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Re:Bitcoin Is Fundamentally Flawed on Monday April 08, 2013 @07:09PM (#5515346)
Mike Hearn has talked some on how you could use existing functionality in the bitcoin protocol to issue loans. Around 25:50 he talks about ripple + bitcoin which is a practical autonomous lending system. A little bit simpler than the smart property way which is pretty deep down in the protocol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4L7xDNCmA&t=17m30s

Re:Your Mac Keeps A Log Of Your Downloads on Friday January 18, 2013 @03:43PM (#5080886)
It's also included in this sane defaults dotfile

https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx#L...

Re:Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories on Monday December 31, 2012 @04:24PM (#4990954)
I hope to see something like alternativeto.net too, were you can link multiple items and compare facts about them. I realize this is what can be done with the tags. It can be easier to see which programs are similar than coming up with a unique tag for them though.
Re:The Minimum Wage Machine on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @07:41PM (#4913436)
NAIRU could be connected to this. "...it was impossible for governments simultaneously to target both arbitrarily low unemployment and price stability, and that, therefore, it was government's role to seek a point on the trade-off between unemployment and inflation..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairu

Re: How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service on Monday November 19, 2012 @05:05PM (#4806553)
what kind of mails can I expect as a customer?
Re:YouTube was down on Thursday October 18, 2012 @04:26PM (#4670889)
back up :S