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Submission + - Krugman: Bitcoin and the gold standard (nytimes.com)

Submitted by twoallbeefpatties on Thursday September 08, 2011 @04:45PM

twoallbeefpatties writes: Prominent Keynesian economist Paul Krugman has left a note on his blog at NYTimes about his view of Bitcoin, discussing it's similarity to the gold standard and suggesting a drop in "real gross Bitcoin product" as it's users hoard the currency rather than spend it.

Submission + - Ex-Goldman Sachs Programmer Found Guilty (nytimes.com)

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on Friday December 10, 2010 @04:33PM

twoallbeefpatties writes: "Slashdot has previously mentioned the trial of former Goldman Sachs computer programmer Sergey Aleynikov, whose trial was requested to be sealed from the public to prevent discussion of GS's high-frequency trading system. A guilty verdict has been handed down in this trial."

Submission + - PowerPoint Rant Costs Colonel His Job (wired.com)

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on Friday August 27, 2010 @03:50PM

twoallbeefpatties writes: "Wired reports that a 61-year-old reservist in Afghanistan was fired from his job as a staff officer after writing a sardonic op-ed criticizing the daily briefings provided by his taskforce, portraying them as little more than a neverending stream of redundant PowerPoint slideshows. This came after attempts to reform the process by giving his superiors a presentation that, of course, included five PowerPoint slides."

Submission + - Slate: Casual Play on 360 Live Arcade

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twoallbeefpatties

on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @12:36PM

twoallbeefpatties writes: "Columnist Chris Suellentrop writes an article for Slate describing how his desire for casual gaming is fulfilled more by the 360 than the Wii due to the presence of simpler games available over Live Arcade, saying that the availability of oldschool Nintendo games on the Wii network fulfills his nostalgic hardcore gaming side, but when he really wants to just relax, he'd rather be trying to top his Live high score on Root Beer Tapper."

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