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Re:Stellar on Thursday July 31, 2014 @01:05PM (#8115367)
So people can't create bots to farm Stellar money. You get free Stellar when signing up.
Re:Doge 4 Water on Sunday March 16, 2014 @10:34AM (#7409523)
No financial incentive for turning off your machines. While there is a financial incentive to donate to spread the good will of Dogecoin.
Re:Doge 4 Water on Sunday March 16, 2014 @10:31AM (#7409516)
The 14 million Dogecoin (~$12,000) tweet:

https://twitter.com/savethemhood/status/445007386323853312

Re:Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin on Friday February 21, 2014 @04:30PM (#7279567)
Isn't that a pyramid scheme? To have any nxt, you need to buy it from someone else.
Re:Alpaca - Easy Forms for jQuery on Saturday November 30, 2013 @07:11PM (#6825360)
Love it! The complaints here are usually from people who assume this is good for all situations. If you have a fixed amount of static forms, this wouldn't make sense. BUT, if you had to do dynamic forms that can change drastically with user input, this is wonderful.
Re:Edward Snowden is Almost Broke on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @01:34AM (#6723740)
His parents could set up a kickstarter/indiegogo/paypal. They wouldn't have to name Snowden in the plea for funds, could be named the "Freedom Fund". So, donators wouldn't be charged with aiding a felon.
You are assuming resources are limited, but they are infinite. Making the assumption the Universe is infinite.