foobardeveloper's comments

Human society will NEVER provide absolute equal opportunity to everybody. If you want that, please first work on rethinking capitalism.It's not practical and has been tried in the past.

Some of these Asian males may have come out of abject poverty in countries like India - worked all their lives for a chance at better living, were that given the "same" opportunity ?

Please stop this entitled thinking. We should aim to get all kids high quality education, not social engineering in the job market.

I wonder how much of this is a result of female sexual selection pressure?

It is seen in human beings and animals that statistically females mate sidewards or upwards in terms of providability. This in turn applies a pressure on males to compete for more and accumulate more resources, whereas females are not measured by males on their providability hence have no pressure on them to fight for the same resources. So, men will always compete more to get a greater share of the pie, this combined with capitalism explains whatever income gap remains after attaining equality of opportunity. Shouldn't the underlying metrics of mating preferences also be taken into account before putting it all under male sexism and patriarch umbrella ?

The conversion is just a workaround of a fundamental problem, the real question is, Can a product be stably valued for a reasonable period of time using bitcoin?

I can express the value of say a laptop for weeks, if not months, in USD / GBP, can the same be done natively in bitcoin?

Can you point me to any manufacturer or business entity that values something in bitcoin instead of mapping it to a fiat?

There is an important distinction between valuing something inherently with bitcoin and accepting bitcoin for a real time USD conversion. What your are seeing with all these merchants is the latter I suppose, they have an intermediary who accepts bitcoin and converts it to USD and hands them the amount. Until something can be stably valued in Bitcoin similar to USD, it's use as a currency will be a moot point.

Let me just leave this here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd0TqkW7qHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iNeXCAM_Ik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmH7GdSmSsU

Is there any alternative to Safari Books Online which has both beginner and advanced content, video and books ? (If yes, I want to move away from Safari on grounds of principle)