That's the point of the article. Oldest and well-adapted.

If you owned ALL the bitcoin ... would people buy it from you? That's his point. If you had it all, the only value is selling it back to people.

More dire, as in more worrisome/extreme/upsetting.

You've heard of Dire Straits, right?

Aren't these really "timed"?

What do you mean? Yes the articles itself are old, but the discussions around them are new. Which is the interesting part -- "timeless" content that's relevant not just the week it is published.

I was just making the joke that these "timeless" articles all have times.

That is true ;)

Be careful trying to boot 64 bit Ubuntu off a hard drive. You have to uncompress the kernel, or the boot will hang.