The point of buying Trumpcoin is to pay a bribe. You just need to remember to communicate what you want in exchange for the purchase, out of band.

It's a really good system, but making it tax-deferred would make it even better. Since the goal is for Trump to end up with all the value, a Trumpcoin's value should be 0 by the time you're required to take distributions. That way, there's effectively no tax on your bribe. Win/win for everyone.

It's a bad idea because it hinders trade. However, if only one side is profiting from the trade, the other side doesn't have much reason to support the deal.

This is probably fallout from Trump's "pleasant comments" about our allies.

U.S. representatives excoriated the outcome as further proof of the organization's [WTO's] irrelevance.

I hate this administration's general anti-American attitude, extreme thirst for growing national debt, and overall lawless criminality, but the above quote nevertheless excites me. I wish to subscribe to the aforementioned representatives' newsletter.

If we don't need WTO, then I bet we don't need WIPO. And if we don't need to be a signatory of the WIPO treaty anymore, then we don't need DMCA.

Hey Pedoph-- er I mean-- let me start over.

Hey glorious leader Trump, people are saying you're too chicken to tell Johnson and Thune to repeal DMCA. Surely that's not true. Are you going to let them all get away with calling you chicken?

JavaScript is actually a pretty interesting, powerful language, but one with quite a few problems. (I recommend the book JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford if you want to learn more about that.) TypeScript solves some, but by no means all, of those problems. From what I've heard, it's increasingly popular.

I think you've never tried to understand the code of a large project written by a different group of people.

I believe there was a period right after the civil war that was as bad.

Even that depends on how long you expect it to be before you need the funds. As the "cashing in" time gets closer, you need to reduce the high-risk part.

The problem is that this allows the trustees to bet someone else's money on wildly speculative things. Proving that they acted irresponsibly will be on the person who lost all their means of hiring a lawyer.

IIUC there are two different kinds of things that are called "gravity waves" in quantum physics by those who aren't experts in the field. One of those is undetectable, and the other is what we've been detecting. (I'm no expert, so I can't clarify that.) There's also something called "gravity waves" in fluid dynamics, and that's definitely detectable.

It depends on your time horizon. The predictions aren't *currently* testable. Testing them depends on building new tools.

I sort of don't like it, because I don't really accept continuity, but I've no evidence that my feeling is correct. (I expect things to break down before one gets to 10^-33 cm. But that's because of something Wheeler speculated about in the 1980's.)

Exactly! Adding a middleman always lowers the price. Everyone knows that!

That is, indeed, one of the problems, but it's not the one the article is discussing.

Clive Sinclair's company collapsed within five years of shipping their first computer. Perhaps not a good counter-example.

I think they're arguing that they are the third thing, a message parlor.

Unions are a real-life strategy because they work. Divide-and-conquer is also a real-life strategy, because it works too.

Thus, I think the truth of your statement all depends on whether you look at this conflict between government and the the people, from the point of view of the attacker, vs the point of view of the defender.