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> Money does not shift from new investors to the creators of Bitcoin. I'm not quite sure what confusion of ideas lead you to believe this.

Please explain how new investors obtain bitcoins, if not from the original members of the system (some of the early users have 1% of the total bitcoins, I recall hearing). Yes, there's mining, but that's not an effective way to transform money into bitcoins - I mean, say that I wanted 1000 bitcoins. Building an expensive new computer to mine and waiting for them to magically appear is not how I would go about it.
Yes, it sounds pretty strong to me. If Facebook didn't strongly believe these were forgeries, they wouldn't be pressing Ceglia for proof, but would be pushing some other defense. Good for Facebook and Mark.
No its 1993 all over again - Windows 95 (announced at the developer's conference in LA that year) was going to be the OS that used a browser as a significant portion of the UI...

This stuff keeps coming around.

One does wonder why MS think they can outdo Google Chrome OS and HP/Palm WebOS at this though - still a native API for JavaScript is a cool idea although I wonder how that fits in with the "sand tray" security model.
I love this comment: "UPDATE: The EFF is still unofficially accepting Bitcoins, but their address has changed to: 16g5mes4kW1gpX9Vp1F5VG7HXqN8ySar9EI've just donated a few BTCs to help them protect the freedom of the Internet - please help them too!" Nice one "Rebecca S. Reagan"!
Using Bitcoin the way the EFF is using it (giving out a single address for all transactions) will result in anyone being able to see all funds received. The recommended way, however, is for each transaction to receive its own address. For example, clicking on the EFF's Donate button would then create an address that would be used only for that one donation.

One such innovation that takes advantage of a publicly visible blockchain is an online lottery. With a public transaction log, one can wager and know that the operator isn't cheating by not revealing all wagers. BitLotto, for instance just had a monthly draw. I know exactly how many tickets were bought because each wager appears in the blockchain. I can then know that the winning tickets was chosen fairly because I can replicate the algorithm myself. And I can know that the payment to the winner was made as that will appear in the blockchain as well.

Because nearly all the expenses of running a lottery are absorbed by the bitcoin network, these lotteries can be run profitably even when paying out 99% of the amounts wagered.

In other words, Bitcoin is versatile. When anonymity is desired it can be attained. When a fully auditable transaction register is needed, there are methods to allow that as well.

If instead you want an example of a payment network where your wallet is "open to everyone" see WingCash: http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=4232.0
Two negative parts of BC, 1 - A group of nerdy/freedom-chasing (that's a complement) say no to it without any reason (such as legal advice on it), 2 - Read the first comment of the blog post.
Then do it. No questions about it.
yes it does require the right hashtag. but we use multiple for a given show. For instance, american idol is a twitter search for "American Idol" OR #idol OR #AmericanIdol. it seemed like figuring out the best search string for each show took more time then building the app.
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on #2 the button at the top for new tweets, let's you control when to refresh the list (click on it). Otherwise shows like american idol have so much traffic you can't read the stream.
Nah, there is all sorts of informal feedback that you get from actually being local: cross talk, voice tone, facial expressions, half-sketched white boards. It's just a different thing, at least for me.
For the UKers we have a lot of startup jobs listed on CoderStack:

http://www.coderstack.co.uk/startup-jobs
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There's a recent text about the science of music. I gave it to my father, but didn't read it myself. (He's both very technical and has a strong background in music.)

He recently commented that he was surprised at how interesting he was finding it.

If I recall / learn from him the title, I'll follow up.
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Numerous other trend stories have been manually suppressed by HN's operators this year. The argument that a story is probably valid because HN's "anti-spam algos" didn't catch it probably doesn't hold water.
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I'm no economist but my layman's understanding is this...

Early adopters have a huge incentive to convince more people to use Bitcoin. If Bitcoin is successful the value of Bitcoins is guaranteed to increase because there's a finite number of them. Because of this, naturally people will hoard their Bitcoins rather than spend them. At some point people will realize the price of Bitcoins was driven up by speculation, and it will collapse.

