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The words have meaning. If you don't understand them you could just ask for them to be explained rather than throwing out insults. I suspect you actually do understand the meaning …

There is no agreed upon measurement of job performance that transcends the partisan divide.

This is a typical condescending blockchain enthusiast line. Stop implying that the critics don't understand how things work, it's insulting, intellectually lazy and false. When the…

It's statistically possible, so why not?

It's not "fair" as far as logical argumentation is concerned because the statement proves nothing since it is equally true of successful technologies as it is of failed technologie…

This is an oft repeated fallacy by blockchain enthusiasts. Skeptical predictions from the past that turned out to be incorrect in hindsight has absolutely zero relevance to the via…

Sure you can, just store them in .sql files and have your CI system auto deploy them.

It's unfortunate that you take such an inflammitory tone when you're so completely incorrect. They are constant, end of story.

This makes no sense. Have you ever used a web forum before reddit? People get banned all the time for arbitrary reasons on forums all over the web, why should reddit be any differe…

If you're rebuilding aspects of your production system for the sake of "incorporating newness" then the problem is poor engineering not react or any other tool. If things are worki…

Not necessarily (based solely on the axiom that men and women have different brain chemistry). It is logically possible that the differences we observe in career distributions are …

It does not follow logically that just because men and women are biologically different that those differences are necessarily significant with regard to career distributions.

Bitcoin ATMs are rare, notoriously unreliable, often require invasive KYC and always come with a gigantic markup.

> You can acquire cryptocurrency just as easily as you can acquire cash: This is obviously untrue. Cash is ubiquitous throughout every corner of society, while cryptocurrency is ex…

People who buy drugs "in the streets" generally aren't versed in how to acquire and manage cryptocurrency. Most people buying drugs have a personal relationship with a dealer and d…

I agree and I appreciate the nuanced tone of your answer.

So the only option is to arrange an in-person meetup with a random stranger from the internet so that they can gouge me with a gigantic markup or just rob me. This sounds terrible …

It's a currency that can't buy much of anything, so it's close to useless as far as paying for the needs of a typical person. You can speculate about the future of crpyotcurrencies…

How do you turn eth into spendable money without a bank account?

Facebook is not mandatory, you don't have to use it, the government doesn't need to get involved.

I absolutely agree that the SPA was already a thing before angular, in fact, angular was specifically designed to wrangle the general design concerns related to building SPAs and d…

It's a double-edged sword. The code's behavior is apparent in that simple example, but things get considerably more difficult to understand when you're dealing with monkey patched …

Rails was designed at a time before angular brought the SPA into fashion. SPAs manage state and template rendering on the front-end, so much of the Rails machinery becomes unnecess…

> You" as an entity are really just a process emergent from chemical reactions on some area, and your "will" is just the result of feedback between many regions of that process and…

> I disagree with your assessment that it's any blinder of a process than your own will is. I understand what you're saying, but the two concepts cannot be effectively compared. An…