$ man tron
No manual entry for tron

Which Bitcoin is that? Bitcoin Classic? Bitcoin Cash? Bitcoin Satoshi Vision? Bitcoin Gold? eCash? One of the alt-chains? SlashCash, which I just minted this morning?

n that paper Gutmann argues that the experimental support for the notion quantum can reverse 2 factors is zero alongside time travel, FTL movement, and the startrek transporter

This is pretty silly. There's also zero experimental evidence that RSA with a key longer than 829 bits can be broken, but we all use 2048 anyway. There's theoretical evidence for both that and quantum factoring, which there is not (quite the contrary) for time travel, FTL and transporters.

Personally I don't think anybody will build a QC useful for breaking 2048 bit RSA keys any time soon, if ever, but if I had something I was super keen on keeping secret for the next ten years plus and I just had to use public key, I'd include something quantum resistant.

Resist the Internet of Things.

Embrace Unix philosophy, where every tool does one thing and does it well.

If you need speakers, just get speakers.

And did you miss the quote from the summary? "whose music video included things being lit on fire." It could have been jazz, rock even classical. The key is the lyrics. Although I'm not aware of any classical suggesting burning Rome down. Maybe one out there, dunno.

Agree, Used to backpack. Almost never did a fire, usually a little kerosene burner and even then only if not super dry out.

30% might well be the "biggest single factor." That study compared genes versus everything else combined.

The genetic contribution could be higher today too. That cohort was people born between 1870 and 1900, when there were a lot more environmental things that might kill you early, including two world wars.

I went hiking in Red Rock Canyon once in July and realized if I accidentally locked myself out of my car I'd probably die. Seemed fairly unhealthy.

People don't generally sell companies (in whole or in part) for what they're worth right now. They sell them for what they think they're going to be worth in the future.

Yes, and that's almost always appropriate for such a situation. The last price someone paid for a share is the best estimate of what you could sell your shares for. Your average retirement or mutual fund holder doesn't have enough shares to meaningfully move the share price.

Heat death? I'm not sure "healthy" is the right word.

Trying to remove board members so you can appoint ones you control, publicly talking about firing the chairman, and your power to fire the chairman, proposing devaluing the currency, etc.

But it doesn't matter what spin you put on it, the world is absolutely looking at it as a threat to the independence of the US Federal Reserve and therefore a threat to the stability of half the world's currency reserves.

Microsoft doesn't support hardware for any number of years, unless you mean their peripherals or tablets. They make Windows and they decide what the hardware requirements for new versions are going to be.

Windows 11 requires an 8th generation Intel processor and roughly the same for AMD. The 8th generation was released in October 2017, 8 (not 9) years ago. The 7th generation was released in August 2016, BUT, Intel kept manufacturing it until October 2020, 5 (not 9) years ago. And their various resellers kept selling them for several years after that.

Apple doesn't have a set years-of-support either. It typically provides security updates for OSes for seven to ten years, again, from first sale. But Apple doesn't typically sell the same hardware as new for four plus years like Intel does.

"TheStatsMan" doesn't think more accurate prediction helps improve things.

Note: I said "helps improve things" not "is necessary to improve things."

The stock price times number of shares isn't the value of the company, it's the valuation (or the market capitalization).

For once "valuation" isn't just some business dude adding syllables because it sounds smarter. That $200 you pay for the stock values the company at $200 * a bazillion shares. That's not the value of the company, it's what *you're* valuing it at, by paying that price for the stock. You are buying one bazillionth of the company for $200.

It's easy to calculate so it gets used as "Xcorp is worth this much," especially by people who want a big number, but you're quite right, that's not what it is. Something like the liqidation value (assets minus liabilities) is more like it, and is usually a much smaller number.