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Re:Never Create in a Bubble on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @04:15PM (#6253040)
I was ready to discount this as one of the most meaningless and vapid things I had ever read, but then I realized that she wasn't referring to economics bubbles.
Re:Why the Only Real Way to Buy Bitcoins Is on the Streets on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @04:06PM (#6252982)
What, the one on the first page? I don't think it's very problematic. It's belied by the more or less fair actual reporting.

Furthermore, I think that people who would immediately conceive of Bitcoin enthusiasts as "anti-government hippie-hacker drugdealers," as well as those people who would similarly conceive of any of those things as inherently pejorative, already have their minds made up and don't need help from the supremely subtle implications of a photo.