I got an intestinal parasite (Ascaris -https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/ascariasis/index.html) while in University here in Canada. I was minding my business one day, I looked down into the toilet water, and there was a little wormy in my stool. I fished it out and went the ER. The doctor was fascinated cause I don't think they see this so often.
Who knows where I picked it up. The most likely culprit was the dorm cafeteria I was living in. With the open salad bars and the sharing of serving utensils, it is an ideal location to spread some fecal.
The Canadian telecom space is dominated by 3 primary companies -- Telus, Bell, and Rogers. They form an effective oligopoly that is quite detrimental to the Canadian consumer.
In the ISP space, there is a bit more competition. Namely, Shaw provides additional coverage in some regions of the country. However, Rogers wants to buy Shaw. You can imagine how bad that will be for Canadians.
I do wonder what the Rogers outage is about. Ransomeware? State attack? Something stupid? If anything, it shows how we should not have critical infrastructure centralized. Competition between ISPs is important.
Yes. I wonder if the author had first worked on the patent side (I'd be interested to hear more about this idea). Perhaps working on patents first would be a path to get experience (and product-market-fit). From there, one could branch out into other domains (e.g. bio).
Balaji Srinivasan had a good take on this recently in his conversation with Tim Ferris. I quote:
"The thing is, I don’t care if something has a thousand retweets, what I care about is if it has two or three independent confirmations from economically dis-aligned actors. This is the same as academia, by the way, everybody’s optimizing citations. What you actually want to optimize is independent replication. That’s what true science is. It’s not peer review. It is physical tests."
You're wrong. They are completing bitcoin transactions on lightning network, which is built upon the base bitcoin block chain (it's a layer two). Thus, the cost of spending bitcoin for some chicken wings is virtually free.