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Your comment reveals something often overlooked by the crowd shouting "OMG Bitcoin doesn't have chargebacks". Most people shop from merchants they trust, most merchants are honest,…

You attach too much importance to CC chargeback mechanisms. I am a typical American consumer and in 20 years doing about 5,000 credit card transactions I have never had to issue a …

> I just described it in one short declarative sentence. Except you forgot: you have to type the expiration date, the cardholder's name, and sometimes the full billing address. I w…

> For a CC sure I might have to grab the card out of my wallet and punch it in, but my numbers are pretty much memorized by now and it's beyond simple. "beyond simple", really? A l…

There is a huge difference between 90% (or even 99%) and a 100% eclipsed Sun. People in Norway should really travel to the Faroe Islands to experience totality :)

> who are mostly drug dealers or other criminals This is false. And you have no source to prove it. I know a lot of early adopters through various channels. They are geeks, crypto …

> "The insurance covers..." This statement is correct. But do we need insurance on negligence? No. The cash you carry in your pocket is not covered by insurance yet it doesn't prev…

> how often do you want to pay for something that you don't care whether you'll actually get? It is not that I don't care, but I estimate the probability the merchant is fraudulent…

Yes it is legal: "Beginning January 27, 2013, merchants in the United States and U.S. Territories will be permitted to impose a surcharge on consumers when they use a credit card."…

> As a buyer, why would I use bitcoin internationally when I can't reverse my transaction if they don't deliver? Sometimes reversibility just doesn't matter. The merchant might be …

The world's simplest reasons why you might pay something using bitcoins is simply when this is the only way, or cheapest way, or safest way to make a transaction. Example #1: some …

> you have to use an exchange to buy the coins No you don't. You can sell stuff on Craigslist for bitcoins. You can mine. You can buy coins in person from a friend/from localbitcoi…

I meant to write 21 miles (not 23 miles) round trip: "Detroiter James Robertson, 56, walks about 21 miles a day" So he would only have to bike 21 miles per day.

> Okay. Fair enough. I concede that efficiency is important and that SPDY / HTTP/2 can improve upon it. Great, I appreciate you recognize this. > Why include tons of small resource…

> The linked benchmark is flawed, as dlubarov noted above. No, I already replied to him. You and him should spend some time looking at the Chrome network console visiting some of t…

Many of the sites I visit frequently are exactly like that: tons of requests with tiny payloads. The nytimes.com homepage makes 100+ requests to tiny images. Same thing for the yah…

> And thus, benchmarks are unhelpful. No, they are helpful! Especially real-world benchmarks. Sure you can cook up utterly flawed benchmarks (like the one you pointed to), but that…

First comment: "This study is very flawed. Talking to a proxy by SPDY doesn't magically make the connection between that proxy and the original site use the SPDY protocol, everythi…

Most of the people who replied to you are wrong. Basic income could be implemented by NOT raising taxes. So it would NOT cause inflation. Eliminate current social services (and all…

No his round trip is 23 miles. I can't possibly fathom why your first thought to travel 23 miles would be to walk? Biking is OBVIOUSLY so much faster, easier, less straining, etc.

Indeed: 28 seconds with 10,000 iterations. I assumed Django was iterating 400 times. I was wrong. Thanks for correcting.

The journalist writes 2000+ words, but doesn't even bother asking the guy the most obvious question: why doesn't he buy a bike? In Detroit, biking is doable at least during the 7-8…

The Django developers are wrong to blame PBKDF2 for this slowness. It takes just 1 second with an unoptimized Python PBKDF2 to hash a 1MB password, and probably 0.1 second or less …

Protein folding can't be "solved". For a small protein of 100 amino acids, there are 2^432 (20^100) possible combinations ( http://xray.bmc.uu.se/~lars/biowww/Proteinfolds.html ). …

These consumer protection laws protect you regardless of the manner of payment: bitcoins/dollars/whatever. You CAN and SHOULD use the legal tools at your disposition (lawsuit, smal…