Some of those education and graduation rate improvements come from dumbing down the curriculum. I’m a teacher and the 7th-graders I teach are nowhere near where the 7th graders were 15 years ago in terms of knowledge or in education being provided.

Keep in mind most large scale miners will relocate their equipment elsewhere. Other countries where electricity costs are still low enough to operate are still out there.

Extremely well put...they should pay you to write a short crypto primer for their staff ;-)

Of course drug use and sex are down- people actually listen to kids these days and treat their problems seriously....

The “problems” outlined are not problems at all. Let’s take them one by one:

Those slack-ass baby boomers set a pretty low bar in the parenting department....

They should have made his seat placed upon a secret trap door and if at least 125 million people voted, to release him into a pool of sharks with lasers.

Ok I know there will be a lot of companies there that stand to gain from Ashit Pai’s crap, but why in the hell of hells would the organizers of CES think he was a good idea for a panelist?

$1 Dave&Busters arcade credit says that it was put there for a back door for NSA. Want to know how they really caught Silk Road? How all these seemingly crazy busts happens from the Dark Web? Well if they can get you to install a wallet app that makes your CPU give them access to all your info and you store that info…

This is the merge tag you’re looking for: <<$User.Religion.PrimaryDeity.Name>>

io9, please, stop trying to make videos happen

Beth...I enjoy your writing. Generally informative, efficient and on the point.

I’ve been waiting for somebody to mention The Orville today.

Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams : Black Mirror :: Mid-’80s Twilight Zone revival : Amazing Stories

He projected his image halfway across the universe. This wasn’t like the thing between Rey and Kylo, where only the other one could see them — he literally made his image appear to everyone there and even though in some ghost dice, too. That took a lot of energy, so much that he was completely drained and died. But he…

Well, from personal experience, the chips that are used for U.S. cards are garbage and break almost immediately. If Europe has some super-awesome chip technology, please send it along.

And when have these things happened? The women’s march resulted in mass looting and rape of defenseless women? What fucking planet are you on? The biggest threat to safety in many neighborhoods is the fucking cops.

You’re one of those people that the concept of causality is a sort of mythical unicorn that doesn’t actually exist, eh?

Yes people really do need to calm down when their sportsball team loses. Or wins.