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The "monopoly money" perspective isn't wrong, and in general an ICO for a coin that's, say, "bitcoin but a little different" doesn't make much sense. Bitcoin is supposed to be a cu…

An ICO is an "Initial Coin Offering", it's supposed to be like an IPO except instead of offering shares, you're selling cryptocurrency coins. ICOs are usually framed as a way to fu…

>I think Go hits the right spot You make an excellent point here that I don't see articulated very often. The Landscape of Popular Languages, let's say C/C++/Java/Python/Ruby/JavaS…

>it's the feeling that could produce this response that they should be optimizing for As near as I can tell, this is exactly how Apple got to be Apple and they already know how it'…

>An interesting example would be Call of Duty: Infinity Warfare. The differences between the market of people buying console-focused first-person shooters and the one for virtual r…

Fun fact: once you know to look, and provided they're close enough to the camera, you can sometimes see the view-ee's eyes making small side to side movements as they read lines of…

Sure, but the unstated assumption there is that stage won't also force-feed you the side of a tractor trailer through your windshield. Currently Tesla's cars act as though they've …

I'm shocked they reacted to the complaints at all. Chrome is infamous for painful UX blunders that Google refuses to acknowledge, let alone fix. Mouse thumb buttons are permanently…

I was surprised to even see the article posted because I didn't think there was a lot of doubt about this. I have no special knowledge of or interest in cholera, Haiti, or the UN, …

There's some additional nuance to Sergeant Major Sixta and his enforcement of the grooming standard. His intention was not to psychologically trick his marines into being good sold…

The difference is whether the decision is based on where the money is today or where the money's been historically. The board game analogy is pretty apt. In The Settlers of Catan, …

This makes no sense. I have an American degree and I've heard the phrase "Fourier transform" before, but I couldn't have possibly told you anything about it until I googled it just…

The Culture doesn't have quite the same aims as Japan in this scenario. The Culture reluctantly entered into open, large-scale war against the Idirans because they had incompatible…

Sega once participated in the video game industry roughly how Nintendo does today, by producing a home console and making first-party titles for it with their established propertie…

I'm sure there's something like what you're describing in existence, probably in a lab somewhere, clamped in front of a metal plate with burn marks on it. I think you're out of luc…