So first, here’s how to opt-out:
➡️ Go to Settings ➡️ Security & Privacy ➡️ Privacy ➡️ Ads ➡️ Ads privacy ➡️ Ad topics ➡️ Toggle the switch next to “Allow ad topics.”
That's a lot of effort, simply to opt out of giving your data away for free. (3/4)
Raise the price of electricity on bitcoin mining to a thousand dollars a "coin"
Earth would get an entire nations worth of ele tricity back. "Bitcoin" mining, or more descriptively, wanking, producing nothing, uses at last estimate, more electricity than a European nation.
It is putting wheat down the toilet, burning trees in Canada.
Electricity for bitcoin mining is being sold at 1/100th of its value.
Digital crap counterfiet money is an empty balloon of wasted energy we'll never get back.
I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...
How to be An Genius:
1. Pay $44bn for a site worth 1/2 that
2. Sack everyone who knows how it works
3. Release far-right troll army
4. Turn genuine validation into a badge of idiocy
5. Kill most of your ad revenue
6. Inflate API price to recoup money
7. Everyone stops using API and scrapes site instead
8. Massively limit the service to end scraping
9. Service is now unusable
10. Remaining advertising value destroyed
11. Kill a cornerstone of the internet
12. Lose $44bn
Rishi Sunak has a new £1.3 million statue for the No 10 garden.
The Indian press had the story 2 days ago.
Only ONE UK paper or media outlet so far has covered it, and that was defensively.
The statue cost the equivalent of 15,662 weeks Universal Credit: that’s *301 YEARS*