Words change their meaning. Whatever word you use to refer to this thing, will eventually come to mean this thing. Then you’ll need to find another word.

Try this one (NSFW):

Nope, no lies, no contradictions, no self-importance, just your poor reading comprehension, and your failure to understand why a private demo to the BBC does not count.

No, “personally” isn’t me thinking I’m important. It’s me as just one example of someone who could verify this.

So when you said, “that mission doesn’t change”, you actually meant, “that mission totally changes”. You are dropping the science and futurism, which were founding principles of io9.

That’s not how cryptocurrencies work. They don’t rely on centralised trusted authorities like the BBC. They use public block chains and mathematics. That’s why whatever he showed the BBC counts for nothing. If/when he does show he has access to the keys, it will be in a form that anyone can verify for themselves. At…

I don’t care either way, but I have looked into what the Bitcoin community thinks, and they aren’t convinced. See, for example, this thread. Or this tweet (Peter Todd is one of the core developers.)

Apparently not. Apparently his blog contains a signature already known from a transaction in 2009, which means nothing. We don’t know what he showed the BBC, but it’s hinky that he only showed them and didn’t include convincing evidence in his blog. It would be easy to do. He doesn’t even need to move his coins.

Oh wow. I was there a few years ago. Then it was relatively weak but still going. There are pools at the bottom we were able to play in, which we were told wouldn’t be possible when it was full flow.

I think he sees the Moon as a distraction. You have to put an awful lot of infrastructure there before you get anything useful back, and then it would take a long time to pay off that investment. Musk wants to put a million people on Mars. That’s already likely to take longer than his lifetime, so he’s disposed…

Has he shown he has access to the private keys of the early Bitcoin addresses that only Satoshi would have access to? If not, has he explained why not?

As you say, they know the id (actually, a Bitcoin address) that the coins came from, but they don’t know how to match that to a person.

Form liberates.

Or she glamours dead Jon into looking like a live and hale Jon. Lady Stoneheart could have done with some glamour magic.

I would have expected the banner to be wrapped up on take off, and unfurled during flight, like a parachute.

“But consoles are moving away from that” - no, they are not. The PS4 has adopted a standard PC-like architecture. That couldn’t be made compatible with the non-standard cell architecture of the PS3, but it is itself a move towards more backwards compatibility in future. The PS4 will be able to run Neo games. Sony seem…

In the UK, Prime doesn’t seem worth it to me. I usually get free delivery instead, which I don’t mind waiting for. It costs £80/year, which at, say £3 delivery per item would pay for itself after 26 orders, not 2. I’ve just checked what I spent on delivery in 2015, and I don’t think it came to £80.

Are you not enticed because you aren’t interested in porn generally, or because you think this will be inferior to normal porn?

The cliff-hanger does build through the episode. The episode starts with Rick being confident he can deal with the Saviours, and as it progresses he becomes increasingly aware he can’t. He starts to understand the number of people facing him. He sees how they are capable of building complex barricades and traps. He…

It could be interesting if he picks up on the theory that at the end, the hero is mind-raped by the world tree in much the same way that the hero mind-rapes the dragon earlier. It would make it quite a dark series, though.