Meta AI, Super Genius...

I understand your knee jerk intuition about crypto currency. But very earnestly I suggest learning a bit about monetary policy. It's indispensable. And after that you may want to read about bretton woods and how banks in different countries actually can trade money to each other. The US treasury and its impact on monetary policy enables this. It's not just a methodology in the sense that bitcoin is a method for moving money. Monetary policy is how countries can perform the miracle of Keynesian economics to regenerate Growth in a downturn. That cannot ever be done ever without fiat currency and a central bank. Period. This was. Why for example Germany plunged in to pre-hitler ruin after world war 1. There was no way to climb out of turned down economy when you had no gold reserves (France took them). Germany only managed to recover when they pegged their mark to a kilo of wheat-- not a long term solution but a desperate move that mostly worked. But the economic malaise didn't end till Hitler started spending money into the economy. That was made possible by moving off the gold standard prior to Hitler.

Without monetary policy you are left with the austerity of Austrian economics which pretty much inverts the rational of monetary policy and loses all it's advantages.

If crypto ever rises to rival the dollar you can kiss the USA goodbye because it will mean the end of monetary policy and central banking. If you say good riddance, I think you may not understand how the world works

...with Blackjack! And Hookers!

You must be ecstatic over Fantastic Four bringing back HERBIE... :^D

Why not both?

They still sell those?

A truck without a back seat? Since when?!

A former manager of mine left the Mac team for the Windows team and, of course, had to get all new hardware. He picked up one of those tablet PCs and loved it.

He could plug in a big display, keyboard, mouse, etc and use it like PC. But when he had to go to a meeting, he could unplug it and take notes with a pen--which he said was easier and less distracting to the presenter. When the meeting was done, he would come back to the office and have it turn his written notes into text.

I had a co-worker who insisted that 17 was the only true random number and all other numbers were pseudo-random.

I can do all these things. The idea is...I don't have to.

I don't have to open up messages and scroll through trying to find the message with the flight number (Oh! Mom didn't send it, my sister did), find the website that lets me look up the flight number and airport to get the airline, then go to the airline website that shows arrival times, then go to the traffic website to figure out what time I should leave in order to get there on time. Siri can do all those things for me and come back with, "Mom gets in at 5:30PM, but you should probably leave in 15 minutes if you want to get there on time."

Yes, I can write programs in assembler. But I don't have to.

Nobody expects the five-year Fortnite ban!

I thought that was Joual..

Coitus interruptus

Well, it is in New Mexico, so there's not much to hit anyway... :^D