I consider my comment to be responding to the substance of what you are saying, and they are not attacking you personally, but they are attacking the idea of knowing or predicting BTC price movements with any certainty.
I would not consider attacks upon ideas even if the tone is fun, strong, confrontational, flippant or some other variation to be destructive, because these are comments in a public thread about ideas and anyone can respond to such ideas, if they so choose, or refrain from such comments.
Of course, if a comment is directed at me, I am more likely to notice it and to consider responding to it, including the fact that if a comment is directed at me, it is also directed at a topic that is more likely to be of interest to me.
By the way, I attack Hairy barey's fractal pattern ideas a lot, even though I tend to agree with a lot of them, but I do become a bit hostile with both TA and with impressions that seem to overly assign probabilities to short term BTC price directions, whether I am wrong or not, I believe that it takes a quite a bit of analysis to attempt to predict short term BTC price directions, and even if you get a lot of it right, human beings have a certain amount of free will, and there might be some lurking in the behind the scenes merely to prove that the majority was wrong in their attempts to ascribe high probability to price direction UP, DOWN, Sideways or whatever other variant is attempted to be predicted in the short to medium term.
Of course, short to medium term can be less expensive to control than longer term, and of course if BTC prices can be manipulated beyond parameters, long term trajectories, might end up getting affected by that, too... perhaps, perhaps?
I agree.
The crux of the interweb's textual communication is the interpretation variance (error rate), which is about 80%, according to studies.
I don't have links to sources, sorry, but the result was so impressive to me, that it burned itself into my mind forever.
We will likely debate about things we didn't mean the way they were interpreted again, and again, and again...
By the way, the drone that recently killed that iranian general whose name i forgot, was launched from germany.
My mother language is german (sort of) but i'm not a german, not personally related to germany at all.
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