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icebraining on March 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto

The only thing this proves is that people are really, really bad at determining what things are going to catch on and which aren't.

No, it really doesn't. It just proves that in some particular cases, some particular people were bad at determining that.

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