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Soon we'll have people posting tweets with links to BBC/CNN articles with bogus info in it, and other journalists will start taking that information.

You can (and many do) just follow the simple teachings of the Buddha that lived 2500 years ago. You don't have to buy into any ideologies you don't want to.

Beautiful piece, thanks for sharing.

> It often makes me wish for a non-religious religion -- just a refuge of tranquility.

Have you looked into Buddhism yet? Because that's exactly one of the ways I'd describe it--a non-religion whose focus is on tranquility.

If you haven't looked into yet, this is a great easy-to-read book to start with: http://www.amazon.com/Peace-Every-Step-Mindfulness-Everyday/...

Looks like you found a bug with your DVD player. Make sure NOT to report it.

> On sites like reddit and FB, it costs the content providers effectively nothing to manipulate votes.

But that's offset by the sheer volume of people who can freely vote. If you have a system where a vote is a payment, you'll likely have a >95% reduction of legitimate voters, and likely a much higher amount of "gamed" voters as a result. Remember, corporations and governments have more money to spend than the average person. I.e. All governments/corporations can afford to spend money + some individuals can spend money. Compare that with: All governments/corporations can freely upvote + all individuals can freely upvote. Requiring money actually skews voting in the wrong direction.

That's why I think Reddit made a smart decision when they implemented Reddit guilding for top-level comments. They did it in such a way that guilding doesn't affect voting, and guilded comments can't even be seen from the homepage--otherwise it would skew the results.

I do totally agree about other ways to support creators, though. I think it's crucial for sites like StackOverflow to implement direct tipping for users' efforts.

Can't addons be used to supplement the missing features?

The one thing I miss from Chrome is the Adblock extension. It has a feature that allows ads on all sites except the ones you explicitly block--a reverse adblock filter, so to speak. I'm ok with seeing ads, but if there's a site I often visit that bothers me (I'm looking at you, weather.com), then I'll block it.

Unfortunately the Firefox version doesn't have this, and neither do the alternative adblock addons I could find.

Thanks a lot for this!

Would love to see a Firefox port.

No, they shouldn't be able to pay to get full service back. Paying any sum of money does not come from their pockets, but from taxpayer pockets. They'd pay any price and not care one bit.

Hmm. Might be a trade-off between density and longevity then?

That spinning-scrolling effect is really neat.

I would more often use the search bar than the tabs, so I'd reverse the choice.

Well, being realistic, I doubt that most exchanges like Bitstamp are sharing their customer's info with other companies, so the original issue that the author was talking about doesn't really apply here.

If you're paranoid, you can use Local Bitcoins or the Mycelium Local Trader app to do in person transactions.

> What concrete things do I gain from opting out?

But why is privacy not enough? Why should I have to convince anyone else that privacy is important? If they don't care, then they don't have to be private themselves, but don't force it on other people.

If you want an actual reason, then just look through the history books about how governments were using private information against their citizens (WW2 being the best example).

"Oh, you look forward to watching V for Vendetta? New stats show that 90% of violent anarchists have watched that movie. Please come with us, citizen."

As far as I know, gift card stores like Gyft.com don't require personal information and you can pay with BTC. For example, in the case of the author, she would buy a Target gift card with BTC, then check out at the register with her smartphone.

The limit is $200 per gift card, so it's not very low for normal use. I do this with Amazon and it's pretty easy.

Interesting concept. Would be nice if you could either slow down the slider or put a pause button, since I can't read the contents fast enough.

It's definitely not a wrapper, but it does use a lot of its components.

Laravel.

> 3. During disputes, the arbiter can side with whoever offers them the biggest fee.

Then he would be left a negative review. Arbiters will be chosen based on fairness.

They're the same company.

Thanks for clarifying. I was wondering about Redis because it doesn't replace cached contents when there's no memory left, like Memcached.

Spider Oak is great, and cares about your privacy. Everything's encrypted client-side.

Do you have a source for this? I just did a quick google search, and although they're somewhat comparable, DO outperformed Linode. And the tests were for read-only, not writes. I'd wager that writes are much faster on an SSD.

What do you use for caching that uses the hard drive? Redis?

I'll need to choose a cloud host soon for an online service that will require great uptime, and Linode is one of my top choices. The reviews, uptime, and prices are great, including management services. The ONLY thing that's keeping me on the fence is lack of SSD's, as there will be a ton of I/O on the relational database. I read that they're beta testing SSD servers, so I hope they come out soon.

Namecoin is not controlled by anyone in particular. If it grows in demand and people want the inflationary feature (or anything else), it will be implemented by the network.

It was a misunderstanding: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BITCOIN_FOUNDER_DE...

Yep.