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Synology is a NAS Iʼd recommend. However, after you become more familiar with the command line and if you are building your own Debian machine with a motherboard that supports many hard drives, I would recommend something like this procedure; this applies especially if you are the only one who will be accessing the files and are just wanting a way to combine the storage capacities of multiple hard drives.
Banks will use progressively less energy per capita as bulk data processing becomes more energy efficient, assuming they donʼt transition to using proof-of-work.
Ultimately, mining should be banned from the surface of Earth. Let miners build orbital solar panel infrastructure close to the Sun where power is plentiful. See Bitcoin developer Peter Todd's 2017-09-10 presentation on the subject (transcript).
Edit: Fixed URL. Edit2; Add transcript link.
See List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet for the graveyard list. Sorting by Price helps. Some other notable companies that Google acquired rather than compete with:
- Nest Labs (home automation)
- DropCam (home automation)
- DoubleClick (advertisement)
- FitBit (wearables)
- Waze (GPS navigation)
- Skybox Imaging (satellite mapping)
- Like.com (shopping)
- Meebo (social network)
- GrandCentral (VOIP)
- Picasa (photographry)
- Tenor (GIF search)
- PhotoMath (LLM; became Bard)
I can't pinpoint exactly when the fall started.
In my opinion, it was when anti-trust laws did not trigger upon Google acquiring YouTube because Google Video couldn't compete. That meant it was open season on start-ups that otherwise might have grown to kill Google or other big tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.
Nvidia: I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it further.
Duolingo, the dominant player, can simply buy competition like busuu, bypassing the need they'd otherwise have to improve their software.
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