If you traveled back to the 90's, it would be a good fictional story about computing dystopia.

In fact, it is still a good story about computing dystopia. But it's no longer fiction.

This is a story that I've always hated because I think it is very very unlikely to be true. If he actually did play blackjack, I'm curious to know how many hands he played, how much he was betting per hand, what casino he was playing at, etc. If he bet it all on one hand, what if he was dealt A-A and didn't have the money to split?

I think somebody who is reckless enough to gamble the remaining funds of the company, is not disciplined enough to walk away from the blackjack table after having won just enough for the fuel payment.

If he actually did play blackjack, it would be more likely that he started out winning, won enough to pay for the fuel, but then continued gambling and gave it all back.

After reading the interview, I have zero interest in reading any book from Eric Schmidt, but I am thoroughly fascinated by what Assange has to say. This interview is probably going to be much more insightful than any book Schmidt will write.

what did you do (if anything) to get 270.2 in apr (apr is not even finished yet)? and 155 in mar? why are some months missing?

I am putting the months I will collect the money. The 270 collected at the begining of April was from sales in February.

I got picked up on app advice in February, and got about 10,000 free downloads. That had positive effects.

The missing months is cuz i made the app free for a few months.

I started out as a computer programmer. After a few years of dealing with the braindead corporate system in America, I decided to make a change. I ended up moving to Australia (just applied for citizenship), and I work as a kitchen hand at an all girls boarding school. I get $20 an hour, penalties on weekends and public holidays, 4 weeks paid holidays a year, and superannuation (a retirement fund). Best decision I ever made.

If I didn't end up leaving, I might have ended up just like him.

Yup, the good ol' pump and dump. Bitcoin is trading like an IPO stock during the dot-com bubble.

yes but why in the world would you compare "software development" to "building bridges"? I think this is a major fundamental problem with the entire field of Computer Science, approaching it like it is similar to civil engineering. Bridges are physical, software is abstract.

Creating software is much more similar to creating a legal system. Lots of legacy, nothing ever seems to work quite right. Vested interests.

SO what's the correct way to create a legal system that just works?

They're really good for delivering pizza in an urban area.

1. why not just finance the way they normally do, by borrowing (selling bonds), or taking money from the taxpayer?

2. currencies today are already essentially digital. the vast majority of transactions are handled electronically. the value of a bank account are just bits on a disk.

3. bitcoin can't become a reserve currency, there is no such thing as bitcoin bonds. the growth of the bitcoin money supply has been predetermined. government wants to be able to control the money supply, because it gives them power.

4. the usd as a reserve currency will probably be replaced by a global currency, SDR's, to the detriment of humanity.

i don't think it is farfetched to cook up bitcoin as an intellectual exercise. i think it is more likely to be 2, or 3 people in collaboration, because design by committee never works.

government is too short-sighted to have created something like bitcoin.