According to the post, "mjwx" is talking to Einstein--a person who most certainly qualifies as a highly intelligent individual.

Same. But only if it's GooGooGaGa's ReCraptcha. I can't tell you how many services I've turned down because the design of the sign-up/log-in process is so convoluted. No, a local T-Shirt company does not need three state of the art AI-enhanced cpatchas and 3 factor authentication to make a comment on a design. Plus, half the time any email addresses that don't end in gmail.com, or have plus signs, curse words, the company name, etc don't work. Finally finally, then there's those websites that process their logon URL through a 3rd party ad server, which breaks if you either 1) block common ad servers, 2) disable 3rd party cookies, 3) can't be arsed to provide a HTTPS security acceptation when logging in to a forum.

but I do care, as it is technology and financial news for nerds. Just because you are salty you were too stubborn to trust it doesn't mean everyone thinks like you.

Do you live under a rock? Tech has been crypto-centric for a long time. Just because you are mad you didn't get in early doesn't mean that it's not a prolific disruptive technology that is shaping our world as we speak. Every tech firm I've worked with does work with crypto startups. Good luck programming your Fortran old man.

bla bla, off-chain transactions, adaptive hash rates, and other solutions... do a bit more research next time

There are scams, then there is Bitcoin. Any [n]coin is garbage. Bitcoin is the one true cryptocurrency and it certainly isn't a pyramid scheme. Go do the least bit of research and come back next time.

OK boomer.

There is only one true cryptocurrency. That's Bitcoin (BTC). The rest of these copy-cats are like the reason why there are so many antivirus bloatwares.

the googoo pixel phone has been the worst investment I ever made. The damn thing overheats if it's left in a pocket, crashes if more than 4 apps are open, camera software slowly degrades to the point where it gets into a focus limit-cycle--effectivly making the camera nearly useless, and all-around is an expensive POS.

In my experience, every tech company has a life span. I'd be overjoyed to see GooGooGaGa go the way of Yahoo.

In addition to uBlock, I run a PFSense plugin called PFBlockerNG. I highly recommend it, you can get the ads at the DNS level. It also prevents leaking telemetry, IoT chatter, known malware domains/IPs, and those damn DNS attacks that just about every IP address gets every couple seconds.

read the comment above yours, in case you are too dumb to find it: The Space Force isn't being created out of whole cloth. They're just taking the US Air Force Space Command and turning it into a separate service branch, still under the Department of the Air Force (like how the US Marine Corps is under the Department of the Navy but is not part of the US Navy). This is pretty similar to how the US Air Force started out as part of the US Army until it was later spun off. It's not even an added cost. The budget at the start is simply transferred from the Air Force to the Space Force to reflect the duties being split off, and then future budgets are based on actual operational needs. And these are existing needs. They're responsible for things like launching and maintaining the GPS system, for example.

ITT: people still salty that they didn't invest in it when it was 8 dollars. Go read a book.

can someone tell me why Slashdot is so irrationally critical of bitcoin? What is the downside to it dying? Beside not ever going to happen, people around the world loose the ability to freely trade value to one another.. for one. go read a book

Cytu.be has been doing this for years.