Indeed. It's a commentary on the "me to" nature of the cryptocurrency scene. Anybody can clone bitcoin-qt and change the strings to "MyCoin" or "GiveMeBucksPls". BBQCoin is in the same vein.
What's absurd is that these meta-joke coins can still speedily acquire value. The price of Dogecoin has doubled or tripled in the last 2 days on this exchange (volume is tiny) https://coinedup.com/OrderBook?market=DOGE&base=BTC
Is it still a joke then? Yes, but some people clearly don't think so. If you extrapolated the final market capitalization from the current price, it would already have reached over $10m
A good question to be asking. I agree with this sentiment:
> Every time a company loses somebody else's bitcoins, the main assumption should be that it was an inside job. It's way too easy for a company to take the money and say that they were hacked.
The only downside to DuckDuckGo is the results are terrible -- I don't care the claims are, this search provider doesn't in the same league of intelligent search results as Google or Bing.
That hasn't been the case for me, its often more relevant than when I'd been searching on Google. Like I said, I switched and haven't been back. I'm a lot more productive and the ads are much less intrusive too.
One of the main reasons that cannabis has failed to be fully legalized in California is because greedy dealers want the industry to stay small and contained. I remember seeing tons of "Vote No" signs in Mendocino and Sonoma counties regarding legalization (which are huge cultivation areas,) and have known many growers and distributors who were vehemently against legalizing it.
Huge cultivation areas but very low population areas. According to [1] - those areas had no significant effect on the vote. But lobbying by Prison Guard and Police Unions, and Alcohol companies (!) did.
Actually from what little I know, Sonoma County isn't really part of the main weed growing region:
"The Emerald Triangle refers to a region in Northern California so named because it is the largest cannabis producing region in the United States. Mendocino County, Humboldt County, and Trinity County are the three counties in Northern California that make up this region."
It is extremely easy to cheat on a lot of online courses. One major flaw is many instructors use a test-bank for all of their exam questions, which makes verbatim Googling for the answer a piece of cake.
There are examples to the contrary though. I just finished "Introduction to Systems Biology" from coursera, and the quizzes and exams where tough. They really required you to have understood the topic and googling didn't help me a lot.
