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Back in 2017 Long Island Ice Tea - known for its undistinguished, barely drinkable sugar-water - changed its name to "Long Blockchain Corp." Its shares surged to a peak of 400% over their pre-announcement price. 1/ A graph depicting the Gartner hype cycle. A pair of HAL 9000
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The company announced no specific integrations with any kind of blockchain, nor has it made any such integrations since. 3/
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The really remarkable thing isn't just that #Microsoft has decided that the future of #search isn't links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a #chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar - even more remarkable is that #Google agrees. 1/ Tweedledee and Tweedledum, standing at the bottom of Humpty
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Microsoft has nothing to lose. It's spent billions on #Bing, a search-engine no one voluntarily uses. Might as well try something so stupid it might just work. But why is Google, a monopolist who has a 90+% share of search worldwide, jumping off the same bridge as Microsoft? 3/
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Después de mucho tiempo sin escribir ningún hilo, hoy toca hablar de uno de los subgéneros cinematográficos que más me apasionan: los #ViajesEnElTiempo.

Y como no necesita de presentación, sin más dilación empezamos con este nuevo #HILO ⬇️⬇️ Image
Antes de empezar, os adelanto que clasificaré la lista de películas en 3 grupos:

🎬 DETERMINISTAS.

🎬 Que permiten CAMBIOS en la línea temporal.

🎬 Que utilizan el viaje en el tiempo para hablar de OTRA COSA.

AVISO: Pertenecer a algún grupo puede suponer, per se, un SPOILER.
🎬 PELÍCULAS DETERMINISTAS.

A este grupo pertenecen todas aquellas películas en las que el viaje en el tiempo sólo sirve para que SE CUMPLA lo que ya ha OCURRIDO u ocurrirá; incluso cuando el objetivo de los personajes es justo el contrario: IMPEDIRLO.
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