hiddencache

Sadly true - the old adage that sex and war drive technological innovation.

Putting something like that out there is a pretty big risk.

48 hours later there'll be a Luke Skywalker deep fake version of this guy on YouTube created on an old Intel.

Get a large enough valuation, and you can just buy competitors with a real proposition and tech...

That would probably correlate with a sudden drop in VPN revenues

True, zero energy expenditure but huge energy intake in the form of Oreos

Increase your muscle mass

If it means we can avoid car salesmen, I'm all for it

...a lot of financial journalists wouldn't have anything to write about...

Maybe "Can I really afford to leave?" should be higher on the list...

I had a colleague who would block out almost his entire calendar as a defensive strategy against being given new tasks.

He even tried it once with his wife to avoid clearing out the garage. That tactic he only tried once, though, for obvious reasons.

Nevermind came out in 91, and it did feel like the beginning of something...

Two words: plaid shirts.

Thanks for making me laugh out loud, appreciated.

Managers cite efficiency losses in terms of communication, team building, training new staff, and idea generation in general.

Not my arguments, just what I've seen written...

Google is already looking at this...

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2021/08/11/remo...

This article probably originated as someone from The Economist looking for a way out of journalism and stumbling across a story...

Demand for HVAC is only going to get bigger on current trends.

Anyone with small children. Who are learning musical instruments.

Imagine if you'd done the same with Dogecoin...

Pre-revenue, $4.5bn valuation - I'm in the wrong industry.

(Although I think this is down from $6.6bn when the deal was announced in February)...

Thanks for making me laugh out loud, appreciated

I see I'm also getting some downvotes, but I'll try to clarify just from my perspective.

We looked into the option of accepting cryptocurrency as a payment method but came up against too many obstacles. Without being able to prove the provenance of client funds we would be at risk of breaching "proceeds of crime" / anti-money laundering regulations.

And while the value of cryptocurrencies bounces all over the place and makes it impossible to budget, even stablecoins present problems. While they are pegged to something, the question is to what. Those pegged to precious metals such as gold or silver were a no-no, and even those pegged to the dollar present a problem. (As an aside it obviates one of the cited advantages of bitcoin - as a hedge against monetary policy-driven inflation). The question our board came up with was, if the currency is pegged to the dollar, why not just accept dollars? At least with established currencies we can buy currency hedging. With stablecoins, we'd be looking at specialist forex hedging, or messing about with futures. The board looked at the cost-benefit for about five minutes before they threw it out.

That's the real return. The nominal return would still make you a millionaire, even if you don't feel that rich.

No cryptocurrency currently passes the test as a currency in terms of acceptance, transaction speed and stability. So if it's classed rather as a store of value (read investment) then I don't see the difference between it and other investment classes which you need to be a sophisticated investor to access.

Noobs typically need protecting from themselves.

Yes, I hear they're struggling financially...

Combine the rule of 72 (compound interest) with a historical 10% return from the S&P and I don't see how it couldn't work. All it takes is a bit of willpower, and the desire to "get rich slow"...

The eternal challenge - improving efficiency in systems while ensuring that those efficiency gains are fairly distributed among participants...

Someone, somewhere will always find a new niche

Is that a bad thing? Maybe that's how systems become more efficient.

Time suckage... and suddenly, it's 3am...