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  • He later confirmed that it was indeed a power move

  • The sanctions aren't supposed to cripple China indefinitely. They're just supposed to give the US enough time to build fabs for military chips before China invades Taiwan.

    And yes, I am aware that may not happen within our lifetimes. I did not write the sanctions.

  • Also sometimes they accidentally time travel you

    As I recall that was one of the problems with Carter's control interface. A proper DHD shouldn't have that issue.

    At least that was the case until it happened again in the Pegasus galaxy. But Stargate never was great about canonical continuity.

  • Nothing is more honorable than victory

  • They really didn't give much direction at all on how Klingons should look back then. The actor and makeup artist basically came up with it on the spot.

    https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Depicting_Klingons

  • Bitcoin is deflationary. There is a hard limit on the total number of bitcoins that will ever exist. Every so often, the reward for mining a block is halved. Eventually there will be effectively zero reward for mining at all.

  • That might have been true a decade ago. But GPUs and FPGAs have long been obsolete for mining Bitcoin.

    Mining is happening on custom silicon in large-scale operations. They specifically observed several of those large-scale operations in multiple nations and extrapolated out. I don't see how that methodology is flawed.

  • ...I didn't believe you. I had to look it up to confirm it.

    Damn. Never even noticed.