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Countless experts and pundits,  including Chase CEO Jamie Dimon , have proclaimed that Bitcoin is in a massive bubble right now, and it certainly could be. Yet these “experts” fail to consider one possibility that  some in the Bitcoin community  are beginning to suspect:  mass adoption may be imminent. Permanently high plateau First, let’s get something out of the way. Yes, with every bubble there are people who insist that it really isn’t a bubble.  It’s “the new normal” or “a new paradigm.”  Perhaps the most infamous such example is that of Yale economist Irving Fisher. At the height of the 1929 stock market bubble, just before the crash, a jubilant Fisher  proclaimed : “Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” He couldn’t have been more wrong. Bubbles throughout history History is replete with examples of financial bubbles that popped disastrously. Britain’s  South Sea bubble  came about in...

by   Lisa Eadicicco / Time Getty Images You can search for nearby places and get driving directions while offline. This story originally appeared on  Time.com . Losing your Internet connection while traveling can be frustrating, especially when you’re relying on your phone to tell you where to go. Whether you’re stuck in a subway car underground or have lost your signal while driving in a remote rural area, we’ve all be there at least once. It’s a good idea to plan ahead for these types of situations by downloading maps for offline use in Google Maps. Once you’ve downloaded an area, you’ll be able to get directions and view points of interest for that region even without an Internet connection. Still, there are some limitations to keep in mind. You can’t get walking, transit, or cycling directions while offline; only driving directions are available. If you’re not driving, using Google Maps offline can still be helpful for viewing nearby places when you’re stuck...

December 17, 2015 10:28 IST 'The clique that runs that country is treating us like suckers. We are very foolish, giving people money who involve themselves in activity that's harmful to America.' 'When you look at the cold hard facts, Pakistan is not an ally to the United States. They have been a protector of our enemies.' Aziz Haniffa/ Rediff.com  reports from Washington, DC. A lmost every member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, December 16, slammed Pakistan for its alleged treachery of declaring its strategic loyalty to the US, but simultaneously providing safe havens for and colluding with terrorist groups attacking the US, India and Afghanistan. Led by Committee Chairman Congressman Ed Royce, California Republican, the members expressed concern over Pakistan's unrelenting development of its nuclear weapons arsenal and pilloried the Obama administration for its policy of continued to provide Islamabad wi...

by  Elizabeth Seward   ( RSS feed )  on Apr 25th 2013 at 1:00PM I was in  Mexico  last December, just before the 21st of the month. The date would come and go without catastrophe, of course, but the fringe theories had brought  Maya  culture to the forefront of the media and I took the opportunity to learn a bit about the ancient and modern Maya myself. My time spent in  Merida  was grueling, but rewarding. My room at  Hotel Dolores Alba , which was located near the noisy downtown center of the city, had a shower that spilled water from the bathroom into the rest of the room when used. When I swapped out that room for another, I was happy to find my luggage still dry after a shower. I propped a chair up against the flimsy door at night because the lock was wobbly. I mysteriously watched a disturbing movie starring  Ashley Greene  all the way to the end while taking a break from the sun one afternoon. I had black coffee...

By   Claire Diaz-Ortiz Like many of you, I get a lot of emails. And, like many of you, a lot of those emails are asks or pitches for things. Some are good, some are not so good. This week, I got one of the latter kind. It wasn’t no-good-terrible-bad, but it had some key flaws. In response, I forwarded the email to a colleague outlining the problems with the pitch. I didn’t mince words. And then I pressed send. And even though I checked the “to” address, because this was the morning that gmail was down (again), I had to refresh the page. And, when the page popped up again,  it had repopulated with the email of the person who sent me the pitch in the first place , not the colleague I was trying to forward it to. And it was already sending. And I screamed. ( And then I tweeted .) I spent the next five minutes trying to figure out how to unsend an email in gmail. By the time I figured it out, it was too late. A person I respect had just seen my candid thoughts abou...