a government or anyone may decide they need a reserve of something in case it later becomes unaccessible when needed. When can a government *need* BTC? Needing oil or food or water or weapons or gold is understandable, those are real things and it is possible to run out of these items and be in a position where access is limited.

If one "needs" crypto currency they may either purchase it in the market freely or just start their own, even Trump has done this on multiple occasions.

Note, it says "a reserve", not a speculative asset to gamble on its price.

Assuming equal regulatory burden, fission power is cheapest, not most expensive. For example, for an equivalent safety level, coal plants would need to capture every bit of reaction products (which currently are vented into the air), store them safely, and place somewhere where they'd no longer cause harm if released. Which for combustion products means forever. The plan itself would need decade-long studies wrt its localisation, many rounds of votes among the regional population -- etc. And throw in another 10x cost factor of bureaucratic costs.

The reason? Completely banning nuclear power was unfeasible politically, but adding layers after layers of "safety" was easy to be voted in.

Result? Hardly any new plants have been built. A good part of existing installed power dates back to the first generation -- which was indeed unsafe (as expected of any new technology). All three plants that failed have been built in the '60s.

Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi, etc. are somewhat popular pieces of software among those people who have home media streaming libraries. People like me who like to purchase DVDs / BluRays of movies and TV shows, rip them to disk, and then never touch the original media again.

They all descended from the original XBox Media Player, if you remember that from way back.

In my experience, I haven't had to touch my library when moving from one of these apps to another... so shifting to a different app hasn't been particularly difficult or time-consuming.

... I guess it's rabbit ears.

It's more likely that it died down because Musk effectively poisoned the brand in the eyes of the company's target audience - few people care about Tesla anymore.

The point of the low skilled jobs was to employ people, not to get things done

.. a good thing?

Sorry. Slashdot's coal plant just went off line.

Just relocate Tata's and Amazon's Mumbai headquarters a few hundred meters downwind of the coal plants. Move the families presently affected into the vacated mahogany lined corporate offices.

I hear what you're saying but I don't think they do it mererly to check a "using computers" box - I think they do it to make grading easier. In fact, almost all of K-12 education seems driven more toward grading than learning.

Gives a whole new meaning to "use it or lose it".

Before AI I replaced my flagship Android phone once every 2 or 3 years. Now I am not sure, how can I replace my phone if I do not want AI functionality in it at all?

It's becoming quite clear that semaglutide works by reducing the addiction component of eating, but also affects other addicting substances.

And the nausea discussed apparently counts if you have one episode of nausea or vomiting in a given year. I've had that without semaglutide often enough.

That it doesn't work on Alzheimer isn't a huge surprise to me, the latest research indicates there is a far higher likelihood of Alzheimer being caused by an immune response gone wrong, than by being fat. However, the things that make you fat may also moderate that immune response.

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