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anyone advocating for less contrast needs a shovel to the head. Or they have the thing where high contrast makes the letters jiggle and therefore difficult to read. I get that when…

It works for Singapore - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWater

They exported and funded their errant knights using those trillions. The main reason the Saudi government has been left alone by the more extreme elements in Saudi Arabia is that t…

And now we are somehow enslaved to re-invading Iraq for a fourth time when it falls again. Is about the seventh or eighth invasion of Iraq in the past 100 years for the UK. It seem…

I was talking to a cab driver in Bristol about that and it is apparently because drivers were getting robbed by people strangling them with the seatbelt.

If you find yourself telling a plumber which specific way a toilet should be fixed, you are either an employer, or should take some engineer pills. http://dilbert.com/strip/1990-09…

Austerity politics is bonkers. When there is a recession, the state is the entity that can still borrow and lend at reasonable rates. The money will still be borrowed, but with the…

Your environment restricts your available choices and these things are tied back on themselves, so behaviour creates an environment that then influences behaviour. Looking for ulti…

Makes it easier to roll.

They are the only serious company in the home computing space that realised design and ergonomics was more important than processor frequency. Which is interesting given there are …

Exactly my point. Dropbox shoudn't even exist as a business model. edit - not crapping on dropbox particularly. Lots of things should be basic functionality by this point, sharing …

It is depressing. Networks are broken to the point where we have services resold back to us to provide the basic functionality that should be inherent in the protocol.

I thought markets were designed for unhinging numbers from reality. Surely that's what leverage is all about.

I'm sure there must be somewhere nice in Kent.

Well, it would be funny, especially if you did it at the same time. Could become a sort of Singapore style city-state. Perhaps then have an English parliament back in York. Though …

You'd pay them. You'd take something small that needs doing, outlay a much larger than usual slice of money to it and hand it out to all of the last line of candidates.

So if, The government defines extremism as 'the vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and the mutual re…

The ongoing conversation is pretty fun too - http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-05-2015#1134741

Give them a small project to do, something that should take about 3-5 days.

Bitcoin is hardly untraceable. The blockchain is a public ledger.

Well, if we are including all millionaires, I doubt the majority of them have a security detail, as that would eat into a million fairly quickly unless you underpay them, in which …

Satoshi has lots of bitcoin. People are worrying about Nick getting threatened for money, not killed for the creation of the software.