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No, it wasn't a ponzi scheme. FTP was a real, legitimately profitable business, and it could have run quite successfully without secretly borrowing from the customers. But secretly…

I can't help but think of the reaction that online poker players had when first told that UltimateBet admins were cheating, or that celebrity-backed FullTiltPoker was insolvent. Wh…

Your comment reads like this: "It's rational for officers to arrest law-abiding citizens who are slightly annoying officers." And I get that a lot of people believe that. But you'r…

* this was supposedly in the Bitcoin protocol itself* Cue a line of BTC-promoting ostriches claiming that the protocol is fan-fucking-tastic and in no need of improvement.

It saddens me that some people look at travesties like this and think "fuck him, the system is great, three cheers for the status quo." This despite the fact that any honest readin…

I'd also be willing to bet that he programs in languages like Ocaml and Haskell.

Saying "cost of replacing the thing" about a baby, to a father, was not calm speech about a difficult topic. It was pointlessly rude and provocative. It was an indefensible way to …

He wrote the following to a father: "the cost of replacing the thing is much, much lower." That's rude. A lot of his other beliefs (such as his belief that being a brother is just …

He's entitled to his (ignorant) opinions, but he's not entitled to be so pointlessly rude and cruel with his method of expressing it. If this was a dinner party, I'd quietly ask hi…

You are an ignorant, arrogant idiot, and a callous asshole. BTW, we already knew you didn't have kids. We knew that both from your beliefs, and moreso from the the hurtful language…

HFTs tend to add liquidity when it's least valuable, and they tend to consume liquidity when it's most vital. For example, an analysis of the 2010 flash crash shows it was worsened…

They already did, but many people are satisfied with the Apple app and wouldn't appreciate being forced to switch to a different and not-meaningfully-better app.