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Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche

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Re: Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche

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> I am not 10 feet tall and 22, but I am a tiny hyperactive white woman with weird hair and poor boundaries, so I revert to an old standby and start serving full manic pixie dream girl. It’s not exactly an act. I’m a terrible actor. It’s just about dialing up the parts of my personality that men tend to find most delightful, giggling a bit more, scratching my arse a bit less, and hoping nobody Googles me. It helps th…

> Integrity and professionalism bordering on zero. Absolutely not. You are considering she's there as a journalist to produce and informative piece of news. She's there as a writer to produce a feature about how does it feel to be in one of these cruises. By your standards, all gonzo journalism or, for that matter, any piece of new journalism is unprofessional. That is just plain absurd. The reader knows she is writi…

I'm going to flag all "gonzo journalism" submissions in the future. HN isn't a cheap tabloid aggregator.

Re: Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche

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Possibly, but I don't think it's an accident to put literally the most hostile journalist imaginable on board.

Nah, the most hostile journalist possible would have been the FT's Izabella Kaminska. Or possibly David Gerard.

FT would have been Jemima Kelly. https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/08/02/1533182400000/One-for...

If I'd gone I'd definitely have tried for the McAfee interview. As it was I just made sure Laurie had read my book first.

(of course we know each other, it's the worldwide SJW conspiracy)

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