This is my biggest concern with all of the crypto currencies.

I know inflation is seen as the tool of the devil today - but if you have a 200,000 BTC 30-year loan (for example) on a house that you're paying back over time then, as I understand it, it becomes in *harder* to pay it back (in 30 years the remaining value will be worth more than it was when you started rather than the other way around).

More than inflation "screams" fabrication with fiat currency?

What's more disturbing than "what you had yesterday is now worth less because 'economics you don't understand?'"

You're confusing inflation with deflation. The reason we would sub-divide the BTC further is due to deflation - the individual BTC would be worth too much. What happened in Zimbabwe is exactly the opposite - inflation caused the individual dollar to be worth too little.

Perhaps they could make it computationally expensive to create a new identity somehow - like when you solve bitcoins. Something short enough that a motivated user wouldn't mind waiting but which would be expensive enough to stop mass creations.

But it's a widely believed fact!

What's missing is the word "average." Local temperatures don't matter if the global average is increasing.

You don't pass a class if you get one "A" and the rest are "F's" Your *average* needs to be above a "C."

Absolutely right. And it's wrong when people do that too. Even if this was an especially warm winter it wouldn't mean AGW is real.

What makes AGW real is the global average temperature increasing over long-term trends (30 years). These short-term localized data-points are just noise.

I get pissed when I hear programmers act like raw performance is the sole measurement of the quality of a language.

Remember kids - all programming is high-performance computing!

That's because forgery is a big problem with the Jesus market.

The JVM and C# garbage VMs *are* specialized memory managers. That's why they do work so well. You just get them "for free" with the environment.

Ah, yes that is true. I was a bit myopic thinking about my specific circumstances there. But you are right - COTS stuff is being sold well after the original development has been done.

The original idea is good - give that monopoly for a fixed period of time. That way "better" art can be more profitable than "crap." The period of time, however, needs to be reasonable and short. Certainly within the creators lifetime and probably a small fraction of that. I don't make money off code I wrote 10 years ago - it's absurd that an artist would expect the same.

That version is coming. It's very buggy though and will take another 2 years to get to alpha. In the mean time enjoy this "working well enough for what the developer wanted" version.

NOTE: may not apply to Javascript - but to say that "garbage collected enviornments" perform worse in this instance is just wrong. Though some may others may not.