Will fear-mongering warhawks trying to scare the public against the "red" threat succeed in getting Bitcoin banned? Or will Wall Street crony-captalists eager to scam as much money out of digital currency as possible prevail?
Could this be the end of Bitcoin?!?! Will a nuclear-powered DPRK succeed in harvesting every last drop of your spare processor power??!? Will Wall Street bilch billions from Americans before driving Bitcoin into the ground?
We should not be okay with this. Reduced choices leads to increased cost. Fewer companies means less competition, and a greater probability of collusion and price-fixing. We should be furious.
However, the people who actually run this country are quite okay with this, so it will almost certainly go through.
If you are running Firefox, it is easy to change your default search engine to Duck Duck Go. They have made it one of the pull down search menu options.
I've been using it to search for months now, and I don't notice much difference. Highly recommend.
I got a surface at work to replace an aging laptop. I suspect a lot of surface purchases are of a similar nature. Microsoft may be cutting into Mac purchases, but I suspect they are cutting even more into OEM business.
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I thought most two-dollars were taken out of circulation. Maybe this is what the government is doing with all of them?
Dear SETI,
Make your own crypto-currency, and use the extra cycles to run all the calculations you'll ever need.
Love,
Obvious Solution
Shady as heck, preying upon the fears of those poor uninformed politicians! That's so mean!
Because they don't need them.
Given how they are usually used, "twit-storms" might be a better name.
Calling it now.
Will fear-mongering warhawks trying to scare the public against the "red" threat succeed in getting Bitcoin banned? Or will Wall Street crony-captalists eager to scam as much money out of digital currency as possible prevail?
Could this be the end of Bitcoin?!?! Will a nuclear-powered DPRK succeed in harvesting every last drop of your spare processor power??!? Will Wall Street bilch billions from Americans before driving Bitcoin into the ground?
I can make sensationalist headlines too.
Resistance was futile.
When asked for clarification, they responded "Everything is screwed anyways, so who cares!"
What will prevent them from making their instructions more unclear in order to drive customers towards their new "service"?
We should not be okay with this. Reduced choices leads to increased cost. Fewer companies means less competition, and a greater probability of collusion and price-fixing. We should be furious.
However, the people who actually run this country are quite okay with this, so it will almost certainly go through.
The Coast Guard: Making old greek parables relevant in the digital age.
This is almost definitely going to be a new plot device on Silicon Valley next year.
FINISH HIM
Take that, Einstein, you bastard! Finally, you get what you deserve!
I really did need new shoes, I found a hole in the one by looking down. Good call!
This might be the Stone Age, or at the most the Bronze Age, but we are nowhere near the Golden Age or the Renaissance.
If allowed to continue unencumbered, one of these business psychopaths may even attempt to run for president one day!
Won't someone children think of!
Vigilante justice has never been funnier.
If you are running Firefox, it is easy to change your default search engine to Duck Duck Go. They have made it one of the pull down search menu options.
I've been using it to search for months now, and I don't notice much difference. Highly recommend.
What's the Weissman score?!
If our corporate overlords can't make any money from something, it has a value of zero to the people in charge of those kinds of decisions.
I also know that you are out of milk.
I got a surface at work to replace an aging laptop. I suspect a lot of surface purchases are of a similar nature. Microsoft may be cutting into Mac purchases, but I suspect they are cutting even more into OEM business.