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• scott-sanford commented on "The next big thing"
  The Bolo is a self-driving car with the dial turned up to 11...And what would the code for a self-driving car also do in the world of the Laundry? Brains may well still have an OGRE game on the shelf from his teen years. (Pinkie doubtless spent his doing something more flamboyant.) So it's not at all unreasonable for the idea to be floating around among the Laundry's mad scientists. They'd need a decent budget, although the lack of one leads to the amusing idea of an unstoppable robotic fighting machine mind installed on the chassis of a low performance...
• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkXhEBZQ9TAal4iR5wdj96tbxocKqEer5k commented on "The next big thing"
  For example: I noticed around 2005 that there was an eerie shortage of near-future SF—as if millennial anxiety intimidated everyone into tip-toeing away from that area. Hence "Halting State" and "Rule 34". IIRC, you recently discovered why "everyone was tip-toeing away" from where you'd boldly rushed in.......
• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnJkkAoyX6Mcunm2Q0rwoASDd95dCyLDNE commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
  You are totally correct to identify Bitcoin's weaknesses. I noted a few myself: http://alfidicapitalblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-serious-disadvantages-of-bitcoin.html It's too bad the Libertarian die-hards won't listen to rational arguments. Experimentation is always welcome in finance but crypto-currencies are going to fail when huge blockchains start crashing their transaction processing systems. Oh BTW, Bitcoin and HYIP frauds are now preying on each other: http://alfidicapitalblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-intersection-of-hyip-and-bitcoin.html That is the ultimate in hilarity....
• Keybounce commented on "The next big thing"
  Lets also not forget that the other extreme of long lead time exists: South Park takes 7 days to produce and air an episode. Yea, they can make their shows turn around that quickly. The cost? Hit-or-miss -- you like some, you hate others. They are the only people doing this, currently, that I know of. So it's certainly not common....
• majors.bruce commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
  If readers would really like to know about bit coin, law and economics scholar Jerry Brito of George Mason University has written on it. Bit coin volatility is due to the small number of venues using it, and its uncertain legal status. As more vendors accept it and its legality becomes clearer, it becomes less volatile. The idea that bit coin is deflationary in any significant sense is based in the author's assumption that it is the only currency in use in an economy, like a government monopoly currency. But it is only one of many crypto currencies and it...