Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has reacted strongly to the company’s current relationship with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. According to him, the SEC is threatening to sue the cryptocurrency exchange if it launches its yield-generating product called Coinbase Lend. With this new product, Coinbase wants to compete with popular decentralized finance (DeFi) products, such […]
We must subsidize and regulate space exploration
Space can and should be about much more than giving the 1% another Instagrammable moment and increasing the wealth of the billionaires who provide the service.
Forerunner is software for NFIMBYs, or no flooding in my backyard
Mayors have the toughest job in the world, and leading a city is only getting harder. Even as populations swell in urban cores across the world, climate change is constraining the geographies where that growth can happen. Coastal communities that are popular with residents are also taking a gamble when it comes to rising sea […]
宮崎県、『new』を日本語変換して『感染者情報一覧表ねw』と誤記
宮崎県公式サイト上に置かれていた感染者情報の文書のファイル名が話題となっていたようだ。そのファイル名は「感染者情報一覧表ねw」というもの。宮崎日日新聞の記事によると、職員が末尾に「new」と打ち込もうとして日本語変換した結果、「ね」＋「w」という名前になってしまっていたようだ。もちろん、一時的なもので1日以内に修正されたようだ。県は「不適切な表現で誤解を与えてしまった」としているとのこと（宮崎日日新聞）。
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