This makes questions like “how fast is WebAssembly” a bit hard to answer. […] What people actually mean is “how useful are the constructs of this language to efficient mappings of modern hardware” and “what is the current landscape of systems taking advantage of these constructs”.

I see him more like the Larry Flynt of file sharing. He’s a piece of shit, but he’s also fighting for the right side.

You might wonder how Microsoft had the keys to someone else’s computer. Interestingly, when you set up a new Windows PC, the system often asks if you want to back up your recovery key to your online Microsoft account. While this is very convenient if you ever forget your password, it also means Microsoft keeps a copy of that key on its servers.

“At a mushroom hot pot restaurant there, the server set a timer for 15 minutes and warned us, ‘Don’t eat it until the timer goes off or you might see little people,’” says Colin Domnauer, a doctoral candidate in biology at the University of Utah and the Natural History Museum of Utah, who is studying L. asiatica.

I’m not sure if I would take them seriously.

If a chimpanzee looks its handler in the eyes and points to a banana, it may be interpreted that the ape is asking to have the banana. This, Hobaiter said, shows apes are capable of asking questions.

Obviously not in the spirit of the question. No curiosity, no attempt to learn about what’s going on around them. The article has no examples of real questions, so to me I’d say the meme rings true.

Money transfers, online payments for whatever, place to park your assets in volatile times in the market, integration into other on-chain investment systems, etc…

How does that simultaneously look like both low and high grade food?

Those patties look like charcoal, the bun is flat and generic, but somehow the presentation looks refined and the appearance intentional. That bit of mayo being squished out the bottom adding a noteworthy splash of bright white amongst a full range of delicious colors.

The blurriness of the photo makes this whole thing even more fascinating.

What crackdown? The SEC has only charged actual scammers and they’ve “requested information” from the legitimate players to figure out how to proceed. Other than some bad calls by sanctioning software, there’s hardly been anything considered a “crackdown.”