illuminate

"A bank vault seems like a bad idea because of the history when the government seized the gold and people weren't allowed to open their bank safes without a policeman."

You've got bigger issues at that point.

"Are you denying all these metrics as a whole, and implying that Bitcoin's usage is either stagnating or declining?? You can't be serious, can you?"

That's exactly what they're stating, that the metrics do not capture real-world usage.

"If creating dummy transactions can increase Bitcoin adoption and/or market price, then that increase doesn't feel "fake" or "an illusion" at all."

But it DOESN'T. That's why this is garbage. The "increased adoption" is based on spam transactions like these.

"I'm not sure why these sorts of transactions would be considered ignorable."

There's a great attitude for pumping!

Its evangelists do remind me of Herbalife, at least.

"They still accept Bitcoin, no scare quotes needed."

They accept fiat currency, not Bitcoin. The quotes were for accuracy, not "scare".

ALWAYS get a competent/savvy friend to review your resume/CV. (Also, dating profiles.)

But seriously, you need someone to be brutally honest with you about these things and employers will NEVER tell you what you need to know.

You're right. The insincere "wondering why" shouldn't have baited my response.

"And I can't help but wonder why this gets support but I am routinely downvoted and generally crapped for attempting to talk about what I have done to beat my medical death sentence"

Since you're being so rude here, I will note that it is probably because you are an unreliable narrator who "cures" herself with blogsourced finds and people have little need for advice that is not based in reality. You post about being shunned by multiple CF communities, I would be willing to guess that it is not because they are afraid of any stunning discoveries you have made.

Shazam doesn't try to run itself passively and report back to HQ when I don't need it to run.

Shazam also isn't the same level of data mining/profiling.

More users, more user engagement, more valuable content.

"generating revenue isn't the same thing as providing a valuable service"

Well, from the cited stats, it's not enough of a valuable service to generate sustainable revenue.

"How would you modify crossfit to make it safer and more effective and keep it fun"

But in that case, it probably wouldn't be Crossfit and maintain the same mass appeal.

"saw this work"

You mean saw a mock-up, employee of ConsumerPhysics.

A fictitious one?

Exactly the problem. Long term care would be ideal for some persons. There's no "mental health lobby" like the prison industrials to encourage mass expenditures. And we certainly wouldn't want the prison megacorps to run our inpatient facilities.

"I reply to everyone I downvote"

I try to give constructive replies generally, but some people freak out over even positive advice so I just save the low-content back and forth "something is wrong on the internet I must comment on this!" that would make everyone else miserable and downvote them.

I try to avoid downvoting reasonable people.

If you can phrase them interestingly and insightfully, they're not going to be downvoted into oblivion. Perhaps you should put in the effort to explain them to the uninitiated and you might change the dominant opinion?

Otherwise it seems like a hit and run for many people, from the outside.

You're really playing into the echo chamber of "celebrities" by giving such a damn.

The solution is to stop caring about upvotes and karma. They are internet friendship points, not validations of personality.

"Troll: Disagrees with individual or community."

It's not that they disagree or "hold an unpopular opinion", it's how they express said opinion.

Some people can champion unpopular opinions in insightful and interesting manners. Others are kneejerk contrarians and collect opinions that are likely to get themselves the negative attention they seek.

"It should be easier for a late-arriver on a post to add a useful comment, and have it be promoted"

That'd be nice, but not important enough to the discussion for me to recommend a feature. It'd just encourage threads to last even longer and with even more bickering.

Why? If it's so cut and dry, it should not be a problem to explain this.

I would of course assume that less people downvoting + more specific complaints would lead to more moderator action on the more obnoxious/distracting posters, if that wasn't the case I wouldn't recommend the change either.

Yeah, lower-content posts, narcissists, etc. I find more harmful in watering down the content than the obvious trolls or "cruel" posters, which don't tend to last as long.

The community is nice, but I'd rather focus on the interesting comments and stories I wouldn't see on any other site.

Do you think Oculus is going to be limited to just VR? Facebook didn't purchase them for VR alone. Their gains in VR tech will help them in AR.

"This is more likely a response to Google Glass, not Oculus."

Glass, Oculus, and Microsoft's eventual device are all going to be competing in the same space.

Valve is not interested in hardware beyond what's absolutely necessary to start up their Linux ecosystem.

I imagine plenty of the people peeved about the acquisition are also not Glass fanatics.

"Why don't we call television networks advertising companies"

Seems a decent analogy, most network television and cable shows are glorified advertising. It's not a brag of any sort to see the lack of meaningful content in the glut of adverts, product placements, artificial "social" engagements.

"a billionaire nerd that is "one of us""

How do you figure?

"I would guess the other commenters are jealous that their problem solving skills don't get as much attention"

Using slightly more literate ways to call critics "haters" is not any more constructive.