Scale matters. It seems to me that in this case things worked out mostly OK: a democratically elected government made the best decisions they could under the uncertain information they had at the tim… (View Post)

My understanding is that it this tends to happen when you want/need to support multiple sign-in systems & you don’t know which to offer until the user has entered their username. Some users might… (View Post)

This is, of course, why the moneybags that back certain Tory MPs are very concerned about wfh: it is devaluing city centre real estate. I am familiar with a number of companies that have greeted the … (View Post)

I note in passing that there’s so little real world available liquidity in BTC transactions that the Russians didn’t even try using it as an alternate payment method when the Ukraine war started. If … (View Post)

Bitcoin is gold stripped of all use value & made electronically transferrable at significant per transaction expense. Financially it’s a perpetual bearer bond that generates no interest. The only… (View Post)