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• Commented on Happy 21st Century!
  Charlie: I wish your system had a comment upvote mechanism too. "Paul Harrison: succinct & to the point -- +1"...
• Commented on Happy 21st Century!
  Witroth: "The Pentagon (more like $2.1T, but what's a decimal point among friends?)" Actually it really is Twenty-One TRILLION USDs. The larger point is no one -- not even someone "in charge" of the Five-Sided Castle -- seems to really...
• Commented on Happy 21st Century!
  (Writer's note: found the treasured item, so making an effort to get into The Light...) Troutwaxer: "The way to fix this problem is to consider the fact that better, cheaper reactor designs are available, but we aren't using them." Most...
• Commented on Happy 21st Century!
  Extra bonus points: they erase the team that invents it and the vaccine to protect the secret ("It was them there 'tear-ore-its' that what done it!")...only to find out later it was built to mutate faster after a certain point,...
• Commented on Happy 21st Century!
  (Sorry up-front: I have just lost a treasured item given to me by a dear friend that passed recently and I am feeling grim-dark...) Charlie: “Shorter version is: there will be much dying... People will be die in large numbers,...
• Commented on What can possibly go wrong?
  Next stage, competing blockchains with warring agendas: AI-assisted blockchains specializing in "custom porn" accepts inputs (files, links, etc.) to process anyone/thing in any situation ("We make your wildest dreams cum true -- for a price!") International teams of "truthers" work...
• Commented on What can possibly go wrong?
  Hmmm...then maybe this helps with (a) AND (b)? (a) The amateur/free content becomes more professional, or at least the quality improves overall ("Statistical analysis recommends adding a 5% gamma correction to these 120 frames to improve overall viewing", "Corrections to...
• Commented on What can possibly go wrong?
  Presently I see it as the new gold mine for advertisers and the estates of various dead famous people: "This is Elvis Preseley and I only use Clorex Toilet Scrub!", Humphrey Bogart's head morphed onto Bruce Willis's body in "Die...
• Commented on Unforeseen Consequences and that 1929 vibe
  Can't leave these guys alone for a minute: BTC peeks over $15.1k USD, nearly $2k USD in the past 24 hours I may have been too optimistic with my timelines......
• Commented on Unforeseen Consequences and that 1929 vibe
  Give an entitled asshat an inch and they'll take the whole damn ruler... While widely-read and familiar with many socio-political & economic theories, I find myself at a crossroads: constantly bewildered by the tidal wave of stupidity and raw lack...
• Commented on Unforeseen Consequences and that 1929 vibe
  Did someone say "Insanely Over-hyped Bubble of Doom!"? 2:15pm EST 3:38pm EST 5:54pm EST So $1K jump in 4 hours...I'm saying BTC tops $63k by 12/25 and crashes under $100 by 1/5. Of course that all assumes we haven't blown...
• Commented on Unforeseen Consequences and that 1929 vibe
  Hmmm...okay, I had not considered that: BTC as one of Charlie's "slow currencies". Start it up, grab a bundle at the beginning, "secure it" (e.g. lock the key in a safety deposit box, sealed with biometrics, etc.), ???, and profit!...
• Commented on Unforeseen Consequences and that 1929 vibe
  I have been mulling this very subject over for a number of years and, sadly, I don't really feel like I've come any closer to satisfying answers. "I Am Not An Economist", yet BTC appears to me as the largest...