I'm always surprised how the readership of Slashdot, a small nerd-dominated backwater of the internet, has such a hate-boner for blockchain and cryptocurrency.

I would have thought the libertarian ideals, Nakamoto's elegant probabilistic solution to multiparty consensus, and surprising explosion in the social conscious would have made this site fans.

But no, never a single good thing to say about this entire space. Despite employing tens of thousands of developers and making the general population think twice about what 'currency' and 'value' actually are.

Nobody thinking about prosecuting or imprisoning the people responsible for shoddy security in the first place?

Until that happens, nothing will change.

When Google killed Google Play Music and forced everyone ontoYoutube Music, the Google Assistant music features were completely nerfed -- I used to be able to ask for a specific song from my own uploaded library, and it woul dutifully play that track. Free users only get a useless shuffle from some 'mix station' Google thinks might, maybe, have the track I want, eventually. And ads. between. nearly. every. track. Ugh.

They too hoped users would get annoyed enough to pay for Youtube premium. F$ck that with a pineapple. I paid for the Assistant for the features it had when I bought it. Taking away features after the sale should be outright illegal. I will *never* pay a streaming service that doesn't guarantee it actually plays the track requested.

Not my playlist, not my music.

I'm more excited for this to potentially open up new understanding about the pathophysiology and mechanisms underlying Parkinson's.

Could even get us closer to a cure.

No, it makes you a drug dealer. "The first hit is free, try it out, no strings attached, honest!".

The fact one even has to consider how to 'take their data with them' (export APIs) means there is a lock-in for non-technical users.

My phone's microSD card doesn't require a vendor-specific API. When it gets near to full, I either decide to pop it out and stick it in a drawer and label it for later use, replacing with a new one, or back it up to a local drive and wipe it to use again (which TBH has its own set of problems for non-tech users...)

Exporting and *actually using* Google drive data is well beyond the skills of most non-technical users, sadly. Blame Google, or the users; it doesn't matter. Data storage management is not easy but cloud/smartphone providers have intentionally made it even harder.

If buying and simply holding a stock can break the market, then the market was already broken.

Way to make this discussion about Elizabeth Holmes somehow about Donald Trump.

It's like a mind virus has infected you people. TDS is real.

The problem is that anyone attempting to level valid criticism of the show is just going to be dismissed as 'racist' and thrown into a pile with actual racists.

Sounds like the UK for sure, and pretty much every other European country I know about.

Workers can join unions that are nationwide and represent millions of members, or smaller ones that are very local.

You don't get the whole company unionising. You can opt in. You pay dues only if you are a member. Membership is voluntary.

Came here to say this. They withheld because El Salvador dared try to find their own way out of trouble without becoming a financial vassal of the West.

They make poor base load but good instant 'gap fillers'

And then you have to ask where the energy to pump the water back up into the reservoir comes from...

Never respond to Anonymous Cowards, but seriously WTF are you on about?

Guy quotes someone else and you want him to qualify the person he was quoting?

Do you even understand how language works?