I'm not saying Bitcoin was intentionally devised as a pyramid scheme, but that's kind of what it looks like it's turning into.
AFAIK a "personal" copy is usually interpreted to mean a copy used by the same person.
Yup, although I don't think the tagline was exclusive to Punchd. Maybe I mis-interpreted it, but I thought they were saying for all the mobile startups. Seeing as if the phone is in your pants...
Well, there is one piece of silver lining . . . someone who needed a kidney is now presumably going to get it, a la this kid.
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Sigh. The guy was pretty clearly talking about his schools, and definitely was not talking about the state average. The entire letter he's talking about "his" schools. The sentence you quoted might have been the only one in the whole passage that he omitted a posessive. He certainly never used the word "average"

If the state average is 9.6k, and his district is suburban, it stands to reason he'd be a fair bit under that at around 7k, esp in michigan where the cities are so f'd up. That would make total sense. Or we could just assume he's talking about something else and lying about it for no reason. Whatever.

Sorry for accusing you of fudging, I misread the stats myself and your attitude didn't generally come across as honest so I was too annoyed to double-check.

Anyways attempted gotcha nitpicking that doesn't change conclusions is way more substantive than actual education policy, I agree that this is awesome. You should work for CNN.
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A few points:

- What if the file had been labeled "Britney Spears Nudes.rar?" What about "Ubuntu 12.04 Saucy Serpent.iso?" Does the fact that it was labeled as a work that was not authorized for p2p distribution (by a completely different copyright holder, mind you) change things that significantly?

- If it can be proven that the copyright holders are distributing their works on p2p networks under different names in order to ensnare people into the "do I pay $3k to make this go away or $$$$ to defend myself in court" question, then that should constitute some sort of fraud.

- Applying this logic to other areas also fails the "does this make sense" test. Should you go to jail for downloading child pornography if someone sends you a link to download "Cute Kitten Photos.rar?"

- A person has no idea that they are violating the copyright of copyright holder X when they download the file. They can only verify the file contents once the file is downloaded. Sure they may have intended to commit copyright infringement against copyright holder Y, but so longer as this is not the same person as copyright holder X, I don't see how copyright holder X should have any standing to 'punish' this user on behalf of copyright holder Y.
I've found your economic explanations a breath of fresh air in this thread. Thanks.
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Thanks.. cast and crew are on my short list to add, so you can just watch the stream of tweets from the cast. And not all of the random public tweets too..

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Seems that if you use this, your documents won't be able to be considered 'valid' by validators (tested on the w3 validator). Unless, perhaps, you just mark your doctype as html and be done with it?
You might be able to call it a speculative (digital) commodity bubble. And there's a possibility for this "commodity" to one day go "poof!" and disappear (gov't regulation, hackers, system failure, etc.) Only time will tell us those things.

But I don't see how you could call it a pyramid scheme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme
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Not quite ponzi. Somewhere between a Ponzi and a bubble -- economically it's a bubble, practically it's a Ponzi.

Most bubbles start by accident -- this one was carefully engineered.

How do you engineer a bubble? First you invent an asset. But if it's an asset that only you own then nobody will want to believe it's valuable. So you make it possible for the first round of early adopters to get it for free, by "mining. The first adopters talk the second adopters into trying it too (they can still get significant amounts by mining) and... well, you know the story. You also wrap it in some political anti-fiat-currency anti-bank anti-Fed anti-government anti-whatever pro-cryptography political wrapping to make it appealing to a certain constituency. But the key thing is to give out the "asset" for free at first, and to a lesser extent as time goes on, to incentivise early adopters without requiring 'em to actually put their hands in their own pockets. It's quite brilliant, the best memetically-engineered scam since Scientology.

And now I'm really getting tired of discussing bitcoin. I think I'll write a big long blog post in the form of a FAQ, submit it, and never mention bitcoin ever again.
I suppose I'm referring more to 4.01, since 5, as far as I know, doesn't constitute the majority of websites. Things like nonstandard attribute tags and wrapping inline elements around block elements. These are what I thought of when I thought of "dated".
You should have your own boilerplate contracts reviewed too. This will not cost $9000.
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Yep. It could be argued that the first is more readable though.
Some people called it a scam, I think it could be a bubble, but a pyramid scheme it most definitely is not:

A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves promising participants payment, services or ideals, primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme or training them to take part, rather than supplying any real investment or sale of products or services to the public. Pyramid schemes are a form of fraud. (Wikipedia)
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You would have to prove that there were 'honeypotters' out there and not just some random person that decided to relabel the files (which the lawyers then found and sued over).
I thought Heroku only suppoted Ruby and node.js. Can someone explain what is going on here? Does it run arbitary executables, but it handles Ruby in some more powerful way?
I down-modded this comment, but since the user probably made it in good-faith I'm going to explain why.

This would be a good comment on reddit - short, opinionated and easy for people who share the sentiment to upvote to show their agreement.

