At least that would give us better voters. Letting people recognize good political decisions is better than making them successful.

Didn't you see the phrase "lesser extent"?

1) Bitcoin can migrate to new crypto algorithms. The process may not be easy, but there should be enough time to buffer.
2) Eletronic cash systems do not offer anything close to the vision promised by decentralized cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

For 2), it is important to note that the "use of real currency" is far from immaterial. These real cash still have to pass through banks, and it is still ultimately a currency over which a central bank and by extension its government has full control, exactly the thing Bitcoin was trying to avoid. They can use "anything", but before Bitcoin this "anything" would also have been something controlled by a central authority, which in Mondo's case would be Mastercard.

There are many things to worry about Bitcoin, such as failing to properly maintain true decentralization, but some of your concerns aren't valid.

Unlike URLs, it's easy to brute force phone numbers from their hashes. Phone numbers are short and often have low entropy, from what I have seen the arbitrarily assignable part is usually no more than 8 digits, the rest being related to geographic region etc. Even with say 10-11 digits it is trivial for a GPU.

Many people are simply not so much exposed to these events / competitions, but still go on to become better students at undergraduate level and beyond.

They bring out talent from high school students, but at that point it is still far, far from real innovation. The problem setters and mentors are often university students anyway. These things encourage students to go beyond their high-school curriculum and think cleverly, so they have some great skills to use in industrial or academic settings. They are capable of entering the workforce, capable of joining and growing new businesses, but there is nothing special about their ability to "innovate". They still have a lot to learn, and in terms of cleverness there are many, many comparable university graduates out here.

Inventing really new things require some luck, and unless you're extremely lucky it would require extensive exploration. One page of new mathematics requires lots of thinking and learning. Even a prodigy like Erik Demaine spent 6 years on his PhD. Being smart doesn't mean you can always create something new - new, valid ideas are so scarce and hard to reach, and there is immense competition, so you still need to work hard for a long time to actually produce the results.

Can you still call it a killer app if it could only fill the intersection of three niches?

Once they place Bitcoin on an appropriate place in the law books, I don't see any reason they won't. It's mostly as easy as taxing "normal" transactions.

Sorry, I didn't read carefully: he does claim to own a corporation. But I maintain that he shows more sympathy to workers than corporations in his arguments.

I'm pretty sure he's speaking in support of the labor side rather than any corporation you think he owns.

Don't mod parent down so much that it disappears. It must stay and be exposed to ridicule. It serves as a blatant example for why people should at least RTFS before posting, and also why this ruling is important - there is an entire rotten culture to be cleared up around unpaid internships, and this ruling is a start.

You shall be ashamed to patronize people for so little that you repay them for their labor. It should also be quite clear the ruling does not apply to unpaid internships that actually have real educational value to the student (it's written right there FFS). Free labor for grunt work is simply abuse; both of students and regular employees. If we let people take these internship positions because "it looks good on their CV" or any other crap like that, it is a race down to the bottom of no benefit to the society.

Goodbye to those kind of internships? If a job like that is lost, we really lose nothing. Paid internships and unpaid meaningful work are unaffected. If a student has to do meritless free labor to gain credits, then the college is equally guilty. The student may as well be jobless, and find a better way to learn something of value - the student pays the opportunity cost, so you have nothing to patronize them about. Everyone doing worthless internships is worse than nobody doing internships, except for the pockets of those abusive employers.

Then there are much more important things to do than searching the phone immediately at the crash just for evidence of texting and calling. There's plenty of time for the police to do whatever they want.

Neither does it care about international borders. The fact is that if people in China live their lives like people in the US then their pollution levels and energy spending would only be much, much higher. If you take countries instead of human beings as your base units this way, you would well come to the conclusion that the Chinese should starve because they eat more food than the Americans.

Not that I have a problem with what you say, but the context was... again that fnj was stating the beginning of your argument, then an AC didn't notice why he was picking out CO2, which I pointed out to him.

Divide 20% by 120% and see what you get.

If you bothered to RTFA, CO2 emissions was the only metric used in the report. Hence the context.