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Can you check the first sentence under the section "Saying No"?
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I don't know much about pypy, but do you need to compile it each time? Just use pypy to live interpret the interpreter.
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One comment: The “dragging a slider to the right” math is assuming all players that pay $25/month are playing the entire month non-stop. In reality it goes in waves. Using the "22.7 hours a week" from WoW, that's only 0.13/user/month. Cloud computing capitalizes on this by renting per hour to capture the waves. This means a 25$/month user is only costing $2.5 for server usage which seems right.
Comment · 10 years ago
I think the reason bankruptcy doesn't apply is so that lenders are more willing to give out student loans (which is good, more educated society, more opportunities) and also so they lend them out at a lower rate.

Without this, banks might require very good credit to give out loans (hard for young students to acquire).

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Comment · 10 years ago
Both sides think their solution is decentralized and the other is centralized.

Big blocks wanted limited growth that still works on domestic machines. Big blockers believe in using Bitcoin as-is; small blockers want to "spam filter" (i.e. control) some transactions or use some third-party thing like Lightning.

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