Bitcoin is real. You can tell that it’s real because people use it as a means of exchange. All that currency is is an agreed upon medium of exchange. You can have a currency in the form that we have it today where a central government controls it, or you can have currency in the form of yesteryear where banks wrote…

That’s not the same at all, those are physical sports where the gender differences would make the women hugely uncompetitive. Racing though is mostly mental and hand and foot dexterity, gender shouldn’t have any measurable affect...

The Ultimate Downfall of Thanos is obviously Squirrel Girl, and Stage 4 of the Marvel plan will be the search for her.

And yet, many places now have signs up saying they take bitcoin. A currency is entirely dependent on whether people take it as such. If you invent a currency tomorrow and convince at least one other person to take it in return for goods or services, it’s money. If you can convince someone to change your currency for a…

You don’t seem to understand that exchanges are a thing. If I had 10,000 BTC in a wallet, I could sell them right now on Kraken or Coinbase or Exmo for ~$99.87m in USD, extract my cash and dump it into a checking account and literally have $99.87m. It’s not like your money is trapped in BTC or even in crypto. You can…

I liked Ken Box more

Don’t be a twit. Even Atheists put up Christmas trees, because the holiday is whatever you want to make it about.

“Drivers should never secure a Christmas tree to the top of a vehicle without a roof rack.”

I don’t know that the joke is gonna get old for me. I’ll keep watching those videos as long as he keeps making them. Pretty sure he can keep making these funny for as long as the developer updates continue.

Every single piece of jargon involved with Agile software development enrages me: scrum, scrummaster, story points, sprint, etc. etc.

My comment doesn’t contradict that. I make full allowance for learning and training in my comment. But I do feel that some people have an innate artistic eye for some things that can’t be taught.

People can say whatever they want about her. But she changed the game.

Noooooooo Danicaaaa!

You’re doing an awful lot of projecting onto Ariely’s pretty bland statement that both the asking and the agreeing are mistakes. For one, you seem to be suggesting, or at least hinting at the possibility, that the author’s sex partner had a premeditated plan to manipulate her. You don’t know that; he too could have…

They have a choice. It’s “Don’t buy it.”

Sure you are, you can choose to play (buy) something else.

I think this is a good and important point. We as the community need to take responsibility for what we say to other people. Blizzard can only do so much (as they should).

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that zero machines like this exist in the tri-state area.

I honestly assumed it was.

I’ll do you one better, and reduce this to two signs you can use to evaluate if you’re in a good cocktail bar: