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True. But the prices of most of the ALT coins are correlated with BTC, which has also caused them to go down too (in the same way they went up with it before May).

I wonder if the future push towards Proof-of-Stake away from Proof-of-Work will one day stop this happening.

Interestingly, I heard that Terraform's registry is hosted via Fastly. I was wondering if there was any correlation with the timing of this release and Fastly's outage earlier.

Nice. This reminds me a lot of the 'String Art Generator' https://github.com/halfmonty/StringArtGenerator to recreate 'Pin and Thread' art.

Also see a ' weaving algorithm' here : https://github.com/i-make-robots/weaving_algorithm

More people -> Higher Market Cap. -> ??? -> Profit.

Are you sure these aren't extensions on the 2017 'ban'? (As well as more attempts to 'crackdown' in 2019)

Isn't Binance based in Hong Kong?

Either way, if indeed clickbait, crypto does seem to bounce around on a lot of FUD, which might have a role to play in the recent bath they've all been taking recently.

Surely this is also very much related to the recent announcement in China [1], banning financial institutions and payment companies from providing services related to cryptocurrencies?

[1 : https://www.reuters.com/world/china/what-beijings-new-crackd... ]

I wonder how this will affect Binance?

I really hope they don't rush all this merging and forking.

And also "audit the auditors". So they don't end up on a future rekt.news leaderboard.

Might be an idea to replace the included (one year lifespan) CR2032 battery with a rechargeable one. And also include (embed/hack) a wireless recharging module in the base?

Otherwise, in a about a year, you're going to get the notification that the battery is running low. After which, the sculpture will no longer be trackable.

Google Earth VR is fantastic. Especially during the lockdowns. It felt like going out! ;)

I'm wondering if the Timelapse will get added to it.

(Used on a Quest 1 and 2 over Virtual Desktop to a PC)

Many billions of pounds are being wasted on this. This failed app and system has had ten times the overall cost of the Mars Perseverance mission budgeted for it.

I wonder how many people unwittingly confused him with Ben Horowitz.

A 'Faraday Cage' should also help.

edit: No idea why the downvotes. Faraday cages have long been thought of as a way to protect electrical devices from the electromagnetic waves which can be a result of solar flares.

I even chatted to someone from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory about it in the past.

IIRC this was also brought up by Jonathan Van-Tam MBE, the UK Chief Medical Officer, a specialist in viral transmissions, antiviral drugs and pandemic preparedness.

I've had the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and had no side-effects at all. I did actually expect to, since I used to always react badly as a child to the flu vaccine we had at school.

Also, I've heard of friends and colleagues who felt pretty rough for a couple of days.

But one thing I don't hear enough of, is the comparison with all the long lists of potential side-effects stated on normal, over-the-counter medicines. Paracetamol, Aspirin etc.

Have you listened to the fast-talking voices at the end of medicine adverts, disclaiming a litany of possible side-effects? It's quite amazing. (Some disclaimers at the end of pharmaceutical ads on US TV particularly, have always shocked me.)

"Take this. It'll help your problem" (* warning: may cause ... )

I've always thought the most scary thing about this practice is that your (unique) phone number is a powerful "foreign key" which could potentially join data from many other leaked databases, forming an even larger dataset on you.

There are plently of other places we give our phone numbers to, which might not have anywhere near the protections that Facebook say they provide.

Try and copy some text on a Stack Overflow answer today.

This is also a great way to sync multiple LED strips (client) to some music (server).

I just saw this (after selecting and copying some text) and was about to share here ;)

Not a bad April Fool!

Based on the artwork, they'll definitely be announcing their mixed-reality "iGlasses".

I find it odd that there's no mention at all of the University of North Carolina in any of these articles and threads concerning the handling of deadly pathogens.

Before the BLS4 facility in Wuhan was established in 2017, there was a lot of SARS / Coronavirus research going on at UNC (alongside people from Wuhan's Institute of Virology).

This included 'gain of function' research which attempts to create the means to 'deliver' pathogens via aerosol.

I'm not saying UNC had anything to do with Wuhan itself, but I do notice many articles avoid mentioning that very similar work goes on in other parts of the World.

(I was also amazed that the distance from the Wuhan lab to the fish market is startlingly close).

I wonder if this is in any way related to the Australian Government deciding in 2015 to try to kill two million feral cats by 2020.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/magazine/australia-cat-ki...

It was originally an interactive 'WebVR' music video / research project done by LCD Soundsystem and Google back in 2017. Here's a video about how they made it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cG675fJlEo

The whole last year has definitely been 'the right time' for something like it again. And especially across timezones.

These days, I would probably only offer it as a white-label/SaaS model rather than an 'open' social network. Possibly something private/invite-only.

The past few years have made me think that I'm extremely glad to have not been involved at all with it any more. I'd had some extremely lucrative offers from political parties for them to use one of its features, which I'm glad I turned down. The effect it would have had on the incumbent beta-testers at that stage would have been catastrophic.

I would also stick to 'organic growth' rather than outside investors, who could absolutely destroy your vision for the product, for their own ends, without a care in the world for the users and community. Lesson learned the hard way.

I founded and built a company based on a threaded, asynchronous multimedia forum system about 12 years ago. It supported any type of content that was 'V.I.T.A.L' : Video, Images, Text, Audio and Links.

(I sadly had to resign from it, after getting royally screwed over by the 'investor relations guys' who were on the 'pump and dump' of our OTA stock, after we went public via a reverse merger.)

I have been thinking of building something like it again recently, using everything I've learned since - technologically and financially.

Best of luck! :)

I never had a 'Speccy'.

Some old friends of mine wrote a song ages ago about the effect those machines had on us all, called "Hey Hey 16k" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28

I had one of these at age 10. I still have it (at age 50) and it still works. Also the printer and a roll of paper.

Whenever people ask me what my earliest memory is, I say the 16k RAM Pack. :)

I was about to say the exact same thing. :) 507 Movements is a work of art and inspirational.

The Sinclair ZX81 was also my first computer. (At school - at 10/11 years old, we had a Research Machines 380Z to play Sink The Bismark and Lunar Lander on a green screen. ;) )

Dad used to work at IBM.

I've always thought of myself as a 'Silicon Chip off the Old Block'.

Doing things with 'computers' has mostly been my favourite thing to do with my spare time. And thanks to the enjoyment of this 'hobby', I've carved out an extremely fun and rewarding career out of it for over 25 years.

I empathise with this author. Apart from the spelling of 40. :)

Surprised to not see the word "collate" or "collation" in this article, as they relate to that specific way of printing pages in the right side/ordering for what would become a 'book(let)'.