The biggest current (last couple of years) price rises have been in Bitcoin, which is over a decade old now. Since it has been around so long, but the price is still going up a lot, presumably that is happening because of "tangible useful applications". So what are those applications? As a currency it has stalled, not least due to price volatility. Despite occasional bursts of announcements of retailers accepting Bitcoin, the number of retailers actually accepting Bitcoin remains very small, and often quite niche. Bit coin is not taking over as a currency. How about Bitcoin as a means of fast, easy, cross border money transfer (remittances). In the early days of Bitcoin is was widely touted that Western Union was going to get crushed by Bitcoin. It turns out Western Union is doing just fine. And over the major money transfer corridors WU fees are often lower than Bitcoin. Other major remittance agencies are also doing just fine using traditional methods. If any service is getting squeezed out of the remittance industry it is crypto ... fees can be larger, money often still needs to be exchanged from Crypto to local currency with all kinds of associated other costs, and so on. How about "digital gold", a hedge against inflation? It is not clear Bitcoin is really doing any better here, and assets and investments to hedge against inflation is a pretty huge market; Bitcoin has very limited appeal over all the other options available. So again, what are the magical tangible useful applications that make Bitcoin so very valuable? It's been a decade, but there still isn't anything to show ...

New to Apple are we?

"The fact is that all the arguments against sideloading and against third party payment processors are both logical fallacies and bootlicking bullshit. Apple has sold you a bunch of provably false information and you've bought it, and are now holding your hands over your ears and shouting LA LA LA"

Or you can get card insurance to protect against smurfberries? I actually have that...

Unlikely to be trojans?

OH REALLY...

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-...

Because it has worked out so well thus far... [roll eyes]

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/...

The first mistake is evaluating bitcoin by its "price". Assuming the key is that it is a currency the real question is the volume of actual transactions going on in bitcoin.

What is the amount of good purchased with bitcoin? It certainly isn't huge. How about remittances? Money transfer was one of the big use cases. It turns out that, despite a lot of hype and years to make a difference, bitcoin in particular and crypto-currencies in general, have made practically no dent in the remittances market. How about total volume of transactions? That's certainly higher, but how much of that is speculation trading based on the price of bitcoin? Hard to say, but surely we would see higher amounts of goods purchases and remittances if it really mattered.

So, instead of looking at prices, if we look at utility how is bitcoin doing? It's been a decade and it still hasn't had any significant uptake as currency -- not on any scale that justifies the hype anyway. Might it still be useful and gain traction in the future? Sure, it's possible. But the outlook isn't that great.

No C++ is crap.

I used to write C++ until about 2001. Then I switched to C# and Java and now only Java. Ok do some Python, and Javascript, but I digress. Around 2005 or 2008? I decided to write some C++ code and there was this really weird bug. Namely I was returning a value and it would keep erasing itself and causing a GPF. I thought, did I declare the return value in the function stack? I looked and looked and could not figure it out. Well I did figure it out several days later.

Apparently between the time of this code and 2001 C++ decided to add the copy on return or something like that operator. And in this case my value was a template type which did not implement that operator. So the value was copied into nothingness.

I thought are you fracken kidding me? Have not looked at C++ since because any language that does that is really dumb!

The problem with this logic is that it is a fallacy. For the waste water is becoming more and more and more. Instead of treating it, they just release it and the next it will be released again, and again. THIS is the problem...

To be fair many of the rules and regulations did develop to make investors safer, or keep stability (just look at the fraud, shading messes and instability that has occurred on some of the crypto exchanges, especially in the early says, when there were few if any rules or regulations).

The problem comes from the fact that the big players have full time jobs and and billions of dollars to pick apart the rule book, split hairs, find loopholes, and dodge enforcement, so that, one way or another, the rules don't apply to them. The little guys, well they have actual jobs, no time, and little money, so they have to just follow the rules.

Whenever I read these studies I wish people would step back and do basic science. Is Amsterdam on this list? If yes then the study is absolute BS and just flapping its lips. For Amsterdam airport is ALREADY underwater.

My wife and I have been using Telegram for close to eight years now (I think). She uses with her mother is who is almost 80, and we use it with quite a few folks who are not technologically savy. Telegram does have groups. Telegram is quite easy to use.

It is called mental masturbation... Instead of actually solving problems, we need yet another javascript toolkit to solve some esotoric problem that somebody made up in their mind. I gave up a while ago and have not looked back...

The other part of the lag in death figures is reporting lag -- it takes a while for death certificates to be filed, numbers to be collated at the county and then state level, and finally passed up to the CDC and other organisations tracking such things. In practice that can be anywhere from several days, to a couple of weeks and varies state to state. All up that probably adds another week of so to the lag, but with pretty high variance.

This is an online venture only. You just need an Internet connection. That is smart IMO.

The problem with your assertion is that it assumes criminal court. Criminal court is indeed a place where you can't write a contract that would be illegal. However, this is a civil court process, and there this contract is quite valid and there is absolutely nothing you can do against it.