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From the article: "Although John McAfee is often perceived as an erratic and outgoing individual, I believe that he only wants the best for Cryptocurrency and h

From the article: "Although John McAfee is often perceived as an erratic and outgoing individual, I believe that he only wants the best for Cryptocurrency and having an influence as large as his is highly beneficial to helping spread awareness of this great technology which should help boost long-term success. Make sure to follow John and have a watch of some of his interviews, this man has some great knowledge and will do great things for the industry." That ending remark caught me off guard until I looked at the domain the article was hosted in (itsblockchain.com).

incomplete 8y ago
"erratic" is an understatement.
- fredgrott 8y ago
  I would use irratiobnal
- colossal 8y ago
  Why would anyone listen to anything he says at this point? The cognitive dissonance among the blockchain fanatics is incredible.
curiousgal 8y ago
meta rant: Whoever started the "let's use a code block to quote text" trend should suffer as much as mobile users do when reading it.
- DSingularity 8y ago
  I just suffered so please include my suffering as well...
- tlrobinson 8y ago
  It would be nice if Hacker News had a better way to quote text.
  - Someone1234 8y ago
    Or bold text, or working lists groups.
  - JackCh 8y ago
    > "It would be nice if Hacker News had a better way to quote text." Consider doing it like this.
    - mikeyouse 8y ago
      That's the approach I've taken too: Single carrot to indent it slightly, then an asterisks to italicize the quote and another asterisks at the end to stop the italicization.
- LeifCarrotson 8y ago
  Agreed. Here it is, nicely formatted: > Although John McAfee is often perceived as an erratic and outgoing individual, I believe that he only wants the best for Cryptocurrency and having an influence as large as his is highly beneficial to helping spread awareness of this great technology which should help boost long-term success. Make sure to follow John and have a watch of some of his interviews, this man has some great knowledge and will do great things for the industry. Italics and an > quote prefix look much better than code blocks, both on desktop and mobile.
- deleted 8y ago
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- JackCh 8y ago
  It doesn't even work well on desktop, look at this: https://i.imgur.com/i2NdHfR.png https://i.imgur.com/i2NdHfR.png A tiny sliver of the trailing 'e' on "influence" was sliced off, so in response to that minor readability issue a horizontal scroll bar was rendered over the entire last line (and for whatever reason isn't auto-hiding). Behavior of scrolling in these sort of situations is unpredictable across platforms/browsers; the entire scenario should be avoided.
- jmathai 8y ago
  Ha, point taken! I have corrected my wrongs and hope to have saved some suffering in this world.
- Animats 8y ago
  It started with Markdown not offering any other good way to do it. (Yes, there are extensions to Markdown. That way lies Hyper Text Markup Language.)
  - sbierwagen 8y ago
    Blockquotes were in the first Wayback snapshot of the Markdown syntax reference, in 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20040402183259/https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#blockquote https://web.archive.org/web/20040402183259/https://daringfir...
    - Animats 8y ago
      A blockquote is a fixed-format block, not a comment quote. It has the same width problems as a code block.
      - sbierwagen 8y ago
        ? Specifically, what people actually complain about are the <pre> blocks, not the <code> tags. Markdown code sections use both: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#precode https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#precode >Pre-formatted code blocks are used for writing about programming or markup source code. Rather than forming normal paragraphs, the lines of a code block are interpreted literally. Markdown wraps a code block in both <pre> and <code> tags. Presumably, <code> to indicate that it's code, and <pre> to preserve source formatting, since HTML renderers will eat tabs, spaces and newlines. This has been the behavior of <pre> since at least 1997: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/literal.html https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/literal.html >Preformatted text between the start and end PRE tag is rendered using a fixed with font, in addition whitespace characters are treated literally. The spacing and line breaks are rendered directly, unlike other elements, for which repeated whitespace chararacters are collapsed to a single space character and line breaks introduced automatically. This works less well with the modern diversity of viewport sizes and pixel densities. (Not as much of a problem 20 years ago.) Blockquotes don't do this, and act like regular HTML blocks, (<p>, <section>, etc) with normal line wrapping. HN-markdown doesn't implement blockquotes. Would be great if it did!
compcoffee 8y ago
>I believe that he only wants the best for Cryptocurrency What does this even mean? Do you honestly believe that he's interested in anything but money?
- remoroid 8y ago
  Exactly right, it means nothing. The so-called Cryptocurrency space is low intelligence and self interest on all sides.
- wmf 8y ago
  I'm pretty sure McAfee is also interested in women, drugs, and inflating his own ego, although I guess he could buy all those things with enough money.

