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I'm not proposing abolishing the courts, so presumably the highly hypothetical scheme you've just described world be litigated in court.

Your second argument, based on logistics, is much stronger and bears consideration.

Ok, something with noxious elements, yes. (Although I think it should be private neighborhood organizations to prevent this, not government).

All they wanted to build was a couple of office building and bike path.

I'm glad Greenwald called then put for using the term "boyfriend" for his 10-year old spouse. Something didn't sit well with me about that term, but I couldn't have vocalized it. It seems meant to evoke sexual connotations, when they played no part in the story.

Not with transferable objects.

> produce...signed integers

Well, except for right logical shifts.

Couldn't tell if the writer was being subtlely ironic about the origin of the term poop deck, but presumably it's some kind of play on the nautical phrase "poop deck". The latter term originates from "la poupe", which is the French word for "stern".

You realize that in most US states, software engineers can now sit for a PE license in software engineering, right? This has been possible in a few states since 2012, when the NCEES started offering the PE license exam in software engineering.

This is the same license that electrical, mechanical, structural engineers get, with the same initial Fundamentals of Engineering exam followed by the subject matter (P&P) exam (usually after verification of a certain amount of experience).

OK, you're making 2 different claims. The first claim is that Bitoiners refuse to learn from history. But the second claim is that crises are required for revolutionary change (history says, I presume). So how are Bitcoiners refusing to learn from history? By trying in the first place? Or by failing to manufacture a crisis?

And really, linking to the wikipedia page of tulip mania, as if we haven't heard that trope 10,000 times?

Of course your cell phone provider can access your call logs. Probably even fairly low-level workers can get full access under certain conditions.

And of course some workers will abuse that access for personal reasons.

What did you expect? That workers at a phone company wouldn't be able to access your account info? Ideally, it would be compartmentalized, but...

Bodes well for Rust as a server language. No GC, and almost as pleasant to write as a high level language. And with memory safety and a compiler that catches errors like crazy.

Yes. The majority of the energy is spent maintaining the network's security. Once that security has been obtained, additional transaction volume -- assuming it's within the network's constraints -- will add little to no additional cost.

To expand, Bitcoin's security is maintained by the miners, who also expend the majority of the network's energy. Transaction volume for the most part is borne by all the network's full nodes, which use relatively little energy.

I have nothing against Coffeescript, and use it myself sometimes. But please don't respond to something about "js" and then put down a single coffeescript snippet with no additional context. It's very confusing.

I had to re-read the last line several times before I looked up at the function arrow and realized it was coffeescript, and that the "@" were not part of the i18n library, but rather the syntactic sugar for "this".