carlhaagen

or, whoever has the most karmapoints on hacker news when he dies, wins. its the norm. a prefectly unsurprising social construct. its similar to the case right here on hacker news with the rampant downvoting action being practised by a small group of tinyminded people, who systematically downvote certain others comments regardless of how correct and how agreeable the content is, just to ''push them out'' indirectly thinking they themselves rise and gain from it. the downvoting of your comment illustrates it down to the letter and i would be willing to place a wager that there are even bandwagon type group action taking place between friends

i kinda found this presentation to be chock full of "i am right, you are wrong" "i know better than you" et cetera. it's as if he's trying to coerce people into using what -he- thinks is best and what -he- prefers, but not really caring for sorting out the facts or explaining the details to give people a big enough picture to make educated choices of their own. "just go with this and that, trust me it's the best". no question actual knowledge is in there, the guy knows cryptology, but this seems to be a slide for indoctrinating people into sharing his preferences in crypto, not for teaching, and i personally find it to be the completely wrong approach.