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Would accepting money to defend a mass murderer really be any better though?

Meanwhile, reddit is full of people talking about the loans they're taking out to buy Bitcoin because it's a "sure thing" that it's going to $100k.

It has me wondering if people are actually buying these from them. If so, undercutting their pricing would be trivial - and maybe an easy idea for a side business.

Bitfinex can, though.

> This is your suggestion for storing wealth safely?

Says the person who suggests that a highly volatile and risky cryptocurrency with a long history of crashes and manipulation is a "safe haven".

Is this satire?

"You may not be able to trade while we're down, but we certainly can"

The fact that shaming people for failing to be rich is so common within the crypto community that it has a name, says a lot about the crypto "community".

Kind of reminds me of another "community" that crypto enthusiasts have been claiming to be morally superior to since day one. Unsurprisingly, they share several other ugly traits between them as well. Greed being the most prominent.

The mental gymnastics crypto cultists perform to justify their chosen greed outlets become more impressive every day.

Do we really need to hear about Bitcoin's price changing multiple times every day?

Reddit appears to be leaking.

> The NYT hardly "found" Esalen. The thing is around since the early 60s. And has been home to people like Timothy Leary, Buckminster Fuller, B.F.Skinner, Virginia Satir, Allen Ginsberg, Joan Baez...

> It's a rather well-known home of counter culture.

..which makes it both sad and amusing that it has become a place for a bunch of Silicon Valley executives to go try to "find themselves" and look for affirmation that their advertising and surveillance companies aren't detrimental to society.

> She praises algorithms that analyze your behavior and autonomously order retail goods on your behalf, just in case you’re not consuming enough on your own: “We’ll be giving up our privacy, but gaining the surprise and delight that comes with something new always waiting for us at the door” she gushes

That has to be intended as a joke, right?

I've always laughed watching the cultist end of the crypto community up on their imaginary moral high horses talking about how much "better" crypto was than banks and regulated markets.. given the fact that crypto markets basically represent all of the shady shit manipulators in regulated markets would love to do but can't.

The "it's a sure thing" posts have really been ramping up in recent days. Lots of talk on reddit about how people should take their money out of the evil banks and put it in Bitcoin where it's "safer" and "sure to make them more money".

"Sophisticated hack" in crypto translates roughly to "we decided our customers' money was better off in our bank accounts than theirs".

I doubt very many artists would be interested in spending their night having awkward forced interactions with random brogrammers and Kalanicks at a corporate christmas party. There's a reason these companies have to pay women to show up and pretend to be interested in what their employees have to say.

> Where is the "In SV we're supposed to be innovators, why aren't we leading the way towards a more equal society?" narrative grounded?

Mostly in the minds of people who are still trying to convince themselves that their advertising and surveillance code or "social" skinner box is "making the world a better place".

How incredibly cringeworthy. Glad to see Silicon Valley companies continuing to meet my expectations.

It does seem almost like he started off just trolling people, then decided to run with it when he realized people were willing to pay and/or have sex with him in exchange for that trolling.

I couldn't get through it. Rarely have I seen more words used to say absolutely nothing while completely avoiding actually addressing anything in the article supposedly being addressed.

"Love and Light,"

It looks like this guy might be getting his ideas from a certain show on Hulu.

The problem is that people who are weak-willed enough to fall for the "teachings" of and follow someone like this exist, and in large numbers.

> "It means that we reach a level of maturity to where we as a collective are able to be contacted openly without us freaking out anymore, without it needing to be kept secret anymore, we have become > are < own government.”

Apparently being god means you don't have to use the right words when communicating.

I can't figure out whether to upvote this to expose this person, or downvote it to avoid giving this person exposure.

It never ceases to amaze me just how many fools are out there just waiting to fall for something like this. It's terrifying. Instagram douche meets cult leader has got to be the worst personality combo I've ever seen in my life.

On another note, this stuff makes scientologists sound completely reasonable and sane by comparison.

Yet another hack resulting in the loss of tens of millions of dollars, transactions taking forever, retailers announcing that they no longer accept Bitcoin, massive questions surrounding one of the largest exchanges:

22% surge in a single day.

This is going to end well.

Who wouldn't want a "store of value" that might be worth +/- 20% by the time your transaction is complete?

> Google's philosophy is to "put users first and the rest will follow"

We can file that under "Meaningless Feel-Good Corporate Propaganda", right below "Don't be evil".

Probably because people in the tech industry are far more likely to be involved with cryptocurrency than an MLM scheme?

In other words, "let's ignore the message and shoot the messenger"?

No, it isn't.. and I sincerely hope you're joking.

You should do the math on that and figure out what the value of a single bitcoin would have to be to make it come true. If that doesn't wake you up to how ridiculous that claim is, I don't know what to tell you.

I'll even go incredibly easy on you and let you assume the average mortgage payment is only $100.

Hint: it's a number larger than the US GDP

It's somewhat terrifying to me that I even have to argue this with someone.