Thank you for the informative comment! France's and Vietnam's roles in this are quite interesting. I found some links that go into more detail:

https://blockchain.news/wiki/a...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry...

As for your comment regarding BTC dying, seems to be the opposite is happening if anything. As a store of value, it's the best thing going and is currently on track to achieve the S2F and S2FX predictions. As a currency, it will be no more of a failure than gold was or is. Of course only time will tell.

In the meantime, I'd hold onto a single bitcoin and see where it goes just for fun. You never know... :)

Cheers!

> Can human brains can do something that a Turing Machine cannot.

- feel
- be self-conscious

Or maybe turing machines potentially can, just not yet..

This! Slashdot was a better form of Usenet because of modding points. Now Twitter offers the advantage of hearing people like Carmack and Elon directly communicate with each other and everyone independent of any topic or post with the added ability of modding posts with hearts.

Haha

Afford Anything - About achieve financial independence early. (FIRE)
https://affordanything.com/

Biggerpockets - Real I recommend the ones involving "house hacking" and FHA loans to achieve financial independence.
https://www.biggerpockets.com/

The Investors Podcasts: Basically they study billionaires
https://www.theinvestorspodcas...

Stephan Livera- Great Bitcoin podcast
https://stephanlivera.com/

The Indicator from Planet Money- Short but varied and topical podcasts on economic indicators.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/5...

Freakonomics- Odd but interesting economic topics.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/4...

Agreed. Of course it's just a matter of time before they write a similar article about how cars didn't have black boxes...

Good point. I am a huge fan of the old Godzilla movies. But this new one has him looking like a giant pregnant/fat dinosaur version. The old one I grew up on was badass, but was likeable and could be friendly looking. He had character. "Someone" I could root for. I get no such vibe from the new trailer. So no interest, especially as I've been let down by all the movies from recent decades. sigh.

Here's to hoping that the mayor of Vegas isn't hindering Tesla's contract to give it to one of his buddies instead.

Bezos owns the Washing Post, thus his home in DC. As for NYC, you can't compare it with living anywhere else. That's why he has homes there, and that's why he wanted to open HQ's there. If you think it's just a coincidence... then good for you. :)

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Don't forget the great Batusi! Even had Travolta and Uma doing it in Pulp Fiction. Ha!

https://youtu.be/RsYA8Gr5NTY

RIP

"Henry Harteveldt, founder of the travel consultancy Atmosphere Research Group, said some airlines are choosing to risk outages that might cost them $20 million to $40 million rather than invest, for example, $100 million on technology upgrades. He believes investors and the general public will apply increasing pressure on airlines to avoid outages at any cost."

How much did this cost Delta? Both directly and indirectly.

How much will preventing this single point of failure cost?

Then they should have switched. The cost of switching was probably a fraction of the direct and indirect costs of what happened.

I suppose you can liken it to taking a girls virginity. :)

"but they had failed to take into account a number of factors (the most notable being the change in performance characteristics when exposed to cold temperatures), leading to the last-minute warnings as they realized the potential for disaster."

Bzzt wrong. The managers took the cold temps into account, and ignored the pleas of their engineers to delay the launch because previous damage sustained from temps that were not even as extreme on that day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02...

There is risk, and then there is stupidity/negligent manslaughter. Thiokol management should have been put in prison and ruined.