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Re: Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies

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Post by dang »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #250
dang wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please make your point in HN comments without being personally acerbic? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I may not be able to, without understanding why this one was apparently so offensive. I provided two sentences. I'm assuming the second one was unobjectionable to just about everyone: > Those advertisers weren't affecting your opinion of what your own culture was, they were affecting your opinion of a foreign culture. The first one > Maybe if you'd spent longer than a week there you'd have a more informed view of how…

Just not invoking any trope of stupidity (like "tourists who have been there for a week") would get you a fair way toward not being disrespectful.

Re: Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies

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Post by thaumasiotes »

dang wrote: post #251
thaumasiotes wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I may not be able to, without understanding why this one was apparently so offensive. I provided two sentences. I'm assuming the second one was unobjectionable to just about everyone: > Those advertisers weren't affecting your opinion of what your own culture was, they were affecting your opinion of a foreign culture. The first one > Maybe if you'd spent longer than a week there you'd have a more informed view of how…

Just not invoking any trope of stupidity (like "tourists who have been there for a week") would get you a fair way toward not being disrespectful.

Assume I'm saying that when you take one week of vacation somewhere, the view of local culture that you end up with is not even weakly informative as to the view of local culture held by locals.

I think that's a fairly relevant counterpoint to an observation beginning "I just spent a week in Hawaii".

You think it's hitting below the belt to observe that ryankshaw's opinion is based on one week in a culture he's not familiar with, just because "tourist making conclusions after spending one week in an unfamiliar culture" is such a well-known example of terrible reasoning that it's become a stereotype?

I didn't even make that point. I limited myself to observing that a longer-term experience would probably give a more reliable impression.

Re: Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies

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Post by whataretensors »

banderman wrote: post #123
whataretensors wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ethereum seems legit. For modern answers: WTC, SNM are two that I like

Is there anything that it can exclusively do? I mean functionally in the real world, right now.

I put disposable income into a few ICOs where the ideas are amazing and the team looks capable of implementing it. It's like a kickstarter to me. Might not work, but if it does I get something cool. Like if SNM works I effectively get access to really cheap compute power.

So no, they don't work yet... which is why they need the money to build the product.

Re: Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

dingo_bat wrote: post #193
CryoLogic wrote: post #11

I am guessing it has something to do with the fake ICO's taking advantage of uneducated users (see Vyral for a great example). But Facebook has made their entire fortune taking advantage of uneducated users. So maybe they don't want competition?

How has Facebook taken advantage of uneducated users? Is there any evidence of this or you're just being edgy?

One(debatable) example is internet.org.
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