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Re:Satoshi Roundtable Thoughts on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:48AM (#11237971)
/r/bitcoin is also censoring mentions of Ethereum - it's main rival right now.

https://twitter.com/DiginomicsNews/status/705258811192438784

Re:Magic+ on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:14PM (#10848202)
Hey magic, can we get a UK version of magic?
Re:Privilege, Pathology and Power on Friday January 01, 2016 @05:14PM (#10823732)
Krugman says that greater wealth leads to a lack of empathy.

Surely it's a lack of empathy leads to greater wealth?

But they can and should go out of business
Re:Stop Patent Trolls: Support the Innovation Act of 2015 on Sunday December 27, 2015 @08:45PM (#10799425)
EFF seems to be making a habit of backing these worryingly pernicious bills.
Re:WebRTC in Safari? on Sunday August 30, 2015 @03:38PM (#10144262)
> Statistically speaking, more users get owned via web browsers than via native apps

Source? Seems like a long stretch, especially if you factor in non-windows desktops and all mobile devices.

If you really are concerned about security wouldn't you rather trust basically just Apple and Google or Apple, Google, and every native app developer in the app store?

Having a load of random apps installed on your smartphone is simply less secure than than just using that functionality within a sandboxed and standardised web browser that goes through endless routine security updates.

> The Garden City Police Department had cannabis oil activist Shona Banda’s Facebook account shutdown

Citation needed

Re:The Dark side of .io TLD on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @11:13AM (#9381469)
All arguments can lean you strange places. They're inconsequential if they don't.

Luckily, the modern pragmatist is also socially aware.

Why does it need to be official?
ITT: People complaining that a technology isn't mature because some features rely on 3rd party plugins. Please -- name one technology that doesn't.
Re:Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life on Thursday March 05, 2015 @08:33AM (#9150604)
> “Danger,” she said. “Clearly my body was telling me, ‘You are unsafe.’”

I believe she genuinely felt the way she describes, but I don't think she felt it because of her gender.

I would take a guess that this kind of feeling isn't present for the vast majority of women -- indeed, there was no danger.

I find it more likely that the feeling had something to do with the trauma associated with her father knocking out her mother's teeth with a hammer when she was a kid, as detailed in the last part of the article.

An innocuous joke that triggered a disproportionate emotional response, seeded by past trauma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_trauma#Symptoms