Wednesday, January 31, 2024

On the Virtue of Unoriginality: In Defense of the Derivative

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On the Virtue of Unoriginality: In Defense of the Derivative In the contemporary cacophony of cultural discourse, a peculiar specter haunts...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Ways Sheep Can Die

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Source: Marti Leimbach via Marginal Revolution . Some of the ways sheep can die: Getting stuck on their backs and dying of suffocation...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Onwards and upwards

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I want to thank BitPay for being a notable sponsor of bitcoin core development for over two years.  BitPay is truly a leader in open source...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Decoupling Financial Indices with Decentralized Bitcoin Fact Generators

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Financial indices such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the S&P 500 are well known.  In the age of ETFs and ETNs , a core index...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Open development processes and reddit kerkluffles

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It can be useful to review open source development processes from time to time.  This reddit thread[1] serves use both as a case study, an...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Survey of largest Internet companies, and bitcoin

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Status report: Internet companies & bitcoin Considering the recent news of Microsoft accepting bitcoin as payment for some digital go...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Prediction: GOP in 2014, Democrat WH in 2016

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Consider today's US mid-term election results neutrally: When one party controls both houses of Congress, that party will become gidd...