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Arianna Simpson
Personal blog · ariannasimpson.com · on HN as ariannahsimpsoneconomicsstartups
Arianna Simpson's personal blog at ariannasimpson.com covers economics and startups. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A blog post by a woman describing her experience at a Bitcoin meetup, where a man made remarks about how women think. HN cites it as an example of women not feeling welcome in the Bitcoin community.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /this-is-what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-at-a-bitcoin-meetup/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-25
What Hacker News says?
Some members of the Bitcoin community have... some work to do in making women feel welcome. An illustrative blog post by a woman that went to a meetup: http://www.ariannasimpson.com/this-is-what-its-like-to-be-a-... “Well,” he says looking at me knowingly, “Women don’t usually think in terms of efficiency and effectiveness”.
Comment linking /this-is-what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-at-a-bitcoin-meetup/
on “Coinbase user emails and full names leaked”Submitted This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup as a story · 165 points
HN discussionIndeed, I think his la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you position is a reaction to the incredible wave of irrational exuberance around BitCoin. That's certainly how I feel about it. I'm sure there are people capable having a rational, nuanced discussion about it. But 99.7% of what I see online is glibertarians, gold bugs, utopians, tulip bulb salesmen, tinfoil-hat survivalists, people dreaming of the singularity with one hand…
Comment linking /this-is-what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-at-a-bitcoin-meetup/
on “Schadenfreude”Submitted Why Bitcoin Matters for Africa as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Should Probably Be Using a MultiSig Bitcoin Wallet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Ok if Some of Them Hate You as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startups, Don't Starve as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Isn't Your Business Accepting Bitcoin? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What the IRS Ruling Actually Means for Bitcoin – Arianna Simpson as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is The US Finally Getting It Right? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Game Theory, Assurance Contracts, and Crowdfunding via Bitcoin as a story · 1 points
HN discussion