... many people around here seem to think that operating a node is comparable to downloading a web page every 10 minutes.
You are the first person to mention that. I don't think that anyone here believes that.
You've missed much of the discussion spanning back to summer of last year. You're new here. I won't hold it against you.
By the way, I was partly responding to this guy who was talking about the number of web pages he downloads in 10 minutes:
But I sometimes look at more than one webpage in 10 minutes.
Reading comprehension, people! It's real important when you're trying to decode what smarter people are trying to tell you.
Indeed. A lot of people either have trouble understanding the concept of "implication" or are playing dumb about it for the sake of argument. Hence why Nick Szabo's comment, "If you want to store your money on the web use Mt. Gox" went over so many peoples' heads.
Nah, you still don't make sense. So the domain for this discussion has been extended to include "everything written since the summer 2015" - thats quite the leap.
Sure -- as I've been saying, Classic supporters have largely been making the same baseless claims and comparisons that XT supporters did.
Lets say we just keep it to this thread - right back to the start, ok?
Why? Seems sort of arbitrary. Are you not capable of retaining more than a few thoughts at a time?
Still, you are the only person I am aware of who thinks that *anyone* believes that running a node is equivalent to downloading a webpage every 10 minutes. Do you believe this yourself? Of course not, so then why would you assume that anyone else would be that dickish or clueless?
I said "comparable" by the way. People make these comparisons all the time. Again, you're new here. Here's one from ITT:
The issue is the bandwidth load that individual nodes take on, which due to this "massive redundancy" is not at all comparable to downloading a web page.
But I sometimes look at more than one webpage in 10 minutes.
I think your issue is that deep down you realise you are defending the indefensible and some part of your inner soul is rebelling at your conscious attempts to promote idiotic fallacies.
Considering you've never mounted an actual argument against anything I've said, you aren't qualified to say that. You've literally never developed an argument that wasn't a personal attack, an intentional mischaracterization of my words, or pure opinion. You never back up anything you say; you just continue to spout off meaningless insults.