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Newsweek's Statement on the Bitcoin Story
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#12"Ms. Goodman’s research was conducted under the same high editorial and ethical standards that have guided Newsweek for more than 80 years." Can anyone comment on their editorial and ethical standards? How high are they to begin with?
Since being sold to the Daily Beast and then the IB Times, not very high. There are a lot of factual errors in their "Fall of France" article and even when pointed out Newsweek refuses to acknowledge any of them.
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#13So Newsweek "encourages all to be respectful of the privacy and rights of the individuals involved." It might have been nice to consider that before publishing a legible photo of Nakamoto's license plate.
It just occurred to me how ridiculous this whole article is...they cite his supposed $400 million Bitcoin stash and then post a photo of his home and license plate. I just pray nobody goes snooping around looking for his (potentially nonexistent) BTC wallet.
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#14>We recognized a public interest in establishing some core facts about Bitcoin and better informing those who might invest money in it. Bullshit. Revealing who Satoshi is doesn't give you one shred of information to help you decide whether or not to invest in Bitcion.
There are some values of Satoshi that would make some people change their minds: if it were an NSA operation, or a neo-Nazi group, or Scientologists, or Intellectual Ventures.
Personally, I try pretty hard to not use things created by assholes, even if the things themselves are good. (You can't avoid things made by people with abrasive personalities, but I don't think I regularly use anything made by a genuine asshole.)
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#15>We recognized a public interest in establishing some core facts about Bitcoin and better informing those who might invest money in it. Bullshit. Revealing who Satoshi is doesn't give you one shred of information to help you decide whether or not to invest in Bitcion.
There are some values of Satoshi that would make some people change their minds: if it were an NSA operation, or a neo-Nazi group, or Scientologists, or Intellectual Ventures. Personally, I try pretty hard to not use things created by assholes, even if the things themselves are good. (You can't avoid things made by people with abrasive personalities, but I don't think I regularly use anything made by a genuine asshol…
But that's the entire point of bitcoin. It's decentralized. It doesn't matter who had the idea, they don't have any more control over it than anyone else.
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#16Are they just trolling the public in this article or adding insult to the injury?
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#17>We recognized a public interest in establishing some core facts about Bitcoin and better informing those who might invest money in it. Bullshit. Revealing who Satoshi is doesn't give you one shred of information to help you decide whether or not to invest in Bitcion.
There are some values of Satoshi that would make some people change their minds: if it were an NSA operation, or a neo-Nazi group, or Scientologists, or Intellectual Ventures. Personally, I try pretty hard to not use things created by assholes, even if the things themselves are good. (You can't avoid things made by people with abrasive personalities, but I don't think I regularly use anything made by a genuine asshol…
Linus Torvalds is generally accepted to be pretty abrasive, at least, do you use anything created by him?
I try not to learn anything about any creator whose work I admire, they will unfortunately generally disappoint.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are some values of Satoshi that would make some people change their minds: if it were an NSA operation, or a neo-Nazi group, or Scientologists, or Intellectual Ventures. Personally, I try pretty hard to not use things created by assholes, even if the things themselves are good. (You can't avoid things made by people with abrasive personalities, but I don't think I regularly use anything made by a genuine asshol…
Linus Torvalds is generally accepted to be pretty abrasive, at least, do you use anything created by him? I try not to learn anything about any creator whose work I admire, they will unfortunately generally disappoint.
abrasive != asshole
The rough tone on lkml (supposedly) reflects the gap between people who want to make something that's nontrivial and used by many people and the smaller number of people who are actually able to do so. Setting yourself up as this kind of gatekeeper means you have to be non-likable towards a lot of people even if you're a perfectly nice person.
Conversely, someone can be an asshole while showing spotless behaviour to the people they meet.
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#19"Ms. Goodman’s research was conducted under the same high editorial and ethical standards that have guided Newsweek for more than 80 years." Can anyone comment on their editorial and ethical standards? How high are they to begin with?
Google Newsweek and "Hitler diaries."
Google Newsweek and Quran and retraction.
They're one of the most inconsistent publications I've ever seen. Lots of great work that stands the test of time. Also some past accuracy problems that were big enough to make headlines.
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#20>We recognized a public interest in establishing some core facts about Bitcoin and better informing those who might invest money in it. Bullshit. Revealing who Satoshi is doesn't give you one shred of information to help you decide whether or not to invest in Bitcion.
There are some values of Satoshi that would make some people change their minds: if it were an NSA operation, or a neo-Nazi group, or Scientologists, or Intellectual Ventures. Personally, I try pretty hard to not use things created by assholes, even if the things themselves are good. (You can't avoid things made by people with abrasive personalities, but I don't think I regularly use anything made by a genuine asshol…
But the article didn't talk about his values (because he wouldn't talk about them).
It was just a tabloid exposé of a private individual.