That's what I said.

Because humans, for the most part, are pretty stupid and fail to grasp that just because there's an uneven number of something, doesn't make it not normal or perfectly fine.

> If there isn't enough mining going on to produce the mining rewards that should be awarded daily, the difficulty will quarter every two weeks until the rewards are enough to incentivize miners to continue doing so.

The difficulty only gets changed after the number of blocks since the last adjustment have been met. If less people mine, blocks take longer, blocks take longer, adjustment takes longer. So if people keep dropping out, it'll be a lot more than two weeks for the next adjustment.

Because we want to data mine all your work correspondence as well.

I dont see why equipment should matter, they could just do the MITM wherever they downlink to rather than in-aircraft.

Intel has been doing their own fab for a while. While AMD (well GlobalFoundries) does their CPUs, they dont do their GPUs.

That she didn't have anything else to be offended about.

The only people offended are the religious people who dont really know anything about their religion.

Not the same issue at all. All this is is IdiotSquad starting up a bunch of Google Compute VMs as tor exit nodes.

It is not China nor Russia who came up with TOR, it was Uncle Sam which is the entity who funded the TOR project

Guess what else they funded? The Internet.

The US didn't say "If you use your phone, we'll blow you up"

Why would they care? This doesn't affect them. Their prices aren't changing.

> Cuban cigars are desired because they're good.

[citation needed]. Outside of the 'neat' factor of buying a cuban cigar, there are equally good makers in other countries.

SlashCode is Perl.

$dbh->do('..')

When Mr. Durov sold his stake in VKontakte last December, there was speculation it was worth a few hundred million dollars. Mr. Durov would not give a specific figure, citing a nondisclosure agreement.
[...]
“I’m very happy right now without any property anywhere,” he added. “I consider myself a legal citizen of the world.”

When your net-worth is 7 figures at a minimum, that's a bit easier to do.