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People date in the workplace all the time, so I don't think your rules about "professional situations" are generally accepted. I also reject the notion of "position of power" just …

First, his initial statement sounds like that (like he is genuinely shocked that he is part of the problem after all). His updated statement might reflect his realization of the re…

The accusations can be true, and at the same time it seems possible that the VC didn't take advantage of his "position of power", but genuinely believed the women liked him for his…

Maybe it is not even that interesting - a guy overstepped his boundaries? Few readers are probably deep enough in Startup Culture to have heard of him or Binary Capital, so why is …

I still can't approve of the article because of all the allusions and unwarranted generalizations it makes ("this is why there are so few female founders" and the like). A favorite…

I don't see the relevancy to today's Bitcoin price? Presumably MtGox was able to execute the fake trades because they didn't have to provide the money for it? It was simply a numbe…

I didn't think the "someone inferior" was elementary to it - the point to me always seemed to be to kill somebody innocent.

It sounds as if people were fired, investigated and so on. I don't understand the part about the medical records. Surely merely wanting to double check the story isn't the issue? I…

Is it? Were steps not taken to remove the harassers, once the incidents came to light? How can the CEO watch over every social interaction?

Did he sexual harass anybody, or what is the point of his resignation? Another case of scapegoating?

The shovel makers win.

Thank you for that story, it really cracks me up. The whole cryptocoin trading thing is fun because it is so crazy.

I love this chart of Newton's involvement in the South Sea Bubble: https://cdn.sovereignman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013... Think I'll print it and stick it to the wall some…

I went to an Ethereum Hackathon and wasn't convinced at the time, that is why I passed. Hopefully/probably their technology has matured since then, but I stopped following their pr…

You miss out on countless opportunities every second. Back then I evaluated Ethereum and decided against it. That is all there is to it. I don't know how justified the current hype…

"Most privatization efforts come about as an attempt to inject corruption" Huh - citation needed? I've never heard that claim before. Corruption pretty much needs governments, who …

That is their selling point, though.

How is the network in a foreign country being picked? Here in Germany, we have (at least?) three competing networks, O2, Telekom and Vodafone. Their coverage differs, but afaik I d…

They will reject you as long as they have enough other patients who don't care about the price. Somewhere the systemic error is injected into the system. There has to be a way to f…

Sorry, I heard it many years ago and didn't double check. Nevertheless for sure there are caps on health care expenses. Speaking of kidneys - don't they prioritize recipients of or…

Sorry about that - I heard it a long time ago. Nevertheless, health insurance will always be capped at some point, you can not guarantee arbitrarily high expenses for everybody.

I am actually from Germany and heard the story about NHS dialysis many years ago, so it has nothing to do with US right wing propaganda or whatever. My apologies, though, if it isn…

But lots of insurance companies operate on the risks you mention, floods, earthquakes. There are insurance companies that insure other insurance companies against outliers, for exa…

OK, but people choose their employers, to some extent. Would more transparency help them to demand the right health insurance from their employers?

A) For example Germany (where I live). B) Why do the billing practices have to be opaque? In Germany, patients often don't even see the bills. It all goes directly to the insurance…