illuminate

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by illuminate 12y ago
"A bank vault seems like a bad idea because of the history when the government seized the gold and people weren't allowed to open their bank safes without a policeman." You've got bigger issues at that point.
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by illuminate 12y ago
"Are you denying all these metrics as a whole, and implying that Bitcoin's usage is either stagnating or declining?? You can't be serious, can you?" That's exactly what they're stating, that the metrics do not
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by illuminate 12y ago
"If creating dummy transactions can increase Bitcoin adoption and/or market price, then that increase doesn't feel "fake" or "an illusion" at all." But it DOESN'T. That's why this is garbage
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by illuminate 12y ago
"I'm not sure why these sorts of transactions would be considered ignorable." There's a great attitude for pumping!
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by illuminate 12y ago
Its evangelists do remind me of Herbalife, at least.
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by illuminate 12y ago
"They still accept Bitcoin, no scare quotes needed." They accept fiat currency, not Bitcoin. The quotes were for accuracy, not "scare".
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by illuminate 12y ago
ALWAYS get a competent/savvy friend to review your resume/CV. (Also, dating profiles.) But seriously, you need someone to be brutally honest with you about these things and employers will NEVER tell you what you need to know.
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by illuminate 12y ago
You're right. The insincere "wondering why" shouldn't have baited my response.
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by illuminate 12y ago
"And I can't help but wonder why this gets support but I am routinely downvoted and generally crapped for attempting to talk about what I have done to beat my medical death sentence" Since you're being so rude here, I wi
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by illuminate 12y ago
Shazam doesn't try to run itself passively and report back to HQ when I don't need it to run. Shazam also isn't the same level of data mining/profiling.
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by illuminate 12y ago
More users, more user engagement, more valuable content.
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by illuminate 12y ago
"generating revenue isn't the same thing as providing a valuable service" Well, from the cited stats, it's not enough of a valuable service to generate sustainable revenue.
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by illuminate 12y ago
"How would you modify crossfit to make it safer and more effective and keep it fun" But in that case, it probably wouldn't be Crossfit and maintain the same mass appeal.
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by illuminate 12y ago
"saw this work" You mean saw a mock-up, employee of ConsumerPhysics.
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by illuminate 12y ago
A fictitious one?
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by illuminate 12y ago
Exactly the problem. Long term care would be ideal for some persons. There's no "mental health lobby" like the prison industrials to encourage mass expenditures. And we certainly wouldn't want the prison megacorps to run
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by illuminate 12y ago
"I reply to everyone I downvote" I try to give constructive replies generally, but some people freak out over even positive advice so I just save the low-content back and forth "something is wrong on the internet I must comme
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by illuminate 12y ago
If you can phrase them interestingly and insightfully, they're not going to be downvoted into oblivion. Perhaps you should put in the effort to explain them to the uninitiated and you might change the dominant opinion? Otherwise it see
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by illuminate 12y ago
You're really playing into the echo chamber of "celebrities" by giving such a damn. The solution is to stop caring about upvotes and karma. They are internet friendship points, not validations of personality.
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by illuminate 12y ago
"Troll: Disagrees with individual or community." It's not that they disagree or "hold an unpopular opinion", it's how they express said opinion. Some people can champion unpopular opinions in insightful and int
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by illuminate 12y ago
"It should be easier for a late-arriver on a post to add a useful comment, and have it be promoted" That'd be nice, but not important enough to the discussion for me to recommend a feature. It'd just encourage threads to
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by illuminate 12y ago
Why? If it's so cut and dry, it should not be a problem to explain this. I would of course assume that less people downvoting + more specific complaints would lead to more moderator action on the more obnoxious/distracting posters
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by illuminate 12y ago
Yeah, lower-content posts, narcissists, etc. I find more harmful in watering down the content than the obvious trolls or "cruel" posters, which don't tend to last as long. The community is nice, but I'd rather focus on t
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by illuminate 12y ago
Do you think Oculus is going to be limited to just VR? Facebook didn't purchase them for VR alone. Their gains in VR tech will help them in AR.
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by illuminate 12y ago
"This is more likely a response to Google Glass, not Oculus." Glass, Oculus, and Microsoft's eventual device are all going to be competing in the same space.
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by illuminate 12y ago
Valve is not interested in hardware beyond what's absolutely necessary to start up their Linux ecosystem.
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by illuminate 12y ago
I imagine plenty of the people peeved about the acquisition are also not Glass fanatics.
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by illuminate 12y ago
"Why don't we call television networks advertising companies" Seems a decent analogy, most network television and cable shows are glorified advertising. It's not a brag of any sort to see the lack of meaningful content i
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by illuminate 12y ago
"a billionaire nerd that is "one of us"" How do you figure?
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by illuminate 12y ago
"I would guess the other commenters are jealous that their problem solving skills don't get as much attention" Using slightly more literate ways to call critics "haters" is not any more constructive.

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