For me, it'd certainly be NYC (been once, want to see again), Los Angelos, Rome, London, and Tokyo. 

What cities are on your bucket list to visit? Which cities have you visited that you would recommend?

As a lot of folks probably already know, SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried) was recently extradited to the US to face fraud charges following the FTX Fiasco. Many customers have lost a substantial amount of money from the exchange's collapse, and it's unclear when (or if) these funds will be returned. 

It's fairly clear that SBF is guilty, and will likely be found guilty by the courts when his case goes to trial. What's less clear is what this means for the rest of the crypto industry. FTX is not the first exchange to collapse in this fashion, and it will almost certainly not be the last. 

What are your thoughts on FTX, and on the rest of the crypto industry as a whole?

EVs are still more expensive than their ICE counterparts, but their prices have dropped significantly over the past couple of years. Tesla still starts their cheapest models at about $47K, but there are other manufacturers (including Nissan and GM) that are pricing new EVs below $30,000. This is still very pricey, but in the USA, the federal government recently approved $7,500 tax credits for EVs, working out effectively to a 7.5K discount. This puts many EVs in the 20K range, and puts some Tesla models under 40K. 

These are still far too expensive for someone like me to afford, but I'm surprised to see them drop in price this rapidly. They will still take years to flood the used market, but for new car buyers, they are starting enter price ranges that are roughly comparable to their ICE counterparts. 

Electric vehicles might be mainstream much sooner than we thought. I wouldn't be surprised if it's only 5-7 years before more EVs are sold new than ICE vehicles are, and I'd give it another 10 years or so before the used market begins to catch up. 

Would you consider buying an EV (new or used) if the price was right? Why or why not?

Thought I'd re-introduce after all this time.

I'm Aerodynamic, from Belgium. Currently 31 years old, married, father of 3 children and avid forum user.

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Alright, we're gonna do a quick poll for the MS community. We're gonna see how many of us are night owls and how many of us are early birds. 

(or, maybe, how many of us are crazy and deliberately fall into both categories. I'm probably among that crowd, I'm simultaneously a chronic insomniac and an early bird at the same time. And trust me, as glamourous as it doesn't sound, my body absolutely does make me pay for it.   )

Which category do you fall into?

It goes without saying that the bestsellers list isn't a bad place to start when it comes to quickly vetting books that might be interesting. If I'm not lying, most of the books I read are probably either from the bestsellers list, or they are too specific in niche to get that kind of an at-scale audience. They're easy to find, and they're usually pretty good. 

It has, however, also had me wondering about the lesser-known circles of the writing world (a world I know very little about). How many excellent books, fiction or nonfiction, never had the kind of audience to get that level of attention? And of course, a quick stroll through a library (or these days, a few searches on the Amazon Kindle Store) shows that there are far more books that have been written than a Barnes and Noble can really give me a fair comprehension or appreciation of. 

What are some of the less-popular (but heavily underrated) books that you've read, and what makes you recommend them?

The last 20 years or so (and especially, the last 10 years) have been dominated by a significant increase in the use of electronics in music. Percussion styles have often changed significantly to reflect this. Autotune has become popular. Keyboards and experimental sounds are commonplace, and increasingly, the guitar is taking a few more steps to the back. 

Indie music is also rising, and it encompasses pretty much everything. From more grungy 90s style music, all the way to the more electronics-heavy styles of music today, but there's also a lot of music that is becoming simpler, more traditional, and more "authentically imperfect" in terms of intentionally avoiding an overproduced sound. It's interesting that what was once a natural effect of producing on ancient recording equipment is now something we put a lot more effort into reproducing with modern equipment (tape saturation is one of those things), and my prediction is that the indie music genre will bring a lot more of this back to the forefront, at least in some ways, in the next 10 years or so. 

What are your predictions for music over the next decade?

Apple originally announced a 2-year transition period in November 2020 for their Apple Silicon transition. This deadline has already been missed, and many are asking about when the Apple Silicon Mac Pro will arrive. 

Reportedly, the M1 Extreme (what would have originally been the Mac Pro's first Apple-Silicon processor) was scrapped for various technical reasons. Apple was reportedly working on an M2 Extreme version, but now rumors are suggesting that this, too, has been cancelled (apparently due to prohibitively high prices that would have been required in their current price structure). 

The M1 Ultra is already ludicrously powerful in the Mac Studio and can significantly outperform existing Intel Mac Pro models, but the Mac Pro still has other advantages over the Mac Studio, such as PCI-E and storage/RAM extensibility. Apple is apparently working on these with the Mac Pro, but this will require significant work to develop platforms to support, considering that their existing models are very locked down and do not support standard off-SOC RAM protocols, third-party GPUs, etc. 

My feeling is that Apple is already capable of releasing Mac Pro models, but does not want to cannibalize existing offerings with the prices that they would have to charge to get the Mac Pro to sell. It's probably an example of where Apple's very locked-down strategy isn't working in their favor for some of the Pro systems that rely on more extensibility. My feeling is that Apple will probably wait another 6-12 months before releasing it, and it will probably coincide with price drops on some of the other parts of their lineup. Hopefully they release something sooner, but being that it's been canceled twice already, we may be waiting a little while longer.