I agree completely... You have a ton of people acting like you can somehow lose $100k by investing $1000 in crypto.. And you have a financial industry heavily invested in basically 'anything but crypto' acting like rules and regulations prohibit the investment in crypto. Then you have the haters that are just mad they ignored it so long..

Crypto is amazing technology.. and each 'coin' is a new protocol that introduces new features in that technology.. And, no 'one coin to rule them all' even needs to exist.. The entire financial world could be managed by a set of exchanges handling the top crypto currencies..

I'll happily lose 90% on an investment when it's already made me 6000%.

Agreed.. headline is bullshit. People should get to work and quit letting 'feelings' get in the way of business. Good for Coinbase.

Oh thanks.. an article that attempts to discredit all conspiracy theories and prevent you from doing any research. Now I won't have to think for myself.

Mainstream media was quick to label Pizzagate (despite evidence), Epstein (despite evidence), and now QAnon (despite numerous little coincidences that all seem to add up) as disinformation, yet it peddles the following disinformation with seeming impunity:

- Russiagate
- Trump's racism
- Antifa are 'peaceful protestors'
- looters are 'peaceful protestors'
- deplatforming conservatives or Trump supporters is stopping 'hate speech'

IMO, this Slashdot article is junk and Slashdot is compromised too.

Here's what will happen:
- Trump will win again
- Liberals and Democrats will complain, obstruct, get nothing done, and generally not matter
- Conservatives will be happier than ever
- The 'news' will be reformed into news

The problem with an opinion like that is there's an implied assumption that the 'mainstream' isn't already fucking crazy - and the 'normal people' left are tired of being lied to and there's no one stupid enough left to believe the garbage from CNN and the 24-hour news networks. Basically the news 'jumped the shark' and conspiracy theorists have been vindicated. If you read about the Wuhan virus in January 2020, then you were a conspiracy theorist.. but you were a conspiracy theorist that was almost 2 whole months ahead of the game. Calling people crazy now flat out doesn't work - and it exposes people like you as being the 'last stubborn idiot' who insists that somehow TV news is correct and social media is wrong.

The QAnon stuff is no more insane than what is on CNN. CNN still tries to claim somehow Russia got Trump elected - despite it being discredited every step of the way for the last 3 years - even by Congress. CNN and the other 24-hour news networks are mostly just fake news - and only crazy nutcases still believe it like it's gospel. CNN relies on the fact that the 'average person' does not know about any details of the discredited Trump Dossier, who paid for it, or anything about Crossfire Hurricane.

So instead of just calling the QAnon people crazy, why don't you act more educated and call out the individual parts of it that you disagree with? Why not present counter arguments correctly rather than using errors in reasoning (name-calling)? Go ahead and call me whatever names you want - but I believe the truth is most likely best known by people you would call crazy.

The people that bought Bitcoin at $1200 in 2012 were kicking themselves for a few years too.. Every other all time high in Bitcoin has so far been a good investment - there's no law saying the last all time high won't turn out to be a good investment too.

If I made 2000% on an investment and then it went down 90%.. I am still pretty happy with my investment.

It doesn't matter what you try to call it. For me, it was the best investment I ever made - and I took shit about it. I had people acting like somehow I was going to lose all my money - like the original $2000 I invested was somehow going to lose me my entire life savings. And yet.. despite it being the best investment of the decade.. we have people like you trying to somehow play high and mighty and act like it is not an investment. Anything you invest money in is an investment.

The real lesson I learned from crypto investing is to tune the naysayers out and never sell more than 50% of it.

I hate all this panic about how speech can be treated like it's somehow more damaging than speech. A person reacting to speech is still responsible for his or her personal actions. People are free to say anything they want - provided it does not cause a public safety issue. Further, it's completely unfair to say 'triggering' a person purposely online is a public safety issue in the same way shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater creates a safety issue.

Slashdot has worked the same way for more than 20 years.. and some dumb fuck posts the same GNAA post.. and then it gets moderated down. We don't need some complicated algorithm to go through and treat it like it's somehow going to cause widespread societal collapse.

On Facebook, I feel like I should decided who's posts I see.. If I'm friends with someone and following them, I should always see their posts. Instead, Facebook decides I only see certain posts. My posts (when they happen to be conservative) are never seen - because they do not show up on friends' feeds. If I post something disagreeable - friends should be free to disagree with it.

Retweet is the thing that made Twitter useful. If someone says something useful, it's much more useful to show multiple people retweeting the same thing to show agreement than 'copying and pasting' the tweet. To act like the original programmer somehow created a monster is just a bunch of drama queening.

