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All of Pooter's posts have five hyphens on the last line. So maybe this triggers the spam filter.

I found the following article: http://hiwaay.net/~becraft/FRS-myth.htm#hd25 Apparently the Fed's revenue is not 'destroyed' but transferred to the Treasury.

No, I wanted to point out that the total amount of debt can be larger than the total amount of (physical) money.

If there is only $100 in the economy, I can still owe you $105. To pay it back, I could start working for you and be paid $1 per hour. Now everytime you pay me $1, I would pay you …

> the client would declare all locks upfront But if the client crashes after acquiring the locks, wouldn't your system be deadlocked?

The two generals problem doesn't mean distributed transactions are impossible. It just means that you cannot guarantee liveness, i.e. a distributed commit protocol might block if t…

Did you even read the Paxos Commit paper? There is no single arbitrator. And what is 'unknown state' intended to mean? The system will obviously always be in a known state. It will…

The author is wrong. Distributed transactions are possible, for example using the Paxos algorithm. In Paxos, if the network fails, the system will block (i.e. become unavailable) u…

There's a set of video lectures, which seem to be pretty up-to-date: http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html

For apps sold on the Android market Google takes a 30% transaction fee, which is split between the payment processor and the carriers. Since AFAIK Google Checkout is the only suppo…

> In a true free market scenario with freely floating currencies, currencies in countries like Spain, Italy, Ireland, Greece would have devalued. Germany's currency would have stre…

Regarding point 2, I wonder how much of a benefit Itanium would see from JIT-compiled languages, because the JIT could then dynamically arrange instructions to maximize ILP.

I agree. The US is in a deflation and I don't think the Fed will be able to stop it. So cash should gain in value. Just make sure to put it somewhere safe, as banks may go bankrupt…