If you don't like patent regime, maybe you shouldn't buy into an architecture that is built on it. OSX sets the stage for this kind of software, both by their companies position, the positioning of the products, the technical capabilities of their products, and their corporate culture all effects the software that is sold on the platform.
Apparently PGP was scary enough for NSA to sabotage any commercialization of capable solutions. Internet security isn't as far away as you might think.
We should definitely not criticize, yes, unless we can provide some kind of positive feedback. I agree. I like how the article had good words in it. We should endeavor to make more articles with good words.
Not at all, now that I've learned about your learning, we can all discuss how happy that makes us feel. It's a win-win.
Wait, maybe if there was a higher context to share our approval of the article without distracting away from its content? Like some kind of high-level rating system that was enforced through a framework of some sort and presented as a low-friction indicator of the quality of the article? We could even improve it by presenting the highest quality articles above the fold.
Of course then content that appealed to the lowest common denominator would become the most approved, and people could congregate around shared understanding and beliefs, further cementing those ideas as the "right ideas".
Only if there were some social rules that would prevent this "circle jerking" behavior that causes forums to devolve into roaming bands of up-vote brigades. We could start by not "circle jerking" about the quality of the article, we could probably go a long way toward reducing congratulatory posts that celebrate elementary-level understanding of economic systems, and in turn, encourage feel good comments that are up-voted because people agree with them instead of them actually contributing anything.
We should start a thread about how ignorant you were before this awesome guide. I'm sure we can talk about all sorts of stupid things people believe while managing to learn nothing beyond the scope of the very basic article.
Seems kind if weird that Bitcoin (actually bitcoind) itself would be dependent on a google-developed database solution that isn't open source, and not only that, has non-determinate behavior, depending on the host system..