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"A bank vault seems like a bad idea because of the history when the government seized the gold and people weren't allowed to open their bank safes without a policeman." You've got …

"Are you denying all these metrics as a whole, and implying that Bitcoin's usage is either stagnating or declining?? You can't be serious, can you?" That's exactly what they're sta…

"If creating dummy transactions can increase Bitcoin adoption and/or market price, then that increase doesn't feel "fake" or "an illusion" at all." But it DOESN'T. That's why this …

"I'm not sure why these sorts of transactions would be considered ignorable." There's a great attitude for pumping!

Its evangelists do remind me of Herbalife, at least.

"They still accept Bitcoin, no scare quotes needed." They accept fiat currency, not Bitcoin. The quotes were for accuracy, not "scare".

ALWAYS get a competent/savvy friend to review your resume/CV. (Also, dating profiles.) But seriously, you need someone to be brutally honest with you about these things and employe…

You're right. The insincere "wondering why" shouldn't have baited my response.

"And I can't help but wonder why this gets support but I am routinely downvoted and generally crapped for attempting to talk about what I have done to beat my medical death sentenc…

Shazam doesn't try to run itself passively and report back to HQ when I don't need it to run. Shazam also isn't the same level of data mining/profiling.

More users, more user engagement, more valuable content.

"generating revenue isn't the same thing as providing a valuable service" Well, from the cited stats, it's not enough of a valuable service to generate sustainable revenue.

"How would you modify crossfit to make it safer and more effective and keep it fun" But in that case, it probably wouldn't be Crossfit and maintain the same mass appeal.

"saw this work" You mean saw a mock-up, employee of ConsumerPhysics.

A fictitious one?

Exactly the problem. Long term care would be ideal for some persons. There's no "mental health lobby" like the prison industrials to encourage mass expenditures. And we certainly w…

"I reply to everyone I downvote" I try to give constructive replies generally, but some people freak out over even positive advice so I just save the low-content back and forth "so…

If you can phrase them interestingly and insightfully, they're not going to be downvoted into oblivion. Perhaps you should put in the effort to explain them to the uninitiated and …

You're really playing into the echo chamber of "celebrities" by giving such a damn. The solution is to stop caring about upvotes and karma. They are internet friendship points, not…

"Troll: Disagrees with individual or community." It's not that they disagree or "hold an unpopular opinion", it's how they express said opinion. Some people can champion unpopular …

"It should be easier for a late-arriver on a post to add a useful comment, and have it be promoted" That'd be nice, but not important enough to the discussion for me to recommend a…

Why? If it's so cut and dry, it should not be a problem to explain this. I would of course assume that less people downvoting + more specific complaints would lead to more moderato…

Yeah, lower-content posts, narcissists, etc. I find more harmful in watering down the content than the obvious trolls or "cruel" posters, which don't tend to last as long. The comm…

Do you think Oculus is going to be limited to just VR? Facebook didn't purchase them for VR alone. Their gains in VR tech will help them in AR.

"This is more likely a response to Google Glass, not Oculus." Glass, Oculus, and Microsoft's eventual device are all going to be competing in the same space.