I realize this is entirely anecdotal, but simply by seriously reducing my carbohydrate intake (not quite a keto diet, more like keto-lite), I lost 30 lbs. With zero reduction in caloric intake.

Did you count calories before you switched diets? It's easy to eat a lot of calories in unsatisfying carbohydrates.
 

This implements only one special case of money's function (where all time is of equal value). It's less functional than the existing process, so I don't think anything has been gained.

That's a contradiction. The Slashdot effect happened because the readership attempted to access the site.
The joke that the Slashdotters comment without RTFA is borne out of the fact that often we couldn't RTFA for a few hours after a story was posted.

Well, you can safely assume that this "anonymous reader" that submitted the story is Elon Musk (or one of his peons) :)

There will never be a "year of the desktop", because the desktop is dead. The reality is that such a large percentage of the population use mobile devices for the majority of their interactions that whatever happens on the desktop is irrelevant. I find it bizarre because the mobile experience is so abysmal compared to a proper desktop. But I've never understood the mainstream, and I guess this is just another example of that.

Alas dying. Jorg had a heart attack a few days ago.

I'm entrusting CowboyNeal with them !

. . . and Star Wars at its worst (the overblown, computer-effects-blighted prequel trilogy)

Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker is Star Wars at its worst.

Maybe when the Republicans get the House and Senate in November, they can pass a law allowing all debts to be paid either in USD or BTC, just because USD is hitting hyperinflation, Zimbabwe style, [b]while BTC is holding strong, and has intrinsic value[/b] (which fiat currencies don't have), due to the PoW structure.

What makes you say BTC has intrinsic value?
What makes you say BTC is not a fiat currency?

Anybody who knows anything about Warren Buffett and about Bitcoin knows he wouldn't speculate in it.

You're missing the point.

Musk wants to rename Twitter to Tits, one letter at a time.

> an essay reflecting on and evaluating their learning

This sounds awful and tangential to the point of the course. My wife had to do some of this sort of thing in her college experience. What if your learning experience was this was a big waste of time? Yeah, students are not going to write that.

Movie theaters are relics of an obsolete technology. 50 years from now, it's going to seem weird that we had whole buildings dedicated to watching video together.

Shows that last about 2 hours and cost several tens of millions to make are constraints of that movie building, which now just don't apply. You still can make content in that format, but it's not required.

How about a nice game of chess?