Yeah, no kidding. Clearly these knobs have a more accurate study they're quoting, right? They couldn't just be saying, "Yeah, sure, it's never that windy around me" and trying to pass that off as skeptical insight?
Oh wait, that's exactly what they're doing. Clearly these idiots have never been to the Columbia river gorge where this real study was done and the wind blows nearly constantly. What a bunch of morons.
Yep, and for very good reason. Anyone approaching this without fear, uncertainty, or doubt is a complete idiot who understands neither the process nor the math.
Exactly. If it were a mathematically proven safe bet, the companies making the mining equipment should be sued by their shareholders for not taking those machines and putting them into production themselves. They'd be doing the owners a great disservice by not taking the guaranteed profits.
I understand quite well that with bitcoin you're competing to complete a proof of work for a block before anyone else, and there is no guarantee, there is no prize for second place, you have no way to accurately gauge who you're competing against, and the prize itself has a volatile value. Clearly our definitions of "speculation" differ wildly.
So yes, just like a coin toss is governed by forces that can be modeled mathematically but are so ridiculously complicated that there's no practical way to do it in the ascribed time period, so is bitcoin mining.
If it were a sure bet that could be counted on to produce, then the mining machine producers would be idiots to sell the equipment they produce in lieu of firing them up and mining themselves
It's speculation because it is possible to spend outrageous amounts of money on equipment and there is no guarantee that you'll see any return. There is no payout for "best effort". It's not like a job where you turn on the machine and you get paid for the number of hours that the machine runs. It's a race in which you have no way of accurately knowing who you're racing against.
A few cherry picked lines from a chat log and it really looks like Sabu is the mastermind behind everything... or not. Even with this garbage that's being presented out of context it looks like he's just doing what people do on chatters, answering questions and talking crap.
Yep. And with this system you could use your games on any machine you were signed in on. And you'd be able to trade games to your friends so that they could play them when you weren't. But people read the headlines and didn't read the articles and now we have two piles of crap that are warmed over last gen consoles.
You should learn how to read. There was never a "no selling of used games policy" and there was never an "always-on internet requirement". The Xbox One would check in with servers once a day to verify software licenses. If you wanted to sell used games, you'd have to use a mechanism to de-list the game from your Xbox One to make that license available for the person who bought it.
If read past the headlines you'd know this. I can't blame you for being confused, having never read the actual articles.
Hurray for Europe and it's newly inaugurated right to revise history! I'm sure the Hitlers, Mussolinis, and Francos are going to take great advantage of this ruling now that those situations have been resolved. No more embarrassment!
You can't only jam cell phones of people in cars. He was jamming everyone, regardless of whether or not they were driving, on the side of the road, two streets down, in their apartment. Clearly he had a powerful enough jammer that they were able to triangulate his position based on it's emissions. This is not some pocket version that only worked for a few meters around his vehicle.
...and they can see with their own eyes that it sucks. At least the stuff that isn't proprietary. Fortunately, a lot of those patents are coming due this year, so the quality should get a lot better.
This is specific to Priussies*. I drive a Camry Hybrid and have no problem at all getting up to 65 lickety split.
Before I got my car I considered buying a Prius but couldn't figure out if the car was gutless or the drivers were gutless. Either way, the Camry was a much better choice for me. And cheaper than a Prius.
Mazda announced they're working on a hybrid system that feeds no energy directly from the engine and has no battery. It uses regenerative breaking purely to charge up capacitors which then power a motor used to add power to the drive train. It forgoes a lot of the weight inherent in the standard hybrid setup. I'm curious to see how well it'll work. It'd be awesome if you could plug it in to charge up your caps before you took off for the morning commute.
The amount of money you owe is set in stone. A loan of $20 is a loan of $20, even if inflation has made that $20 worth the equivalent of $10 when you first borrowed it.
If you were to borrow money in a foreign currency, then have your inflation shoot up 600%, you'd have to come up with the same amount of foreign currency, which would now be considerably more expensive in your native currency, so it would in effect cause your loan to rise 600% the way you describe.
Many loans have adjustable rates tied to indexes (in particular LIBOR), but that only affects the interest rate that is paid on the loan, not the principle itself.
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Yeah, no kidding. Clearly these knobs have a more accurate study they're quoting, right? They couldn't just be saying, "Yeah, sure, it's never that windy around me" and trying to pass that off as skeptical insight?
Oh wait, that's exactly what they're doing. Clearly these idiots have never been to the Columbia river gorge where this real study was done and the wind blows nearly constantly. What a bunch of morons.
Yep, and for very good reason. Anyone approaching this without fear, uncertainty, or doubt is a complete idiot who understands neither the process nor the math.
Exactly. If it were a mathematically proven safe bet, the companies making the mining equipment should be sued by their shareholders for not taking those machines and putting them into production themselves. They'd be doing the owners a great disservice by not taking the guaranteed profits.
