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Re:Starting your own feminist backchannel on Monday March 02, 2015 @12:32AM (#9130452)
Why is this garbage here? The author's tone is flagrantly antagonistic. If this wasn't meant to be satirical, then it is almost certainly a purposeful deviation from civil and constructive discourse meant to provoke angry reactions from dissenters. It's precisely this kind of deplorable vitriol that hinders and sabotages the gender debate.

I also disagree on a purely rational level that retreating to an echo chamber can lead to anything positive: on the contrary, this is precisely how strong beliefs and emotions can fester into something malignant. This is for instance why things like the Tea Party exist - because people who shut out dissenting voices quickly become unable to empathize with alternative points of view.

Re:Online Porn Could Be the Next Big Privacy Scandal on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @01:40AM (#9099135)
Write a script to continuously scrape and hit every porn video on every porn site. It's obviously impossible for you to watch all that porn and unlikely any hacker will try to intuit your exact history (which would be difficult and not worth the effort). Problem solved.
Rambling, at times incoherent, and largely unsubstantiated. Fine work gentlemen.
Re:On the Origins of Bitcoin's Polarization on Thursday January 22, 2015 @12:14AM (#8927656)
So first of all this mostly reads like an incoherent and rambling onslaught of non-sequiturs. Second of all the tldr here is basically: if you disagree with Bitcoin you're simply not smart enough to get it, which is an argument that is simultaneously offensive, naive and arrogant.

There are some very well defined arguments suggesting Bitcoin may not be viable that are advanced by people who actually have an understanding of economics and finance. You should try reading up on it.

In particular, seek out the intellectual maturity to understand that the fate of Bitcoin as a currency is not so much about the blockchain as it is about the underlying economics. There is no full faith and credit backing to Bitcoin's value. The network is vulnerable to majority control by well-financed parties with malicious intent. If Bitcoin ever were to threaten major reserve currencies, swift action would be taken to regulate it out of existence (and you're a fool if you think otherwise).

Bitcoin is little more than a Ponzi scheme orchestrated largely by salivating investors and sheeple like you are playing right into their hands.

Re:Young, Broke, and Creditworthy on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @11:40PM (#8927564)
There's no reason to expect correlated tail risk other than due to macroeconomic factors. Diversification will take care of idiosyncratic volatility.