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I wonder if the pubkeys could be maintained in a system such as namecoin? [never used namecoin, but it sounds right]

Did you keep track of the changes? I see relative changes in votes every time I check. It would be really cool to see how things went. You could also infer a geographical distribution of voters, as this poll goes through time zones :)

I cannot recommend more the BBC Radio4 In Our Time talks:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/

They cover different topics, from philosophy to history, and they always have the most interesting guests.

"You spend it to increase your net worth and hiring price in whatever field you wish to work within."

I don't like the direction the world is heading. Knowledge is not a commodity. Nor are we livestock that is being bred to be sold on The Market.

I still hold the illusion that some people go to academia with non-material motives. How could research in some obscure part of some obscure field ever increase your price tag. Yet how can we hope of any academic progress if we base our research on what the economy needs.

should be (>>=) in the title.

You can use linux "an" program.

It comes with most desktop Linuxes and is pretty fast.

Don't troll. MS as a company is not the topic here. I never liked Micro$oft myself either, but Microsoft Research has some really brilliant people, and I find myself spending a lot of time lately watching Channel9 FP talks.

Most of the talks spin around Haskell, which is an open standard with many open source implementations. People involved in development of GHC for instance, (Namely S.P.Jones and E.Meijer) work at Microsoft research.