We detached this badly-offtopic subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26913381.

I was going to warn you that we ban accounts that post flamewar comments like you did repeatedly here. But https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26914792 is so beyond the pale that I've gone ahead and banned the account instead. You can't post like that to HN.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

> We, men, are not cut out like this, exchanging of goods in a peaceful manner

I'm not sure what you're doing, but I've quite literally never exchanged goods in any other way but peacefully. I'd venture to say well over 99% of transactions done by either gender are peaceful in nature.

crypto is male dominated as well so if wallstreet is war and crypto is peace - I'm not sure where you're pulling gender out as the interesting difference there.

What data are you aware of that suggests women are more interested in analyzing DNA than men? I've worked on genomics projects and while I've not looked at industry data, my experience was that it was heavily male dominated.

I simply don't see the reason gender in this context is even interesting, much less worthy of making assertions based on gender.

I'd really love for you to write this up in more detail. Do you have a blog or anything like that?

You have a very unique viewpoint, I think you'd benefit from a longer-form text format to explain yourself in the clearest way.

Not the person you were responding to, I'm just intrigued by these thoughts.

This guy is a crackpot

What you're describing is a "proof of work" system, such as gridcoin.

Men and women are not intrinsically different in the way you imply they are. That is culturally constructed.

We're far from knowing enough about the brain to say anything as conclusive as that.

We do know enough to say that there are some intrinsic differences- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_difference...

Yes, there are some intrinsic differences, but not the ones phoinix implied. He went on to say that men are simply smarter than women, and so dang banned him. dang has got to be the best moderator I have ever seen.

The statistics of the top chess players proves you wrong.

https://en.chessbase.com/post/what-gender-gap-in-chess

Awesome article. I may be indeed wrong. It requires further research.

That sounds like a personal problem, and not really gender related. You should ask yourself why you're having difficulties treating people the same especially in a game.

That's beyond the pale, you can't do this here, and I've banned the account. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26916805.

Statistics are not inherently perfect. They completely ignore things like the environment, hostility towards women in the chess world, and do so on. Correlation is not causation and all that.

The reality is that orders of magnitude more men play chess than women do. Not that men are inherently smarter. As more women play chess, we'll see a more even distribution of rankings.

This is completely constructed in your mind. If you tried this vs any woman rated 100 points higher than you or more, this would be a death sentence. It has nothing to do with gender.

Avoiding the objectively best move just means you're making inaccuracies and blunders, giving the game away for free. Nobody above 1200 rating is going to be "afraid of their position" that is not a thing. Below 1200 rating, there may be people like that due to inexperience, but it would be across both genders IF it existed at all which I'm completely unconvinced of.

Play the board, not the opponent.