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That makes is pretty clear to me. They are not generating actual Bitcoins. Read the article again. "we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested…

Reading this I really didn't get the impression the chips would be generating actual bitcoins. Just currency-like tokens for doing resource management and proving that something oc…

Ok, continuing the argument from the article and not discussing practical methods of waste disposal... Instead of using chemical rockets for the entire dV how about using a rocket …

To be convincing they need a fake room where the camera can pull backwards and you can see there is no way the sun is real.

Old now '95. That is the an early pre-production version Pentium Pro running at 100 Mhz. The 256k L2 cache was really fast relative to memory because it was in that second die in t…

I like to combine the graphs together into one picture and then another processor structure appears the picture: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4893/mem_lat3.jpg This graph sh…

> A sticky overflow flag would be great... "if properly scheduled" That is the rub right there. Think about what this means. Every ALU operation needs to read whatever register con…

Anyone else read that as "wessel" with a fake Russian accent?

And a little bit north you can see that big crane on a barge in the water. Very cool.

Yes is it all closed. Look at bittorrent-sync. Totally cool, but closed and controlled. I don't see that working here, other than being used for porn and piracy.

Agreed, the new perl looks like Ruby. And I am willing to bet Ruby is more self consistent and easier to learn. (Says the perl 5 expert)

You understand it is making $90k/day revenue?

bad things. This is much more practical for torpedoes. In fact you would almost call those missiles at that point. Yup, it appears that is already a thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/…

"But what is up with the Visual Basic community? They are neither angry nor happy. They just ... are? :)" This is answered by the mentions relative to TIOBE graph. They use VB, but…

No information on the website and it doesn't answer the key question. Why is this better than doing the same thing in Evernote? Evernode's free level is plenty for storing receipts…

You seem to be assuming someone is using Ubuntu One.

Same here: Centurylink DSL in Indiana

Green? Because it runs off batteries? Is that all it takes. OK, but didn't we just have a discussion on hacker news showing that helicopters with one large blade are more efficient…

Here is a part that I don't get. Do they actually change the magnetic strip on the 'coin'? Or does it have a fixed VISA number that is tied to your ID and owned by the 'coin' compa…

The easiest for the US is coinbase.com. Unless you want to buy a lot. But they are not an exchange so you can't setup buy/sell orders.

I agree the log chart is the desired way to view the data because then a straight line is showing steady growth. But look at the chart you posted. I see a sharp uptick on a nice li…

Nice answer. However in practice current Intel processors do CRC32 in hardware. This blows away the rest and has really nice results. So I use portable code that using Intel's slic…

Ahh that is kinda how "exponential growth" works. But clearly the exponential part is recent because if you project backwards at doubling every 4 weeks you find the hash rate start…