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That's just science

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I'm obviously talking about tangible physical objects you see every day. I'm talking about lived experience. Most things you encounter are obviously a certain color, transparent, or some amount of reflective. The sky and butterfly wings whose material are not actually that color and pretty normal things to ponder.

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That's just science

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I don't disagree. It's just that we don't frequently encounter throwing microscopic bits of things into the air in our lives, especially early lives. It's pretty normal to be curious about the color of the sky as a child, and it is not obvious that distance of air is what makes enough of a difference. I think you've entirely missed the point of my original comment.

To understand why the sky is blue and why butterfly wings are all sorts of colors even though the material itself is not that color is not something that is intuitive or easy to understand without a great deal of experience and prior knowledge.

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Hindsight

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I had hundreds of BTC. I found out about BTC very early on and loved the idea of a digital, cryptographically secure currency. I remember talking about it with my best friend in his basement when I was 17 years old (early 2009, so really not long after it was released). I spent all of it at various times on various things. I ran the Minecraft server The Bit Mines which practically gave away BTC to players. I never thought of it as a vehicle for investment. Oops

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Incredible

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Nothing they wrote indicates to me that they didn't understand the post is satire. It seems to me like they are just adding information and context that people may not know

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How do I prepare to go broke?

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As someone who was homeless, living on the streets for years, this is the comment I think is the most valuable. You need to find out where to get shelter and food, and you need to know people’s contact info - it all needs to be written down and kept safe.

This is temporary. Everything is temporary. Don’t give up.