IbJacked

The auto-page-refreshing is annoying!

What's the limiting factor? (Genuinely curious.)

I agree with you for the most part, particularly about the run-away increase of debt.

I even agree that I would not payoff 3% debt while I could earn higher elsewhere. However, the government isn't doing that. They aren't delaying payback so they can earn a higher rate somewhere else, they are delaying payback and spending the funds.

Fair enough, I was unaware of the common distinction in the CS domain.

>> Trillions in debt is perfectly fine for an economy as large as America's.

No it's not. Wouldn't it be much better to not have to constantly pay billions to simply pay the debt's interest? We aren't even reducing the principal, which is why we have to keep raising the debt ceiling.

That's like saying it's perfectly fine to maintain a large credit card debt because you have a high income.

Just because you can handle it, doesn't make it wise.

But, um, concurrently means "at the same time," too. Merriam's first definition is actually "running parallel."

Wouldn't it be better to describe it as running serially, using non-blocking asynchronous function calls? Guess that doesn't really roll of the tongue, though.

However, the energy costs are upfront and non-recurring. The number of bit coins produced every 4 years is halved, capping out at about 21,000,000.