All 3 Mac gamers are going to be super excited by this news!

Just something else to file in the "we needed a study to tell us this?" department.

The story I heard is that they did passenger studies, and passengers absolutely hated them, which is why they died.

Blockchain is a write-only database. This database is used to track transactions made by users going back to the beginning of the "currency". (ie: Alice paid Bob $2. Bob paid Charlie $1)

"Mining" is just doing the work needed to write to the write-only database. As a reward for writing to the database, you are rewarded with a piece of the pie. Currently that reward is newly-minted currency. In the nearish future, it will be a transaction fee taken from transactions conducted.

Maybe it's time to develop an open-source computer model. With Intel/AMD being a duopoly on the x86/x64 formats, people thought ARM would be the savior, but if ARM is going to pull this crap, it's obvious they can't be trusted either.

The world could really benefit from an open source CPU design, similar to how it has greatly benefitted from Linux as an open-source OS.

They do pay already; they pay for their Internet connections. If you don't like it, up your rates or renegotiate your peering agreements.

Batteries are great for a great number of things. Planes are not one of those things.

Planes are things where we count the weight separately at the start and at the end, because it makes that much of a difference. We weight every tiny thing that goes into them and scrutinize it in extreme detail to see if we can lighten it in any way. Every component that weighs a plane down needs to have the best bang for it's buck.

Batteries just don't fit this model. Not even the absolute pinacle of *theoretical* battery technology comes close to the power/weight ratio of fossil fuels, plus you don't have the benefit of the weight going away as you use up the power.

Can you make a battery powered plane? Yes. Is it going to be commercially feasible? No.

Let's not forget about the whole "oops, we blew up a city" part of PG&Es history!

You fail at game theory, good sir! That's what they *WANT* you to think!

You kid, but this is a genius idea that needs to be installed on more vehicles.

Hey, don't take away my Twitter! It's how I know if the train is on time or not! (And incidentally the only reason I got an account.)