Thanx, very interesting.
Raises the question: what took them so long?

Now lets see when I finally can write an "App" on a "PC" and just "move it" onto _my_ tablet, and launch it there.

Sorry I guess I'm going to have to ask a more specific question. Do you have an example of anybody owning a few million $ in bitcoin *exchanging ALL of it* for something that is not Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency or crypto asset. The fact that you can exchange a small amount of bitcoin for the equivalent amount of dollars does not prove anything.

There are examples of people exchanging their entire hold of hundreds of millions in gold or stocks, without the value of those commodities crashing. Would like proof this is the same for bitcoin.

Do you have ANY examples of somebody exchanging more than about 1 bitcoin for anything other than other cryptocurrency?

With a wild twisting of words this author added "meaning the emissions were dumped up-front in China's coal plants" to try to make this sound bad.

ALL "manufacturing emissions" are "dumped up-front". There is not something special about China or using coal. And even with the 2x or more CO2 emissions of coal, a solar power panel replaces all that CO2 emission in just a few months, which is an awful lot better than a lot of other things that people claim are green.

Why are you citing fake news sites, when you can simply link the correct site?
This: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.energy-charts.info... is the official EU portal for all about electricity (and other energy) in the EU.

Germany decided 2000 to shut down nuclear.
Not 2022.

2022 was 3 years ago. Are you fucking stupid? Or is that a stupid typo? Has nothing to do with Fukushima.

The exit was set to stone LONG before Fukushima.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Higher GDP doesn't translate to better standard of living,
Of course not.
Just double all prices in your country, and you have doubled (actually much more) your GPD. Simple.
And? No one has any benefit from that inside of your country ... and quickly the exchange rate versus any "world currency" will adjust ...

It is easy to have a high GPD, if a lot of it is selling and buying fictional assets on a stock market. As in futures, sell and buy options, and however all the "derivates" are called.

Just move the London stock exchange or the New York one to lets say Bangkok ... or Kuala Lumpur. And their GPD will explode over night. And if you move the NYC stock exchange: it collapses in the USA.

Well,
as much as you are right ... there is still some funny dampener on the European potential crash :D

The idiotic taxes US imposed on _everyone_ including Europe, let many mid sized companies bail out of the US market.

So the US themselves helped us to decouple our market a bit from our former biggest customer.

It does not shield us from any catastrophe happening over there (e.g. oil prices are still super important for the EU), but 10 years ago a sudden crash would have had more drastic effects on Europe.

The problem is that the current world crisis (es?) look so damn orchestrated. War in Ukraine, Syria, now Iran, and US at the verge of a civil war. South America struggling ...

Disruptive AI ... cloud and data centers in general, crypto miners. I mean seriously: we have two IT/computer driven energy hungry "technologies" that hardly benefit mankind in any way. Sure, I can now ask my photo gallery to automatically create folders for every picture containing cats and or humans, and name them by date or place or face recognition via my contacts (or even scrap some social media sites for the names of the people on my photos). However: I never use such features.

There are simply to many people on the planet that have way to much money, and use it for bullshit, instead for something reasonable.

Look, father, that other guy there, they say "he is worth 100billion", just founded a space travel company!!
Oh, son, yeah, wow, that is a good idea. Let's do it, too!

Also, the mice got something like 500mg of psilocybin per kg of body mass. For humans, 280 mg/kg is considered a lethal dose (LD50). It's really unclear how this research could transfer to humans.

OTOH, it's a starting point. Rather than concluding that this means humans should trip on massive doses of shrooms to live longer, we should think that further research may elucidate the specific mechanisms and yield other insights that can transfer -- and might even be vastly more effective.

I agree on the matter of authority... but if you read the link, it largely suports what garyisabusyguy said. The link says:

the most commonly used mushroom is Psilocybe cubensis, which contains 10–12 mg of psilocybin per gram of dried mushrooms

Which is exactly what garyisabusyguy said.

It also says:

For example, if you want to consume 15 mg psilocybin (a common dose) from cubensis with 1% psilocybin content: 15 mg / 1% = 15/0.01 = 1500 mg = 1.5 g

But it also says that "strong" and "heavy" doses are 2.5-5g (25-60 mg psilocybin) and 5+g (50-60+ mg psilocybin). There's also a bit of inconsistency on the site, because if you look at the page devoted to Psilycybe cubensis, it gives different, slighly larger numbers. It says a common dose is 1-3g, a strong dose is 3-6g and a heavy dose is 6+g.

That all accords pretty will with what garyisabusyguy said, assuming his experience is with people who take doses at the high end of common and greater.

Of course, his ranges still suggest a maximum dose of ~84mg. A typical lab mouse weighs about 30 g = 0.03 kg, so they're taking a dose of 15 mg / .03 kg = 500 mg of psilocybin per kg of body weight. If an 80 kg human takes an 84mg dose, that's 1.05 mg of psilocybin per kg of body weight. So the mice are getting 475 times what appears to be a quite heavy dose for humans.

Further, the LD50 (dosage that is lethal 50% of the time) of psilocybin is 280 mg/kg of body weight. So the mice in the experiment got nearly twice what is usually considered a lethal dose in humans. It's unclear to me how or whether this can apply to humans.

I thought that's what the front page was. It keeps wasting space with things I'm not interested in, or actively dislike.

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The difference being that evidence is something we can find, while proof doesn't exist outside of abstract realms like mathematics, so there's no point in trying to find it.

17USC106:

Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following

[...]

(4) in the case of [...] musical [...] works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;

(emphasis mine).

17USC101 defines public performance:

To perform or display a work “publicly” means— (1) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered

it also defines perform as:

To “perform” a work means to [...] play, [...] it, either directly or by means of any device

So, playing your CD in a place that is "open to the public" is performing it publicly, and the copyright owner has the exclusive right to do that. This means that if you want to do it you need a license from the copyright owner.

Note also that a recording of music typically has three distinct copyrights on it. (1) The songwriter's copyright on the tune, arrangement, etc., basically everything you'd find in the sheet music other than the lyrics, (2) the songwriter's copyright on the lyrics and (3) the recording artist's copyright on the recorded performance. It's not uncommon for there to be a lot more than two songwriter copyrights, and in the case of recordings that contain significant sampling, there can be more copyrights in the recording, too.

To play the CD in your bar, you need licenses from all of the copyright holders. As others have mentioned, the record labels take this seriously and there's a high probability that infringing their copyrights this way will result in your being sued for millions of dollars, because the law authorizes statutory damages of up to $150,000 per offense.

They can hire and pay the temp workforce, of course, but the cost of hiring a bunch of people for a few days is a lot higher than the hourly wage you pay them. Best case you can go through some temp agencies, and I'll be surprised if they haven't already done that, but once you've exhausted that resource you're going to be getting bottom-of-the-barrel personnel, if you can even find them.

It makes sense that Amazon finds it more cost-effective to retask office workers for a few days. And if you're going to do that, and you don't want to interfere with those office workers' normal work too much, it makes sense to pitch it as optional so the office workers can determine how much time they can spare without interfering with anything essential. Likewise, it makes sense to give them access to conference rooms with VC equipment in the warehouses, so if they can take any urgent meetings during their warehouse shift.

Damn you ruined my joke. You are right