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roarkjson Satoshi Roundtable Thoughts

/r/bitcoin is also censoring mentions of Ethereum - it's main rival right now.

https://twitter.com/DiginomicsNews/status/705258811192438784

roarkjson Magic+

Hey magic, can we get a UK version of magic?

roarkjson Privilege, Pathology and Power

Krugman says that greater wealth leads to a lack of empathy.

Surely it's a lack of empathy leads to greater wealth?

roarkjson Mark Zuckerberg's Free Basics argument doesn't address conflicts of interest

But they can and should go out of business

roarkjson Stop Patent Trolls: Support the Innovation Act of 2015

EFF seems to be making a habit of backing these worryingly pernicious bills.

roarkjson WebRTC in Safari?

> Statistically speaking, more users get owned via web browsers than via native apps

Source? Seems like a long stretch, especially if you factor in non-windows desktops and all mobile devices.

If you really are concerned about security wouldn't you rather trust basically just Apple and Google or Apple, Google, and every native app developer in the app store?

Having a load of random apps installed on your smartphone is simply less secure than than just using that functionality within a sandboxed and standardised web browser that goes through endless routine security updates.

roarkjson Kansas Police shutdown cannabis oil activist’s Facebook

> The Garden City Police Department had cannabis oil activist Shona Banda’s Facebook account shutdown

Citation needed

roarkjson The Dark side of .io TLD

All arguments can lean you strange places. They're inconsequential if they don't.

Luckily, the modern pragmatist is also socially aware.

roarkjson Ask HN: Is Meteor.js mature to enough to use it for building big applications?

Why does it need to be official?

roarkjson Ask HN: Is Meteor.js mature to enough to use it for building big applications?

ITT: People complaining that a technology isn't mature because some features rely on 3rd party plugins. Please -- name one technology that doesn't.

roarkjson Ask HN: Is Meteor.js mature to enough to use it for building big applications?

No i18n? https://github.com/TAPevents/tap-i18n

roarkjson Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life

> “Danger,” she said. “Clearly my body was telling me, ‘You are unsafe.’”

I believe she genuinely felt the way she describes, but I don't think she felt it because of her gender.

I would take a guess that this kind of feeling isn't present for the vast majority of women -- indeed, there was no danger.

I find it more likely that the feeling had something to do with the trauma associated with her father knocking out her mother's teeth with a hammer when she was a kid, as detailed in the last part of the article.

An innocuous joke that triggered a disproportionate emotional response, seeded by past trauma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_trauma#Symptoms