Kenneth Hite says the difference between Chicago and Los Angeles is Chicago is a city you live in despite the climate, and Los Angeles is a climate you live in despite the city.
Like I’m going to go to large gatherings or eat in a restaurant or go anywhere inside without a mask. Just because people are over the pandemic doesn’t mean it’s over.
NATHAN J. ROBINSON (Interviewer, Current Affairs Editor-in-Chief): Is it accurate to summarize what you were saying before as, essentially: There is no problem that cryptocurrency solves, and to the extent that it is functional, it does things worse than we can already do them with existing electronic payment systems. To the extent it has advantages, the advantage is doing crimes. And every other claim made for the superiority of cryptocurrency as currency falls apart if you scrutinize it.
PROFESSOR NICHOLAS WEAVER (Computer Scientist, Cryptocurrency Skeptic): Yes.
@all of you’s peoples: I think we can settle for getting rid of the specific species of mosquitoes that bother people, given there are about 3,500 different species of mosquitoes, most of which don’t bite people.
Mosquitoes are responsible for the deaths of more people than any other animal other than other people. They are also a species that don’t fill a vital ecological niche, meaning if they were all to disappear, nothing would be lost.
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