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Can't you tell the difference between attempted humor and frothing-at-the-mouth frustration? I for one FUCKING agree with this guy.

Articles like this demonstrate why most people don't get Bitcoin in the 1st place. Let's ignore the factual inaccuracies like bitcoin production bottoming out in 2040 (it's 2140, Justin, and that's a big difference) and focus on how Justin doesn't get it.

Bitcoin is in use right now transferring money around the globe. If I buy 100$ worth of bitcoin (0.478 bitcoin at current prices) and immediately use it to purchase anything, it has served its purpose as a value transfer medium. This is regardless of tomorrow or yesterday's price. It is this efficacy that people pay for when they buy bitcoins.

Bitcoin was not designed as a storage or investment medium it was designed to facilitate the transfer of value. As long as it performs that function it will continue to defy the misplaced expectations of those who refuse to go to the effort of understanding it.

You da man! Thanks for saving me a bunch of typing.

Imagine that billion divided up as $50,000 seed money to 20,000 new startups. Don't just plunk it down on them set up an automated system requiring justification for every expense. Then have a contest over the year where the earliest, best performers get to advance to another round of funding the next year.

Do I still have to buy a mac to program under apple or can I use my Linux/Windows machine like all of the several hundred other better platforms out there?

I agree people never evaluate the function early enough, glad I'm not one.

"... release, to Congress, the press and the public, documents that set forth the detailed constitutional and statutory analysis he relies on for targeting and killing American citizens. " I see no believable indication that any such documents even exist.

Heresy! Kidding, actually the world definitely needs more of both designers and engineers. Computing power+programmer=problems getting solved, well that's the theory anyways.

All those veritable mountains of wireless routers spread across every city but can we build an easy to use open source mesh network? <samuelljackson> Hell no! </samuelljackson>

I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and by gosh! people like me!