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brighton36··on New approaches shed light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality
Charisma is telling people what they want to hear. The uncharismatic, pragmatic as they may be, are thus unpopular.
brighton36··on HSBC to shift $20B worth of assets to blockchain-based Digital Vault
Why?
brighton36··on HSBC to shift $20B worth of assets to blockchain-based Digital Vault
When its pitchman is charismatic.
brighton36··on HSBC to shift $20B worth of assets to blockchain-based Digital Vault
A blockchain is a database with virtue.
brighton36··on The MLM Epidemic in 13 Maps
Because these fools choose to be parted from their money.
brighton36··on How to Build an Income Sharing Agreement Product
Finally someone said it. Thank you.
brighton36··on Journal will publish heavily criticized paper on gender differences in physics
Neuroticism and hysterics. See: https://youtu.be/RQExlTM9xvQ
brighton36··on Obesity Is Weighing on Education, Productivity and the Economy
Then buy sugary drinks companies.
brighton36··on The global gag on free speech is tightening
Who decides what's hate speech? Aren't white nationalists necessarily guilty of too much white people love?
brighton36··on Depression, anxiety rising among U.S. college students
Sure. The fat has to get trimmed. Short these loans I suppose, if you want to make money during the depression.
brighton36··on Depression, anxiety rising among U.S. college students
Yeah, I get that. Those people seem like a minority of the degrees. But even there, I suspect there's probably creative paths through the bureaucracies that don't involve degrees, or push the degree costs onto employers.
brighton36··on Depression, anxiety rising among U.S. college students
I don't know why people pay for degrees. I never bought one, and I never had a problem with opportunity in my life as a consequence. Imo, the bottom needs to drop out of this market.
brighton36··on Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain
Who at amazon promoted this, and does management know that this person is promoting their investment in ethereum, using the company brand and resources...
brighton36··on Insect Apocalypse German Bug Watchers Sound Alarm
what is the utopian ideal? Did you read it somewhere? (Was it communicated orally?) With the utopian ideal being subjective... it does seem fairly arbitrary. I don't generally see right as being useful in any way. It's unnuanced. And seems to revert to a tradition of some kind or another.
brighton36··on Insect Apocalypse German Bug Watchers Sound Alarm
Yep!
brighton36··on Insect Apocalypse German Bug Watchers Sound Alarm
I would know it was theft. I would assume it was right relative to the goals of the thief, albeit not myself, or the statutory codes. Right is a measure of social validation, or ideological compliance. (Both of which are transmitted via oral tradition)

I agree that oral tradition is not a good basis to base principles on, lol. Welcome to my world.

brighton36··on Insect Apocalypse German Bug Watchers Sound Alarm
What is right? How can a person know? I don't think that principles are much more than oral tradition. And many of us don't have that in the modern world.
brighton36··on Windows keeps automatically adding EN-US keyboard layout (2016)
As a Dvorak user, ive had this problem (or similar ones) for years. I basically gave up typing in Dvorak on my windows machines (thankfully my primary desktop is Linux)
brighton36··on China Warns World Leaders: Don't Talk About the Hong Kong Protests
The three wise monkees. It's a staple of modern societies.
brighton36··on [dead]
That looks to me like a transformer blew.
brighton36··on Honeywell Brings Blockchain to Used Aircraft Parts Market
Linked lists are the future of aircraft parts!
brighton36··on Blockchain-Flavored WASI
Why would you use ethereum when you can use Amazon web services instead? Is it because when we use ethereum, the price of eth goes up?
brighton36··on SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
Why do colleges need diversity? Don't we want want more specialists coming out of these institutions?
brighton36··on They think they are above the law: the firms who own America's voting system
Everything is easier with blockchain. A blockchain is a database with virtue.
brighton36··on Lidar mapping techniques using multiple sensors
Is that a scandal?
brighton36··on Lidar mapping techniques using multiple sensors
How can we invest in this?
brighton36··on A generalised solution to distributed consensus
I'm very skeptical that many people will want this. Data misrepresentation is rarely (never?) due to a fault in the persistence medium. Its usually a political reason, or human error that perverts consensus.
brighton36··on JP Morgan Unveils USD-Backed Cryptocurrency for B2B Payments
what you're missing, that's obvious, is that blockchain is a solution looking for a problem where none exists. The word was imbued with virtue, and at this point blockchain has come to mean 'virtuous database'
brighton36··on Why I’m so “against” Ethereum
My two cents: We've been waiting for a non-speculative use for ethereum since 2013. After how many years might it be time to suggest that there is no non-speculative use?
brighton36··on Why I’m so “against” Ethereum
What is successful about ethereum? The price?
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