotten the solution ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I've been giving it two hours and still nobody posts - do you think it may have run its course ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Maybe it's just Monday, or Half Term for schools? I dunno ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You can't get higher than
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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So I'm using visual studio and it seems to randomly replace spaces in my text with character 160 when i do clipboard operations with it. Not all the time, mind you, but I haven't figured out exactly what happens to make it do that yet.
Normally, I wouldn't care. Whitespace is whitespace, and it's all unicode right?
Well no. SQL's parser does not accept character 160 as whitespace. Worse, it gives you weird errors around it.
For example:
SET @cc = CASE @ch WHEN 9 THEN (((@cc - 1) / @tabWidth) + 1) * @tabWidth + 1 WHEN 10 THEN 1 WHEN 13 THEN 1 ELSE @cc END
This said I needed to declare the variable '@ch'
The real issue was that variable was surrounded by char# 160's
Do they not dogfood their tools? How am I the first person to run into this?
Real programmers use butterflies
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I haven't seen that behavior but I will do some testing to see if it pops up. That will infuriating if it does because character 160 will likely cause isspace and isblank to fail and no longer be in compliance with standards : <cctype> (ctype.h) - C++ Reference[^]
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I just noticed it today. It's weird, and it isn't the SQL editor directly.
I have these ".template" files, like "CompiledTokenizer.sql.template" that generates sql output, but the template file itself uses ASP-like syntax with <%,<%= and %>
In this template I do a bunch of crazy things by walking state machines to render thousands of lines of stored proc code.
But when I'm pasting around that .template file is when the 160s crop up. Even if I paste into it from the SQL editor and then copy out of it, I'll get 160s.
The .template file isn't a recognized format by visual studio. I tried naming it .asp and even .aspx to give me so highlighting, but that only did the *client* code, and if anything I want the server code highlighted, so I just named it .template and editing it as a POTF instead of anything fancy.
I don't know if that has anything to do with it. I'm grasping.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Try opening the files in Visual Studio's binary editor, and see if there's a UNICODE byte order mark at the beginning. If there is (marking the file as UTF-8, for example), that could be influencing the behavior of the editor.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Wow. I've never seen VS inject non-breaking spaces in text files. 
/ravi
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I'd really like to know why, myself. It's infuriating.
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Are you sure it isn't something introduced by the clipboard itself? not VS?
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What VS Version?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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2019. It's up to date.
Real programmers use butterflies
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