"How long can a country endure if it continues to cripple learning, muzzle truth and persecute some of its most talented and capable individuals in the name of childish, incoherent ideology? Not long"
Are you talking about modern "wokeness" or are you talking about the while history of the United States as a primarily Christian state? Because I still feel more crippled, muzzled, and persecuted by us Christian morality/ideology than any recent up surgance in "wokeness".
What are the benefits to updating frontend packages. Are there security vulnerabilities that I should be worrying about if most of my npm dependecies dont get updated.
This isnt true at all, theres tons of stranded energy production sources that are not being used now that would be made viable through mining crypto and transferring that "work" electronically rather than over wire.
The moved out of the city, away from their service job, back with their parents/siblings to do some online training/classes/studying and get a better job.
Im not so sure your right that its a god of the gaps argument. What faith do you have in gravity. Obviously you trust that physics is the law of our universe. Deifying those laws isnt claiming that god is in the gaps of scientific knowledge, infact its suggesting that "god" is the laws illuminated by scientific processes themselves.
What's fun about crypto is that as soon as criminals try to move their wealth into these digital assets, they start creating a long lasting auditable trail of bread comes for investigators and prosecuters. These systems are up for running complex data analysis on, with the false promises of tax evasion and anonymity, these networks will act as a honey pot. If I can I'll try to find a report written by a former head of a federal law enforcement department (I think CIA) that goes deeper into it.
Maybe the rents are too high and both the owners and workers are being squeezed by a housing and healthcare cost crunch, driving thousands of businesses out of the profitable range.