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Incorrect. The fact is the network lacked the capacity to handle the requested number of transactions, and in turn auctioned off the tickets to the lifeboat to whoever paid the mos…

This is certifiable.

This defeats the entire purpose of bitcoin. The goal is a decentralized currency that isn’t controlled by shady political interests, and can reasonably replace normal currency. Why…

The entire purpose is to replace fiat. It’s objectively a failure if you can’t buy coffee with it.

This is by design. If you break bitcoin, such that it’s only usable by large financial institutions, you completely remove the decentralized nature that made it attractive in the f…

The lighting network completely undermines the entire purpose of bitcoin, and blockstreams seeming desire to sabotage bitcoin for daily use coincides suspiciously with their outsid…

Isn’t listening to someone exclusively because of the gender, and not the quality of their idea, exactly what we’re trying to get away from? “Don’t discount someone just because th…

OP seems to dance around saying the idea that punishing people is wrong. OP is wrong. We want cultural and financial incentives not to do wrong. We also want raw primal fear, if yo…

Say what you want, but the buck ultimately stops at the feet of the Chinese people who allow this gross injustice.

Exactly! So glad to see the HighDPI fans gaining acceptance. 110PPI looks like garbage and needs to be relegated to the dust bin.

All it took was waiting over an hour with a large fee to make me realize there’s a huge problem in the bitcoin community. The block size is fundamentally too small to support the c…

Yeah. Mass conformance is never suspicious.

I’m so glad that backwards thinking concepts like this are dominant, otherwise we might actually have secure software! Think about it, an open-source OS is choosing backwards compa…

Absolutely not. If “do no harm” is a principle, then the kernel should ensure that no harm is taking place. If flaws within the kernel allow harm to occur while otherwise normal tr…

I mean, i’m Extremely hostile towards “old media” and my opinion towards google is highly negative. If anything, there is probably a strong correlation between liking google and tr…

If by “competition” you mean pseudo-moralist corporate agenda designed to suppress wages for engineers and developers. Wages have been FLAT vs rising inflation for ages, mostly due…

GJ&S’s primary argument is that whoever discovered (by accident!) agriculture first made all the later stages inevitable.

London already has a terrible problem with extremely narrow (and often jagged) roads. As an American many of the streets were hell to navigate, and I understood why tiny cars are v…

Except from an individual experience a train is one of the least efficient methods of travel. Long waits at each stop, and tons of stops in between me and my destination, never rea…

NSA made seemingly bening improvements to crypto standards that the academic community only discovered as valuable over a decade later. They’re the largest single employer of mathm…

I’d reply honestly to you but it would just get me banned. Like it or not you’ve contributed to a culture that people can’t reply to you honestly in. Think about how dangerous that…

This is because our intelligence agencies currently view China as a tamed bitch and Russia as a wild threat. This view may or not be in tune with reality, but that is the view none…

Gawker somehow managed to be worse than the daily mail.

Racism totally existed in “free” states. His argument his the laws were more sneaky about it, since you couldn’t just say “no guns for blacks”

Might want to ask yourself where you learned that, then discount that source as a valid source of information in the future.