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While I don't disagree that speculation is the primary use case, I think the criminal side is way overstated. I use Bitcoin monthly to pay bills in my origin country, and I do it because the bank…

Since when are Roman gods long forgotten?

And, for that matter, Germany. This culture isn't bad and works reasonably well in a lot of places. (not my thing though)

The phenomenon we're talking about here isn't one that causes profound ontological and ethical questions. We're talking about simple, obvious bullshit.

Sort of. You can implement a KYC layer on too of Bitcoin, and have government-sanctioned "clean" versus illegal "tainted" coins.

On the other hand Linux is far more popular so I wouldn't be surprised if ZFS on Linux already clocks more hours of usage than on BSD.

The new chain inherited the difficulty from the previous chain. Now that the network realized there isn't as much hash rate the difficulty has been reduced and a more normal rate of block creatio…

This is just another article about how millennials are horrible, horrible people because they don't live in the 50s.

Linux VTs is all we had for a long time. Even if X was around, not everybody had computers powerful enough to comfortably run X. I had a computer that would swap just by having X open with fvwm.

Is due process that has been eroded over the years still due process? Where do we draw the line?

"Hack" also has that same bad connotation. E.g. type in a changelog that you added a "hack" to fix a bug.

Accurately translated in English as "hack".

It's kind of not important because nobody measures the kinds of things that require the level of precision applied to the kilogram definition using pounds.

And the new generation is always lazy.

And another generation of programmers learns that there is No Silver Bullet[1]. This will happen again and again. [1] http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~xswang/Research/Papers…

> You don't think you're jumping the gun here, maybe? Do you even know what the compensation will be? Walmart is known for high wages.

Is that really the case? I think Silicon Valley is perceived as _specially_ unwelcoming to women, not necessarily every computer subculture out there. My personal guess is that as a traditionally unde…

Why would you not want to embrance modern C++? That's what makes C++ (potentially) worth learning today.

Many things are a real art.

For some reason odd numbers are used more often than even. Ports 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 are all unassigned to this day.

BBS software was very regionalized. Being from a different part of Brazil Remote Access reigned supreme, while PC Board is something I saw once that one day when I dared dial long distance to some BBS…

I was also confused by their ancient product "Windows Services for UNIX", which does not run on Unix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX …