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"The front-end was Python..."

"The back-end was Python... ...."

okay.

James Simons was caught trying to hide $8 Billion dollars, a lot of it Russian money, in Bermuda. Look up the PARADISE PAPERS.

Robert Mercer did stuff just as dirty, but never quite got caught the same way.

From this it looks like "April May June July 2021" are almost back to the "normal" number of deaths, and not too much excess.

Wonder what that means. Maybe that everyone who was gonna die from COVID-19 exposure already did. Maybe something else.

We can be sure that "December January February 2022" will show some excess.

Bitfinex (which has been outlawed in the USA) keeps printing Tether to prop up the price of Bitcoin, graphics cards are snatched up as soon as they are manufactured, and they're using an Argentina-sized amount of power to keep the whole thing going. Yes, it works, but no one on earth will ever use these Bitcoins to buy two pizzas ever again. What's the end-game, at this point? As many bagholders as possible?

I bet they don't actually hire old people, but are publishing this for the publicity it might generate.

It's fun how it works the first three times, then less fun when it complains about being "rate limited" on the fourth time.

Someone also needs to put to rest the "The Banks were bailed out using taxpayer money!" scandal.

Based on what I heard, TARP the Troubled Asset Relief Program, bought a small percentage of those hedge funds and investment banks that were in danger of going under, then let them slowly buy their own shares back over a number of years ... ..... and the "taxpayers" got all their money back.

This was news back on July 20th. What has changed?

Realistically, though, is this going to decrease Twitter usage.

I would never hand my phone number over to Twitter. Would you?

This entire comment section is proof positive that there is much room for innovation and improvement in the space for interactive, online discussion of news items.

Twitter is committing suicide by requiring phone numbers and logins to even read tweets, the way Digg committed suicide and sent all its users stampeding over to Reddit.

Reddit themselves are committing suicide with their aggressive user interface changes, and their dark gangs of out-of-control moderators.

Looks to me like USENET sent us over to LiveJournal sent us over to Digg, sent us over to Reddit, sent us over to Hacker News, and something good and new can grow and replace them all.

Because I am not handing over my phone number to read anyone's tweets.