Serious question from someone who has zero interest in bitcoins. What's the end game once the last coins have been mined? The energy use should stop (I imagine) and then it's just a bunch of people holding something they want to pawn off on others?

I searched but didn't find any explanation of how this would work for the non-physics major, can anyone explain more?

I was assuming that it would deal with the gravity strength over a spot but since there can be lots of stuff under the ground it would a mapping of the differences between granite and just plain dirt (if there is such a thing as 'dirt' at lower depths).

I'm curious how the interest would work? With a bank it's assumed that my money is loaned out to people who pay interest for using it (simplified) but if this is just a coin storage facility where does the interest come from?

So are NANDs dying out or Intel being stupid again? It seems that Intel is thinking that the end of NANDs as a growing market.

Seriously curious here.

I too was curious since 1.6 million degrees seems very warm.

this side; http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl...

Explains that the probe can handle 2,500 degrees so I'm guessing it's not really exposed to 1.6M, still pretty hot.

I wonder if it's selling for less than the cost of the parts? If not it is probably pretty close. It's said that just the patent costs for an iphone is in the order of $30 per phone.

Thinking back at the mess software patents caused.

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Slight correction - Costco parted ways with American Express not MasterCard.

I think that AE made a mistake with that but it's the old -- not _enough_ profit as if any profit from something like Costco wouldn't add up.

(source: had Costco AE now have Costco Visa).

I came to ask the same, you would think that a VM would have some interesting hooks into the OS that could be caught with a scan. Also they would need so get some drivers, etc that should be searchable.

Iâ(TM)m sure the fallout from Florida being blocked by Twitter/Facebook would change the peopleâ(TM)s minds. My family that lives there would not be able going cold turkey on Facebook

So if we really want to see who would win this battle, what if Facebook and Twitter just blackholed any FL IP address.

I think the fallout would be pretty interesting.

It's open but not free unless a small subset of pictures that are pixelated is what you want but the sad part is now they have your picture and maybe even a name or ip address or something.

I was hoping for a GitHub project that would be crowd sourced like open maps.

It did occur to me that Google was genius when they gave away their photo application and let you 'tag' your photos, I imagine that data made facial recognition a lot easier for them (see captchas).

I'm betting that there are some businesses that would pay to have their competition get a bunch of bad reviews.

There is no perfect solution (aside from ignoring the reviews). I don't trust too many review sites either outside of dcrainmaker and project farm.

I have the SE2 and was going to probably get the 13 mini if it also supported fingerprint unlock. (yes I'm that ugly).

However this is probably the only time I'm hoping that Apple ignores the Analysts and for once keeps bringing out a small phone. I have no idea if they will since they do a lot of (IMHO) stupid stuff (like killed the 11" air).

Of course the competition will follow Apples lead so maybe we'll have some decent small Android phones in the future.

(and yes I know that the copy the competition goes both ways, it took forever for iphones to get waterproof capabilities - and even that is suspect - https://www.cnet.com/news/how-...)

Sacramento to San Francisco is a brutal 2+ hour drive. More like 3 unless you are talking really early or really late.

  It's amazing how hard of a drive it is.

But I have to admit that the train is really nice and if I'm not hauling stuff I would do the train any day of the week.