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Transferwise competes directly with bitcoin. Were you really expecting him to say otherwise?

Somewhere out there some God is cursing another God for pissing away an entire sun just for some puny humans.

I think his point is that the goal is to make equipment that minimizes having to make "small, cheap, tweaks to complex parts that can fail due to wear and tear".

Rhythm, Resonance, and Recursion.

Trust is expensive.

Bitcoin seems unstoppable at this point.

Don't expect real conversation regarding bitcoin, most of the people that comment on bitcoin related threads are trolls and bank shills.

Arbitrarily small. Can it be divided down to (179/(6*10^24)) grams? And can you do international online micro transactions with it?

This site is becoming more and more painful to visit...

Ripple is a premined, centralized system. You have to depend on the creators benevolence for coins.

Can you send me an invite?

The Patriot Act is a precursor to worse things than these. We are just beginning to see their manifestations. It is still early...

It is the government that should be petitioning the public and the planet for a pardon.

The "law" is standing on very weak foundation right now. It is those that enforce these laws who should be tried, not Edward Snowden.

Not clear what his agenda is, trying to post on every site some moronic opinion on bitcoin instead of investing some time in understanding it better. A lot of folks on this that post here seem quite misguided in their knowledge of something they clearly dont understand. Trust me, it would serve anyone who has only passing knowledge of bitcoin to inform themselves by going to bitcoin.org than getting opinions from the pompous morons on this site.

Coinbase is a fucking disaster.

Emacs has the default screen instead of a screen with code (nicely highlighted) like the others. Also, it has the smallest image. Even the f'ing icon for sublime text is larger. Please be consistent.

I don't like the OP code either. To someone not familiar with this language, || produces a boolean value (true or false), and that value gets assigned to param. A better approach would be (without knowledge of the language in particular):

  def method (object)
    param = default_param
    if object.property
      param = object.property
    end
  end

Here, its clear that param has a default right away.

My guess, Microsoft.

Apple bought CUPS

Thanks. Its always good for anyone who has even a passing interest in a programming language to know the motivation for it given the amount of programming languages out there.

In "5. The Language", not one mention of the language's real roots - Lisp.

Very unfortunate, IMHO.

How do you fit 6 characters in 32 bits? What encoding / context? BTW, there was a Great Memory Shortage.

Whether hardware is locked down or not, it will soon become quite obvious that it is the internet that has all the value. Be it an open, a general or proprietary device, they will ALL see their value diminish without and within the network. This network cannot be unborn.

Sounds like 150k to 200k to me.

I've been visiting this site for a while, and this is the first time I got a awful stomach ache reading the comments. What is it that you want? Websites that look like they are written to work in lynx and IE4, in the pretentious name of usability?. In one breath the lament is that the older browsers are not offering features to eliminate flash, you see the it now and bitch. What a bunch of hypocrites. Just use curl to read your web pages or go back to gopher.

FYI, NeXTs' CEO was Apple's CEO first. The parents point is correct.

It matters because Microsoft's browsers have held back browser progress for more than 10 years.

I'm assuming you must be very young...

Dennis Ritchie. Hello World. May he rest in peace.

Indeed.