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I don't think that's what they wanted:

    >>> nested_dd['d']
    'hello'

Sorry. I knew I was mangling it, but it was the only way to get within HN's title restrictions. Thought about leaving a pre-emptive comment to that effect, and I probably should have.

If it's click-bait, it's poorly done click-bait, because the actual content is more interesting than either of those titles.

So it's ok if you have a verb and an adjective first?

Presumably, new irregular verbs used to appear, but no longer do. Groups of speakers are less isolated, we have a standardized written language, and demarcations between languages are clearer.

For one, this company has all of the smartest people.

In what is surely a coincidence, 21M is also the total number of Bitcoins that can be mined.

Just paste a YouTube URL.

YouTube embeds are supported

The more the merrier! See also http://www.jotleaf.com/, a multimedia take on the same concept.

Your World of Text, for what it's worth, is still going strong. It gets a lot of traffic for an art project.

Yep, that's one of the examples Wikipedia gives. I'd be curious to hear about how it's worked in practice.

An interesting "paradox": people at the two ends of the trustworthy-appearance spectrum are the least incentivized to act trustworthy. Those on the right end will get the benefit either way; those on the wrong end have to work too hard to get the benefit. It is the people in the middle who gain the most from acting trustworthy.

Regarding the first point, I recently came to this conclusion: "The reason listening is hard is that not-listening doesn't feel like not-listening, it just feels like the other person is wrong."

Keeping this in mind has been very helpful.

I browse with showdead on and appreciate TempleOS's comments, but I'd prefer to keep things as they are. IIRC Terry is fine with it too.

Theft is also addressable with cryptography, using multi-signature transactions.

How would you peg its value to the dollar? How would this be better than PayPal?

Thanks. FWIW, I haven't seen or heard about anything like this happening at the SF Bitcoin Meetup. If I did, it wouldn't be tolerated. In fact, there's been a woman running the show more often than not, and now one of the main co-organizer is a woman.

https://twitter.com/brendanaanes/status/413775573958156290 :)

I remember looking back on my 2012 and including Stripe's CTF on the list of highlights. It was that fun.

Coinbase is really easy if you're in the US.

I'm happy about the rise, but I'm not fully counting this as a record yet. The Bitcoin exchange ecosystem has changed since April. MtGox started massively delaying dollar withdrawals, so the price there diverged from other exchanges. I'll be watching Bitstamp (now at $254) for the real thing.

Silk Road discussion forums are still up (and buzzing): http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/

Beware scale-free arguments.

> On the other hand, if Bitcoins continue to hold value over the long-term...

Is long-term one month? One year? Ten years? Why?

> There is no way a Bitcoin can be worth $122 over the long term...

What about $12.20? $1.22? Why?

He's using a different meaning of the word counterpoint than the one you're thinking of.

> None of the arguments he brings forward are relevant to the question at hand.

That's an unfair criticism, since the arguments I address are exactly those raised by everyone else who has written on the subject.

> directed at some (vaguely implied) strawman

The Felix Salmon piece linked at the top, and every other article on the subject. If there's a good one, I haven't seen it.

> I don't think that has any bearing on whether a deflationary currency is bad or not.

Of course it does. Read the "supposedly relevant" link.

Hm, HN traffic has grown. The server will be back up in a couple minutes. Edit: All good, I think.

This post has been in the draft folder for a while, but I decided to just run it. A better title would be "Common Flaws in the 'Bitcoin is Deflationary' Argument". There might actually be a convincing "Bitcoin is Deflationary" argument to be made, it's just that no one has made it yet.

DragonRealms here. I spent more hours on that game than any since. Scripting ZMud was a strong early motivation to learn programming.

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This would be nice if not for the pagination. It's slow, unpredictable, and unnecessary.

For another approach to annotation, check out fixjam.com. I never took this past the 1-day hack stage, but I'd like to revisit it at some point. You can try it by clicking the bookmarklet and highlighting some text.