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bcsmith··on Review my project – Interestin
"I’d like to invite you to join to something called Interestin."

You have a typo in the first sentence. Kind of tough to read much further when that happens...

bcsmith··on Signing up for a new Twitter account shows why the company is struggling to grow
Twitter suggests celebrities because they are broadly known quantities. Plus, Twitter knows absolutely nothing about you when you first sign up. While it would be nice if they would suggest some smaller niche people to follow, you may not recognize any of the people they suggest - and that would be even more frustrating...
bcsmith··on For Sale: 29,656.51306529 Bitcoins
By this logic, withdrawing money from the ATM increases money supply... Also, the expected amount of silver in the ground is factored into the current price of silver. It's really only when new deposits are discovered that there is an impact to the price. Actually pulling known silver deposits out of the ground has a negligible effect on the price.
bcsmith··on For Sale: 29,656.51306529 Bitcoins
But the supply hasn't increased. These bitcoins existed prior to the offer of sale. The only thing that increased was the free float.
bcsmith··on A Test for School Reform in Newark
I too don't mind them collecting ad revenue, but I really hate clicking next on multi-page stories. There is no "page limit" on a web page and clicking through and reloading the entire page to get the next part is annoying...

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/19/140519fa_fact_...

bcsmith··on The MtGox 500
Or it could be a business that is accepting bitcoins for purchases and then immediately cashing those bitcoins into USD.
bcsmith··on End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk
Those ATM's will be no more at risk in a few months than they are today, or have been in the past...

Just because the updates stop, doesn't mean the OS is going to start crumbling.

bcsmith··on America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (1998)
I remember I used to enter the chat rooms by saying "Ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?" Being a popular quote from the original Batman movie and it went well with my screen name (xsatanx) it usually got a laugh...

... until I stumbled into a religious chat room.

Got my account disabled and had to have my mom call as well.