It was damned funny to see the combination.

Some of this aggregator site nonsense seems like fully-automated AI systems
designed to give press and advertising clicks for other fully-automated AI
systems that write crappy stories with no journalistic standards.

That's the only logical explaination for this story.. The idea that a
human with real thought and comprehension wrote this and posted it to
businessinsider is... too horrible for me to contemplate

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 01:48:15AM +0100, Mike Gogulski wrote:
> Just FYI, and perhaps not pertinent to the particular story, but
> Business Insider is known to have fairly sloppy journalistic standards.
> It appears to be basically an aggregator for a lot of journos to post
> stories at that they can't get to print elsewhere.
>
> On 11/22/2014 01:38 AM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> > At first, I laughed, cause I never thought I'd see a URL like this:
> >
> > http://www.businessinsider.com/crypto-anarchists-are-flocking-to-a-bitcoin-hacklab-in-spain-2014-11
> >
> > But then, I read
> > "Projects there such as "Dark Wallet," "SX," and "libbitcoin" aim to make
> > bitcoin transactions anonymous, trustworthy, and most importantly, untouchable
> > by governments.
> >
> > And then it became obvious to me that business insiders need anonymous,
> > trustworthy, and untouchable insider trading to fully express their rights
> > to corporate speech. Thus this is a critical story for the CEOs and
> > corrupt high-frequency traders to follow.
> >
> > The enemy of my enemy is my frenemy?
> >
> > So be it, if they help write good code. But watch your pocketbooks, digital
> > wallets, and dark money campaign contributions. Always remember the opsec.
> >
>
>



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