When I was in my late teens there was a neighborhood with computer stores.
They would have sheets of specials on components. I would go around and collect all the sheets, find somewhere to sit and compare prices.
Hardware review websites were big at the time (Tom's, etc.) and I knew where all the components ranked. So I made an educated decision before speccing out a system.
Saving a few dollars here and there I would optimize.
Moore's law was big and framerates were low, benchmarks between components would have significant percentage differences.

Moore's law has stopped the gamers did it, GPUs used for rendering millions of pixels proved similar in intention to AI machine learning requirements.
Going to computer stores now is depressing, the huge gains are gone.
AI is often wrong and almost always lowest common denominator. Teenage boys blowing up mutants and Nazi's did more for computing than AI has.

Bitcoin was created partially because the laws surrounding money assumed it was an option not a necessity.
The idea of cryptocurrencies was that possession should be in a sense above local governments.
The statistics on illicit use of cryptocurrency and people's appetite for a secure store of value seem to be demonstrating that this aspect of crypto is valid.

I agree, when I got into Bitcoin I thought adoption would take off due to fees and micropayments but now that Bitcoin is popular the fees are too high for those use-cases,. Also $1Million is only a 10x, stocks offer ten bagger opportunities as well. Bitcoin is still a solid investment but it's not amazingly better than a good value stock pick. If Bitcoin isn't your thing: Copy Berkshire Hathaway, Pershing Square or get involved on the Value Investors Club.

At one time, in what seems like 6 lifetimes ago, taking your mobile phone to the toilet appeared perverted to most.

I mean it still does to me, but i feel like i am in the minority these days....

autonomous killing robots are a bad idea because there is nothing to stop them from killing you next.
  killing indiscriminately is a war crime. just because the russians do plenty o war crimes does not make it ok for the other side to do them.

k but its maybe not worth unleashing literal terminators.

should the russians be nuked? survey says probably not. rules of war are like the prime directive. mostly people have to follow it to remain civilized.

reminds me of that sneakers chip from the movie. picture it marty, all code is cracked and exploited. all systems are compromised. no more secrets.

"sunrise will be after 9 am in the winter for people in Vancouver"

If you knew anything about vancouver and the coast it is that it is typically grey, raining and miserable 24x7 from sept to june. "The sun" barely comes out at all (this year not withstanding).

So lets just say, people are already used to that!!

AI is a tool of the devil! This is nothing but state sponsored witchcraft.

We need BYD in canada. Fuck american cars, unloyal american car companies and all their stupid fascist BS, government and culture. Produce BYD cars instead. I want my 9k-19k ev please. Would be finally worth ditching the beater for.

"Even my old mom has used it for over 15 years."

ok now that might be harder to do with someone who doesnt have a linux expert on speeddial. And i dont want to be that linux expert for my family and friends (sorry, not sorry).

When win7 lost support, i tried linux on the desktop yet again as i have since 1997. mint in this case. It has the same problems of needing updates, where people force in "design changes" a long with security changes. It has a lifecycle, and you will be told to upgrade to a newer release at some point. During those upgrades, things may go wrong, same as windows. Except i can tell my parents to call any independent computer store and have them deal with it. Not have to call in the elusive linux expert at hundreds of dollars an hour. they can use general forums and self solve, not have to deal with niche forums, and snarky attitudes from linux tryhards.

for me personally, i could have stuck with mint. i had to leave it due to bugs in games, and the lag of proton support to address those bugs. But having some small issue and being pretty much on your own to solve it does grate at the nerves. I just want my computer to work when i get home. I fix computers all day... and in the corporate world, its all windows. Because windows experts are easier to hire (plentiful) and cheaper to pay. The same applies to home support, resources on the internet to solve things, etc.

 

some real funny ones with 10 views. happens sometimes when you are searching for something randomly, and you hit some crazy video that only has like 20 views. but this makes it easy!

makes you wonder what happened to the dad yelling at his kid. Are they still friends? is the dad dead?

pretty fun.

They cannot possibly unload them as people would notice immediately i believe. In that situation, it is far better to have two accounts, or 10 or 100. each with an amount in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. just convert pieces of that when you need some cash.

So he had the first coins. Saw the price going up and purchased a few thousand over different wallets while they were still 19 cents or whatever. Just spends those off one account at a time. Never needs to touch the main account because no one can spend billions of dollars with no accountability of where that money came from.

And practically, no one actually needs billions of dollars. a few million tax free over 10 years would be plenty for almost everyone.

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