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Just watched a documentary about a deranged BBBY superfan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrU0DAAylEk

In one of his videos I he was standing in an empty parking lot shouting into a megaphone that Bed Bath & Beyond would never go bankrupt. I think he did the same thing in front of Lehman brothers (minus the megaphone).

Ottawa Canada, Remote, Contract (Part-time or full-time)

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I'm currently finishing up a live wallpaper for Android and after that I'll be looking for remote contract work. I'm an ex-Activision-games-programmer currently specializing in C++ based Android apps. I have years of experience with 3D graphics and real-time audio programming.

If you need something fast and memory-efficient done on Android (or Windows/Console), I'm your man.

I can confirm the 1/3 size dose (the strips are 3 mg and I take one third of that, 1 mg), I take it from time to time when I get insomnia and that seems to be the sweet spot.

This will be make or break for me as well. I'm able to code C++ with Visual Studio (and Visual Assist X) and compile it directly in the IDE with vs-android.

The only thing that could make be switch over would be a robust NDK debugger.

> The knowledge that we take for granted -- .jpg is safe, .vbs is not

Not always: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms04-02...

If you watch SC2 on GSL with Tasteless and Artosis, you'll see that even "nerd" is no longer pejorative. The greatest compliment they know is "nerd baller". They refer to themselves and the audience as "nerds" all the time, but in a totally friendly way. It's almost a badge of pride.

Well, let's say you sleep 6 hours a night, and some one asks you: "If you slept 2 hours less each night, image what you could accomplish with that extra two hours every day. Just start sleeping 4 hours a night and eventually you'll get used to it!".

For some of us 10+ hours is a biological necessity, I've tried forcing myself to sleep exactly 8 hours a night for two weeks at a time and it destroys me mentally, every waking hour is torture because I'm so sleep deprived.

That's why I said "eventually", the user-base isn't quite there yet. I could see people just keeping $50-$100 in Bitcoin permanently to use for small transactions, much like I always have $100-$200 in cash in my wallet for small purchases, or $1000-$3000 in my bank account just as a buffer.

I don't see that happening anytime soon though with the huge volatility.

> Not sure why you're getting downvoted for this

There's a portion of internet users who have decided that they really really hate Bitcoin and go out of their way to denigrate it and downvote anyone who doesn't share their views. I can understand the people who are skeptical, because Bitcoin definitely has its problems, but this seething hatred mystifies me...

I really like the concept of "metacurrency" that this article talks about. This is exactly the area I think Bitcoin will be most successful. I don't ever see it replacing the dollar, or even credit cards. The one thing that Bitcoin really excels at is the instantaneous transfer of unlimited amounts of money from one place in the world to another. Rick Falkvinge talks about this a bit in his "four drivers" series: http://falkvinge.net/2011/06/18/bitcoins-four-drivers-part-t...

I think eventually Bitcoin will compete with (or maybe replace) Paypal/Dwolla. But its killer app is long-distance point-to-point money transfer.

Chapters also does this (here in Canada anyway).

> Because there is no alternative and they fucking know it.

Hopefully in a few years time when it's matured, Bitcoin will be that alternative.

I recently printed some 15 mega-pixel images in 36"x24" and they quality was quite good. The number of people in the world who need > 24 mega-pixel images is very very small.

Only [5%](http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php/topic,818.0.html) of photographers want a mega-pixel bump in the new 5D MK III.

I work with French programmers, so that opens an entire other can of worms. Colon becomes "two points" and semi-colon becomes "point comma".

Did you even read the article?

> Michael Pagliassotti, a Colorado State University biochemist who did many of the relevant animal studies in the late 1990s, says these changes can happen in as little as a week if the animals are fed sugar or fructose in huge amounts — 60 or 70 percent of the calories in their diets. They can take several months if the animals are fed something closer to what humans (in America) actually consume — around 20 percent of the calories in their diet. Stop feeding them the sugar, in either case, and the fatty liver promptly goes away, and with it the insulin resistance.

> Similar effects can be shown in humans, although the researchers doing this work typically did the studies with only fructose — as Luc Tappy did in Switzerland or Peter Havel and Kimber Stanhope did at the University of California, Davis — and pure fructose is not the same thing as sugar or high-fructose corn syrup. When Tappy fed his human subjects the equivalent of the fructose in 8 to 10 cans of Coke or Pepsi a day — a “pretty high dose,” he says —– their livers would start to become insulin-resistant, and their triglycerides would go up in just a few days. With lower doses, Tappy says, just as in the animal research, the same effects would appear, but it would take longer, a month or more.

I only dream in images, my dreams don't have any sound.

My question for you now, "Do you dream in colour or black and white?"

The problem with this line of reasoning is that it is not a democratic response. The size of your wallet determines the size of your vote, which gives the millionaires and the multinationals all the votes.

I'm not convinced that you'll be able to deal with the Eternal September problem. It's all well and good that anti-trolling is built into the rules, but as more and more people join less and less of them will have read the rules.