Frequent flyer programs have become a crucial part of the airline industry’s profitability, and there’s no end in sight for the billions of dollars and trillions or quadrillions, potentially quintillions-plus of points that drive it all forward. Upgrades will be even more rare (and less com...
But the problem today is that banks are playing with so many derivatives, sometimes stepped on each other with leverage multiplying factors which nobody actually knows how much money is tied up in this gambling. Some estimates put the derivative market at $1 quadrillion over 10 times the global...
serving thousands of tenants and processing approximately a quadrillion records each month. Daily, we process trillions of records and oversee thousands of segmentation and activation jobs. Compared to last year, we have experienced over 100% growth in scale. ...
Does it make any sense to push the decarbonization policies faster than they can be supported by technology? The UN seems to be playing a game, which is aptly described from this tweet by Rupert Darwell: There’s one thing you will never hear #ippc say:”It’s now too late to act....
Each of these units represents a relatively small amount of energy, and in order to express production and consumption at a global or national scale, we have to use mind-numbing multipliers like millions, billions, trillions and quadrillions. To add to the confusion, a billion and a trillion...
scarcity kicks in, realizing there are only 21 quantrillions Satoshis (two quadrillion one hundred trillion Satoshis) ever created in Bitcoin's network, the time to stack satoshis is now when the outcome of them increasing in value is a real possibility (especially before the2020 bitcoin ...
“climate change” or “energy crisis” or “tailpipe emissions” makes me kind of gag at this point—just too much politics, too many annoying people, too much misinformation on all sides, and it’s just hard to know how much I actually care and if there can be a solution to all ...
over 100 trillion stars and the mass of nearly a quadrillion suns, it’s the largest known galaxy of all by many metrics. It’s unfortunately difficult for the Universe to make a single object significantly larger owing to its finite age and the presence of dark energy. (Credit: Digitized ...
Frequent flyer programs have become a crucial part of the airline industry’s profitability, and there’s no end in sight for the billions of dollars and trillions or quadrillions, potentially quintillions-plus of points that drive it all forward. ...