Ah, good on you! How long ago did you buy the place?

Now good luck finding a home for only $240K in an area that actually has decent-paying jobs…

The housing market is in a bubble right now. Buying a house is no guarantee of equity when the value can plummet and put you underwater at a moment’s notice.

Only if you’re talking about a Bitcoin-style public ledger blockchain. The auditable, immutable history can also make sense in a private blockchain that costs next to nothing to add to, can be backed up for a song, and can only be added to if you hold the private key.

Car rentals aren’t as much of an issue, because of how much less expensive it is to own a second-hand car. If you’re homeless and you need access to a car, you don’t go to a rental place, you get a beater from Craigslist for about the same price it would cost to rent a car for a month (if not less).

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…Is the logo meant to be representative of JPEG compression artifacts?

A bunch of companies have laid off employees either 1) because they are pivoting to AI and are shedding other costs (see: Microsoft) or 2) in anticipation that AI will let a smaller workforce get the same amount of work done (see: the gaming industry). AI hasn’t actually done a good job of replacing those workers, but it definitely has had an impact in certain industries.

It may have been created well before hardware was good enough to support it, but it was a pretty cool idea. Still would love to get my hands on a fully-working one for my retro game collection.