You look for the cheapest miners, and they in turn give their priority to the transactions with the highest margins. If you're impatient or you are stingy, you'll get outbid by transactions with higher margins jumping ahead of you in line.
It's easy to win if you can cheat and get away with it.
Microsoft is renowned for anticompetitive tactics and I think it was even caught using secret APIs to give its own software a competitive advantage on its system.
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Supply and demand.
You look for the cheapest miners, and they in turn give their priority to the transactions with the highest margins. If you're impatient or you are stingy, you'll get outbid by transactions with higher margins jumping ahead of you in line.
Sadly this doesn't seem fictional.
Making people pay for their own medical bills would be fair only if nobody got hurt unless it was completely their fault.
What if someone else hits you on the road, or makes you sick, or passes germs to you?
I think it's fairer for the pain to be spread in that case, to make it more bearable.
Hell, sickness is a common enemy because of the contagion factor and it's in the public interest to pay for it at public expense.
I love how you say accidental.
Would work better if it wasn't crashing.
Won't work. They probably lied.
Relies on the premise that the majority of people are good.
I challenge this assumption.
This is leaving aside the fact that sociopaths will be the ones to climb the most ambitiously.
Why don't we have a lottery to decide who represents us?
It works well enough for juries anyway.
Nothing is truly anonymous if you have a big enough wrench.
NSA is a subagency of the DOD and is headquartered inside a military base.
would the DOJ allow it on antitrust grounds?
Are IRS audits worse than NSA snooping?
It's simple, you punish people for screwing up.
Make producers responsible for bogus takedowns.
Oh, right, they're the elite that actually own the system?
Then just bend over and take it.
netflix is allergic to open source, not the other way around.
It's easy to win if you can cheat and get away with it.
Microsoft is renowned for anticompetitive tactics and I think it was even caught using secret APIs to give its own software a competitive advantage on its system.
Actually with insurance you're betting that it WILL burn down.
The analogy back to the bookmaker would be a bet AGAINST survival.
Soliciting a market for murder for hire is a lot WORSE than shouting fire in a crowded theater.
This is swinging your fist so far into your neighbor's nose that you're punching the back of their skull out.
So, does jumping the line mean they get disqualified from the race altogether or do they just have to get back on course and appeal properly?
There's all those missing words from accidentally the whole thing!
Is there a remedy to surveillance that can stand up to that 5 dollar wrench called being detained indefinitely as a terrorist?
Try recruiting sheeple that are coopted by the media owned by the same elite that are assraping the government.
Competition favors those who can cheat and get away with it. The honest schmucks get priced out of the market, and those that get caught get burned.
This in turn gives an incentive to companies to pay off the regulators to look the other way.
It pays to lie.
Escrow would make such disassembly legal.
Is executives trying to claim sovereign immunity to IT regulations.
I doubt those of lower rank would be given anything but a pink slip if they were caught doing the same thing.
First off, don't come to a public website and post stuff about internal affairs at work.
Learn to respect the privacy of your fellow employees, no matter where they are on the chain of command.
If you're willing to flap your gums on slashdot I worry where else your lips may be loose.
Put a lid on it before you sink yourself.
Best thing I can say is be a good servant. The time you spend at work belongs to your employer, and it is up to them how you spend it.
It's better if cops are held to the same standards as citizens when they kill someone.