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Quote from: PhydeauxLeChien on March 04, 2014, 06:00:15 AM

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Quote from: Wilikon on March 03, 2014, 08:07:42 PM

The "Nature Versus Nurture" debate is still hot

it's both, nature and nurture, I sometimes don't understand why this isn't obvious to some people.

Well obviously it's both, but you seem to have missed the point - the debate is over what proportion of our personality, skills and other traits can be attributed to our genes, and which to our environment. As willy says, the debate is still hot - the question is very difficult to study because we don't (yet Tongue

) have the ability to fork universes and must rely on studying e.g. identical twins.

Still, I don't think it takes a genius to realize the relationship between skin pigment and life-after-birth has very little to do with nature, aside from the determining factor as to what that pigment will be; in the very least, it's not as extreme as this lady is trying to make it. This article is written by a person who sticks with her own "kind", for I can see no reason why a person who actually interacts with a diverse group would ignore all empirical evidence to the contrary and instead opt for stereotypical fantasies; in other words, it's always the closed-minded racist who is first to project her racism upon others.

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Quote from: Wilikon on March 03, 2014, 08:07:42 PM

The "Nature Versus Nurture" debate is still hot

it's both, nature and nurture, I sometimes don't understand why this isn't obvious to some people.

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Quote from: Mike Christ on March 03, 2014, 05:55:00 PM

Am I the only one here who is deeply disturbed that a person with these views exists?--let alone all those who agree with her.

How does a person like this happen?

The "Nature Versus Nurture" debate is still hot, all the way back from Plato, but those type of people have always been around us. When they finally get into power lots of blood starts spilling usually. The label "progressive" does not really matter, although I am having fun with it.

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Am I the only one here who is deeply disturbed that a person with these views exists?--let alone all those who agree with her.

How does a person like this happen?

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Quote from: r0ach on March 03, 2014, 12:02:39 AM

Bleh, your post beat mine by 3 hours somehow:

Far leftist Jewish woman goes on racist rampage against "white male" Bitcoiners

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/far-leftist-jewish-woman-goes-on-racist-rampage-against-white-male-bitcoiners-493800

I don't get extra bitcoins for my post. There is no competition. I will check out you link now

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again, replace "Bitcoin" with "Early internet"

Breaking that down, about 95 percent of internet users are men, about 61 percent say they’re not religious, and about 44 percent describe themselves as “libertarian / cyberpunk.” On the last point, the political ideology of internet users is evident from the fact that the whole idea behind the internet is that it segregates telecommunications and information systems from a country’s government. The internet aims to be a universal network, connecting people “peer-to-peer” instead of through set institutions. It wants to replace our current telecommunications system and practices in their entirety — changing the way we get information and provide newscast. The libertarians, or cyberpunks as the case may be, don’t trust the government to handle their propaganda. They’re the same people who want to “end the information monopoly.”

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Bleh, your post beat mine by 3 hours somehow:

Far leftist Jewish woman goes on racist rampage against "white male" Bitcoiners

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/far-leftist-jewish-woman-goes-on-racist-rampage-against-white-male-bitcoiners-493800

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Haha I like all the racist assumptions made that go into the conclusion that Bitcoin is racist.

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Quote from: PhydeauxLeChien on March 02, 2014, 12:01:23 PM

Quote from: tinus42 on March 02, 2014, 05:40:29 AM

In Europe being a liberal means that you are pro-business, anti-taxes and for a smaller government.

In the US it means the exact opposite.

That's economic liberalism. Liberty, from latin "Libertas" just means "freedom". In an economic sense, this means less taxes, less trade regulations and workers' rights, whereas in a social/domestic policy sense this means you're allowed free speech, freedom of religion, allowed to be gay etc. In the US you use "liberal" to refer to antiliberal economic policies because they are traditionally held by politicians with liberal social policies. Just a quirk of US English Tongue

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only if you consider NSA loving, privacy hating censors of freedom in the US "liberal". But I'd have some trouble putting that under "liberal social policies".

"Liberal" used to mean standing up for basic constitutional rights. Now it means getting around them any way possible or outright ignoring them to suite the fancy of the current Fascist Obama.

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Quote from: tinus42 on March 02, 2014, 05:40:29 AM

In Europe being a liberal means that you are pro-business, anti-taxes and for a smaller government.

In the US it means the exact opposite.

That's economic liberalism. Liberty, from latin "Libertas" just means "freedom". In an economic sense, this means less taxes, less trade regulations and workers' rights, whereas in a social/domestic policy sense this means you're allowed free speech, freedom of religion, allowed to be gay etc. In the US you use "liberal" to refer to antiliberal economic policies because they are traditionally held by politicians with liberal social policies. Just a quirk of US English Tongue

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Quote from: Wilikon on March 01, 2014, 10:42:15 PM

Quote from: Lethn on March 01, 2014, 08:16:58 PM

Quote from: skilo on March 01, 2014, 07:30:33 PM

"Racist" is the liberals new favorite word, They throw it around very loosely at people that disagree with their views.

"Oh you don't like Obama? You're a racist!"

Actually, it's something that everybody on the internet does now, remember when everybody ( mostly Americans ) who had a disagreement called people Nazis? It's kind of like that but that got either too old or ridiculous to throw around now so they've stopped it and moved onto racist instead.

