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>Manufacturers usually painted their pencils if they were looking to cover up imperfections in the wood. Accordingly, typical paint colors were dark: purple, red, maroon, or black. But Hardtmuth was looking for a way to advertise the caliber of its graphite rather than its wood.

Bright color to stand out, as opposed to dark colors hiding imperfections. Another stretch, perhaps.

If a woodpile isn't dense enough, then surely building homes and furniture out of wood isn't dense enough either.

Can you think of a better way to store carbon!

The open-source base OS is fine, the closed-source services layer and cloud platform are not.

Electricity isn't a great market. End-users with solar power are allowed to use the grid as a perfectly free battery, which is why everyone is dumping power on the grid at high noon.

That's mostly due to the hydroelectric dams, though. Negative prices come from too much solar power in the middle of the day.

1 Satoshi is currently worth $0.000069, and transactions are being approved for as low as 2¢. So this isn't currently a big problem.

In the future, bitcoin could be extended to have more digits. Or perhaps this will be dealt with on a second layer. Lightning transactions could deal with sub-satoshi quantities.

>Dogecoin seems to have a great use case due to its cheap price

What does the price per token have to do with anything? You can buy a fraction of a bitcoin, so I don't see how doge has any advantage over BTC here.

This is quite possibly overkill, but I'm pleased with this setup at home:

    Cost | Purpose        | What
    $109 | Router         | PCEngines apu2c2 http://pcengines.ch/apu2c2.htm
     $10 | Router Case    | http://pcengines.ch/case1d2blku.htm
     $17 | Router Storage | http://pcengines.ch/msata16g.htm
     $30 | Gigabit Switch | https://www.amazon.com/D-Link-Gigabit-Unmanaged-Desktop-DGS-108/dp/B000BCC0LO/
     $80 | Wifi           | Ubiquiti Unifi Lite https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Unifi-Ap-AC-Lite-UAPACLITEUS/dp/B015PR20GY/

With this setup, the router only does _routing_, so you also need a Wireless Access Point (WAP). Connect it like so: Modem->Router->Switch->WAP.

Install pfSense on the router, configure the Unifi using Ubiquiti's Java app, and you're done. It's about $250 all together which _is_ more expensive than consumer routers, but IMHO it's worth the superior quality. The APU board is well-documented (PCEngines provides schematics!) and the firmware is based on Coreboot. The processor supports AES acceleration for faster encryption (great if you use VPNs!) PfSense is an enterprise-grade router/firewall with scads of graphs and features. And the Unifi has a great antenna with excellent range. Not to mention this setup leaves you with six spare ethernet ports on the switch.

"concerns about the illiberal, authoritarian communist government of China"

Daniel sounds rather burnt out, and also needs to find a new job. I wouldn't expect updates at the same pace.

They could have more confidence now since the AT&T merger with Time Warner.

It wasn't at first. The change happened over a year ago.

Not to mention AMP on every news site, and Google Analytics on nearly every page.