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If by large set pieces you mean they filmed in some locations made up of larger buildings. . . okay. Shows like AoS don’t typically build their sets, they find them and shoot on location. This latest season probably has the most custom-built sets of any season they’ve done, BECAUSE its set in a confined space station.…

If you’re watching network TV shows like AoS for large set pieces, you’re spending your time wrong.

When compounded over a year’s worth of work product, raw computing speed will typically out-pace whatever gains you get from more stable Mac-based software . . . depending on how much time you actually spend rendering or encoding, etc.

You missed the point. He’s not saying IT guys are the target audience. He’s saying the IT guy at your average VFX/3D studio can build you a significantly better PC for significantly less money.

“If there’s any blog that I’d expect to rise above the FUD noise and focus on the opportunity here, it would be Giz.”

except when the public’s money is being invested by someone else, which is why everyone lost half their pension when mortgage backed securities melted down, because the financial sector had invested the public’s money in something unsafe.

Big banks have computer systems that handle all the background transactions. Tell her that mining for bitcoin is essentially committing YOUR computer to helping figure out all those background transactions. Because a BUNCH of people are doing this together, it ensures accuracy.

You realize that our entire economic system is built on this premise, right? Its not like dollars are backed by gold anymore...

I see the same 3 homeless guys every day in Midtown. At this point I get a little worried when one of them is missing...

OK, I can MAYBE understand being cynical enough to question the legitimacy of this story. The beginning hook starts to get me...

“This is all to say that there are risks involved with owning a smart speaker. It’s not as risky as, say, running a meth lab out of your basement. But keeping an internet-connected microphone in your kitchen is certainly more trouble than owning a simple Bluetooth speaker that just plays music. You might be…

When you remove one, the digital log shows that Bitcoin X was removed the from system, and the only way to reintroduce it (a/k/a steal it) is if you have the private key that goes with it. This is not something that can be hacked out of the system or something. Private keys are totally secure as long as you don’t…

“but just going offline isn’t enough to keep someone from stealing your code”

You know that you can have hard copy keys printed of bitcoin, and doing so removes it from any digital exchanges. You put those printed keys into a bank or a safe deposit box, because those physical copies represent the ONLY existence of those bitcoins anywhere. They cannot be stolen or lost in any way, unless YOU…

“maybe as a foreign woman in the US she fears what situation she’ll be in if she leaves.”

Really? How so?

We don’t need Coca-Cola or Doritos, but they’re gonna sell them to us anyway. Why would Star Wars be any different?

I’m sorry this doesn’t make any sense at all. Taxation and ‘mandatory payments’ have nothing to do with a currency’s value. Not at all. This is total gibberish from an economics perspective.

That second paragraph is where you’re wrong. The basic idea behind a decentralized crypto currency is that the “Back End” of the currency is distributed globally, as opposed to resting with a central power.