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mesm | 13 years ago | on: Bitcoin Is Fundamentally Flawed

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

mesm | 13 years ago | on: Your Mac Keeps A Log Of Your Downloads

It's also included in this sane defaults dotfile

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

mesm | 13 years ago | on: Gitrep - Discover and organize Github repositories

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.

mesm | 13 years ago | on: The Minimum Wage Machine

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

mesm | 13 years ago | on: How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service

what kind of mails can I expect as a customer?

mesm | 13 years ago | on: YouTube was down

back up :S