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I was slightly younger than fourteen when my fifth-grade teacher staged a bridge-building competition in the class. She priced the raw materials (mainly toothpicks, glue, and strin…

As is often the case, this review can be recommended instead of the book; anyone who still wants to read the book after the review, is quite likely to enjoy it.

You can restrict the supply within a single system, and value follows the network effect due to fear and greed. https://coinmarketcap.com/ lists 650 alternate value storages which …

No mention of Bitcoin? Oh right, the experiment failed. Too bad, too bad.

You just made me laugh out loud :)

Stellar has a consensus protocol? Last I checked, there's a single blessed node dishing out verifiable data. It's nicer than having a remote API that just hands you a trusted numbe…

Bitcoin transactions are much harder to censor than conventional fiat transfers, but the transaction graph is completely transparent. Check out https://www.walletexplorer.com/

First, the one mentioned in the parent: https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=26033 And a couple skimmed off the all-time best[1]: https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.ph…

Seems like a good opportunity for a company that genuinely cares about employee health to make it easier for them to eat well by stocking the kitchen with healthy snacks.

People asking questions, lost in confusion Well, I tell them there's no problem, only solutions - John Lennon The other solutions proposed here work at the wrong level. The approac…

Such scams only raise the price if the fools hold Bitcoin instead of what they most likely do: sell it for local currency. The scam's popularity does boost transaction volume, crit…

Yet another article about the somethingization of money that doesn't mention decentralized currency, or even plain old digital. I get that people love hating Bitcoin, but isn't it …

Today, Hock is on the advisory board of Xapo, claiming that "Bitcoin is one of the best examples of how a decentralized, peer-to-peer organization can solve problems that these dat…

Your government shouldn't care what form of money you're using, as long as it gets its fair taxes.

Vonnegut disagrees in Player Piano. It's an interesting read for programmers, since he got the details of automation wildly wrong, but "the story is true".

Satoshi published a PGP key, but never signed any of his public communication. Reading the recent email[1] sent under his name suggests why: Bitcoin was designed to be protected fr…

My favorite perspective on this Tragedy analogizes the Commons in question to a cavern whose acoustics preserve any sound shouted within. We could allow more people to shout at onc…

Forth is as high-level as you'd like it to be. http://www.colorforth.com/POL.htm

Please avoid referring to the language as "CLisp". It's Common Lisp or just CL, of which GNU CLISP[1] is but a single implementation. [1] http://www.clisp.org/

You missed the recursion: Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

I'm also reminded of an interview with an actor who said that cocaine didn't add much to his life, since he'd get the same rush from walking onstage each night, without having to s…

I actually look forwards to the ads before movies on the rare occasions that I do attend cinema screenings. Since I watch no TV (and grew up without one) and make a point of minimi…

Wouldn't the individuals behind organizations such as the EFF and ACLU gladly stand behind their message?