It's a pyramid scheme in the same way as investing in any company -- early movers take the risk and reap the rewards.

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FTFY.

A hard cap is a pretty dumb way to handle the problem -- it's like telling a driver they can speed through a limited distance, but then have to stop driving altogether, as opposed to driving within limits as much as they like. No Finnish ISP that I know has such caps, except in some PAYG mobile contracts. ISPs usually have small print stating they have the right to throttle the connection, but I've never heard it happen to anyone. I guess it has something to do with our view of Internet access as a human right -- you can still use email and other basic stuff, even if you download and share half of TPB.

In the spring/summer of 2011, I bought a LED bulb from bitcoingadgets.com (or something like that) for what is now worth $300. I wanted to support the budding Bitcoin merchants, and that was the only thing they had I really needed. The bulb itself is still fine.

150% of Americans fail at statistics.

"Orkut" is Finnish slang for orgasms (the singular is "orkku").

Interesting -- while I was aware of this meaning of "junk", it didn't occur to me to equate "treasure" with "family jewels". However, "One man's penis is another man's penis" is still a little weird, or at least Siamese.

On the plus side, you can use the disabled parking space if your banjo is clearly visible.

Not necessarily, but it is much easier to spill a large drink by accident, so they should be banned as a safety measure.

It is when the centre of mass of Earth is drifting towards North America. Won't somebody please think of orbital nutation?

Yeah, because action is synonym for good. In case you feel like scoffing at the altitude of my eyebrows, consider the penis joke in the latest Silicon Valley episode -- all talk, a few diagrams, and hardly (pun intended) any action. (I almost used "epic" there, but even with this high point (pun intended) in recent TV topography, I doubt there will be Vikings writing sagas about it in the next 1000 years.)

Perchance the future advancements in AI will enable the distillation of audiovisual gobbledygook back into text.

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

Every cloud has a silver lining, except the mushroom shaped ones, which have a lining of iridium and strontium.

BTW, in my native language version, clouds actually have golden linings -- we either think the diffracting sunlight looks yellowish enough, or that we are worth more for IT investors (Google has set up shop here at a place called Summa, meaning sum, how's that for map-reduce?). I also wonder about the implications for thunderstorms, given the excellent conductivity of silver...

I guess I might actually fuck them, depending on how my pattern recognition circuits feel about their appearance.