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I suspect Stross may have been trolling, just to try to ward off the existential risk that bitcoin and autonomous economic entities edge us closer to. Either that or he's holding btc himself and figures that fomenting debate will be good for the value levitation.

With interesting discussion partners, it can make a great book club read, as there are so many possible tangents.

Simulacra and Simulation was actually his fake book on the bookshelf: http://thelatestreviewer.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/simulac...

Is your comment sarcasm?

Wait, principle? How does that have anything to do with whether this happens? Tesla is a public company.

edit: per http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-borrows-150-million... it looks like Musk, holding 65%, would be able to block any hostile acquisition.

Mirror: http://pastebin.com/DXCSZxMs

Sure, the browser could implement a virtual dom and then sync it and do a reflow once per frame.

Don't they now know what to restrain? (due to this post, at the very least...)

And let's not forget to consider a "trusting trust" attack on the hardware you use to manufacture the processor.

This is the correct answer. If google does not do this, well, we know whose side they're on.

I've also had tickets dropped on the floor (explicitly, actually), and the email reply address bounced. FYI.

Also, I can't find any way to open support tickets any more. FYI.

I really wanted to like you guys, and I field a lot of questions about how to buy these days.

Have people talked about using sensor device input as prng seeds? onboard microphone, fan speed jitter, etc?

They are probably not explicitly lying about what information they retain. If they say they deleted it, well, it's probably at least inaccessible to production systems.

I wonder what similar satellite imagery would have shown in early/mid 20th century europe.

Predictions on switching to uBTC?

He appears to be advocating telling them the absolute minimum possible to achieve your objectives; and, in the case where you have been invited to say something, never to say anything. It is spectacular advice.

Though clearly the situation here is not one where the victim was invited to speak, if he had taken the advice to heart, he would have realized that speaking to the police in any capacity is extremely dangerous, and perhaps averted this disaster.

"Hard-to-trace" -- hardly: this is the easiest money to trace in the history of money! (Well, ACH transactions are easier if you are backed by an army.)

No, that is emphatically NOT a qualifier for that video.

The point is that anything you say can be used against you for any of an infinity of possible crimes, while it can never ever help you at all.

Does it change for you once we remove all visible or audible indications of others' distraction?

Perhaps we should just start to expect that we never have anyone's full attention. Indeed we never did.

In any case non-BTC withdrawal is a very different question from purchase of BTC.

No. This is now wrong. Microsoft is reformed.

Give this idea 35 years, and check back then. Of course, there will be no need to escalate to meatspace by that time.

"A good currency slowly inflates." This is the "common wisdom" which BTC assaults frontally.

Yes, you're right. If people had trust in said government that such a currency would hold value, it would probably win.

Oh, but in this case, they really really should be rewarded. The point is that military might has floated fiat for millenia. Pulling that down will require a lot of mindshare, and it's going to be damn hard without a lot of hype and projection. Luckily we have that power.

Pulverizing the dead horse: it will hold value like gold, but its infinite divisibility and ease of transport make it more like an evolved currency.

It turns out we might have enough miners for a while. No problem, time to beef up the exchanges and merchant systems.

Yes, it would appeal to anyone who doesn't have the capability to evaluate their misleading advertising.

Yes. Systems making such claims that are not self-hosted are worse than worthless.

If the low paying, menial jobs are indeed essential, why are they low paying? Do the people working these jobs currently really have a choice? Is that morally justifiable?