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The "left" are good at circular quotations. They are also in complete control of Wikipedia, Snopes, and a few other "authoritative" websites.

Bloomberg must have some interest against Bitcoin. There has been constant negative coverage from Bloomberg for months if not years. I haven’t seen anything like this from any othe…

> Minds get eroded by technology by heavily relying on it This has been said for thousands of years. Socrates/Plato was complaining about how writing weakens the human memory. We n…

What is an iLamp?

It is very easy to make unenforceable laws. Actually blocking VPNs would require something akin to the great firewall of China, which I don't see the EU building in the near future…

Not surprised, someone had to acquire github, it was only a matter of time. I’d rather it be Microsoft than Facebook or Google.

Isn’t this just the byproduct of the karma/voting system? Content voted by the majority of users is going to have higher visibility, it’s pretty difficult to get around that withou…

I’m really surprised Yahoo is #7, I thought Yahoo was all but dead.

> “Fundamentally, the company is based on a proposition that is just false. It is something that just can’t happen,” says Sten Linnarsson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Tha…

Is this just a clever way to dodge regulations?

Please don’t hijack the horizontal swipe. It is for going back/forward in navigation histoey, not switching between articles on your website.

Not really... I’ve been holding a small amount of crypto since 2013. It’s still about 10x the (small) amount of money I put in.

Good for you and your nephew

> the measurable advantage men have in the tech community I’m sure if it is “measurable” you can provide some numbers?

A group does not “want” anything. Innovation comes from exchange of ideas between individuals, not from arbitrary groups living behind walled gardens.

I’m not trolling. The whole idea of viewing individuals primarily as members of an arbitrary group is repugnant and has no place in the tech industry. I hope this project fails.

A sizeable and growing portion of the population refuses to have any dealing with this shady corporation. Facebook is not a universal authentication platform and never will be.

Another website that obnoxiously interrupts my music to autoplay a video ad. Last time I open a link from “cnet.com”

> Bitcoin and cryptos ought to be banned for good. Serious question: how would you go about “banning” cryotocurrencies? The most you can do is close exchanges which would make cryp…

Why these two governments in particular?

A paywalled article is completely useless for most people.

> Science should foremost follow a moral and ethical attitude And who should be the arbiter of what constitutes a “moral and ethical attitude”? You?

Not really... websites regularly go down when they are under a load they cannot handle