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This feels like the Hot Coffee thing again. The problem is not that he said something wrong, the problem was that he himself kept bringing it up.[1][2][3]

[1]http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/8/13/

[2]http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/10/06/our-store-is-back

[3]http://www.newstatesman.com/alex-hern/2013/09/penny-arcade-r...

Yeah, I don't think I know anyone who actually cares about the initial comic-- the complaint on it was very localized and small. It's the fact that he kept whipping up more drama about it and continued espousing "poor me" viewpoint about rape survivors bullying him, on a near-yearly basis, that really drove people away.

It seems to me less like a mid-life crisis, and more his realization that if he keeps holding on to his 30-year-old anger and inferiority issues, they're going to cause issues for his kids, both directly and indirectly. I'm sure that Khoo and Holkins may have nudged him in this direction as well for the PA-related reasons he mentions in the article.

I don't know if this necessarily matters to the HN crowd, but in case it does, this[1] is why him coming out publicly with an apology for his behavior overall is a thing.

Personally, I'd say it's a good first step provided he can actually follow through with it, but I'm not holding my breath.

[1]http://debacle.tumblr.com/post/3041940865/the-pratfall-of-pe...

[1] http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it impossible to withdraw USD from MtGox at this point? How can this be a viable source of BTC->USD comparison when the only thing you can do with a USD balance on MtG is buy?

It's hard to source an argument when you're quoting strawmen.

I sure hope not. As much as I'd love to see something happen to these guys, the precedent that would result would be as far-reaching as it would be terrible.

This model is explicitly being marketed to the age groups of 7 and under. As for "how many hinges have been broken", and "why don't they make a sturdier hinge":

1. I don't have any hard evidence, but if you do a search for "broken DS" or "broken 3DS" on eBay, an overwhelming majority of them are on there by reason of "broken hinge"

2. As to why not make a sturdier hinge, the other part of this particular console is to bring the 3DS down into a cheaper price range in time for Pokemon-- which is why they additionally stripped it of the 3D and replaced the stereo speaker with a mono one.

I'm not personally a fan of the design, but in the short amount of time since it's been announced, I've seen a pretty impressive number of "I'd buy that"s from people on various forums, so I don't think this is as much of an "epic fail" as you think it is. Don't confuse "bad design" with "not marketed towards me".

It's not a question of "going back through security", re-entrance has nothing to do with it. Going to a concert where they don't stamp your hand when you go through the door doesn't make you "detained".

The RAM is the thing with Macbook Air's that permanently soldered to the system board. Everything else is difficult to replace due to the form factor, but still replaceable.

Agreed. I tried the iPad + external keyboard combo for awhile, but after getting an 11" MBA and using my smartphone for things that I can do completely handsfree (like Skype calls), my iPad has fallen by the wayside for the most part and only comes out for reading comics and PDFs.

>This cost of living calculator shows that you would need to make over $100k in San Francisco to enjoy the same lifestyle that $60k gets you in the Motor City.

So in return for my employer having an excuse to pay me $40k less, I get the benefit of working in Detroit, ranking in at #2 on the list of "most dangerous cities in the US" the last 2 years running[1] (beaten out only by Flint, a mere hour's drive away to the north), with the additional side benefits of "people question your sanity" and a complete lack of other people in my chosen field, outside of coworkers, to meet up with locally, thus creating a situation where if I was discontent with my job I'd need to move across the country in one direction or another (after, presumably, having moved to go to Detroit in the first place).

I can't help but feel like this is a sour grapes article overall. "We can't afford to set up shop in California, but who wants to live there anyways? I'm perfectly happy here where I'm 4 times more likely to be mugged and/or murdered!"

[1] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/p... - Violent Crime divided by Population

It doesn't necessarily matter if it's harder to tax. If the only way to exchange Bitcoins for currency is via face-to-face transactions, 90% of what usefulness it has is eliminated. The remaining use, exchange of a virtual currency for virtual goods and services, is only useful with an easy way to get ahold of a sum of said virtual currency to begin with.

Which is to say, with a sufficiently low volume of BTC being passed around, taxing it becomes as important as making sure you tax cash transactions by roadside fruit vendors or lemonade stands.

My first instinct is to suggest something that already works for what he wants to do. If he's using a Terminal window on a frequent enough basis that he's looking for a solution, it makes more sense to suggest one than to say "Gosh, yeah, that'd be useful, I hope this terminal emulator releases in the next year some time so that you can do what you want to do with that!"

If you're using bash and you're familiar with vim, you can use the command "set -o vi" and start using Vi bindings to jump around/cut/delete/modify text in your current prompt.

They don't care so much about the Bitcoins themselves as they do getting their cut of the fiat money when you cash them out, I'd wager.

If you buy 300 bushels of apples for $1 and, for whatever reason, the price spikes to $300 overnight, when you sell them do you claim that "Well, I paid the tax on the $1 so I don't have to pay taxes on the $299"?

