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>porting an old Python codebase to Node Node is how.

Nobody knows that YOU have the Bitcoins. What they know is that "coin" Y is at Bitcoin address 19FD9iREicdxheyt654FD6fsgdsfh. There is only one way to connect Bitcoin address 19FD9…

It's already widespread enough to use for some forms of money laundering. If you want to secretly move money from the US to Europe, just buy BTC in the US, deposit them on Mt. Gox …

The Bitcoin protocol fixes the rate of inflation by adjusting the size of the hash that needs to be calculated. Big Bitcoin rigs don't cause inflation, they merely increase the odd…

I'm never, ever getting an iPhone.

Ease of programming isn't the issue, at least not when it comes to writing libraries that must interface with C code (as a robot-interfacing library is likely to). Most Schemes and…

I'll answer the questions in order: 1: If humans lost all technology today, the vast majority of them would die off within a month, because only modern, high-energy farming can get…

Asking a philosophical question like "what does X really mean" is akin to asking "what data structure would best represent X in a program?" They could even be considered to be the …

We don't really create -- we merely transform physical resources from one form to another, increasing total entropy in the process. Because entropy can only increase and never decr…

This is the second post I've seen from wozad.com where clicking on the headline simply leads to their top-level site (where they try to sell you their service). Smells like spam to…

Rule of law is a myth. A leaky abstraction. Laws can't rule people because laws don't have minds. People, on the other hand, do have minds, and they use them to create deceptive ab…

I don't know what dictionary you're using, but here are a few definitions from mine: scalable - How well a hardware or software system can adapt to increased demands. scalable - th…

I disabled Flash when I discovered that if a Web page has multiple Flash objects, then each one gets its own thread. Where one Flash object consumes 20% of an average CPU, 20 of th…

Loops would probably be easier to teach if they taught "goto" first. "Goto" is easy for beginners to grasp, and loops can be taught in terms of it.

Recursion is easy if you're used to it. A recursive procedure just looks like a loop to me.

I remember checking out a first-year CS textbook from a library, back when I was in HS. It described one-bit adders and other hardware and then prescribed a lab assignment that req…

These statements (especially the one about "meaning") show how religion affects a person's view of science. For it to mean something to be human, there has to be someone who intend…

The only problem with your 10-hour workweek is that, as living expenses go down and people try to stop working, wages drop also (because workers won't complain as much if the cuts …

This social factor includes murders and other petty crimes, as well as holocausts, wars, and things of that sort, all of which have a tendency to reduce lifespan, and none of which…

Because, unlike Julian Simon, some people know that the planet is made of matter, and they know about the Law of Matter/Energy Conservation, the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, and othe…

Right now, there is a Web site (pogo.com) where people actually pay money to play pointless, boring games (such as Solitaire, Mahjong, etc), all of which are written in Java. A sim…