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Comment Re:People fail to understand Money (Score 2) 126

This is not a great argument. USD does not have any intrinsic value either, it used to be backed by gold but that went away a long time ago. The US Government can print as many dollars as it wants. There can never be more than 21 million bitcoins. The real question is whether bitcoin will remain the most popular currency and whether many countries will choose to criminalize it's ownership.

Comment Re:Can Amazon afford to do that? (Score 2, Interesting) 84

Amazon.com is a trivial part of AWS. “Every day, AWS adds enough new server capacity to support all of Amazon’s global infrastructure when it was a $7 billion annual revenue enterprise,” said James Hamilton, Distinguished Engineer at Amazon, who described the AWS infrastructure at the Re:Invent conference in 2015.

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Chip Allows Blind People To See 231

crabel writes "3 blind people have been implanted with a retinal chip that allowed them to see shapes and objects within days of the procedure. From the article: 'One of the patients surprised researchers by identifying and locating objects on a table; he was also able to walk around a room unaided, approach specific people, tell the time from a clock face, and describe seven different shades of gray in front of him.'"
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North Korea Announces Achieving Nuclear Fusion 372

aftertaf writes "North Korea claims to have achieved nuclear fusion by building what it describes as a 'unique thermo-nuclear reaction device.' This announcement was met by skepticism on just about every news website this side of Saturn. Pyongyang claims its latest scientific breakthrough coincides with the birthday of the country's founder and eternal president Kim Il-sung. This is not the first time it seems that the laws of nature have been bent in his honor. According to official biographies, when his son, Kim Jong-il, was born, a new star appeared in the sky." No doubt the Dear Leader combined the atomic nuclei by hand.

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