The poster specifically mentions that it is the first time it has been captured with respect to *a wild fish*, so your experience isn't really a counter-example. Having said that, if it is observed independently (as opposed to being trained behavior) in captive animals, I guess it is not a huge surprise that it occurs in the wild too.

That would be an interesting way for a single party to take down bitcoin - not through a technical issue / via the peer-to-peer infrastructure, but rather by creating a run on the currency by stealing a large chunk (from compromised miners' computers) and selling it on the open market. This is a threat that will always be there, and it will mean that things that are sold for bitcoin will likely always be priced in dollars (or some other benchmark currency) to sidestep the volatility of a market that can be cornered so easily by a single party.

I would have thought that calling corporations "pseudo-government" was a bit of paranoia showing through what is (whether correct or not) an otherwise relatively rational argument, but with the Wikileaks fiasco (and in particular, the "voluntary" embargoes enforced by Amazon, Paypal/eBay, Visa, Mastercard and others) perhaps it is me being naive rather than you being paranoid...

Mea culpa - I had thought that the AC parent was referring to the rate of GDP growth as being GDP, but in fact of course you are right and he/she could well have been referring to the fact that GDP itself is an increase year-over-year

"Gross domestic product (GDP) refers to the market value of all goods and services produced within a country in a given period." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product

You are referring to the rate of growth of GDP, which is often quoted in news reports, but is not the same thing as GDP itself (which is, as per the usage of the person posting above, an absolute amount rather than a rate).

Also, if I read the above correctly, 10% is the percentage of the value of all assets, rather than just cash.