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282883392··on What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan
Sounds like that was more of great product than a successful advertising campaign, even if it did help.
282883392··on Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016)
Fundamental pillars of all life except for things that don't die?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence

282883392··on YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get back to baby pictures'
Facebook, especially with younger people, is a corrupted brand. Youth do not want to go to facebook just because of the connotations behind it.
282883392··on The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”
On the other hand, 24 hour screen time is not healthy either. Sitting there hitting that dopamine all day every day is not going to lead to success, especially if they are participating in more passive activities like youtube or mobile gaming. Even going to a friends house to watch youtube is probably better than sitting at home, as a social activity rather than an individual one. Additionally, being bored and or having downtime is beneficial for ones mental health.
282883392··on Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
Unreal is already an extremely competitive choice for multiplayer games (read: the best choice). They are putting resources to solving these problems because they are making millions of dollars from "free" players.
282883392··on SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt
The chance of anything colliding in space is very, very low. The Tesla will most likely be orbiting until the sun dies, or someone picks it up.
282883392··on Worries Grow That the Price of Bitcoin Is Being Propped Up
>If Bitcoin was still being used to send money across borders, to buy things with super low transaction cost, send money without censorship-which by the way used to be why a lot of people saw value in it in the first place--it wouldn't be so easy to manipulate the value because any fool can see that there obviously is value in there.

Bitcoin had all those things - not that long ago. You need volume to ensure stability, not utility.

282883392··on Opening Remarks at the Securities Regulation Institute
She is purporting that bitcoin is somehow "worthless?" and that all of Crypto would crash if people truly understood it. The Chairman's post is simply about being responsible about blockchain and the hype surrounding it at this point.
282883392··on Turning Down a Blockchain Job Offer
Seems to be a critical piece of info that the author detained. A job with, for example, Google versus a job with BitGold+Plus would make a big difference in this kind of decision.
282883392··on High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets (2013)
You misrepresent the intent of bitcoin along with it's intended use. Bitcoin was designed to be lost - to be eternally deflationary and for coins to fall out of circulation. Also you have to consider that the majority of coins were lost when bitcoin was worth considerably less than it is worth today.

Proper techniques to store bitcoin (local keys on a secure machine or a hardware wallet) make bitcoin mathematically impossible to steal. "Stolen" bitcoin is synonymous with "insecure" bitcoin. Properly securing bitcoin would be significantly cheaper than storing gold bars in a mattress.

282883392··on New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices
Are Airport Body Scanners Safe? (Time, 2017) [http://time.com/4909615/airport-body-scanners-safe/]
282883392··on Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global currency
The paragraph about difficulty adjustment and transaction times is not really fair. It is true that the algorithm was broken which led to large block times, but since the network was not over capacity (as is the case with Bitcoin Core) your transaction would be included in the next block in <2 hours. This is comparable to the normal waiting time of Bitcoin.
282883392··on Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major global currency
Price is dictated by third parties (the market) in any economy. What OP is referring to is the ability to own or trade the asset without reliance on any third party such as a bank or exchange.
282883392··on The day I accidentally killed a little boy
A self driving car would have stopped, as it is illegal to pass a stopped school bus.
282883392··on James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google
Are there (in part) biological reasons for the differences in behavior between men and women? Clearly there are sociological differences. Damore clearly did not separate the two ideas or their relative impact on the issue, which led to the enormous amount of publicity.

The idea that the tech industry needs to change their approach to incentivizing women to the workplace still stands regardless.

282883392··on F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
Voting for a 3rd party candidate is next to worthless. The mathematics of first past the post voting guarantee a two party system.
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