william42

North Carolina teachers have no union.

GM was at least on the verge of bankruptcy a few years ago, but I'm pretty sure that can be attributed more to massively underestimating how much healthcare would cost in 2008 during a union negotiation several decades prior than to any sort of dirty tricks.

Being a non-profit does not make you decentralized.

I'm skeptical of the legitimacy of any business that advertises itself mostly through spam.

Wikipedia is exactly as centralized as StackOverflow, in that it's all in a single site but licensed under Creative Commons.

An Erlang crash is of an Erlang process, which is a tiny green-thread with shared-nothing. That's very different from a C program segfaulting.

The main thing is that you'd need a new set of abstractions for security, and then you'd need to implement HTML5 on it anyways to do all the things we can do on a computer now.

No original research is because otherwise Wikipedia would be infested with physics cranks.

The censorship doesn't really work when it's in the URL.

Well, the actual content and information is only one side of the coin. The other side is taking bad content off.

Link me to Something Awful actually supporting these laws.

No, but the image+caption is different from just the image.

Currency markets exist, but most currency trading is a lot more short-term.

Holding USD is rarely an investment. You put money in your checking account(as opposed to a savings account/CD, which is an investment in the bank) because you expect to spend it(you know, what money is for?) soon. Only banks hold large amounts of USD and they almost immediately loan it out.

And you're right, it's unfair to compare gold to Bitcoin. There are people actually using Bitcoin as a currency, whereas gold is almost exclusively exchanged for actual currencies, which are then exchanged for goods and services.

And the failure of the Zim dollar is the reason they recently returned to the gold standard. Oh wait, no, they switched to USD.

Didn't the Oakland A's stop being successful precisely because every other team picked up their methods?

There are index funds that swap out exactly the same way the Dow does.