[OT] bitcoin donation

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 25 16:07:42 PST 2015


On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 20:10:37 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 09:20:53 UTC, John Colvin 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 02:33:24 UTC, deadalnix 
>> wrote:
>>> Don't be confused. Krugman do not understand bitcoin, but 
>>> Krugman think that terrorism and riots are good, that the 
>>> internet will never work and that there was no bubble in 
>>> 2008, so I think is it fairly secure to ignore him.
>>
>> I'm not 100% convinced by Krugman in many cases, but I'd say 
>> you'd have to be pretty confident in your own economics 
>> knowledge and intellect to dismiss him entirely, considering 
>> his standing among his - almost by definition also very 
>> knowledgable and intelligent - peers.
>>
>
> That's a false dichotomy. I'm certainly not confident in my 
> economics. But I'm confident that betting against Krugman is 
> way safer than the reverse.

Don't agree it's a false dichotomy, but as far as your opinion of 
Krugman goes, fair enough; it's not one I share, but in a 
discipline as difficult and loose as economics it can be 
reasonable to disagree.


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