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Hmm, page 291 of pdf "Collected Communications". I bet that's something to do with prism.

and brings nothing to the debate but distraction. Who cares if it was 1/10th or 6/10ths, the point remains the same. In fact if anything the headline understates the point by using decimate.

Well this is a blast from the past! I remember when this came out. At the time JS was mostly used for image rollovers and form validation, so this was an eye-opener for many developers.

Yeah. Totally inappropriate title.

> It's almost impossible to live in balance with nature in today's society

To me, that is an indication that we need to change today's society, not a justification for doing nothing.

I think it was a typo. I've never heard of the term before.

edit: Oh, it seems it's a Scottish term for Rest-of-UK. TIL.

See also http://www.seiko5finder.com (not affiliated)

ODF files! Those sick sick people.

I would say that the answer for the 5 year old scenario is supervision.

Agreed; "The server operators cannot decide what 'parental control' would mean for parents" is the most important part, for me.

There are as many definitions of "what is appropriate for kids to see" as there are parents.

The decision belongs with the parents, not with the 3rd party sites who, let's not forget, are the ones supplying the content in the first place.

This just seems like an utterly naive and vague idea.

Try pg's list of "ideas we'd like to fund". http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

Ancient, but here's a blog post I wrote with some ideas: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/10/ten-ideas/

And Jacques Mattheij's post that inspired me: http://jacquesmattheij.com/My+list+of+ideas+for+when+you+are...

Yes, this is Lego, actual genuine Lego. They come in a wide array of shapes.

Not entirely sure why you think this matters?

That's a really good idea.

It's possible of course, but if you compare the two possible scenarios, one seems more likely than the other;

1) Child was infected with HIV twice

2) Groundbreaking never-before-achieved treatment didn't actually work

In the first, something extraordinary (being infected) has to happen twice, in the second, something extraordinary (being cured of HIV) has to simply not happen.

So it seems - on this basic, without-the-facts, examination at least - much more likely to be #2 than #1.

condition. I'm pretty sure the fifth is a race

> So, when can customers expect their money to be protected after they convert their savings into bitcoin, without trusting their coins to a third party service like Coinbase, and without spending a solid week learning how to safely store their coins themselves?

Given the huge amount of developer interest, I'd be pretty surprised if several groups of smart people aren't kept awake at night by their awesome ideas about how to fix this.

I think a lot of the merchant adoption is driven more by marketing than anything; newegg will get a spike of sales from enthusiastic bitcoiners because of this.

I was going by the number of wallets & some of the repo stats.

You're right though, it's not gaining consumer adoption, but it is gaining merchant, infrastructure and developer interest.

Thanks! Hmm. It is only to be expected that the initial spike would drop off. It'll be interesting to see if that downwards trend continues or not.

> almost no consumer growth in the bitcoin world

There are quite a few metrics on http://www.bitcoinpulse.com/ that seem to indicate otherwise.

I'd like to see a source for your claim that "Overstock ... has only seen dropping numbers since they started." I think you're probably getting it from the FOX Business interview in May, but that's not really as cut-and-dried as you're making out.

[1] http://www.coindesk.com/overstock-ceo-patrick-byrne-1-6m-bit...

Here's a mention of it: http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/1yuvj4/coinb...

Another mention: http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/1xeg9b/mtgox...

Getting closer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7196109

Here we go: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x9gue/my_protest_a...

Here's a different interview experience too: http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1zg66x/lets_play_spot_t...

I think there's definitely some sort of reality distortion field in Mark's head - that or the interview's been heavily edited.

Thankfully I never had any money in MtGox, but comments like "I learned a lot, but I lost a lot" and "I always worried about ‘What if all the bitcoins were gone?’" really make me think he never did and still doesn't understand that he was responsible for half a billion dollars of other people's money.

I just don't comprehend his attitude. He's posting pictures of kittens on twitter. It's just... odd.

Incorrect. You're only getting the blinking because <blink> is still in the URL.

compare your link to mine: https://www.google.com/search?q=%3CGOOGLE%3E&safe=off

This is probably a bug.

Same applies for the [tilt] query, eg: https://www.google.com/search?q=tilt&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=goo...

Can't speak for OP, but surely putting restrictions on your password just makes people choose weird, eminently forgettable passwords, a la xkcd's complaint http://xkcd.com/936/

heck, I downloaded some random program while trying to install it a few weeks ago - and I've got a compsci MSc from Oxford.

Let me show you what it looks like without adblock:

http://imgur.com/a/kuKqo

I did a bit of research a few years ago as part of my masters. Here are the references I have:

http://stc-access.org/wp-content/uploads/cooke_mouse_eye_tra...

TLDR: 'eye movement matched mouse movement 69% of the time'

There's also a paper in here starting page 33 of the PDF http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/ryenw/proceedi...

Crashed latest firefox on OSX Mavericks.

Though I've not used it myself, Kiva has always struck me as the sort of thing that people who were passionate about the web in the early days were always enthusiastically envisaging.

The web was seen as a powerful tool for taking advantage of the benefits of scale. Scale applied to charity & aid results in things like Kiva.

They just wouldn't be thinkable without the web.

There's no grand point to this comment, it's just a musing.

I guess I'm just saying that I think it's things like Kiva that make me proud to be part of the web.

Oh, and I suppose mixed up in my sentiment is a bit of lament that Kiva is a little-known exception to the rule rather than one among a great many examples of using the web to make the world a better place. (yes, wikipedia is another great example; I'm not saying Kiva's the sole bastion of human compassion on the web).