retardedelk

You realize that while your criticism of Bitcoin is factually accurate, your criticism could apply to just about any fiat currency.

Dollars, Euros, Yen, aren't backed by anything other than the belief that it is money.

However, I do acknowledge that states invest a lot of resources into indoctrination, so the belief in fiat currency might be stronger than the belief in cryptocurrency.

You can get free condoms just about everywhere (including the United States). The problem is that you get them free from your local family-planning clinic, or community centre, etc.

People who are at risk for having unprotected sex probably need the condoms to be easily available (i.e free in high-schools, free in bars/nightclubs, etc.). If they have enough forethought in order to make a trip to one of the places where they are free, they probably have enough forethought to buy them themselves without problems.

...And an abundance of strong governments who are willing to fund various factions to kill other various factions to fight a proxy war over natural resources.

My solution is that I create a password, then promptly forget it. When I want to use that site again, I simply click the "forgot my password" link and create a new one.

Basically, if I don't use a site every day, or it isn't sensitive like banking information, I don't really even have a password.

I am willing to bet that a lot of people are "Login via email" just like me!

<sigh> Overly ambitious try-to-do-everything pay-to-win monstrosity, when all I really wanted was a modernized Wing Commander.

Obviously the people pay $5000 for a space ship really like the game, but a lot of Chris Roberts old fans (like me) are a bit put off.

Are you OK with your kid taking a FedEx bumper to the face for the team?

More important that "so many people knew JavaScript anyway", is the fact that using the same code in the browser as on the server means that they can share code, data-models, tests, and it makes it trivial to develop isomorphic web applications.

The U.S. has a defence system against a Russian nuclear attack. It is called a "massive and devastating coordinated first strike before they ever get a chance to nuke us".

A missile defence program is actually handy, not necessarily for the actual protective power it can provide, but for the rhetorical power it can provide for a President's adviser when the next Curtis Lemay demands that we attack them before then can attack us.

The physics start to work if you decide to use nuclear weapons to shoot down incoming warheads.

That is why most research is geared towards having a "kill vehicle" destroy the warheads (as opposed to something like space based lasers, or railgun, etc).

An antiballistic-missle that kind-of-sort-of can destroy warheads with kinetic energy, is actually quite effective if you strap a powerful nuke onto it.

The general population would never accept having a bunch of nukes pointed to explode over their own country, but it is probably easier to ask forgiveness after defending against a nuclear strike than to ask permission before hand.