However, it doesn't add anything to the discussion. It's not insightful or relevant, it just adds noise to the discussion. The community here generally tends to try to keep the discussion more thoughtful with less short, funny quips, and following that ideal this comment does not belong.
I don't want to split hairs, but if I steal cable for a month, the cable company permanently loses the money I should have paid for a month of cable. Just because they don't lose the 1s and 0s they're selling doesn't mean there's no permanent loss.

My apartment has a rental agreement about how many people are allowed to live there. If I break the agreement by allowing ten friends to live there I lose my apartment. If I loan my NetFlix password to ten friends, I see no reason why they shouldn't just terminate my account.
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I kind of agree with you but I still downvoted because using Womyn's Studies offends at least some people who might otherwise listen to you. One does not argue on the internet in order to convince the person one is debating with but to persuade the lurkers.

Also, what you wrote wasn't worth writing unless you were going to back it up. It's pure applause lights[0]

[0]http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/
This is a bit incorrect - browsers weren't a big thing in 1993, and the development of Windows 95 happened in a world where browsers were only becoming "a big deal" in the background. (Hell, The Microsoft Network that came bundled with Windows 95 was essentially meant to be a competitor to the Internet.) It wasn't until a service pack or two into Windows 95's life that IE started to be bundled, and it wasn't until IE 4 in 1997 that Active Desktop appeared.

But, yes, the main interface to the Windows desktop being rendered via IE has been a long-term and recurring thing for Microsoft.
> How can you convince a bank[1] to give you money, if the bank's money is already producing a healthy return just sitting in the bank's vault?

Why do people invest in stocks when they can play it safe in a bond market? They have a different appetite for risk.

I do see your point, a constantly inflating money supply encourages people to invest. The flip side to that is, are the investments worth it? Inflation is an artificial incentive to invest, which some believe is the cause of bubbles. Remember all those stupid investments in the dot-com bubble? Some believe it's because money was too cheap.
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It is just about the sketchiest thing ever to respond to a discussion of how much legal help you need to set up a legally sound corporation with a plea to instead get a "certificate of virtual incorporation".
He said a good lawyer, not an average one. If one cannot tell the difference when choosing between a good and an average (or worse) attorney, then there is very little chance that they will do an adequate job with self-research, either.
Can you exchange your bitcoins for gold or beans? Because right now, bitcoin purchasing power amounts to a hill of beans.

Gold is a commodity, not a currency. It is a scarce commodity that is highly demanded as a part of luxury goods. Thus, it commands a high price on the open market.

Beans are also commodities, but they are plentiful. Bean demand is easily met, so they're not priced very highly.

Bitcoins are not production inputs, so their only value is (ostensibly) as an alternative fiat money or value store. Unlike country-backed fiat money, you cannot exchange bitcoins for goods, so the only demand for bitcoins comes from people "investing" in them. If you want to play the bitcoin market, that's fine--in that case, you're generating wealth for yourself. Not value.
FYI in the 1800s, the publishing industry tried to shut down public libraries by lobbying governments to make it illegal for people to read books without first paying for them.
1. There are obviously more that those three types of Entrepreneurs. Hopefully you weren't making that assertion.

2. I'm a bulldozer, but not because I'm forceful or a bad person. I just see that reality has different levels of rules, and I pay attention to the most important (undeniable, or carrying heavy fines for malfeasance along with a high chance of getting caught) rules. To be clearer:

p(I get caught)*(cost of fine for getting caught) +moralCostOf(thisNaughtyAction)= expected cost of being naughty (taking conscience into consideration).

Some people are willing to pay more to be naughty. Some people overestimate/underestimate the probability of getting caught. Some people have no moral cost for a particular naughty action.

Anyways, there are thresholds that could predict whether or not I'd be naughty, given what I think the expected cost of being naughty is, and how much I'm willing to pay to be naughty in that particular case.
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Crazy thought here... what if at their dev conference they show Silverlight compiling to HTML/JS.

