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It's not. There's an under-appreciated NPM module which is/was shared by Socket.IO that only handles the low-level WebSocket protocol for NodeJS: https://www.npmjs.com/package/webs…

Water pipes, phone lines, and electrical lines are built into your house too and you're not usually forced to sign up for the monthly services if you don't want them. Fiber would b…

You don't typically call publicly owned infrastructure a monopoly. Public utility companies are created to prevent exactly what's going in broadband internet service. If the city o…

> leap frog to mars rather than sending a shuttle through earths atmosphere. But you still have to get the human through Earth's atmosphere and out of orbit anyways. Once you're ou…

Ah, this site was fun while it lasted http://fuckthensa.neocities.org/

> People need jobs to provide for themselves and their family. No, these people were seduced by promises of a big payday for copying other people's work -- plain and simple. There …

I really don't feel sorry for anyone who work(s)(ed) for Zynga. This company milked the whole "social gaming" bubble for every drop it was worth. Every game they made was a clone o…

I would've been tempted to modify the lift such that the entire desk could retract into the floor, leaving an open area when it's needed.

You just described every member of the Baby Boomer generation that I've ever worked with.

you are guaranteed nothing important is only stored locally. That's what scares me the most. Unless I have the option of not using Google's infrastructure, and can run my own "Chro…

Why stop at Obamacare? It's much, much smaller than Medicare, Social Security, the US armed forces, DHS (+ all the related bureaus), the Federal Reserve, IRS, US Treasury... essent…

This is what bureaucracies do, they grow, more complex, more political, more expensive, and exponentially harder to dismantle. Everyone knew that once Homeland Security was created…

I think if your intention is to encrypt your video content then you really have no business being on the web in the first place. Just build a native app and do whatever you want, a…

http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com is the best real-time bitcoin chart that I have found so far.

Have you even tried transfering money around with bitcoins? It's amazing. Absolutely amazing. The price of bitcoins is irrelevant and uninteresting compared to the way it facilitat…

I don't believe the argument that a deflationary currency, by itself, will make people not be willing to buy things. Consider a savings account - why would anyone take money out of…

$700 Billion for banks. $2 Billion to convert all cars to electric. Something smells fishy here.

Any idea what the total volume (in $) traded per day is?

Except you don't typically hear that about public utilities. Have you ever heard someone argue that their sewers should be sold to private corporations to operate because that woul…

Can we also get something like this going in urban and suburban areas where cable/dsl ISP's underserve and overcharge for their broadband internet. Let's just take these government…