I spent the first big chunk of my professional life doing interactive development beginning with CD-ROMs. I still miss a lot of things about those times & how much innovation was taking place so fast. Ultimately transitioned from Authorware/Director to Flash and then then away from media once Flash matured. I know it's a dirty word with the security issues, closed system & tons of crappy usage in ads, but I loved what Flash was capable of and quite frankly nothing filled the hole it left very well. But I guess, that's a bit of a tangent. Back to CD - one big thing we learned the hard way was that burned CDs were not a good way to archive things. Sure they lasted better with much more expensive media but even those stored well seemed to degrade and if you needed to go back to discs you burned in more than 5 years ago, things got dicey. I remember going on a tour of a replication facility that did our large scale productions. I went into it thinking that it would be just a large version of disc burners and was absolutely amazed to see the process of one step injection-mold and stamping of the image to form replicated CDs.

My recollection was those were very competitive times & markets. The draw to be first/fastest was the driver & waiting to make a bigger jump up would open the door to someone else beating you. If you could be the first 6X drive today, the risk of waiting a little bit to be the first 8X just to make a bigger leap wasn't worth it.

We admit, your court order didn't work. We're sorry you were wrong.

There is a huge difference between pressed CDs and burned CDs. I used to do a ton of CD/CD-ROM and then DVD work. Even using expensive, high quality media, burnable discs had quite poor reliability over time. 7-10 years out, I'd guess probably at least 1 in 4 CD-R's failed or had errors. For cheaper media it was an absolute crapshoot. Maybe the media/burners improved - I left that field around 2005 or so. But from my time doing that, I never trusted the media for important archiving.

I wonder if Virgin Galactic will be anything other than a doomed vanity project to compete with the likes of Blue Origin's tourist capsule?

They'll probably announce that only a British CBDC can trade or validate NFTs

let's close the barn door.

The FCC may have just advanced the industrialization of space.

Advanced? LOL, They just created another hoop companies will have to go through. Gov't committee's don't advance anything.

Um...when exactly did that happen? Two of your causes seem completely imagined. Seriously, what billionaire has been taxed out of the country? Give me even a single corporation that has been shut down.

Nah, it really is that simple. Stimulus checks/increased monetary supply can lead to inflation...or not. Increased prices on everything does lead to inflation since it's literally the very definition of inflation.

It's pretty amazing to me that inflation has been as low as it's been and has risen as slowly as it has considering the supply shortages of goods and services (including/especially labor).

Agree, it was an absolute life-changer for me. Before, any amount of sleep didn't matter - I was still crazy tired & needed naps. After - I was back to the point where getting 6 or more hours & I never felt tired once awake. I get that it for some people it can be an adjustment or it just doesn't work as well. For me, it just clicked instantly & was very much a case where great results made using it a no-brainer.

Not just feasible. As many of his critics (correctly) point out, many of Apple's innovations weren't actually Apple's creations. Many technologies that were already released in production, but Apple's implementation was better/more effective so were actually used more widely.

Something being possible at some point in the future is doesn't make claiming to be able to do it now any less of a lie. Doing the testing they claimed to be able to do, with the size of device they claimed, in the time they claimed - with the tiny amount of blood was in fact impossible at the time.