BS...

Why not saying: another 230 million may be added in the next nine months... If you know qq or wechat, you will understand IM has serious market value...

You've kind of illustrated the argument against you - I do know qq and wechat. What's to stop wechat from growing at the expense of WhatsApp?

Trying to be cute and kill the driver... Nice work!

Buddhism thinks general bad things as the person suffered do not understand the deterministic natural behind their suffering. So there is no good/bad, there is only knowning/unknowning

2 princeton students write a paper on Facebook, declining 1 facebook employee write a post on Princeton, declining Perfect match... Dude, it's not about the scientific contribution of the paper... Do I need to emphasize this obvious thing to a Princeton alumni?... If I do, I do worry that Facebook post is speaking the truth...

Julia is good, in ............ (10,000 words omitted) I think any serious programmer understand the importance of specifying context. For this article, the author should write: I dont care about type safety, security, etc, when I ......... (10,000 words).

The title is flaming and shallow in any measure of programming language discussion...

Um, you know that Julia has type annotations, right? They are optional, but if you are a shop that really really wants type safety, you can get it.

Right. A figure could be more intuitive. But the algorithm is tricky itself anyway...

This seems incredibly similar to the claim that: all can make money, as long as you work hard! Is that really true? Think again...

Why do you say that? I'm not saying that mining bitcoin is a good idea anymore (even with ASICS, really) but I'm curious as to your rationale?

His slant seems pretty obvious... Even if he ends up being wrong the logic is self evident. Communist China is a totalitarian state, Communist China crushed another virtual currency that caught on a couple years back, therefore if the raise from ~$100 a bitcoin to ~$600 is due to chinese involvement you probably should assume its gonna go back to ~$100 as soon as the communist government flexes its muscles.

Chinese state television is one of the promoters of Bitcoin. From May: "At the end of last week China Central Television, a state-run broadcaster, aired a documentary offering an overview of bitcoin and its potential benefits. Given the tight controls the Chinese government has over mainland media, this was not just tacit approval from the world’s second largest and centrally-run economy..."

from: http://thegenesisblock.com/bitcoin-the-newest-tool-in-chinas...

The real question is: can then even do anything about a decentralized currency?

China drove up the exchange rate 3x; what makes you think they couldn't drive it right back down?

The chinese govt has plenty of engineers and plenty of IC fabs. They are in the best position, even more so than the US govt, to execute the 51% attack.

Block it from the Great Firewall?

Should we also avoid other things that Chinese people are adopting, like rice and smartphones?

As a team member helped built the service, I would like to offer some of my personal understanding. I am not with Amazon now, and all my views are based on public information on the website.

Like all AWS offerings, Kinesis is a platform. It looks like kafka + storm, with fully integrated ecosystem with other AWS services. From the very beginning, the reliability, real-time processing, and transparent elasticity are built in. That's all I can say.