Sorry but a "low confidence" report by a government agency that I don't trust at all has confirmed and validated all of my extremely wrong positions on COVID and masking.

1. You give us real dollars, we give you Dave and Buster dollar coins
2. We take your dollar and either store it in a shady bank or buy US treasuries.
3. We offer you 12% APR on your D&B coins, despite the dollar you gave us making ~2% in treasuries
4. ????
5. Everybody profits, but especially our executives

Think of the possibilities! An app that trades magic jelly beans! An app that loans jelly beans! An app that loans jelly beans at 10 to 1 leverage!

And, uhhh, I mean, I guess there must be more even tho nobody has come up with any but I'M SURE THEY REALLY REALLY EXIST.

"answers it hands out probably came from scraping the web pages they aren't sending anyone to anymore."

This is already a serious problem with Google Answers (one of the seventeen sections at the top of a cluttered search page). I believe they've been sued over it because they are copying/showing your information without sending people to the actual site.

I liked Web Spider and Alta Vista. Ask Jeeves was trash.

Love how it's worded to sounds like she's a doctor. She's a former drug rep that got a diploma mill bible thumping degree in counseling and works for some catholic center who's answer to everything, I presume, is "pray it away and dont be gay."

Expert in the field, clearly.

In the mid-90'd I helped write a grant proposal for my high school and we got ~$5,000 to buy a Unix workstation. They put it in the physics storage room and like 4 of us were allowed to use it.

We'd make simple fortran programs and some cool equation visualizer 3d plane thing. Money well spent.

But he made sure to say many times that it was very embarrassing how he just made a silly mistake! Not that he's a fraud and crook!

The only "asset" FTX has that anyone wants is good old fashioned stock. A stock thats lost like 90% of its value is still worth more than all the made up magic jelly beans in the world.

The entire crypto "industry" has essentially been given carte blanche by ALL MEDIA to tell their lies and sell their nonsense. Some combination of techno-jargon and individual empowerment libertarian bullshit that allowed people from any political persuasion to find meaning.

The one thing crypto morons did well was branding. Web 3.0! I mean these blockchains are gonna replace everything! Google! Microsoft! The internet itself! And they just kept repeating the lie; repeat, repeat, repeat the lies until they're true.

End of the day you've got a pile of unique strings that dont do anything.

In Crypto decentralized only means "good luck trying to sue us"

We are exactly one year out from the crypto peak. Go to Coinbase and click on any coin or token, do the "1 year" chart, and ever single one is down between 75-98%. EVERY ONE. In one year.

Only worse because in this fraud ecosystem bank B then gives you 10-1 leverage on your "check" from bank A, and then Bank C again gives you 10-1 leverage on the already juiced check from bank B.

And as long as the numbers always go up you look like a genius!

I despise the touch bar so very much and may buy one of these new ones simply to get real actual volume/brightness keys again.

Perhaps it's just exchanging secret codespeech

Crypto is actually quite literally just exchanging random useless strings. You gotta get these unique strings while available!

All of the discussion online of EVM development is about gas costs. It's like an atari 2600 in the sky that can't do much and costs a small fortune to operate.

The main reason is the language/environment is so simplistic/limited, essentially every program that's possible to create with it has been done. The only "work" left to be done is fiddle with register commands to reduce costs.