It seems that clever trolling is really a lost art. I’m of the opinion that trolling should be a pure expression of Socratic irony. Somewhere along the way, the whole “pissing people off” part has taken center stage, to the detriment of the higher purpose of actually making some sort of (useful) point.
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I had written in my debate with Matthew Beller that Linden Lab can’t reduce the Linden Dollar supply. It seems that this is incorrect. It has been claimed in a Reuters story that Linden Lab plans to accept tier payments in Linden Dollars if there were a crisis of value. It remains to be seen if Linden Lab will actually have the balls to do such a move when crunch time comes, however. One can only hope we never see that day.
My latest article in the Seventh Sun is up:
#include stdio.h
int main()
{
int debit;
int balance=535234;
int transferred=0;
for (debit=1048576; debit>=1; debit/=2)
{
if ((balance - debit) > 0)
{
balance=balance-debit;
transferred=transferred+debit;
}
printf("%d debit attempt, %d balance transferred, %d balance remainingn", debit, transferred, balance);
}
printf("%d final balance remaining, %d transferredn", balance, transferred);
}
O_o