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Well, even if the price doesn't go up you may be able to increase your original investment with a DRIP. BTC don't give dividends.

They are not scared of homosexuals, but of homosexuality. It represents a threat to set values and a set way of living to certain individuals. If it wasn't considered a threat to t…

I hope that most people would say the same thing as seivan in a face-to-face conversation. I know I would.

Quite simply, they thought it would be too hard for me. I don't actually program for a living (yet?), although I do work in a related field where programming knowledge is useful. S…

No, in fact they actively discouraged me from pursuing an interest in programming.

A CPU will be better off mining Vertcoin in the long-term, as it uses what they call Adaptive N-Factor scrypt algorithm, meaning that RAM becomes more important over time than raw …

That leapt out at me, too! The image used on his Wikipedia page is very Jobsian, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Satya_Nadella.jpg

I find that much less readable than S-expressions. Well-formatted S-expressions actually make it pretty fast for me to find what I'm looking for in code, probably faster than in C-…

I thought that your GP did hold your full medical history. I did some work doing data entry for a GP, and most patients had their full medical history on file at the surgery - in b…

On the Dogecoin subreddit, people have been arguing that Bitcoin is gold, Litecoin silver, and Dogecoin is money.

Another adjective springs to mind, also beginning with "P-A"...

Great to see this confirmed. ~ an SEO

It is indeed still awful. I know someone who works in Magento and they frequently come to me with genuine WTF bits of code. Added functionality would be a nightmare. A rewrite is s…

I think masters of great works are pretty well-recognised in Japan. Matsuo Basho, for instance.

I have to admit I don't see the difference between what Udacity are doing in this particular course and what Open University has been doing for years.

It is different from BTC - it's a fork of Litecoin, meaning it uses scrypt rather than SHA-256 and cannot be effectively mined using BTC-oriented ASICs. There is already at least o…

Twitter - yes at least one https://twitter.com/tipdoge , Email - I've seen rumblings, but not now I think.

Most of these fall under: > They can get a better deal (non-monetary) elsewhere Just won the lottery, close relative received terminal diagnosis, got pregnant, believed their horos…

You might like Clearly? I've found it pretty useful, especially for Wikipedia articles with big, complex tables. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearly/iooicodkii...

I get the appeal of a premium service, but what's wrong with ArsTechnica or The Register? I'm constantly impressed by the quality of these site's articles (although I find The Regi…

Oh yes, that's what I was thinking. I wasn't implying that kaizen was causing culture which was causing JRPGs. I was implying that the same culture was causing kaizen and JRPGs. I …

Could such attitudes form part of an explanation for the JRPG/WRPG gulf? JRPGs typically encourage training, finding efficient ways to grind (improving processes) and perfecting ch…

> I wonder if people who came of age after that period see him more as a global good guy and philanthropist From personal experience, almost exclusively. The difference is more mar…