thetruthhurts

That's the ideology of Bitcoin, the reality is that the majority of people are NOT using it for any of those things. It's still just a pyramid scheme after all these years because of the friction and time it takes to exchange USD for Bitcoins and back. The price changes so often you'd have to update your prices constantly, and with the constantly rising price of bitcoin, people earn money by keeping the currency and NOT using it.

Bitcoin encourages people to KEEP their bitcoins. Why use them to buy something when next month they're going to increase in value.

I love how you ignored the Atlanta crime rate one that proves my point using hard data. Other cities all over the US have the same problems. Blacks make up a tiny percent of the population and yet a huge percent of criminals. And they have this magic touch wherever they go. From the USA, to the UK, to Europe, even in their own homeland of Africa.

Meanwhile Native Americans, who are truly victims, even greater minorities, aren't pushed into every single commercial, don't have their own history month, barbie, or tv channel, don't seem to sleep with everything that moves and cause so much trouble.

Even when the president and first lady talk about the real problems facing blacks, you spew more of your excuses. How come other minorities like Native Americans (who are also socially disadvantaged) don't have the same problems with regard to multiple baby daddies.

My sources were black blogs that simply regurgitated the information and talked about it. And yet you don't like what they found. Maybe white people should start excusing themselves for every wrong they've ever committed.

You're just an endless victim aren't you? Endless excuses. It's always someone else's fault. 500 years from now when Blacks are still behind folks like you will still be out preaching "it's not our fault, we're victims". 5,000 years from now you'll still be victims, unable to get back up. Despite all the hard ships other races went through they got back up. Europe was decimated numerous times by wars, famine, plagues, 2 world wars, and still it recovered. Jews were expelled and prayed upon for 2,000 years and went through a holocaust and a massive exodus from Europe and still got back up. While blacks were found, enslaved, and freed in a few hundred years and can't get back up on their own 2 feet.

You're right, blacks need help. They need all the help in the world. Blacks need other races to help them because they can't seem get up on their own.

Get your lazy ass over to Google and stop expecting everything to be handed to you for inspection. You mean you never read black blogs? You never venture out of your own ass to see other view points?

In Atlanta, African-Americans are 54 percent of the population, but are responsible for 100 percent of homicide, 95 percent of rape, 94 percent of robbery, 84 percent of aggravated assault, and 93 percent of burglary: Atlanta Police Department Uniform Crime Reports, Apr 2011 to Apr 2012 (1 year of full data): http://www.atlantapd.org/uniformcrimereports.aspx (yes Blacks were responsible for 100% of the homicides, not even 99% but 100%)

Here's the one about 59% of black women have multiple baby daddies: http://rollingout.com/politics/black-women-59-percent-have-m...

And the one about 1/3 blacks dropping out of highschool is from Michelle Obama: http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/DA6B75SG0

And here's Barack Obama begging black men to step up to fatherhood: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/26/4369719/black-children-...

And here's the source showing black men are the least likely to marry: http://www.singleblackmale.org/2013/06/03/whats-in-it-for-me...

Almost 50% of black kids grow up in a house without a second parent: http://www.yourtango.com/201173874/6-things-you-should-know-...

Black singles are the least likely to get married: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-07-11/news/ct-met-af... and http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/12533717-452/the-real-...

And here's the one about the massive 72% of black kids born into single parent household: http://newsone.com/1195075/children-single-parents-u-s-ameri...

What else do you need honey? What other form of proof do I need to run out and get for you while you sit in your chair criticizing reality because it doesn't match the fantasy in your head? Did all the movies of slavery warp your mind into thinking blacks are pristine angles who have no flaws while the evil white devil is guilty for everything?

Blacks cannot advance if people like keep holding them to low expectations, low standards, excuse them out of responsibility, and keep telling them they're victims. You claim to stand against racism yet people like you with your head in the clouds are the ones who are indirectly helping it continue.

Honey, you're bullshitting us and yourself. You're telling me when Black Africans where discovered a few hundred years ago they were a few years away from inventing the Micro-chip and the Space Shuttle until the evil white man oppressed them?

Jews were smarter, owned more businesses, & had higher IQ scores than whites before, during, and after the holocaust. Blacks on the other hand were behind since the day they were discovered, throughout their oppression, and still to this day have low IQ scores from before kindergarden and into their adulthood. Racism doesn't destroy you, it's just a push. If you can't get back up on your feet that's your fault.

Also Blacks and Hispanics have much higher rates of: crime, teen pregnancy, high school dropouts, low test scores, & broken families.

