hn_zorba

There's no mention of CFA Francs in that article? Also the bitcoin experiment that this article briefly talks about has since become a failure - though that's probably more on the incompetence of the rollout than bitcoin.

I'm impressed by your faith in engineers, but it might be misplaced. I enjoyed a five months paid non compete when last moving between banks, and build nothing worthwhile during that time.

You might be a pedant but it actually helped me understand that message, I was really confused by the poles.

From now on, we mount the motherboard on the GPU.

The first Irak war (aka "Desert Storm") was not under the Clinton admin, but Bush I, but I agree that the lingo it gave us ("surgical strikes" and the rest) is mostly bullshit.

I suppose it's a case of looking for lost keys under the lamplight: it might not be there, but at least we'll see it.

It means both, depending on you deciding it's paris (bet) or Paris (the city). It did lead me to expect something else from the article though - I was expecting more gambling, so I guess you're right about it being slightly misleading.