The first thought from a lot of devs might be "oh no, you can't break the html/js abstraction -- this is ASP.NET all over again". I'd argue its completely different. ASP.NET tried to abstract/create server side state. And with this tons of issues crept into the abstraction. With clientside technology, these abstractions are what we've always done, whether macro assemblers, C compilers, JVMs, Lisp interpreters. I've long argued that JS should be abstracted (and honestly I'd prefer a bytecode, but that's a seperate story) -- here's to hoping they've done it (and of course languages like CoffeeScript and Script# have gone a long ways towards it already).
This is somewhat off topic and a completely non-technical response but am I the only one who gets a small dose of 'warm fuzzies' when large competitors join forces on something like this? Everything we read is always competition, lawsuits, accusations... and to me it gets tiring. Occasionally seeing something like this warms the cockles of my cold jaded IT heart. Nuff said, let the technical merit debate begin.
All I could think while reading through the getting started was: that is an awful lot of added text. After a little more thought: that is an awful lot of added work. And while it won't be hard to have tools that make the process easier, the sort of work that goes into adding that data can never be completely automated (otherwise, we would have no need for it). Given that all the search engines will be using it, all major sites basically have to implement this or they risk falling in their rankings.

So, at the end of the day, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo just made web development more expensive. They probably also just made the web a better place, too.
The most important lesson to learn from the Bitcoin experiment is that 'money == speech' on a fundamental, cryptographic level.

Anonymous speech (i.e. using public keys) enables anonymous trades with other people.

Transactions are signed and can't be forged, just like publishing a blog post signed with your public key.

And a distributed network can be strong, just like bittorrent or Tor.

Regardless of whether the current implementation and economy surrounding Bitcoin succeeds (I think it will), this is without a doubt how our future information-enlightened society will develop
Sure it's reasonable. I think bitcoins have zero value. I recognize that there may be people out there who are willing to pay real dollars for it right now, but I think that in the long run, no such people will exist. Hence, I place its value at zero.
I think it's an idea that appeals to a certain demographic of people who are very passionate about their interests. It actually reminds me of the Ron Paul phenomenon circa 2008. He was an interesting yet largely inconsequential politician... but his supporters were everywhere on the Internet.

It also doesn't hurt that lots of people stand to gain financially from bitcoin hype.
The best of both worlds for me is to work for a new division or product inside a large company. This way you get some of the start up type leverage and exposure, but have some decent processes and people in place to learn from. Also you have the stability of the constant income to pay off student loan debts.
Are you sure? I spent two years of my life to build this virtual certificate of incorporation so that it actually means something. So just maybe you are dismissing it too quickly. Of course, it has a very specific range of applications, namely developers for apps, websites and so on, not for dentists and restaurants.
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I'd be surprised if he couldn't find an attorney to take it on contingency. The site's been around for a decade and scores OK on traffic rank; Ben Huh was able to get ~$30m for the cheezburger/lolcats operation so it's probably worth something...and that would be discoverable.

Amusingly enough, funnyjunk.com has a very assertive list of terms and conditions, and looks ready to stoutly defend its own brand against infringement.
I've had some miserable open-office experiences.

I've actually had better, and more productive, interaction with distant/remote colleagues, in particular as a member of a "senior" team. People knew what they were about and were no nonsense and largely "post-ego" -- whatever did the job, and pointing out errors received a "thanks" rather than a bunch of defensive politics.

Plus, real conversations could happen -- because they weren't constantly being interrupted or joined in by passersby and those with an idle moment.

So... The value's more than commute time and gas money. But it's also personally defined.

(You can argue about resultant productivity and the bottom line for the business, but almost no business seems to measure this nor act on in in a substantive manner. Therefore, it is "delegated" to the role of a personal choice, if there's any choice at all.)

One concern: Is there a career path for you? Whether defined by the company, or by you personally.
"Utility costs going above the block-finding reward doesn't just happen in the flooding scenario"

Why not? If I throw in 4x the computational power for 2 weeks or less why wouldn't the next wave be that much harder?
I don't understand the hate towards bitcoin and bitcoin news stories.

Regardless if this implementation succeeds or not, the idea, the theory, the economics and the politics behind bitcoin are highly interesting.

Bitcoin is perfect hacker news in my view.
It's not at all cynical. The issue here is that influential people get listened to

Should be a period right there!

How many people protesting this online will actually write their congressperson and complain? Lobbyists get listened to because they say something. It's hard for someone to hear you if you're silent!
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Some people think wikileaks is a good idea. Paypal and other processors have blocked donations to wikileaks, even though it's legal to donate to them.

Some people like to play poker online. The same entities have been prohibited by the government from processing transfers to poker sites.

From a startup perspective, the "terms of service" for Paypal, Amazon payments, and others are full of applications you can't use them for, even though many of them are legal. On top of that, Paypal is notorious for locking accounts if they decide they don't like you.

Currency used to be neutral. Now it's not. So people have invented a new one that is.
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