In no way this invasion by Russia is justifiable but I'm getting some serious "Don't look up" vibe from the glibness with which the West is escalating.

Why did Russia of all the countries give him asylum?

Genuinely curious on what Snowden thinks on how Russian gov handles their dissenters compared to US.

Hi, the game is already doing this. As mentioned in the article, logic tick is running at a much lower frequency than rendering loop (30/60FPS). When playing in the browser and is minimized, the game will simply pause - rendering and logic. Browsers will throttle timers which will cause inaccurate logic tick as well. Most idle gamers actually do not like this behavior [1] - people prefer the game to run in the background as well.

The "background mode" mentioned in the article is about the Steam version, which runs in Electron and I have to set `backgroundThrottle: false` flag. In this case, Electron will not throttle timers and I can safely disable rendering while leave the logic running.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/comments/seid8w/c...

Julia's parser is written in Scheme using femtolisp. Look for *.scm files and the 'flisp' directory in the repo[1].

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/src

One could argue that Julia is just Lisp with a syntax that appeals more to popular taste.

There is also a secret option to get into a lisp repl in Julia "julia --lisp".

The thing about Bitcoin specifically, though, is that there are only really 2 possible outcomes:

1. The world decides it's "tulips" at some point, and the value goes to 0.

2. The world decides it will be a major part of the financial system, and it goes to 500k or 1 million.

Basically, anything in between is just a probability calculation of whether it will end up at one end or the other.

The problem with this, though, is that the way proof of work works means that it is impossible that it will ever go to a million. The amount of electricity needed to protect the network is directly tied to the price of BTC. This is not just some small, inconvenient detail. It is inherent to how proof of work functions. So if it takes the electrical output of, say, Argentina to run Bitcoin now, it will take the output of China to run it when it's up around a million, and that obviously is untenable.

Other cryptocurrencies have seen the writing on the wall and are moving to proof of stake (not without other issues). But the politics of Bitcoin mining, and the few large mining groups, makes it hard for me to see how this happens.