Bryce Elder's epic Twitter thread finally reveals the one true tale of Bitcoin's genesis ("invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, a developer at Nintendo who mysteriously disappeared in the 1990s"); the environmental cost of Bitcoin ("whenever you give a hacker money he will upgrade his graphics card") and the story the mainstream media refuses to tell you ("You will have seen the recent plunge in the price of Bitcoin. This was triggered by Bolgakov last week upgrading to an NVidia GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti, which can play Quake III in max resolution at 60fps with all the lighting and textures enabled," which means, "Bolgakov has been playing Quake III and not buying any Bitcoin").
The whole thing is really great:
SS Wilson’s fantastic 1975 film, “Recorded Live,” was a classic of early HBO’s interstitial “Short Takes” segments. (via r/ObscureMedia)
Ji Lee’s redundant clock tells time telling time. Also, some children no longer learn how to read an analog clock. Also, redundant clock is not to be confused with a recursive clock:
This is adorable. Last year, a woman drilled three strategically-placed peepholes in her fence so that her neighbor’s dog Penny could look through. She writes, “Got tired of my neighbor’s German Shepherd jumping to peek over the fence so I made her a peeking spot. I think she likes it!” Someone come save me, I’m […]
Like peanut butter and jelly, some things are just meant to be together. DevOps (a shortened compound of development and operations) is tech industry’s equivalent of a pb&j sandwich. Through combining development and operations teams into one, companies are able to rapidly churn out products and services and improve them faster than if the teams […]
Robot vacuums have been around for a while, but the technology has been somewhat hit-or-miss. All too often, these machines get stuck, miss spots, or simply don’t work the way you need them to. The ECOVACS DEEBOT Slim2 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner, however, is designed with a myriad of smart features to make it more autonomous […]
There are some things you can get away with winging, but leading a business isn’t one of them. The reality is that when it comes to making big decisions, corporate big wigs and small business owners alike rely on data-driven insights to lead their ventures in the right direction. That’s why taking the time to […]
