Bitcoin is not susceptible to market control like eBay. eBay is a single entity so it is easy to coordinate self-serving decision. Bitcoin is multiple agents that have to co-operate. That prevents any one agent from making unilateral decisions.

Another huge difference is that anybody can become a new agent in Bitcoin. You just buy the hardware. You cannot influence or join eBay in the same way.

I think the kickstarter backers are really both investors and customers. They are investors because they do take a risk by paying for a product that doesn't yet exist. This leap of faith from these "customers" allowed Oculus to create a 2 billion dollar product.

People are mad because funding the project through kickstarter created some expectations that were not met. Funding through kickstarter feels like you're investing in grassroots human projects, but this made people realize that it's really just business as usual.

FYI, Einstein was not a bad student. (http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/albert-einst...). It's just a myth.

Having a degree does not magically make you more qualified, it's the work you put it over the years to get your degree. The paper is useless, but the experience learned remains in your head.

It runs much faster with Chrome and Safari due to their better Javascript VM.

The main thing I take away from this is that he is not a professional photographer. Of course an amateur can afford to give away photos for free! However, I'm not sure he even realizes that what he says doesn't make any sense for a professional photographer trying to earn his livelihood.

It's disappointing you have to pay to see the original Science paper.

He is a victim here, why blame the victim over the perpetrators? Makes little sense to me. As well as saying "evil flourishes"...

Victims do have the responsibility to report their crimes.

You mean "the crimes they were subject to" I guess..

It's amazing the authors of the paper didn't realize they were disproving their own conclusion with their results.

The doc at http://www.phzbox.com/moka/index.html is pretty complete. The only thing I find is missing is a few words about efficiency. Does calling List(l) copy the list l for example?

Optimizing for performance is the next big step of Moka and I understand that it's the breaking point for lots of python developers. So, I'll make sure to work on that and provide realistic benchmarks.

As for the copy, yes it does as it tries to act like a builtin list as much as possible. (In fact, moka.List inherit from list). When it's in immutable state, a new list is returned at each step. If it's in mutable, self[:] = (..) is used.

Looks like it.

troll, also assuming roughly uniform paragraph lengths removing every third word is the same as removing every third paragraph. Maybe we're not as smart as you thought.