Commenters who work as 9-5 employees or have never started a company (or at least, don't mention as having done so in their profiles) tend to be more supportive of the GDPR.

Funny how that works..

Filecoin and Tezos both raised about $200M and were considered massive ICOs, not to mention they happened in the wealthiest countries on earth and were heavily backed by institutional investors. It's simply impossible that an obviously scammy ICO in a relatively poor country raised $660M.

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

See this post: https://vitalik.ca/general/2017/10/17/moe.html

If YC ended its relationship with Peter because of his political affiliations, I'd find that extremely unfortunate. Any institution which closes itself off to outside information, challenging viewpoints and diversity of thought risks becoming an ideological echo chamber and ultimately weakening itself in the long run.

I also find it ironic that the Chinese Communist Party, an institution which is at least on par with Russia in terms of shadiness and social repression, receives barely an iota of the flak that Russia receives in the American media.

And the reason why Kaepernick's kneeling is silly is that black-on-black crime is orders of magnitude more of a problem for the black community than police shootings of young black males. Black males committed 52% of all homicides between 1980-2013, despite comprising only ~6% of the population. That's almost an 8.5x per capita murder multiplier.

There's also evidence that in lethal force situations, police are more likely to shoot whites than blacks (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/why-a...). In less-than-lethal situations, it may be the case the minorities are treated more roughly, but that's not what BLM is about. It's a movement which is confused about statistics, and which I suspect is sublimating a more generalized anger about the West and a relatively low position on civilization's status hierarchy into an emotionally charged topic that they think has good optics.

I expect this post will get me banned, because applying logic to identity politics is taboo in 2017. #JamesDamoreMatters

See this FAQ for more details, it has the most up to date details on Ethereum's PoS progress:

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ

I've been expecting digital currencies to be co-opted (or at least, try to be co-opted) by centralized authorities for a while now. Looks like we're seeing the first genuine attempt.

Additionally, I view these acts of censorship as a great opportunity for blockchain and other nascent decentralized web technologies to take off. It's a classic case of the innovator's dilemma - when a company or industry seems ascendant, it becomes complacent to new threats, and the seeds of its destruction are sown right underneath it. Sometimes it even assists in the process. (Microsoft's neglect of IE, allowing Mozilla to flourish in the mid-2000s, is one of my favorite examples.) With their suppression of speech, these centralized services are quite possibly hastening their own demise.

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Joseph Stalin: Estimates range from 3 million - 60 million deaths.

Mao Zedong: Estimates range from 49 million - 78 million deaths.

All evil men. Why aren't the latter two nearly as reviled as Hitler or 'Nazis'?

I happen to be quite grateful for the sacrifices my ancestors (and the human race more broadly) made in building civilization, so that I don't have to live in a Hobbesian world where death by age 30 is the norm.