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According to Google Trends Hacker News' interest seems to be be stable: http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US&q=hacker+news&...

Isn't that a metaphor for democracy in America today?

Your exclamation is probably not a reference to Gert Fylking [1], but it would be hilarious if it was.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Fylking#Radio

This one still need some work: https://rms.sexy/img/p1000542.jpg

My poor neck. The GNU-project really should get to work on creating software capable of rotating images. Hopefully we will get to it just as soon as the Hurd is finished.

Crimean Tartars are a substantial group in Crimea as well, and they (for historical reasons) are very sceptical of the Russians.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crimean_Tatar_2001-num.svg

It almost makes sense if he meant "wallah"

"""Just sends a simple SMS/text and I promise by God, you are in."""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallah_(Arabic)

He didn't mean that of course...

He talks about it extensively in the video on the site, and I think he agrees with you that tilemaps would be preferable.

They are silly because the NSA obviously already had all the back doors they wanted. Nothing to do with Facebook.

These accu-hires are getting out of control. (a little bit of quick math says that each employee was worth a bit less than 300 million dollars to Facebook.

... of 180 websites in 180 days. http://jenniferdewalt.com/

His writings on foreign policy and economics is also incompetent garbage. One datapoint is his support for the Iraq war. But really why he still has a column in the NYT is a mystery.

Has anybody found a decent single player web version?

The concepts that eluded you were so eloquently explained at the bottom: "This is just for fun! A proof of concept."

I see from the article that people in the middle east write dd-mm-yyyy But they read right to left. So does that mean that they really write yyyy-mm-dd (like all sensible people should, I might add :-) but read it right to left or that they write dd-mm-yyyy and read it left to right?

History shows pretty clearly that actively managed currencies with a central bank are far more stable than for example gold or bitcoin. I don't see how you can argue otherwise.

That reads like a credo.

All serious economists disregard the Austrian school. And with good reason - they're kooks.

There was a central bank during the great depression but the US was still on the gold standard until 1933. When it went off the gold standard the great depression stopped getting worse and started getting better: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/09/yes-recovery-in-the-gr...

IF it ever were to be used as a currency. Obviously the author knows that a central bank is not a part of bitcoin today or ever could be. So his whole point is that it can never be used as a currency.

You seem to believe that the value of bitcoin could possibly be more predictable than the value of traditional currencies. Since bitcoin will be / is almost exclusively an investment vehicle it will (almost by definition) have an unpredictable value. [1] Traditional currencies will be somewhat predictable because they have a central bank actively managing the supply.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street

From your other comments you seem to be paid in USD but your employer buys bitcoin for you each month and gives you that. You could buy the bitcoin yourself each salary day and nothing would change.

Gold didn't work very well as a currency. There is plenty of proof, but just look at the first graph in this article. http://fabiusmaximus.com/2010/09/13/21514/ Industrial production and when a country left the gold standard. Obviously clinging to the gold standard for so long was a huge mistake.

(my point is purely related to that one graph, not the rest of the article (that I have not read))

The author obviously understands that Bitcoin has no central bank - his point is that if it ever were to be used as a currency it would need one. Would you like your salary paid in bitcoins? You wouldn't know from one month to the next what you could afford to buy since prices would be so volatile. Bitcoin might have other uses like easy electronic payments - but the author points out that if you want to buy something legally it is quite convenient already today with the currencies we have.

I don't see the connection.

Surely the reason he is there is because he has nowhere else to go.

Why do you use that instead of cp -R ? I would normally only use your version if I was copying a directory tree over ssh.

Currencies are stable (and losing 2% value per year) because governments actively manage the supply of money to keep it stable in the face of very volatile demand (caused by what Keynes called "animal spirits". Since demand will fluctuate Bitcoin will fluctuate wildly for the foreseeable future like the value of gold has done and is doing. Bitcoin will never be a stable, safe place to store wealth for that reason. It might be useful as a payment system where you quicly buy Bitcoin and give it to somebody for a product (who then quickly sells it again), but it will be to volatile for much else except speculation..

Another example: Wikileaks.

Seems very impractical. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2135/is-heavy-water...

The rat park studies were made in the late 70s, not recently.