Funny thing is though that Americans still like to use the word 'Liberal' like it's an insult when it comes to people they disagree with, yes, I really do think this is the kind of shit only Americans tend to do.

Err... What? Grin

The word "liberal" is not an insult for many americans; those who believes average humans cannot move around without being ordered by a centralized power with billions of red tapes. "Liberal" or "progressive" is the same thing in the US.

The word "Liberal" is an insult only for any human with a brain :-)

In Europe being a liberal means that you are pro-business, anti-taxes and for a smaller government.

In the US it means the exact opposite.

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Quote from: Lethn on March 01, 2014, 08:16:58 PM

Quote from: skilo on March 01, 2014, 07:30:33 PM

"Racist" is the liberals new favorite word, They throw it around very loosely at people that disagree with their views.

"Oh you don't like Obama? You're a racist!"

Actually, it's something that everybody on the internet does now, remember when everybody ( mostly Americans ) who had a disagreement called people Nazis? It's kind of like that but that got either too old or ridiculous to throw around now so they've stopped it and moved onto racist instead.

Funny thing is though that Americans still like to use the word 'Liberal' like it's an insult when it comes to people they disagree with, yes, I really do think this is the kind of shit only Americans tend to do.

Err... What? Grin

The word "liberal" is not an insult for many americans; those who believes average humans cannot move around without being ordered by a centralized power with billions of red tapes. "Liberal" or "progressive" is the same thing in the US.

The word "Liberal" is an insult only for any human with a brain :-)

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Quote from: skilo on March 01, 2014, 07:30:33 PM

"Racist" is the liberals new favorite word, They throw it around very loosely at people that disagree with their views.

"Oh you don't like Obama? You're a racist!"

Actually, it's something that everybody on the internet does now, remember when everybody ( mostly Americans ) who had a disagreement called people Nazis? It's kind of like that but that got either too old or ridiculous to throw around now so they've stopped it and moved onto racist instead.

Funny thing is though that Americans still like to use the word 'Liberal' like it's an insult when it comes to people they disagree with, yes, I really do think this is the kind of shit only Americans tend to do.

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"Racist" is the liberals new favorite word, They throw it around very loosely at people that disagree with their views.

"Oh you don't like Obama? You're a racist!"

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Quote from: Spendulus on March 01, 2014, 02:51:07 PM

Quote from: Wilikon on March 01, 2014, 12:51:48 AM

.....Well, there’s a fair amount of privilege built directly into the currency: In order to buy the sometimes wildly expensive currency, Bitcoin users need to be wealthy. .....

Well, that's a ridiculous error or lie.

I know many people who have half or a tenth a bitcoin. They are not wealthy, they just have some and trade it for stuff. Then they get on somewhere like coinbase and get another hundred dollars worth of coin.

But one think you can take for sure.

ThinkProgress is told what to say, and this is what they were told to say.

"Think Progress". With such a name one would think they would be Occupy WS lovers, not banker gangbangers. Just on principles. This tells you who their real masters are.

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Quote from: Wilikon on March 01, 2014, 12:51:48 AM

.....Well, there’s a fair amount of privilege built directly into the currency: In order to buy the sometimes wildly expensive currency, Bitcoin users need to be wealthy. .....

Well, that's a ridiculous error or lie.

I know many people who have half or a tenth a bitcoin. They are not wealthy, they just have some and trade it for stuff. Then they get on somewhere like coinbase and get another hundred dollars worth of coin.

But one think you can take for sure.

ThinkProgress is told what to say, and this is what they were told to say.

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I have practically no advanced knowledge of computer science, am poor (but refuse all welfare), and a white male. But hey, using surveys non-representative of worldwide demographics, is all you need to justify defamation of and infringement upon those who want to exercise fundamental liberties, including economics.

Middle class, unemployed white male and also refuses welfare out of principle and the fact I just don't need it because me and my family get by on careful money management, I also follow a mixed ideology of Libertarianism as well as Anarchism and have had to re-learn basic mathematics and most thinks at home because school failed to 'educate' me properly and also their books have quite a bit of propaganda in them. I am mixed in my way of thinking as well when it comes to tackling problems but I tend towards right brain stuff like Art and Jewellery but I do like dabbling in extremely logical things because stuff like mathematics tends to only have one correct answer.

Maybe we should make a list to make people like this woman look foolish, if I were rich I wouldn't be here and I'd be hanging out in Japan Tongue

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They should repeat the survey in China

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Quote from: TheButterZone on March 01, 2014, 01:15:21 AM

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I have practically no advanced knowledge of computer science, am poor (but refuse all welfare), and a white male. But hey, using surveys non-representative of worldwide demographics, is all you need to justify defamation of and infringement upon those who want to exercise fundamental liberties, including economics.

HA!

it is racist Cheesy

just kidding, the bitcoin community has plenty users from all nations and therefore making everyone wealthy and full of prosperity, nothing racist to see here

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Some of us bought Bitcoin when it was less than 20 dollars.

You can still buy less than 20 dollars worth of Bitcoins and probably do nicely in the future.

I'm not rich (far from it) yet I own Bitcoin. All the people I know who do have a lot of money don't want to put money in Bitcoin because they believe in the established order and hold their money in a "secure" savings account. They have 0 Bitcoins.

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