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by exstudent2 10y ago
One of the six is Peter Todd. Bitcoin expert and Zcash skeptic. He posted about his participation here: https://petertodd.org/2016/cypherpunk-desert-bus-zcash-trust...
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by exstudent2 10y ago
zcoin is not zcash: https://forum.z.cash/t/psa-zcoin-is-not-zcash/1821
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Why is it frightening? No one is forcing you to use zcash.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> A constant litany of complaints about unfair and rigged main stream media by the president elect (his latest tweets about the NYT being an example) has convinced a significant portion of the public that the main stream media cannot be
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Zcash prices were insanely high on day one because demand was high and there was practically no supply. Everyone knew that was going to happen and the price is now normalizing. There is a bug with mining to zaddresses but Zcash developers h
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Yes precisely. It's ok to talk about supporting Clinton but saying you support Trump brings instant retribution. I don't support either and even that wasn't something I could publicly state without great risk. Just like look
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Maybe it did work? The loss may have been even greater without the data driven decision making. There's been a ton of finger pointing today as to where the blame falls for Clinton losing (Facebook...). The reality isn't hard to un
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Sadly the echo chamber I'm trapped in is our industry. If it were just a choice of media or people I knew from high school I wouldn't care. It's appalling to me that any political opinion can terminate your hard earned care
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by exstudent2 10y ago
I would definitely classify them as terrible and oppressive not "good". It has (had?) reached a point where you could literally lose your job for saying on Twitter that you support Trump. You would certainly be punished profession
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Our media, government and education systems are corrupt.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
While the people you mention might not be economically left behind, they don't have a voice in the US media. _That_ is monopolized by the left (as evidenced by the article we're commenting on). There are other ways to be "lef
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Many people feel otherwise. Anyway it's way off topic to the op.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
That's highly debatable. I use it despite the moderation. Half the questions I get answers for are "closed, off topic".
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Yes, it's becoming unrelenting. On the one hand you have pieces like this lamenting the "high" pay of engineers. Nevermind how much value they add or CEOs that make orders of magnitude more money. On the other we have article
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by exstudent2 10y ago
People bash StackOverflow for their draconian moderation, not because it would be technically trivial to implement (it wouldn't, nothing at scale is).
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Hence why I said: "I'd expect outsiders to treat both our claims with a grain of salt and instead use their own observations."
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> it's inconsistent to treat two anecdotal accounts in completely opposite ways. I can either believe a random person on the internet peddling a rather trendy political opinion or my own extensive industry experience. I'd expec
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by exstudent2 10y ago
My basis is that it's extremely difficult to hire good developers. They can pick and choose where they work. I've literally never seen a good developer struggle to succeed in 15+ years in the industry. Successful devs come from al
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> By what basis do you make that claim? What basis do you have? We're both just throwing around observations. Mine aren't the same as yours.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> Trust me, there are poor people out there, there are disadvantaged people out there, and partly because of unfairness built into the economy and our culture. What makes you think that I'm not one of those people? Did you ever thin
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Why is their experience more valid than mine? I'll go with my own observations before that of an HN commenter. Yes, I know that's what I am too.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
That's not been my experience at all. I've generally seen good people get ahead. Sure everyone has personal setbacks but en mass it's definitely not an issue.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
There's nothing to "fix" here. If there were good candidates being passed up, they would certainly congregate elsewhere and create success. If that's not happening, then it's a supply issue. And really it's no
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by exstudent2 10y ago
I know lots of women who host AirBnB so they definitely don't share your fear. Not quite sure where you're getting that from.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
I lived in NYC for years. It's extremely safe. By far the safest of the large US cities.
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> NYC is a dangerous city Have you ever been to NYC? In 2016 it's far from dangerous. It's probably one of the safer cities in the US. Additionally, AirBnB guests aren't typically dangerous (otherwise AirBnB would be out
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by exstudent2 10y ago
> Educators are not in positions of power Well we definitely don't agree on that. Growing up I had no choice whether I wanted to attend school or not. It was illegal for me not to go. If that's not power, I don't know what
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by exstudent2 10y ago
We probably agree on many things but I do fundamentally disagree with the concept of a "patriarchy" (in the west). There's no need to gender what is essentially a synonym for institutionalized power. A lot of that power favor
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by exstudent2 10y ago
Not that it makes it ok but far more men than women are killed in the streets without repercussions. Men are also way more represented in prison which I think has an undeniable rape culture. That's not even touching on male underrepres
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by exstudent2 10y ago
I was asking to get other people's experiences to see if it would be a gain in productivity. Not sure why you're so hostile to that.

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