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A lot of these services don't inter-operate, and as a result, this blocks what we can do with payment.

Can we make it bigger, big enough that you can peer inside and see all the tiny building blocks, the biomolecules, how they're organized in three dimensions, the structure, the ground truth structure of the brain, if you will?

It turns out, you can get the building blocks, monomers, as they're called, and if you let them go into the brain and then trigger the chemical reactions, you can get them to form those long chains, right there inside the brain tissue.

So what we're trying to do now is to figure out if we can actually use this technology to map the building blocks of life in a wide variety of diseases.

So if I wanted to go and hack a block and, say, pay you and you with the same money, I'd have to hack that block, plus all the preceding blocks, the entire history of commerce on that blockchain, not just on one computer but across millions of computers, simultaneously, all using the highest levels of encryption, in the light of the most powerful computing resource in the world that's watching me.

The easiest way I can describe it is imagine the blocks as spreadsheets, and they are filled with assets.

The transactions are secured through cryptography, and over time, that transaction history gets locked in blocks of data that are then cryptographically linked together and secured.

Yes, the military involvement is an important part of the story, but inventing a computer also required other building blocks: music boxes, toy robot flute players, harpsichord keyboards, colorful patterns woven into fabric, and that's just a small part of the story.

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built one stone at a time with 2.3 million blocks, with incredible bureaucratic efficiency.

Boulder's senior urban planners stepped over blocks and stuffed animals to explore preschool students' full-size classroom recreation of the Civic Area.

When tasked with designing dense affordable housing, kids rejected the blocks of identical, beige condominiums so many developers favor, and instead, put bright colors on everything, from housing to play equipment.

They want nature right in their backyards, not four blocks away.

For better or worse, this is logical, because five-year-olds today are rarely allowed to walk four blocks to access a park by themselves.

This is Portland, Oregon, famously 200-foot blocks, famously walkable.

This is Salt Lake City, famously 600-foot blocks, famously unwalkable.

So it was my job to redesign every street in the downtown from curb face to curb face, and we did it for 50 blocks of streets, and we're rebuilding it now.

If it passes, it would require every big website to implement a filter that automatically blocks content based on rules controlled by big corporations.

For young infants, mother's milk is a complete diet that provides all the building blocks for their bodies, that shapes their brain and fuels all of their activity.

The blocks are shredded into tiny pieces, which are washed and melted, so they become the raw materials that can be used again.

Or would you find a set of indivisible building blocks out of which everything is made?

The electron is, as far as we know, one of the fundamental, indivisible building blocks of the universe.

Now these ions are basically the building blocks for many marine species to make their shells, for example crabs or mussels, oysters.

Because when you pull out your phone and they design how this works or what's on the feed, it's scheduling little blocks of time in our minds.

And so think of the little blocks of time that that schedules in kids' minds.

Once you start understanding that your mind can be scheduled into having little thoughts or little blocks of time that you didn't choose, wouldn't we want to use that understanding and protect against the way that that happens?

So it's trying to stay up on the blocks, and it adjusts its stride, and there's a ton of planning that has to go into an operation like that, and it does all that planning in real time, where it adjusts the steps a little bit longer or a little bit shorter.

Now we're going to change it into a different mode, where it's just going to treat the blocks like terrain and decide whether to step up or down as it goes.

The urban fabric, small blocks, maybe 500 families per block.

So far, with the pilot program and a couple days a week, and a fantastic human being and a Dodge van, we've cleaned up 400 city blocks in the city of Albuquerque.

In a total eclipse, for all of two or three minutes, the moon completely blocks the face of the sun, creating what he described as the most awe-inspiring spectacle in all of nature.

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