Terrorists are freely breathing air that should only be available to non-terrorists!

-- Treasury Chief Dumbass

As an AMD investor, the part that scares me is how Intel will decide to compete. I am not worried if they try to 'out-engineer' AMD - but I am very much worried they will offer short-term cash somehow to large OEMs to keep AMD from being able to compete on a fair playground. For example, there are zero business laptop options that have any sort of premium feel to them. Every AMD laptop has one option missing - be it a docking port, 4k screen, decent battery, thin and light, etc.. Also, the business desktop options are scarce - and there are zero (that I know of) Threadripper options geared towards business.. AMD has had their Ryzen and Threadripper processors artificially positioned as 'gaming oriented' despite their dominance against Intel in business and professional use cases. At least AMD broke into the server arena - but one of my largest customers decided they will 'standardize' on Intel at this point in time because 'VMWare stated that they support Intel about 90% more than AMD.'

The only reason I can think it's still this way is OEMs are scared to innovate too much with AMD.. With only two competitors, it will take a long and sustained presence of AMD dominating for there to be a major shift. I am not sure AMD can force that to happen without taking some major risks. One of my ideas would be to have OEMs be required to offer business laptop and desktop options if they are to offer AMD server options.

Meanwhile, we'll see what Intel gets away with as the 'premium' brand that's slower.

I like this thought process. The idea of 'RAID' for multiple file-hosting sites mixed with encryption could be used to solve the problem with not trusting cloud services to keep your data private..

I also think it could go further with sites like Facebook. Imagine if you could have everything on your Facebook profile look like complete garbage - from your name to the pictures and videos you upload.. and only friends who have a decryption key can see your real stuff.. Facebook would know who your friends are - but they would have a harder and harder time building a dossier on you the more friends start encrypting also.

I believe that ultimately an encrypted layer will naturally be applied to the Internet where data-sharing becomes more user-controlled than company-controlled. If it can work with crypto currency, it should be able to work with any other kind of data. Maybe eventually the whole idea of 'social media' services will go by the wayside and the Internet will go full circle where everyone just has their own 'myspace-esque' encrypted personal web pages that all interreact through the decrypting inputs/outputs the users allow.

My thoughts can be summed up to say that the entirety of the Internet could be broken up into more of a set of layers resembling the layers in networking - but for user data.

Because today's tech conglomerates know no bounds in trying to censor speech, control politics, and grab money no matter how morally bankrupt, this is the natural way for the user to combat that.. flood them with garbage.

You want my contact list? How about 10,000,000 fake contacts to go with it. You want my emails? Here's an inbox full of garbage. This can be done with almost everything.. even Windows 10 telemetry. If you want to store data on me, it's my right to be able to generate tons more random data that can just take up space on your servers.

The next step will be to have third party programs that seamlessly encrypt everything.. Want to use Microsoft OneDrive or DropBox? Why not have a program that encrypts everything you copy to it and decrypts it when you copy from it?

It's sad that this is needed - but it IS needed.

there just aren't very many real journalists left. All of the major news outlets in the US are so bad it should be considered criminal. I think if we let the whole 'industry' die, something better will rise out of the ashes. It really cannot get any worse than it is. It takes a truly evil person to be a gatekeeper of the truth who the masses rely on - and use that to tell half-truths, propaganda, leave out common knowledge, and outright lie.

The only people in society I like are the ones that are sick of the bullshit that others call news.

Verizon also should be forced to pay back all of the infrastructure tax breaks they got for rolling out the Fios network and then abruptly giving up on it so they could prioritize wireless. They were given billions of tax dollars to build fiber infrastructure throughout the US.. then they stopped building it.. then they sold it to Frontier in some 'Toys R Us' style structure.

Also, hanging all of Verizon's board of directors for the past 20 years would be nice along with crucifying most of their management. Maybe I'm a little harsh - but I couldn't think of anything appropriate enough.

For a company that makes the vast majority of its money from large multinational corporations - many of which lean conservative - it seems Microsoft's SJW stance against Notch doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I have a hard time finding anything actually racist coming from the people that the left loves to label as racist. Meanwhile, it looks like merely having vocal conservative opinions is the easiest way to be labeled racist by the left.

Also, calling someone racist merely for being conservative is missing quite a bit logically to make that connection. People that do it over and over are liars. Some conservatives are racist; the vast majority are not. Saying conservative equals racist is false.

For transphobic - who decided one day that this debate was settled?