tulip

For example the tulip bubble - people didn't want to live in a tulip but up the price went as speculators piled in.

Wikipedia also has something to say about how the Tulip Mania was much less than has been portrayed.

And thanks to their decentralized nature tulip bulbs still exist and people still pay for them.

What's the killer app that's actually going to make it a useful currency rather than an asset resembling a dutch tulip?

Over the short term the price of gold, silver, subprime real estate, dutch tulip bulbs, pets.com stock etc.

Therefore we must take the tulip mania comparison to Bitcoin only within the context of Bitoin's economic repercussions.

I think at the time stuff based on DEC Tulip was my choice for reliable 100Mbit Ethernet on Linux.

Higher Education is now a prisoner's dilemma, and that's really the point of the tulip article, even if he didn't use the phrase.

It doesn't, nor did Pets.com, subprime real estate, Dutch tulip bulbs, or other bubbles supported by hype.

DEC Tulip drivers have stopped working from Hardy onwards.

The tulip bubble was small and did not have knock on effects for the Dutch economy, and for what it's worth, there was a futures market for tulips in 1637.

I saw recently a movie, where there was an example of this happening in the past too, the Tulip Mania[0], where the evaluations were way of the scale.

Instead, it points out obvious inefficiencies despite individual rationality -precisely the "No Tulip Subsidies" author's point.

People who seem to never get tired of regurgitating the ever same tulip bulb and "criminals" trites at every opportunity.

There is a Russian song from the 80's called "The Black Tulip" - the helicopters that transported the fallen Soviet soldiers out of Afghanistan were called that.

It does not matter if the mantra of the day is "Computing/BigData/DaCloud is eating the world" or "Real state prices will keep going up in the foreseeable future" or whatever they said during the years of the Tulip mania; it is always magical thinking.

Tulip support was great too, back in the early days, as well as NE2x and so on..

There are tons of functional languages (Tulip, Racket, some Lisps) that are untyped or optionally typed.

Tulip will panic at runtime for non-total functions, but ideally you'll have the tools necessary to keep the panic as close to the problem as possible.