Or you could go with the rhymes, like "thirty is hot, twenty is nice, ten is cold and zero is ice."

More like real life, then?

So they can do God's work, like be able to go to confessional (?) via app and raise healthy soccer-playing children. Duh.

Their victims are probably companies with insufficiently strong cybersecurity measures, I'm guessing.

I'm actually more reminded of this gulf in understanding. I think it would be better to describe the video's case as "random changes", and the cockroach case as "selection pressure" as a probabilistic effect in large populations. Maybe explain it to senators as candidates being having better or worse "adaptations" to their "environment" to get enough votes to win the elections and "survive" to produce legislation that affects the next generations of legislators.

A vetted codebase, and ability to hire/fire/contract out expertise rather than rolling their own, maybe?

"Even I trust successful tech companies that have provided decent services to most people more than oversight from our current legislature. Hell, we had to rely on the European Union to standardize charging and data transfer, what value do you think we can really provide?"

Makes a lot of sense if they push the finances to the third party and guarantee a certain amount of money for themselves. It takes them entirely out of the "cancellation probability estimation" actuarial business. That money can then go into a budget, and that budget can be apportioned to deliver their (nominally) core competency of providing a certain level of functional lodging.

Bonus if the NFT is designated as no longer valid for conversion to an actual reservation after noon on that day -- the NFT's par value ($5 or whatever) is paid back to the holder, some poor traveller comes in tired and hungry, and the traveller gets the room, maybe at a discount.

"We're sorry miss. Let me get this empty Evian bottle and fill it up from the tap."

Found the JPM employee!

Isn't blockchain basically a double-entry accounting ledger? With some additional cryptographic digest features that allow for zero trust? Or am I missing something.

But I can't help but feel I've seen something like this before -- maybe circa 2008?

I *have* looked at an underpowered PC and said, "Sure would be nice if I could buy an USB-to-HDMI converter that could selectively refresh rectangles on the screen -- e.g., web pages, spreadsheets, terminal windows, and downclock to whatever frame rate the PC could handle at the expense of increased lag and update artifacts, to drive an HDMI monitor of any resolution".

I'm not saying it's aliens ... but it's probably aliens. Or maybe Terrans in exile. The term is a little ambiguous.

Managers are employees too, I guess.