Yay!
I lost almost all my old bitcoins in the 0.50$ panic. Now I can recoup my losses.

Yeah, the guy is clueless ... money as a medium of exchange exists exactly for the purpose of being exchanged for goods and services, that's its purpose, duh. If you hoard it that means you can not buy anything for it ... so tumblr can feel free to live in a cave with 1,000,000 bitcoins being happy that he has cool numbers on his account rather than real things like house, car, computer, food etc. If you do not plan to buy anything for it, what's the point of having it? It is clearly an oxymoron. So if you hoard it and never spend it, nobody cares ... if you do spend it, cool more liquidity into the market ... where is the danger again?

When you are rich you have a layer of insulation from the world that blinds you from the hardships and bad luck of the poor. Contrary to what you think, they're not lazy scroungers.

You can't have a healthy body if the head is well but the legs are sick. Likewise a society needs everyone to be well to benefit the whole. Many movers and shakers come from a poverished background and it's the responsibility of the more well off in a society to help them transgress class boundaries. I don't know why or when it became fashionable to be selfish bastards, but it's disgusting.

I'm sure we will get there eventually, as a species, if we aren't wiped out by one of those asteroids first.

I told You already what is wrong with it, this website is terrible and untrustworthy.
Looks very unprofessional.

ok, well I have no moral problem taxing the rich to provide free healthcare and pay for science. Fine by me.

It's just that, as I was reading your post, when you were talking about exploited and starving to death people, it seemed to be very very far away from the reality of the society I live in.  There are problems in our society, but ... starvation ?  Hum, I don't think so.

You need to encourage an free intellectual atmosphere so that science will prosper. In the past, nobles and rich persons would fund scientists & mathematicians, since they were seen as a type of art. Their followers were seen as artisans. You can't pick and choose the science/tech you do want- it doesn't work that way.

I can't understand why you would attack intellectuals who choose to work in academia over the larger pay they would receive working in industry. If it's bad then it's benign compared to other government industries like war.

If you still believe that discoveries all eventually will arise, then why through history did some civilisations discover some things that others didn't? Western civilisations had boats when the Incans didn't although Incans had an advanced culture to rival any other. Or the Chinese who had firearms a full 2 centuries before Europe. You can find many examples and they show that not every discovery is bound to happen.

I see lots of videos always throwing around the broken window fallacy. But despite that, the link here is tenuous at best. The broken window fallacy (better known as the parable of the broken window) actually refers to the consequences of destroying others property. It isn't really a fallcy either in the common sense of the word. That's unrelated to your point that all discovery would have eventually happened.

Ok so here's my idea, see if you can sanity check it for me,
      basically think peer to peer service for lowering latency between
      two given endpoints, the problem with this though is it's harder to
      guarantee low latency than it is to guarantee high bandwidth, cause
      even if you're pushing over choked pipes if there's 10,000 people
      doing it the sheer volume is enough to contribute positively to the
      speed of the download, which is why bittorrent

 So think that, except instead of sucking down pieces of a
      file from disparate sources, you're trading endpoint contacts with
      disparate sources.

 You then take your contact latency to the endpoint in
      question + the latency they have to your target endpoint to get
      your theoretical latency to your endpoint, and you pick the lowest
      latency.

 Latency guarantees are harder to make than bandwidth
      guarantees, people will likely want incentive to participate, the
      more incentive, the more participants, the more value the entire
      network has.

 Right, so if you could earn say bitcoins by providing routes
      on the peer to peer network, and spend bitcoins to buy routes on
      the peer to peer network... would that make sense?

It's still going. I haven't had as much time to work on it lately. I've tweaked a few things but nothing big enough to make a new release. I'm also working with Mt.Gox to build a clientless version that may also support trading.