Thanks so much for sharing your perspective. You've put words to some half-formed thoughts I've been having since a recently failed relationship. Live and learn
BTC can be used in electronic black markets - not many currencies can be used for that, and that fact gives BTC huge value to many people.
It is analogous to how USD is the only currency the USG will accept taxes in, which you have mentioned.
Not to say that this black market might become unviable whatever reason down the track, but right now it's a big driver of value.
> BTC can be used in electronic black markets - not many currencies can be used for that, and that fact gives BTC huge value to many people.
I think it should be noted that if the silk road were to get shut down or disappear, bitcoin's value will completely tank. It's basically the backbone propping bitcoin up. Those people using it for black market purposes will try to unload their coins, which will trigger others to unload their's as well. It will spiral out and the result is the bubble popping.
Unless bitcoin has a much stronger infrastructure than it does today, I highly doubt it would survive something like that. Which if you think about it, says something about bitcoin's fortitude.
I don't necessarily disagree with you that there are problems with the DOM API. However, would you rather that higher level APIs were designed by standards committees, or would you rather they were worked on and "de facto" standardized in the wild - the situation we have now. The situation we have now is a case of worse is better I think.
Also there is more bang for the buck making sure babies are raised well and healthy, over trying to fix maladjusted and unhealthy teenagers and adults years later.
Ctrl-scroll wheel. I used to only do it with uncomfortably small text, but now I just do it on probably 50+% of sites, even if I could read it without zooming. It just feels nice. Puts all that horizontal whitespace on a widescreen monitor to use.