- Having kids with the dumbest hood rat kinda man you could find is their problem.

- 1 out of 3 black kids dropping out of high school is their problem.

- Almost 80% of blacks not having a father is their problem.

- Over 50% of black women having children with multiple men is their problem.

- Telling each other they don't act black enough is their problem.

- Having a massively high crime rate regardless of wealth or education is their problem.

- Having low impulse control and being hyper-sexual and having a shitty family is their problem.

I find it fascinating how Whites, Jews, Asians, Indians, Middle Easterners, & Native Americans who are in poverty don't have those problems.

Here's a New York Times article on the black/white test score gap. "AFRICAN AMERICANS currently score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. This gap appears before children enter kindergarten (figure 1-1), and it persists into adulthood. It has narrowed since 1970, but the typical American black still scores below 75 percent of American whites on most standardized tests. On some tests the typical American black scores below more than 85 percent of whites"

You want peoples who were running around naked on the African Savanna and Central American just 400 years ago to have the same achievement and equality and job as Indians, Whites, Jews, Arabs, and Asians who grew up in a society with schools, education, a written language for thousands of years. That's not exactly how evolution and natural selection work. No one is saying that racism doesn't hold people back, but it only holds them back temporarily. Racism and wars and even holocausts don't destroy the group as a whole. Everyone is responsible for themselves, not sitting around begging for table scraps and ranting about how racism is the reason they're behind.

Continued: I think it's pretty obvious that genes have quiet a bit to do with intelligence and achievement. There have been too many studies done on race and iq, race and crime, race and achievement to just throw out. I'm not the smartest but at least I'm living in reality. And I'm proud to see so many HNers here doing the same and acknowledging the important role genetics has in our lives. It's good to know there's more people following truth and science no matter how blasphemous it may seem to a delusional emotion-oriented general population hell bent on believing that everyone is "100% equal" in order to feel good about themselves.

Nature is racist. Us finding out about it is not.

"African Americans currently score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics tests, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. This gap appears before children enter kindergarten (figure 1-1), and it persists into adulthood. It has narrowed since 1970, but the typical American black still scores below 75 percent of American whites on most standardized tests. On some tests the typical American black scores below more than 85 percent of whites"- http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/j/jencks-gap.html

"Intellectual and personality measures were available from unwed mothers who gave their children up for adoption at birth. The same or similar measures have been obtained from 300 sets of adoptive parents and all of their adopted and natural children in the Texas Adoption Project. The sample characteristics are discussed in detail, and the basic findings for IQ are presented. Initial analyses of the data on IQ suggest moderate heritabilities." - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/496798

"Adolescents' IQ test scores were similar to those of their parents and siblings only if they were biologically related. Our interpretation of these results is that younger children are more influenced by differences among their family environments than older adolescents, who are freer to seek their own niches." - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6872626

Notice how carefully worded the "interpretation" of that last one was. Rather than suggest that genetics has to do with older adolescence not having IQ scores that match their adoptive parents their "interpretation" is that the adolescences simply chose not to perform as well as their adoptive parents...Anything to avoid controversy.

White guilt is getting in the way of a lot of racial/genetic/intelligence/violence studies. People don't want to go back to a time when one group of humans were seen as superior and another inferior. The funny part is, Intelligence wise, whites are NOT superior. Jews are.. Their intelligence levels are higher, achievement levels higher, hackers should know this. Many of Silicon Valleys most prominent companies were started by jews. Facebook, Craigslist, Google. Also a report by Joel Stein from the New York Times showed that every major Hollywood studio was founded by jews. In the fashion world: Ralph Lauren, Levi (Jeans), Guess, Mark Ecco, Men's Warehouse, and most of the brands you see in stores today were also started by jews.

"In 1921 Budapest, 88% of the members of the stock exchange and 91% of the currency brokers were Jews, many of them ennobled. In interwar Hungary, more than half and perhaps as much as 90 percent of Hungarian industry was owned or operated by a few closely related Jewish banking families. Jews represented one-fourth of all university students and 43% percent at Budapest Technological University. In 1920, 60 percent of Hungarian doctors, 51 percent of lawyers, 39 percent of all privately employed engineers and chemists, 34 percent of editors and journalists, and 29 percent of musicians identified themselves as Jews by religion. Resentment of this Jewish trend of success was widespread." - Yuri Slezkine. The Jewish Century. Princeton, 2004. ISBN 0-691-11995-3

Since 1921 theres been a lot of catching up by Whites, Blacks, Asians, etc... but Jews are still disproportionately successful and score high.