completereset

Everything is someones else's fault.

I don't have confidence in myself. Fault of society. Sexism.

I don't know how how to reject advances. Fault of men. Sexism. (BTW. How is giving anyone's a t-shirt with your name a sexual harassment? I could totally imagine a guy giving one to another guy and other than being rather lame gift, not be a big deal.)

Obviously being a guy makes it so much different, and your road to becoming an engineer is very straightforward. You're always overconfident, never shy, noone ever is mean to you, noone ever bullies you, society melted you to be a perfect human being capable of anything you desire.

It's amusing to see how woman raised in America (especially CA!), where everything is super sexist-conscious, and sometimes plain rigged in favor of girls (eg. how many boys vs girls gets drugged for ADHD, as they naturally can't stand still in the class?), still find a way to blame everything on sexism.

All of these shiny social network websites are there for profit. They play nice to grow and then they will squeeze as much profit as they can from users.

What did you expect is going to happen? Why would you invest so much effort and emotion into growing a thing that you can be 100% sure will eventually try to consume you.

If people want social media that does not feed on them, they have to start using p2p, decentralized social apps. Not like Diaspora (federated), but truly p2p, where each user contributes resources and there's no need to support scalability engineers maintaining state of art datacenters.

http://twister.net.co/ https://zeronet.io/ https://www.ipfs.com/ http://www.synereo.com/ http://maidsafe.net/

Somewhere there or in something similiar is our holy grail: social networking by users for users.

So you're telling me, that as a well-performing senior engineer in SV making 155k/year I should be actually making much more?

Damn glassdoor...

And how is Decred better exactly at scaling?

TL;DR: We can't build a successful business that would be worth funding, we blame it on men (as everything), and are hopping that someone is going to hand us money without hope for significant ROI because "we are visionaries and our cause matters".