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One of the main reasons touted for this is that we didn't allow the creation of a freeway system into the downtown core and along our waterfront. This was part of the planning in t…

I can't speak for your city but this is what Vancouver looked like just before the arrival of the automobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzjRs3ARo0g As you can see the streets…

You're close but miss the mark. The solution is simply to change the existing _minimum_ parking requirements to a _maximum_ and then simply let market forces take care of it.

Michael Geist has done the most to explain the new laws. Since they just came into effect there are many articles like the following that explain the details: http://www.huffington…

Circle takes credit cards for them.

Stopping (or greatly reducing) mail spam was the original intended solution for the Proof Of Work solution that now guards the Bitcoin blockchain. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

I think that was the point of the reputation economy the article speculated. Much harder to get away with that kind of abuse with a ubiquitous, trustable (ie. decentralized) reputa…

http://www.thestupidmoose.com/ lets you pay in bitcoin. Based in Canada.

Unless you believe that bitcoin is the end game (as I do). In which case you never "sell" them although you may end up spending them.

I was worried for a while that it might be FaceBook but after yesterday's overpriced acquisition of WhatsApp that fear has subsided.

When it's accepted everywhere for anything it will be. But that's still a ways off.

Try http://localbitcoins.com

I was called and agreed to be part of poll commissioned by some segment of the media industry a few weeks ago. The caller was speechless that I had no "TV" and listened to no radio…

http://bitcoinaverage.com is the place these days.

Why not if the merchant has a great reputation that you can verify?

And yet over-all market share continues to slide: http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/handheld/android-win... Interesting.

Not yet. While it's very interesting and research-worthy technology we are far from able to declare it "safe" and it should not be left to multinational agribusiness to patent and …

Unlikely unless large banking cartels take over this service (which is possible). In any case there is approximately a century to figure this out.

Although it started by stating that every member of the network possesses a complete copy of the ledger which isn't the case (eg. Electrum, mobile wallets, etc.)