I understand quite well that with bitcoin you're competing to complete a proof of work for a block before anyone else, and there is no guarantee, there is no prize for second place, you have no way to accurately gauge who you're competing against, and the prize itself has a volatile value. Clearly our definitions of "speculation" differ wildly.
So yes, just like a coin toss is governed by forces that can be modeled mathematically but are so ridiculously complicated that there's no practical way to do it in the ascribed time period, so is bitcoin mining.
If it were a sure bet that could be counted on to produce, then the mining machine producers would be idiots to sell the equipment they produce in lieu of firing them up and mining themselves
It's speculation because it is possible to spend outrageous amounts of money on equipment and there is no guarantee that you'll see any return. There is no payout for "best effort". It's not like a job where you turn on the machine and you get paid for the number of hours that the machine runs. It's a race in which you have no way of accurately knowing who you're racing against.
Yeah, just like betting on a coin toss is governed by "mathematically laws".
Freedom of speech! Freedom of speech! I don't know what it means, but I'll bitch about it on the internets, yup!
A few cherry picked lines from a chat log and it really looks like Sabu is the mastermind behind everything... or not. Even with this garbage that's being presented out of context it looks like he's just doing what people do on chatters, answering questions and talking crap.
Yes, because paying $5 Million is sure to turn up lots of 100% true information...
Yep. And with this system you could use your games on any machine you were signed in on. And you'd be able to trade games to your friends so that they could play them when you weren't. But people read the headlines and didn't read the articles and now we have two piles of crap that are warmed over last gen consoles.
You should learn how to read. There was never a "no selling of used games policy" and there was never an "always-on internet requirement". The Xbox One would check in with servers once a day to verify software licenses. If you wanted to sell used games, you'd have to use a mechanism to de-list the game from your Xbox One to make that license available for the person who bought it.
If read past the headlines you'd know this. I can't blame you for being confused, having never read the actual articles.
Hurray for Europe and it's newly inaugurated right to revise history! I'm sure the Hitlers, Mussolinis, and Francos are going to take great advantage of this ruling now that those situations have been resolved. No more embarrassment!
I don't want to catch autism. No hats for me, thanks.
You can't only jam cell phones of people in cars. He was jamming everyone, regardless of whether or not they were driving, on the side of the road, two streets down, in their apartment. Clearly he had a powerful enough jammer that they were able to triangulate his position based on it's emissions. This is not some pocket version that only worked for a few meters around his vehicle.
...and they can see with their own eyes that it sucks. At least the stuff that isn't proprietary. Fortunately, a lot of those patents are coming due this year, so the quality should get a lot better.
Just remember what Neil Degrasse Tyson said in Cosmos, "Question Everything".
Why should we?
Why not?
This is specific to Priussies*. I drive a Camry Hybrid and have no problem at all getting up to 65 lickety split.
Before I got my car I considered buying a Prius but couldn't figure out if the car was gutless or the drivers were gutless. Either way, the Camry was a much better choice for me. And cheaper than a Prius.
*A Priussy being the driver of a Prius.
Mazda announced they're working on a hybrid system that feeds no energy directly from the engine and has no battery. It uses regenerative breaking purely to charge up capacitors which then power a motor used to add power to the drive train. It forgoes a lot of the weight inherent in the standard hybrid setup. I'm curious to see how well it'll work. It'd be awesome if you could plug it in to charge up your caps before you took off for the morning commute.
Oh wait, no they are not, because Fed Ex is not run by greedy idiots trying to charge twice for one service.
Well, actually it is, and they would if they could get away with it.
World of Warcraft can be played as a single player game if you want, pretty much. It's a single player game that gives you the option of grouping up.
The US government borrows money by issuing bonds, which are all in USD.
We could use these time dilation drugs to allow convicted criminals serve their sentences in a matter of days rather than years.
20 year sentence? You can do your time before lunch! 40+ years? You'll have to spend the night.
You are wrong :)
The amount of money you owe is set in stone. A loan of $20 is a loan of $20, even if inflation has made that $20 worth the equivalent of $10 when you first borrowed it.
If you were to borrow money in a foreign currency, then have your inflation shoot up 600%, you'd have to come up with the same amount of foreign currency, which would now be considerably more expensive in your native currency, so it would in effect cause your loan to rise 600% the way you describe.
Many loans have adjustable rates tied to indexes (in particular LIBOR), but that only affects the interest rate that is paid on the loan, not the principle itself.
Consider yourself corrected :D
The "superior" lightning cable that doesn't use USB 3.0 and fills up with pocket lint that's nearly impossible to clean out? Yeah, you're smart.
Yep. I haven't been asked for a phone number in a long, long time. I go in there looking for their closeout stuff pretty regularly.