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Comment Re:If I had to guess who the founder of bitcoin wa (Score 1) 120

I thought your story was going to go like this...

When I hear about bitcoin's founder I am reminded of a homeless man I met in Palo Alto in the 1990's, in his 30's or 40's. He used to stand on the street chanting weird things and you would think he was insane, which he was. But if you talked to him, you'd realize he was pretty smart too. Anyhow, he told me about how he was getting his P.H.D. in Economics from Yale, but they rejected his thesis which was basically about private currency, as his professors equated it with counterfeiting and he subsequently went semi-mad according to him. This guy was a smart homeless guy but also a little crazy, his shopping cart had various gadgets powered by car battery, and I think there was a reason he was hanging out in the valley at that time. Find him, and you will find the creator of bitcoin. Anyway, after he was all done telling me this, he looked intently at me and said, "By the way, can you spare some change? I need about tree fiddy."

Comment Re:Only temporary (Score 1) 641

Chimpanzees absolutely cannot function in human society. When they become agitated, people around them lose hands and eyes. If they're lucky.

"I don't know... It's not wise to upset a chimpanzee."
"But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid."
"That's 'cause a droid don't pull people's arms outta their sockets when they lose. Chimpanzees have been known to do that."

Comment Re:The Vote (Score 1) 641

What that meant is that slaveholding states had greater representation in the US House of Representatives than if the slaves were not counted.

Well, yes, that was a short-term consequence of it. But what it actually meant, in the long term (and why it was such a briliiant tactic!) is that it encouraged states to free their slaves in order to gain even more representation — because those "other persons" would then count as 1.0 as free persons, as opposed to only 0.6 as slaves. In other words, the slave-holding states were tricked by their own greed. It's brilliant.

Comment Re:Assembly == SLOW ; JAVA == FAST! (Score 1) 372

I would dare you to take a 20 year old program in any language and have it run successfully on any current computer without having to do some substantial tweaking or putting that computer into some sort of historical mode of operation.

10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"
20 END
RUN
HELLO, WORLD!

Yup, still works without any tweaking!

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