Also I don't think the kind of people who use an app like this are going to be aware of the fact that banging friends leads to less friends and weirder connections.

>Bitfloor, the largest Bitcoin exchange in the U.S.

And then later says

>the world's largest Bitcoin exchange, MtGox [...] handles more than 80% of all Bitcoin trade

Deceptive title?

If you've really been lamenting people's excitement over bitcoins as long as you say you have, I feel sorry for you and maybe you deserve this token of happiness. Fruitless as it is, you make it seem like you don't have much else.

The same can't be said for companies whose actions literally end or ruin large numbers of lives. It's harder to shrug off big banks taking in billions while ruining the working class as a whole and then somehow also making them pay for the damage; I can't just say "I didn't buy a house", because I still feel for the people who did. Let's not even talk about prison companies and military contract companies. Talk about evil...

In that case food lion got publicly busted and undoubtedly had to tighten standards. What's the alternative in a system where you can't engage in undercover reporting?

ABC: "Hey food lion. ABC here. Do you guys sell rotten meat?"

Food Lion: "no. no we do not."

ABC: "Mind if we check?"

Food Lion: "Sure, just give me a minute to clean up some things so you're not seeing how we operate day-to-day. I'll schedule your visit."

ABC: "Huh. Everything looks above board"

Food Lion: "Yes, they do look that way today. On your visit. Don't come back without notice."

This reminds me of an old web design trick. You get the customer specs, plan out exactly what you think will work, and then add something stupid-looking. Like a giant duck by the login button. The duck acts as a decoy for customer complaints; a lot of business people want to point at something and say "change it!", so you give them that. And when they bring it up you smile and say "say no more, I'll have it removed sir".

Likewise, if complaints about a given bill can be pulled or drawn towards language like "terrorism", then the meat of the bill avoids some scrutiny. Hell, an unscrupulous legislator whose constituency opposes the bill could demand the terrorism language be cut and then end up supporting the bill, pleasing both sides of the aisle as it were.

This is just me thinking out loud, though.

I think I remember dave chappelle saying in an interview that his father told him you need to name your price early. And when people demand more than that from you, it's time to get out or get away from them. I feel like that's relevant. I bailed on the video game industry recently because I was miserably depressed, sickly and malnourished. But hardship builds character and there's something to be said for a person who doesn't shy away from what they believe they're really passionate about even if other people found it to be horrible.

This doesn't account for the possibility that someone couldn't or didn't attend college.

Frankly the post confused me at first because when I used okcupid a year or two ago I found it to be easily the best tool available for what it does, and the post claimed there was a consensus that okcupid was terrible.