Gibson's story Burning Chrome which coined the term "cyberspace" came out in 82. Literally 40 years ago.

I tried out Second Life in 2008 or so. It sucked.

Yep. I grew up in Oakland and 7-11 had all these reflective coins you got if you bought a Slurpee. The rarest one was Todd Van Poppel because he hadn't even pitched yet. I remember getting one and thinking I would be rich! I was like 14 or something.

I was wondering what the topic would be today!

Even is this chip has much lower power dissipation than current mining ASICs it won't help in the long term. The amount of hash power across the network will just increase to eat up any power savings until the power dissipation is similar to it is today. The thing limiting the hashpower is the price of electricity, not how efficient the mining ASICs are.

It is part of the core design of Bitcoin (and other proof-of-work cryptos) that the inefficiency of the network itself is what secures the network. If you make it cheaper in power to calculate a hash to try to win a Bitcoin reward, the miners will just calculate more hashes to compete. No net benefit (from an energy standpoint).

At best this earns some money for Intel. It won't make Bitcoin any more environmentally friendly.

And now you know!

And knowing is half the battle.

No, you turned $12k in $14k. You don't count your initial investment twice. You had to put in your $12k savings into duping the mark to spending $14k on your NFT.

Among people I know, some appreciate the walled-garden of Apple (I know it isn't for everyone) and others appreciate the openness and mix-and-match aspects of Android.

It appears Google is trying to destroy what makes them popular. Their culture just isn't set up to compete with Apple head-to-head. Typical misguided cash grab.

Why would someone in authority say this has anything to do with layaway? It does not. It is the payday loan version of a credit card.

Layaway is where the company will set aside a product for you (lay it away) and you pay in installments. When you are finished paying, you get the product.

No predatory lenders required.

Median inflation-adjusted income in the USA has not increased significantly since 1968.

https://dqydj.com/household-in...

Inequality has been getting worse since about 1980 or so, chief.

Isn't "unlocking more value for shareholders" exactly what got Intel into the situation it is in now?

As long as Mobileye is private, it can continue to make the investments it needs to be successful. Once you let that cat out of the bag, though...

This has always been one of the issues with Smart Contracts.

Software is hard, and provably correct software is harder. There will always be bugs.

The industry is screaming for regulation.

This is crazy that basic functionality should be a "new premium feature". I know young people didn't grow up in an era of albums but many artists took the art form very seriously and carefully sequenced their songs to guide the energy level, emotional response, or even to tell a story.

Concept albums like "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" make no sense at all when they are shuffled. They are most emphatically meant to be played in order.

I'm glad Spotify finally came around now that a star has spoken. Took them long enough.

PONG was implemented in hardware, not BASIC.

They both do work well with mice. The one thing the trackball really has going for it, and is hard to replicate with a mouse, is momentum. When we stop pushing on it, the ball itself still rolls for a bit before it stops.

I wrote a Missile Command clone for the Macintosh back in the late 80s. I tried for a long time to get a momentum effect with the mouse to work. Nothing ever really worked out well, it just never felt "right". I ended up abandoning the idea of adding momentum the way a trackball does.