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  1. Re: Foolproof isn't. on How DIY Rebels Are Working To Replace Tech Giants (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Mandalay Bay.

  2. Re: Multiple execs had to agree to this on Tinder Must Stop Charging Its Older Users More For 'Plus' Features, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I would counter argue that younger people on average earn less. [Insert bell curve]

  3. LUCIUS

  4. Re: Birth of cool on How Big Tech is Getting Involved in Your Health Care (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm glad someone brought up cholesterol. High cholesterol is actually a symptom of weak blood vessel walls. Cholesterol acts as a bandaid preventing aneurysms. However, this bandaid can clog your arteries if your condition is severe. Imagine all the blood vessels in your body thinning, your body will produce large amounts of cholesterol. How do we prevent thinning of your blood vessels? By entering a weekly reminder on your PDA: less smoking, less alcohol, less sugar, more exercise, more vegetables and last but not least more Vitamin C from organic sources.

  5. It's possible that Fintech holds patents in the field of cryptocurrency. Just to name a few companies: Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Bank of America, and Coinbase. I think it's time we all take this cryptocurrency seriously and stop comparing it to tulips and dot.com bust. Thousands of public companies are valued in the hundreds of billions. Fact is, people are fed up with rising costs and falling incomes. It doesn't help when the money that people depend on is own by a cartel of banks who honestly have no interest in the people or our government by the people. USDebtClock.Org You tell me what the alternatives are.

  6. But the Dollar is any better? A currency that inflates over time; think about it, the longer you hold the Dollar the less it is worth. Bitcoin deflates overtime, only 22 Million Bitcoins shared across the globe. Guess what the Dollar is not backed by anything either, if Bitcoin does crash it would be at the hands of regulators or a rival cryptocurrency.

  7. Re: Two jackoffs on Boeing CEO Says Boeing Will Beat SpaceX To Mars (space.com) · · Score: 1

    But...but...National Geographic created a fictional documentary called "Mars" and it was good.

  8. Re: LOL on The Winklevoss Twins Are Now Bitcoin Billionaires (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And when they do cash out the IRS will be there waiting.

  9. Bitcoin is an International phenomenon without a central government. No longer will money be controlled by quasi governmental agencies, monopolized on the backs of its citizens. America always talks about Freedom - Bitcoin is Freedom. And yet here is Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Shiller criticizing something they do not understand; or rather, something they fear. The fear of not having control. Please run back to your Keynesian economics, monetary policies, and interest rates. Good job in keeping the American people in perpetual debt. If you don't like Bitcoin then don't use it - you weren't invited anyways.

  10. Re: Let's Just Reuse 90s Buzz Words on Cryptocurrencies Aren't 'Crypto' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Meet me in the 'freewarez' room. -= Insert retro looking ASCII =-

  11. Re: Blockchain-currencies. on Cryptocurrencies Aren't 'Crypto' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What about Peer-to-Peer currencies?

  12. Re: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish on Microsoft and GitHub Team Up To Take Git Virtual File System To MacOS, Linux (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Visual Source Safe was easy to use, came with a GUI.

  13. Tasty Wheat on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe everything tasted like chicken... ...the broth.

  14. Re: Basically has one job on Apache OpenOffice: We're OK With Not Being Super Cool (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As a user when I found out Oracle was sponsoring OpenOffice I jumped ship to LibreOffice - like many people. The fork was a reaction to Oracle, much like Android. I don't see Libre aa traitors, if anything they're hereos. What we need now is a gradual merging from both parties.

  15. Re: Cue in Bitcoin deniers on Bitcoin Smashes Past $7,000 For the First Time (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, when was the last time you bought a Big Mac with silver and gold.

  16. Re: BeauHD, you're a fucking moron ... on Over 500 Million PCs Are Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency, Researchers Reveal (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    You guys are so mean. You never had a grandma use CompuServe. You're gang banging BeauHD for being thorough. Shame on you all. Shame. Shame. CPU IS the 'brain', and the PSU is the 'heart'. Heart. . . Uh huh.

  17. Re: Huh... on A New Way to Learn Economics (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Speaking of which, prostitution and drug cartels are now counted in the national GDP.

  18. Re: You ever notice carriers treat their single-li on Like Netflix? T-Mobile Is Giving it Away For Free (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I feel the same way, feels like we are being punished for being single. But there are studies that say buying in bulk can be wasteful if the unused goods could have been better used for something else. Besides you're better off spending valuable time on PlentyOfFish or OKCupid than watching reruns.

  19. Re: A status symbol? on Some Instagram Employees Sell Verification For Thousands of Dollars (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Speaking of which, how much for the Orange Star on /. ? I bet it goes anywhere from a foot rub to paying for your Uber.

  20. I'm not sure how NPUs are implemented, my guess is you have an array of gates like a FPGA that can recompile itself creating a new netlist. In effect, a cpu that is able to evolve and learn when given feedback - the first neuron. Any phDs here?

  21. A car is a car, a house a house, a horse is a horse (of course), art is art and money is money. The concept of money is real, and which ever commodity comes closest to the concept of Money we be used as the standard. Bitcoin is fungible and people with assets will continue to facilitate trading using which ever "money is available", even if they have to create their own currency. Burger King will have their WhopperCoin and people like you and me will have to EARN WhopperCoins to BUY whoppers. That is the intrinsic value of all the cryptocurrencies.

  22. Re: The payphone isn't the important part on What We Get Wrong About Technology (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    So Bill and Ted were really in the Matrix and the flux capacitor was really a dynamic FPGA programmed by AI - that makes time travel possible.

  23. Re: Never should have been granted on E-Commerce To Evolve Next Month As Amazon Loses the 1-Click Patent (thirtybees.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if there was a 2-Click patent.

  24. Re: Bacteria can not colonize mars on NASA is Sending Bacteria Into the Sky on Balloons During the Eclipse (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Hm...what about psychedelic mushrooms? Maybe we can put mushrooms on these balloons as well.

  25. Re: Well rounded. on Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? · · Score: 1

    And Cobol.