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I think you're looking for a problem where there is none. The only case for a "problem in the distribution of domains" would be your "local shops that can't grab their names".

The DNS is a very well thought system, I think it's one of my favorite protocols. ICANN (or any sub-agancy of it) can just decide to take some domains to make the names more "granular". A first approach I thought of in just a few seconds is, with the US as an example, taking over "state code".(com|org|net|...) and only delegate those to small business operating within one state. You get a lot of "domains" for free.

Exactly my thoughts.

For me it was like reading: "Writing is not a basic skill; we have plenty of books out there. Most people, when they learn to write, start writing books that are of awful quality!"

people like you, forgetting the "" the html 4.00 way, are ruining the internez

This is very, very interesting. I'd like to point out that the situation is very similar to Asimov's Foundation. In the novel, the Encyclopedists where arguing whether they should stick to their scholar work on the Galactic Encyclopedia or become a very strong force in the history of mankind.

That decision has come to Wikipedia.

I don't understand all this hatred against web2py. For some months I've been working on it and I didn't found it any harder, slower, nor unsafer than other frameworks. Can somebody please finally give me reasons not to use them? Instead of a simple "Don't use it. You'll have major headaches in the future", like in http://us.pycon.org/2011/schedule/presentations/152/

In the first Indie Bundle [http://www.wolfire.com/humble], they didn't show these results until the last days, and the stats were similar. Linux Users weren't trying to show off, it was something that just happened.

I don't think the $5 makes a huge difference: and this way, the designer has more chance that people will allow him to post the design into his portfolio.

I'm pretty sure he is not doing it for the money, but rather to get some experience and build up his portfolio.

I don't doubt that you can say "in the last 40 years" and you will still be right...

When hacker news is down, it creates the "I must not waste my time pressing F5" effect.

That's right. Have you seen Copenhagen (a movie produced for TV)? It shows Niels Bohr arguing with Heisenberg about the atomic bomb... it's a really good movie about a meeting between them that nobody knows what was it about.

Argentina's peso has been around for only 20 years. Before that, no currency lasted more than 30 years in most of the last century.

It's for real. I'm Argentinian and watching the onion is pretty much the same as watching a news channel. I opt to laugh, but I should be crying. No country is as little serious as Argentina... to name a few examples:

-VAT it's at 21% -The government lies about the inflation index (they say it's 8%, the real number is 25%)... a total theft. -Farmers have to pay a 30% tax on net incomes... and after that, a 35% tax on profit... -The president is a woman (joking)

Sorry to disagree with you. All the articles concerning this crisis I have read linked from here were really interesting, unlike those other sites (you know, digg/slashdot/reddit/etc) where half the posts are crap.