I would say the main advantage of bitcoin is that you *don't need* "big-name transaction clearinghouses". If you use those, you might just as well just pay with your creditcard.

Have you ever looked at the android source code? I have done some hacking on cyanogenmod and it's amazing what kind of crap can be found in a code base that is being used by several hundred million(!) people..

Why get a ladder when you can just walk in next door without one?

The argument is moot.

It's like it is with bike locks. Getting a better one does not guarantee that your bike won't get stolen, but it does help! And a 100% security is always unattainable.

You call bullshit for the wrong reason. The problem of the GP's statement lies not in whether there are or are not more trees/forests than a 100 years ago, but in the fact that he considers a 100 years to be a long time. The whole climate change discussion suffers from this. Surely we will be OK in the next 50 or a 100 years as well. But if you actually care about the future of our species and that of the planet in general, a 100 years is nothing. The fact that we *can* see the climate change in just a persons' lifetime should be scary enough for anyone!

If you put it like that, it looks like there is no way to change the system other than violent revolution. Interesting.

Because a 3 dimensional object can be translated by a linear operation in 4 dimensional space. Similar to how you are able to move (the projection) of a 2D shape by moving it along an arbitrary third axis pointing out of the shape's plane. This doesn't sound fundamentally very difficult for me. Now group theory on the other hand... I guess it depends on how your brain works. I have a lot less trouble with geometry than with more abstract maths.

Though I think this is a wise attitude, you must be starving!? Or do you grow your own groceries or something?

Both were outdated and should have been scrapped but due to GREED, were allowed to keep running past their expiration date

There, fixed that for you.

It *is* taxed per volume. 0.03%, which it nothing for a normal transaction. But for someone who buys and sells the same stock a hundred times per day, just to profit from tiny fluctuations in the stock value, it's 3%. This will kill the ridiculous business of racing for fastest connection and smartest trading algo, which is *good* because it is a ridiculous and useless business.

Web browsers are like washing powder. Forever three times concentrated and more powerful, bla bla bla. Yet my laundry doesn't get any cleaner.. and my web browsing doesn't get any faster!

For a while now, but it's not actually stationary

No, you don't

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Look at SWATH type boats. They are basically two torpedoes with a catamaran on top.

What is this "writing" thing that everybody is talking about?