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I think what you're ignoring here is that as any individual gains access to more liquid wealth, they become increasingly more likely to spend some of it. As your access to supply i…

I think Lyn Alden does a good job separating velocity from inflation in this article: https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/ There is a common idea that high monetary velocity (GDP di…

Your thought experiment is assuming that $1T is permanently locked "in a vault", therefore it is not actually part of the monetary supply, since it can't be spent without violating…

Re: "ecological disaster" I believe this is misinformation, because it assumes that the energy usage is not being well spent - that Bitcoin is a waste - but that assumption could n…

I don't believe this is accurate. As trust is spread across the network to an increasing number of people running nodes, the trust assigned to any individual participant approaches…

Haha, yep, this. I hide a lot, but couldn't get scrolling to work, searched for "scroll" and stumbled on that obviously named method :)

Alt+Cmd+I -> Console -> closeOverlay()

The framing as if a normal smart phone battery isn't supposed to last a day ... while enabling an unprecedented leap in battery life to easily get through the day

Fourth Camp: You are a tinker and a smithy. You build tools for other developers to use. * Source Code: Your code is clean enough for you. Your top priority is thorough documentati…

Oh no, it's just swipes. We were designing for mobile, and desktop suffered O.o

That would be tough; the accelerated piece in native is mostly coupled to the JS API - specifically the view hierarchy and animations. It's pretty straightforward to port games to …

OP - I've been working with the Game Closure team on the HTML5 devkit for quite a while now, and we have yet to find an engine that gets better performance out of 2D JS games on na…

Can confirm, awesome person. She is always full of energy because she loves her work; she rallies all of her team members to strive for success, and she goes out of her way to care…

In this statement, Tyson is referring to science as an objective reality. Science in human terms, as he often admits, has flaws that need to be explored and solved. However, in thi…

LinkedIn also sets some very annoying traps for its users. A few days ago, I received an email from LinkedIn displaying an old friend who wanted to connect. I was excited to see an…

You may not be able to patent math, but certain numbers are still illegal! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime

So you can't patent math ... but certain numbers can still be illegal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime

This is a publicity stunt and/or money grab by Susan Wilson. This reddit post sums it up: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1awr1n/millionai... The authors dug up some of…

This reddit post sums up everything wrong with this, quotes the broken KS rules, and links to evidence: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1awnzx/so_you_know_th...

Girl scout cookies don't cost $21,000+ and neither does RPG camp. You're right, it's probably not fraud, but it is a publicity stunt at Kickstarter's expense. I agree a good petiti…

Older siblings tend to give little siblings a hard time in general, regardless of their gender. This is most definitely a publicity stunt at Kickstarter's expense. Millionaire's be…

Visual perception is truly an amazing thing! The author's anecdotes about vision alteration and the brain's ability to adapt were very interesting to me. I have nystagmus: my eyes …

This is pretty frightening. Banks are too big to fail and now too big to jail; it follows that the top 1% also has these attributes. Does that mean the American government is power…

We had your catering a few months ago, I remember it being delicious, hope everything turns out for the best!