I hadn't realized how much equity the CEO retained, 82%?. Am I interpreting this number wrong? This seems like as good of a reason as any to suspect either his team was grossly incompetent or significantly underpaid. Karpeles doesn't strike me as being a Zuckerberg, and you don't get to Mt. Gox market cap without giving up a little share to your collaborators.
This is great stuff. Writing markdown is much more rewarding when it pops as you write it like this. I usually write using half of my screen, using another window as a reference, so side-by-side never works for me. This works well!
small suggestion: would be great to have a way to navigate by keyboard between paragraphs (tab / shift-tab?). if that feature exists, I couldn't find the keystrokes.
Thanks for trying it out. We spent some time trying to get arrow keys (and crtl+p crtl+n) to move to the next/previous paragraph when you hit the bottom/top of the current one, but a cursor position bug prevented that from working so we cut it for now. This something we definitely want though, we'll bring it back as soon as we can.
However you feel about BitCoin, some of the assertions in this article are pretty insane. A new currency doesn't magically erase our need for debt, and debt isn't always a bad thing.
Basically bitcoin removes the bank's ability to derive profit from debt and that's why they're pissed off.
Debt is never a good thing. All it does is facilitate currency flow rather than solve any problems. Inevitably a whole industry appears on the back of that facilitation (banking, finance, insurance etc).
> Basically bitcoin removes the bank's ability to derive profit from debt and that's why they're pissed off.
Then why don't they just mine? They can profit off network transaction fees, and can set up value-add services on top of helping deal with bitcoin (like escrow and m-of-n transactions).
When a particularly nasty seasonal-storm hits town, and somebody wins "ripped off half your roof" lottery, is everybody supposed to have cash on-hand to fix it? Or do they just get to sleep in the rain while raising cash?
Debt is necessary in a lot of places, because humans, unfortunately, generally lack the ability to predict the future.
Look at Thailand. You sleep in the rain or turn the remains of your house into a shelter whilst raising the cash. Not only that, people donate some of their cash to the less fortunate.
Only conspicuous consumption (greed) and hoarding of financial assets (by class) restricts our ability to resolve these problems. Simple kindness and social empathy goes a long way.
This definitely depends a lot on the airport and distance you are traveling. San Francisco to New York, Los Angeles to Chicago... America is too big for land to be faster. Stuff is a closer in Western Europe.
You are right. The example I gave is probably a bit skewed to faster travel times. If I had chosen say Barcelona to Moscow, times would have been a lot different.
The other difference is that the trains in western Europe are much faster than their US counterparts as well.
I received an email from Ubisoft and assumed I was being phished. They are not doing a good job of fixing the problem here.
They should have a cert on the splash redirect page. I wasn't sure if ubi.com was actually Ubisoft. Even worse, the email I got had some terrible font - practically unreadable. Those two factors combined did not make me feel that giving them my password is a good idea.
Can you list some of the save codes for us? I've lost state more than a few times (old habit of hitting command-r to run code doesn't work well in browser-based development).
It's a ridiculous one-sided advantage to suppliers of labor if we keep our mouths shut. Perhaps by speaking "that which must not be spoken," we can make salary decisions more open and fair across the board.
