After reading this I felt like I had been subjected to a 10 minute shrieking rant by an Apple fanboy. By the end I hardly cared what he was saying, I just wanted it to STOP!
Not saying it's good or bad, but when people hear that demand for BTC is increasing, the natural assumption is that it is attracting lots of new participants. What seems to be happening instead is that the people who have already surmounted the hurdles involved in becoming users are responding to the positive press recently by doubling and tripling down on their bets. The stats don't indicate a large wave of new users - yet.
"I find McLuhan hard to understand partly because I’m just not that smart. Alan Kay on the other hand…" didn't understand him particularly well either, finding much of what he wrote "obscure and arguable". In that, he is hardly unusual:
>> Obviously most, if not all men are rapists.
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>That's Marilyn French's view, as famously quoted from "The Women's Room":
Well, technically:
"At one point in the book the character Val says "all men are rapists". This quote has often been incorrectly attributed to Marilyn French herself. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_French
How about a government mandated quota of females in every industry or company? The EU is introducing this kind of enlightened, progressive approach to gender equality on company boards:
'The Commission wants to see more women represented in the making of economically significant decisions and has proposed a minimum harmonisation measure binding on all listed companies to create a level landscape. By 2020 all European listed companies should have at least 40% of their non-executive directors from the "under-represented gender". The Commission considers this project to be part of the completion of the single market project as well as an initiative to remedy an inequality. The measure is expected to impact upon 5,000 companies from across the Union.'