incomplete 8y ago

"erratic" is an understatement.

fredgrott 8y ago
I would use irratiobnal
colossal 8y ago
Why would anyone listen to anything he says at this point? The cognitive dissonance among the blockchain fanatics is incredible.

curiousgal 8y ago

meta rant: Whoever started the "let's use a code block to quote text" trend should suffer as much as mobile users do when reading it.

DSingularity 8y ago
I just suffered so please include my suffering as well...
tlrobinson 8y ago
It would be nice if Hacker News had a better way to quote text.
- Someone1234 8y ago
  Or bold text, or working lists groups.
- JackCh 8y ago
  > "It would be nice if Hacker News had a better way to quote text." Consider doing it like this.
  - mikeyouse 8y ago
    That's the approach I've taken too: Single carrot to indent it slightly, then an asterisks to italicize the quote and another asterisks at the end to stop the italicization.
LeifCarrotson 8y ago
Agreed. Here it is, nicely formatted: > Although John McAfee is often perceived as an erratic and outgoing individual, I believe that he only wants the best for Cryptocurrency and having an influence as large as his is highly beneficial to helping spread awareness of this great technology which should help boost long-term success. Make sure to follow John and have a watch of some of his interviews, this man has some great knowledge and will do great things for the industry. Italics and an > quote prefix look much better than code blocks, both on desktop and mobile.
deleted 8y ago
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JackCh 8y ago
It doesn't even work well on desktop, look at this: https://i.imgur.com/i2NdHfR.png https://i.imgur.com/i2NdHfR.png A tiny sliver of the trailing 'e' on "influence" was sliced off, so in response to that minor readability issue a horizontal scroll bar was rendered over the entire last line (and for whatever reason isn't auto-hiding). Behavior of scrolling in these sort of situations is unpredictable across platforms/browsers; the entire scenario should be avoided.
jmathai 8y ago
Ha, point taken! I have corrected my wrongs and hope to have saved some suffering in this world.
Animats 8y ago
It started with Markdown not offering any other good way to do it. (Yes, there are extensions to Markdown. That way lies Hyper Text Markup Language.)
- sbierwagen 8y ago
  Blockquotes were in the first Wayback snapshot of the Markdown syntax reference, in 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20040402183259/https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#blockquote https://web.archive.org/web/20040402183259/https://daringfir...
  - Animats 8y ago
    A blockquote is a fixed-format block, not a comment quote. It has the same width problems as a code block.
    - sbierwagen 8y ago
      ? Specifically, what people actually complain about are the <pre> blocks, not the <code> tags. Markdown code sections use both: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#precode https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#precode >Pre-formatted code blocks are used for writing about programming or markup source code. Rather than forming normal paragraphs, the lines of a code block are interpreted literally. Markdown wraps a code block in both <pre> and <code> tags. Presumably, <code> to indicate that it's code, and <pre> to preserve source formatting, since HTML renderers will eat tabs, spaces and newlines. This has been the behavior of <pre> since at least 1997: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/literal.html https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/literal.html >Preformatted text between the start and end PRE tag is rendered using a fixed with font, in addition whitespace characters are treated literally. The spacing and line breaks are rendered directly, unlike other elements, for which repeated whitespace chararacters are collapsed to a single space character and line breaks introduced automatically. This works less well with the modern diversity of viewport sizes and pixel densities. (Not as much of a problem 20 years ago.) Blockquotes don't do this, and act like regular HTML blocks, (<p>, <section>, etc) with normal line wrapping. HN-markdown doesn't implement blockquotes. Would be great if it did!

compcoffee 8y ago

>I believe that he only wants the best for Cryptocurrency What does this even mean? Do you honestly believe that he's interested in anything but money?

remoroid 8y ago
Exactly right, it means nothing. The so-called Cryptocurrency space is low intelligence and self interest on all sides.
wmf 8y ago
I'm pretty sure McAfee is also interested in women, drugs, and inflating his own ego, although I guess he could buy all those things with enough money.