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Does it not seem plausible to you that perhaps one factor in the reduction of poaching was local people realizing there was more money to be made from tourists drawn to see elephan…

Perhaps everything comes around again once sufficient people have forgotten the lessons from last time - e.g. maybe the story from the South Sea Bubble in 1720 of "a company for ca…

I think you're missing option 3, which is to avoid drawing a conclusion either way - assume that there's no definite answer, and that the experts' expertise is too narrow to suppor…

I agree you probably won't see much benefit if most of your transactions involve cash-in-a-bank-account or coins on non-Ethereum chains. However, if: - Ethereum continues to grow; …

Yes, that's been my worry with many blockchain projects - it all sounds great until it needs to interface with the messy real-world. But - regardless of the merits of this particul…

OK, suppose you want to sell Litecoins for USD cash in a bank account. Now, admittedly, it might be that today a one stop centralised exchange is the best choice for you. But by in…

Yes, https://etherdelta.github.io/ were way ahead of everyone else, if someone asks me for an example of an Ethereum contract that's solving a real world problem right now then the…

Yes, I also think exchanging tokens is one of the (few?) situations where a smart contract really is a great solution to a real world problem (as opposed to blockchain hype). Defin…

Perhaps that's kind of a limitation of the way Citus shards data across nodes - sometimes you have to denormalize a bit so it "knows" where a row should live? (I mean, I guess you …

Relative deprivation certainly seems a better explanation than requiring some mysterious "fundamental universal rights" that people never knew they had until 18th Century Westerner…

adding unnecessary jewels definitely used to be a thing up until the 1970s - see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_watch#.27Jewel_infl...

If andai is just connecting a full-function laptop to the internet with some ethernet-over-audio bridge, then you're right. But don't you think he has a point if he's talking about…

Another interesting similar idea - http://what3words.com/ .

One more personalisation data-point ... I get the Ping Pong Dim Sum restaurant chain as my top result when I google for ping pong! Not entirely unreasonable since I am in London wh…

The television delay for "live" sports seems to be surprisingly high (and has got worse since the advent of digital TV); we're talking 5-10 seconds here. Probably even more for str…

Where do you draw the line? Some retail investors still rely on reading stock quotes in the financial section of their daily newspaper - should we force everyone to only change pri…

Odd - if I go to https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/emails/new I get an untrusted connection warning since the SSL certificate is for *.desk.com, not support.coinbase.com…

Here's one security concern - What procedure do you follow when accepting files for inclusion in jsdelivr? I mean, what's to stop this scenario: 1. attacker uploads a poisoned vers…

Are you including the time taken to make the parser produce helpful error messages? That always seems like the hard bit to me ...

It is an exciting idea but the two obstacles I can see are: 1) When asked, people may say they want security and privacy - but in practice convenience and functionality win. 2) Amo…

You're probably right about what's involved in building a truly secure smartphone from scratch that we can trust. It's an interesting thought experiment, but I wonder if we can sat…

Pedant's note: Contrary to popular belief, witch hunts were rare in the Middle Ages. They took off in popularity during the Renaissance.

One thing the (otherwise thorough) article doesn't mention is whether to provide a machine-readable schema for the API or not. Some integrators do seem fond of being able to genera…

I agree - whenever interview processes come up, commenters mostly criticise the interview processes for excluding good candidates. But that's only one part of the equation - the nu…

I agree, it would be good to see Google setting the trend here by going HTTPS everywhere. Personally I think the next website I create will be all-HTTPS. The main reasons I encount…