The Amiga was made by a Silicon Valley startup, bought by stodgy old Commodore out of Pennsylvania. Commodore simply milked the magic but was not able to support and develop the franchise.
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When it could no longer be denied that Commodore and the Amiga were dead, cold and buried, and it seemed the only alternative was a clunky, artless PC, I got so down on the whole thing that I left the field of computers entirely. I even went to university in a completely unrelated field.
I finally broke after many years, went back and got a computer science degree and has now been a programmer and systems architect for many years. But I have never forgotten my first love.
> One of the world’s most widely traded virtual currencies faces renewed doubts about its stability [...]
Tether is nothing in terms of crypto currency penetration. It does not even have a percent of daily trading. Then a few paragraphs down:
> [...] within an hour of the attorney general’s statement and Tether slid 1.4 percent.
1.4 per cent. Even big cap stocks fluctuate that much some days.
> At the time of the correspondence, Bitcoin was trading at around $6,500. It dropped 4.7 percent to $5,236.03 at 12:10 p.m. in Hong Kong on Friday.
So they mention a price from 8 months ago, and then mention yesterday's price, implying that it fell that much because of this event.
Garbage journalism.
Someone upthread quoted that half the cars were sold in the last ten days of Q1, after a big price drop. Combine this with hemorrhaging cash, then I would definitely not say that the above is the only numbers that matter.
There is a lot of money looking for a place to go and be safe (from loss and inflation). There are very few 'pure' ways to simply store that value, even gold is difficult to invest in, at least if you want actual ownership and not merely a promissory note. Bitcoin (or another cryptocurrency) could be one of these ways.
One of these is not like the others.
Some can deal with it easily and are unaffected, many are eventually a bit debilitated by it, and for some it triggers major problems. No need to sweep this under the rug.
Uber made a vehicle that can zoom around the roads unassisted. You can't just put something like that out there and disclaim responsibility by assuming that somebody will sit and be ready to brake at the right times. Even trains have a 'dead man's switch', where the train stops if the operator is unresponsive.
What they did was incredibly irresponsible, they have been running an experiment on public roads with the lives of the general public at stake. For this they need to be held responsible.
I will grant that in recent years I do not see a strong involvement from Larry and Sergei, in the spirit that I expect from them, and Google has been acting mostly like you would expect from any other corporation. And I definitely do not extend my goodwill to Eric Schmidt. But still, Google has vestiges of the srappy startup, moreso than any of the comparable tech behemoths, in my mind.
No idea if this is the best supplement for lithium (but would be interested to know).
I have been using these for years, primarily because I feel the evidence is strong for the benefits of a small amount of lithium. As a welcome side effect, the magnesium has completely alleviated leg jitters while sleeping (this is a well known effect of magnesium).
In my own experience, somewhat unintuitively, total fasting is a lot easier than water-only fasting. I ascribe this to the digsetive system kind of shutting down after several hours of complete fasting. It feels like the stomach shrivels up, and hunger pangs become fewer and further between as time passes. Whereas going without proper food, but consuming water or small snacks, I feel very uncomfortable and usually get a headache.
Each microservice maintains its own database, with a model that is tailored to its own domain. This is called a projection, to illustrate that it is really the service's own view on the world, often with redundancy of data.
The service sources just the events it needs, and stores only the data it needs, to maintain this projection. It handles domain object lifecycle events in the way that makes sense for that particular service.
The only thing remarkable about this is the mechanism: Mainstream media mouthpiecing these viewpoints. Surely, they know better. But they are obviously willing tools.
I could see why they would be hesitant to use him.
And to answer the OP's question, yes, in the nineties the "generational robbery" was a topic: Real estate was booming, making existing (old) homeowners rich and pricing out first-time buyers.
I kind of think that is viable. Replace thirty regular drivers with one. That kind of model doesn't look too far off.