If you keep your money in apples the IRS doesn't want 20% of your apples. It's only if you sell them back out and claim it as income.

There's a difference between "fault" and "blame" that's not easily expressed in the english language, but I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on your analogy. If someone is going to do something of questionable legality and warns you about it beforehand, does that make it "more legal"? I'll bet you think that people in high-crime areas should "just move out if they don't want to get mugged", too. But here, I have an analogy too:

I decide, say in January, that I want to change my company name from "Foobaz" to "Baz". Over the next 6 months, I go out to a bunch of startups named "Caz", "Faz", and "Jaz", and say "Hey so you might want to change your name because I'm going to change my company's name to Baz and I'm totally going to drop a legal hammer on you if you don't because I can afford it and you can't". After those 6 months are up, I change my name, and then flip around and start suing because they "didn't take my warning".

The logic here is questionable at best.

If you're going to paint with a wide brush, "SEO Software" and "Browser Software" fall under "Software" in the same way that "Sandbox RPG Video Game" and "TCG Video Game" fall in the category of "Video Game". I feel there's not an actual likelihood of confusion in either case, but I would argue that there isn't one between Moz and Doz either.

That actually makes me more disinclined to use Moz-- this isn't a snap-retort by an overeager in-house lawyer looking to earn their fee, this is the COO claiming that "Doz" is a trademark violation because it ends on "oz". It's flat-out depressing, and giving overt hints about "Change your name or we'll sue" ahead of time doesn't make this any better.

I think the only cutoff is "lower bound of the height a potentially abusive adult would see it at", and retroactively went back and said "okay this height is average for a 10 year old".

According to what I find from a quick google, average height for a 10-year-old is about 4.5", with it starting to spike up dramatically at the age of 12-13 (from ~50 to ~60"). Without knowing the actual height they set this for, though, it's impossible to say how many kids they would or would not get with this kind of advertising.

For one, there is no "too short" for this particular type of display. It's an under-over type of thing.

For two, they're explicitly taking the 'average height of a 10 year old' for this. You would write off the entire ad as pointless because, as implied by the very definition of "average", 50% of 10 year olds and a smaller percentage of each age below 10 would be unable to see it?

Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater...

Sadly that's not always an option, given the proliferation of Facebook amongst the "older" crowd. My entire extended family basically communicates entirely (barring face-to-face meetings) via Facebook nowadays.

Google's marketing has done a better job of presenting themselves as "not evil". I won't comment on the accuracy (or not) of that; I'll just note that I only log onto Google accounts in an incognito window.

>does that ever happen?

Every time I browse a site on an iDevice, yes.

I'm actually more worried about this[1]. I don't want my key and associated information stored with bank-grade cryptography, I want it deleted after it's cut and sent out. It's easy enough to change a password if you get hacked, it's slightly more difficult to change a credit or debit card but it's more hassle in "changing all the places it's used" than anything else. But changing locks is a huge pain, and not always possible to do depending on what the key is for. I'd far rather take a picture of a key, save it somewhere secure myself, and send it in when I need a copy made. Having both my shipping address and the key to that address stored on a remote server is particularly worrying to me.

1. http://shloosl.com/#Security

I think people are more oblivious to the fact that a "deflationary currency" is inherently flawed because it by definition results in hoarding, which is not what you want people to do with your currency. Why would you bother loaning or investing it if you can make more money just sitting on it?

MtGox is not the only exchange, although it might seem that way sometimes. It would be like your bank is closed on Sunday, but there's still banks from the same branch open next door.

Because the blockchain is shared, the only thing that mtgox being down prevents you from doing is buying/selling with money stored on mtgox itself-- you can still move money from your personal wallet(s) (you're not keeping 100% of your BTC on mtgox, right?) to another exchange and sell it there.

SatoshiDice and the controversy surrounding it has pretty well emphasized that Bitcoin is not going to be as widespread a currency as some of the true believers want it to be. It has a niche use in SR and other semi/illegal things, but it's really useful only as long as the price remains stable (in fact, during highly volatile periods like this, most of the smart SR merchants pack up shop until the BTC-USD rate has stabilized).

However, the blockchain inherently limits BTC from being able to be used in the same way that, say, Paypal is right now, just because of it's inability to deal with a high volume of transactions, not to mention the confirmation time. And efforts to mitigate this through 3rd parties removes the distributed semianonymous merits, thus leading to a position where you're better off just using PayPal or a credit card anyways.

Better yet, don't tie your social accounts to your real name unless you're going to be professional on them.

Think of it like the difference between chilling on the beach with shorts and talking shit over beer vs. chilling a the beach in your $company uniform and name tag and talking shit over beer. If you're going to do the latter, you best hope that you know and trust all the people you're shitting with.