Even just making a facial expression is modulating light to communicate information, but the point of a spec isn't to do something for the first time, it's to promote compatibility.

It would be less odd if it were $1, the accepted token value for a neutral exchange.

Neither side has done anything to address the problem, which is a shortage of medical professionals. We have all these people borrowing $100K+ for college debt and somehow too few getting trained where they are needed most. There are too few residency slots, period.

To be fair, Obamacare did start out with some provisions to actually reduce costs instead of just redistributing them. But people rejected this with cries of "Death Panels!" (This is the Republican equivalent of liberal jouranlists who write pity pieces about insurance companies rejecting expensive unproven treatments that people are just sure would save them).

Heh, remember when we were in here debating whether a trademark holder should be able to wrestle a domain name from whoever registered it first?

In 1994, a reporter named Joshua Quittner bought mcdonalds.com for a story he was writing for Wired about the value of domain names. But nobody at McDonald's seemed to have any interest in being online.

"Are you finding that the Internet is a big thing?" a media relations rep reportedly asked Quittner.

https://gizmodo.com/5-domain-n...

The quote states "we." And the photos of each of the individuals in "we" is right below the quote on their website.

He lost the case so I can't argue that my preconception was right. But https://www.reddit.com/r/McDon... does exist. So, a trademark can be the name of a reddit.

I'm not surprised reddit could kick him off their platform, but I would have guessed he had a chance at taking the WallStreetBets trademark with him.

Including Venmo. A guy shows up and collects the cash and couriers it to the recipient in a little treasure chest.

Really? And would you blame Italy for Americans pigging out on too much pizza? Because that would be ridiculous.

Thailand is making its own choices, in this case a bad one, similar as Americans have done, and for the same basic reasons.

"Blame America" is one of those articles of current conventional wisdom that passes without scrutiny online, and it's dumb.

Cheese might be different, but being somewhat lactose intolerant myself, can you guess what my favorite ice cream is? A cone from Burger King or McD. I'm not claiming it is lactose free, but it works better for me than most ice cream.

See, some people say cold and darkness don't 'exist,' they are simply the absence of heat or light, respectively. But the perception of cold and darkness are phenomena. When you put your hand in icewater a lot of neurons start firing. 'Cold' isn't the absence of heat, it's the perception of the relative absence of heat.

Vietnam's GDP per capita is $3,756. If that's the outcome that follows from your values, you can keep them.

The summary says it is health care data but then all the examples of leaked data are employment / business info. For example emails were leaked. Well in the US anyways you can't send medical information by email, which is why we have to suffer with all these web gateways.

He was heading into China. And why would Chinese customs want to stop CPU's coming in, anyways? According to the article, they wouldn't... this is a taxation issue: "Of course, it isn't illegal to take CPUs from Macau (or Hong Kong) to the Chinese mainland. These apprehended smugglers, though, have attempted to sidle through the 'non-declaration channel' at the customs border. People are attracted to the risky business of smuggling tech into the mainland due to the tax differential, as we have mentioned before. Chinese mainland VAT on consumer goods is normally 13%, while the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions benefit from zero VAT."

Celebrity endorsements actually do make some logical sense to something that will only work if everybody jumps together.

Even if you view crypto cynically as a pyramid scheme, a celebrity endorsement provides some evidence that "the masses" will be streaming in, so there will be a "greater fool" for you to sell to. And in fact there are certainly some people who got into crypto early and got out early and made real money.