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It’s too bad Encyclopedia Dramatica went down. The page on the author of this piece was really something.

> By backing I meant a .gov's ability to tax or confiscate wealth, or for that matter impose capital controls. Neither of these are an advantage of a fiat currency. They are both v…

Experimental evidence suggests that having lots of users isn't a guarantee of stability. See Venezuela (right now), Zimambwe Dollar, German Reichsmark, Argentine Peso, Mexican Peso…

The confusion is probably from your internal semantics of the phrase "backing". When you say > the "we the nation" backing of fiat money. what do you think that means? First, I'll …

I really hate the "gigantic block quotes between paragraphs" thing. It's very distracting from the flow and content of the article.

Yes, absolutely. The vast majority of engineers are fairly right-leaning. Some good reading: http://www.businessinsider.com/charts-show-the-political-bia... https://www.nytimes.com…

Radical leftists are easy to find. Radical leftist engineers are probably hard to find because leftist engineers in general are hard to find.

For example, people on the alt-right frequently claim that the Bogdanoffs are heavily involved in alt-right politics. Is this true? Almost certainly, but it's impossible to know fo…

Ah, brilliant idea! Politicians and voters just shouldn't be allowed to make bad choices. Why had no one thought of this yet?

Nope, they used flight radar data to triangulate the flag to within 2km, then had cars drive around.

Nope, they did use contrails. I happened to see the /hwndu/ board while it was happening. They only sent people out in cars after triangulating the flag using the sun (for camera d…

I bet you were fun in college. Good-spirited pranks don't warrant jail time.

While this was certainly illegal, I think it's hard to say that it was malicious. This has essentially become a (somewhat one-sided) prank war. If they intended to deplatform or su…

This one was 8chan, not 4chan. While I'm nothing more than an occasional passive observer of the chan communities, it seems that most of the "talent", so to speak, has left 4chan a…