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Seems a possibility for the medium term. I've also seen speculation that it's an engineering experiment to see if they can squeeze all the essential components of a high-powered co…

The blockchain isn't the problem. It's supposedly the solution.

That takes courage.

I don't think that's the point. Sure you can vote with your wallet, but it is still pretty annoying to have an insurance salesperson or a telemarketer make an irrelevant sales pitc…

Agreed. Similar reason why Starbucks has a Venti size and no longer lists their Short size on the menu – so that it makes it more reasonable (from a consumer standpoint) to purchas…

Same here. BEM is not "technology". It's a philosophy or an organisational pattern.

I wish more people would work on ideas that would impact the poorer half of the human race.

@yegg, is DuckDuckHack coming back? That was one of my first forays into open source and was hoping that there is more that I (and the community) can do to help improve DDG further…

I've got a team exploring the idea of executing a smart contract that transfers assets (be it crypto-asset or real world assets) upon a specific real-world trigger event (via oracl…

What is Wavecrest's business model as a card issuer then? [Genuine question]

The dollar is only "backed by oil" if you can take your dollar bill to the US Treasury and get it exchanged a dollop of crude of an equivalent value. The last time the dollar was b…

I think he's referring to cryptocurrencies as opposed to listed securities.

> But Satoshi also recognized that having more computing power on the network made the network stronger as long as the people with the power, like Laszlo, wanted to see Bitcoin suc…

Depending on whether you used their internal wallet (which they heavily incentivised), sellers might have lost their earnings in BTC from selling their hashpower.

I'll be damned if Uber isn't a required case study for business school students in the (near) future. They are fast becoming the Enron of this generation.

May not be exactly what you're looking for, but under the Customize menu, you can toggle the Title Bar. This adds a macOS-style title bar and flushes the tabs to the left of the wi…

That's really surprising considering that we've seen beta releases of iOS for quite a number of years now. Isn't the point of a beta release to make sure that the OS is battle-test…

Don't mean to be a downer, but it feels like we'll get to self-driving cars before we can automate/autopilot drones. Having to consider additional degrees of freedom (z-axis, corre…

Genuine question here: Are there defamation or slander laws in the US? How does that reconcile with the First Amendment?

How does Bitcoin make the transition from a gold-like store-of-value to a medium-of-exchange then? If the general consensus is that Bitcoin's value will continue to appreciate, it …

If everyone kept all their cash under their mattresses, what makes you think your employer would be able to pay your salary? Where would your employer get the cash to pay you? A he…

Wouldn't it be obvious if you constantly switch your account back and forth between public and private?

Am I missing something here? Isn't the notch already taken up by FaceID sensors/front-facing camera? It isn't really "extra screen real estate". I do like the idea of a separate in…