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In November 2013, Jeremy Rubin, a 19-year-old MIT student, developed a JavaScript program called Tidbit. This program was a concept/pilot, but the idea behind it was to use JavaScript to mine for Bitcoins.
It was thought as a replacement for advertisements. Instead of being overwhelmed by ads, a user visiting a site using this script would lend part of their processor cycles to mine for Bitcoins while surfing on the site.
Dark times require extreme measures…
…and extreme measures ushers in dark times…
…feel free to figure out what came first…
Modern apology: “I’m afraid that there is such a rich thesaurus now of things that I have said that have been one way or another, through what alchemy I do not know, somehow misconstrued that it would really take me too long to engage in a fully global itinerary of apology to all concerned.”
/Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
Unwillingness to understand must be one of the shortest paths to idiocy…
– Have you noticed many TV-shows are trying to revive the 80ies?
– Yeah. Have you noticed many politicians are trying to revive the 30ies?
Update: Apparently, it’s not only the politicians that are trying to reinvent the 30ies. They do it while beeing cheered on by the “voters.”
I’m sure Donald Trump is doing his very best… that’s why I sincerely hope he won’t become the next American president.
Update: Woahahahahaha!!!
It’s called Justice, not “Just this…”
That’s why you need all the info before you go to trial…
Neither the gun nor the banana has a will of their own, and still… I bet you’d save more lives with gun control than with banana control…
In 2015 the number of deaths due to gun violence (in the USA) was 13 468 (gunviolencearchive.org) while the death toll for food poisoning is only around 3 000 deaths (CDC). So, gun control is lagging way behind the banana control…
Image: By Robert Couse-Baker, CC by 2.0, Link (cropped)
It’s one thing to want to blow the whistle. It’s a completely different thing to want to blow it up…
Facts without interpretation is like meat without cooking; a bloody mess….
Talkwards 