You're missing the larger point: the Bay Area hasn't built much in the way of housing in the past 30 years, despite the fact that many successful companies have expanded rapidly.

This problem was completely avoidable, nobody "had" to be pushed out.

So much math, so little gain.

This NY Daily article has much more info, including the resignation letter.

My favorite part is the mayor's response: "I wish him the best, live long and prosper. I don't know what else to say."

Ubuntu does the same, if not worse.

Ubuntu has better security in that in order to find this information, the attacker would have to wade through countless confusing pages on the sluggish mess that is Launchpad.net.

It's not a political debate so much as a statement of fact based on the poll results. And if you've paid the slightest attention to American politics over the past few decades, this shouldn't be a surprise.

According to the more informative Time article, it's entirely software-based, and the whole shebang has Intel's backing.

This article makes no sense. What the fuck does Facebook's political stance have to do with UX?

Anyone who's ever used Facebook could tell you their UX is terrible, you don't need to bring politics into it.

You mean like the image you get by going to their home page and clicking the download link?

"Bitcoin users" sounds an awful lot like the democratic ideals behind most modern government currencies. Aside from being more globally representative, the question still comes down to how the users of the currency are more representative than, for example, that of USD.

As Ars explained, "RSA's defense seems to be that officials didn't know the NSA-influenced deterministic random bit generator had weaknesses that could be exploited to crack adversaries' cryptographic keys."

Whether bribery was involved or not, RSA used an algorithm without validating the math.

Not everybody feels that a currency backed by violence is an ethical arrangement.

Of course it's not. The question comes down to this: what's the alternative? So far, nobody has come up with a method to protect physical assets that doesn't involve physical security. Bitcoin doesn't solve this (nor does it attempt to.)

Nor do they feel that allowing politicians to destroy the value of a currency is a wise course of action.

How is letting a group of bitcoin power users alter the currency's value any different?

First of all, there is only one issuer of bitcoin: the bitcoin network, acting in aggregate, according to a pre-agreed algorithm.

Which is to say, the number of bitcoin can be changed as long as a sufficient number of people agree to change the algorithm.

Secondly, the value of almost any modern day currency is entirely a perceptual value caused by the notion that people will accept that currency at some approximately-known rate for payment for goods or services.

In theory, sure. In reality, there's a reason that countries with strong currencies have strong militaries to protect those currencies.

That's probably why the Enlightenment home page shows it running on a phone.

Kdenlive is essentially one guy's hobby project. Blender has a number of professional developers working on it full time. Both are open source, but it's really an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Sounds like it's time for Covey to come back to life and write "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Fictional Characters."