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  1. Re:Deflation instead of inflation on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    Good investment, possibly... long term substitute for currency, probably not.

  2. Re:Tax on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    I give it less than that, personally. Probably by next year, in fact.

  3. Re:He's either a total idiot or a propaganda puppe on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    ...now that Bitcoin has PROVEN to be more dependable than any fiat currency in the world...

    Bitcoin has proven itself of no such thing yet. It hasn't existed yet even for five years.

    Wake me up when a country that uses it widely recovers from a full-on economic recession.

    THEN it will have proven itself dependable.

  4. Re:Deflation instead of inflation on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    How can any limited resource be "the future"?

  5. Re:Lie a little on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 1

    An employer can still fairly readily deduce your age from your resume/CV if you have any dates on it describing important things like when and where you got your degrees.

    Of course, you might just put your degree as a suffix on your name at the top of your resume/CV, and not mention where or when you received it at all, although that can very easily be suspect.

  6. Re:I might see a flaw on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    Probably, yes. I would assume the police officer looking down through your window is sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle, and not driving the car at all, and you are not in the leftmost lane.

  7. Re:Speed is always nice but... on Speed Test 2: Comparing C++ Compilers On WIndows · · Score: 1

    With 32 languages in higher demand than D as of this month, I'm not sure that's a particularly wise investment of my time.

  8. Re:Speed is always nice but... on Speed Test 2: Comparing C++ Compilers On WIndows · · Score: 1

    I suppose it depends on the importance that one weights those features.

    There are three distinctive languages features of C++11 that sold me on using it once and for all: lambdas, constexpr, and user-defined literals. Of these three, Visual Studio 2013 has only one. One out of three isn't "most"

  9. Re:Speed is always nice but... on Speed Test 2: Comparing C++ Compilers On WIndows · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't. Most notable omissions include constexpr, user-defined literals, inheriting constructors, and attributes. There are others, but those are the big ones, IMO.

  10. Speed is always nice but... on Speed Test 2: Comparing C++ Compilers On WIndows · · Score: 2

    I'd just like to see a C++11 compiler for windows.

  11. Re:Kill pact on Why Scott Adams Wished Death On His Dad · · Score: 1

    That was the above poster's point... not that wanting someone to kill him was in any way a reason *TO* get married, but that someone who wasn't willing to kill him in such circumstances would have been sufficient reason to *NOT* get married.

  12. Re:Ease into starting at universities and federal on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1

    Eliminating minimum wage wouldn't help... Not all CEO's make millions of dollars every year, and even with a 100:1 ratio structure as proposed by the article, if minimum wage were eliminated, CEO's of smaller companies would then be legally able to hire as many people as they want people working full time for salaries far below what the current minimum wage levels are, or do you seriously think that employers who were no longer limited to paying workers at least a certain amount would choose to instead, hire much more employees and pay them all that much less?

  13. Re:Hint taken. on Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review · · Score: 1

    Which is wrong... and the agency that fraudulently impacted their credit is legally culpable and could be sued for a rather large amount.

    Oh, and once the matter goes before a tribunal to arbitrate the dispute, the black mark can be completely erased.

  14. Re:Hint taken. on Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review · · Score: 1

    Sure... but as soon as they find out that the claim was not justified, the black mark is removed. An arbitrary party can't just go and ruin somebody's credit score simply by saying that they didn't pay for permission to say bad things about them (which is basically what this fine is).

  15. Re:Hint taken. on Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review · · Score: 0

    This kind of fine cannot ruin your credit score, even if it actually went to a collection agency.

  16. Re:I don't understand.... on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    It just seemed so ... senseless. Killing something just to find out how old it is strikes me as somehow ... wrong. Just wrong.

  17. I don't understand.... on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    How is killing something that was alive just to find out how old it is a good thing? I mean, certainly they must have known that opening it was going to, or was certainly very liable to kill it, so really, it seems to me like they just went and killed it just because they were curious.

    I mean, I know it was just clam, but this still somehow seems so full of stupid that I have no words for it.

    There could be life forms as far advanced beyond ourselves as we are beyond the clam elsewhere in this universe, and somehow I think that we'd find it rather morally objectionable if one of them decided just go and off an exceptional one of us simply because they happened to be able to, and were idly curious about some aspect of our biology.

  18. Man's been burning wood since prehistory on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 0

    And we're worried about it NOW?

  19. Except that conductive glue is insanely expensive on Ink-Jet Printing Custom-Designed Micro Circuits · · Score: 2

    You're probably looking at $25+ or more per project just for that stuff.

    I was pricing it out once because I have an essential hand tremor that prevents me from being able to solder.

  20. Re:Not enough on Physicists Smash Record For Wave-Particle Duality · · Score: 1

    I'm suggesting that the concept of "destroying the original half" would be meaningless in this case, since the half of the entangled system that you are moving is just as much half of the original as the destroyed half was.

  21. Re:Not enough on Physicists Smash Record For Wave-Particle Duality · · Score: 1

    why would a teleported cat have to be a copy? This experiment strongly implies that macroscopic objects have a superposition just as much as atomic particles do... the question becomes, however... how do we manipulate it? Basically, increasing the probability of something being at one location high enough that it just is there instead of wherever the heck it was.

  22. Re:Not enough on Physicists Smash Record For Wave-Particle Duality · · Score: 2

    If they can really do that, they will have invented a teleporter.

  23. Re:who cares on GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads · · Score: 1

    Gimp is 5x slower for you? Weird. I find literally the opposite.

  24. Re:who cares on GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads · · Score: 1

    The question was "What kind of system are you editing graphics from where you need to run GIMP from a portable USB drive?"

    A system that I don't necessarily have permanent use of, and wish to do editing on without having to install anything.

  25. Re:who cares on GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads · · Score: 1

    Install-free is always nice to have because you can do it anywhere... you aren't restricted to only doing it at one computer.