My grievances with traditional money supplies are:
Governments and Fractional Reserve lending can arbitrarily and capriciously inflate and deflate currencies. (E.g. Zimbabwe, Venezuela)
Governments and entities (e.g. Visa) can arbitrarily and capriciously block an individual or organization's access to money. E.g. (Swift blocks, Wikileaks)
Transferring money over the internet requires an expensive intermediary. (E.g. Visa, Paypal)
Transferring money over the internet is subject to chargebacks, freezes, and holds often with no recourse. (E.g. paypal account freezes)
Taler does not appear to address these problems. I don't see the appeal.
There is a significant difference between baseload nuclear generation and renewable generation. If you include the cost of storing energy for nights, cloudy, or windless days then the economics of nuclear power make a great deal more sense.
I'm not saying you are wrong. I'm saying it's an apples and oranges comparison if you only look at the dollars-per-megawatt number.
Logitech deserves a look for their Unifying line of wireless kit. They have been incredibly reliable for me, latency low enough that I don't notice them, and the batteries last forever.
Thing is that there is not really a scenario where fixing the Earth would not be easier than making Mars habitable that wouldn't wipe out both planets and everybody in space too.
I respectfully disagree. If 95% of the Earth's population dies from a plague then the survivors aren't going to be worried about fixing the Earth.They are going to be worried about starving or freezing to death. In a generation or two modern technology becomes magic relics. We'll be a sparsely populated planet full of cargo cults praying to long dead fragments of solar panels.
A self sufficient Mars can help bring humanity back from that. They can return Prometheus' gift and save us centuries of R&D to get back to where we are today. It could easily be the difference between survival and extinction.
I believe that the universe is littered with the ashes of civilizations that chose to remain on a single island, continent, planet, or around a single star. One day we'll find them, if we don't make the same mistake first.
On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. -Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
The immutable question is: If we don't colonize Mars, the moon, space, or somewhere else other than this rock then what happens to our species when (insert catastrophic event here) hits and we have no backup plan?
We are an apex species, and evolution is not kind to apex species. There is literally an entire planet full of creatures evolving to kill us. It doesn't have to be that either. A giant meteor, nuclear despot, major tectonic event, biological weapon, or an as-yet unknown thing could pound off a big chunk of the population and we are back in the stone age finishing each other off with rocks and sticks.
Mr. Assange's platform has shrunk dramatically during his internment. If we had the audacity to put him on trial he'd become more powerful than he has ever been.
That would not be permitted. There would be a Jack Ruby. I'd wager a pint on it.
I'm strongly against prohibition. Tobacco smuggling is already a billion dollar industry. Prohibition would only make that worse.
I'd honestly rather see more people die from smoking than to create another revenue stream for criminal enterprises and the private prisons that hold their offal.
In all fairness, the profitability of illegal tobacco manufacturing and/or smuggling isnÃ(TM)t anywhere near close to that of something like cocaine.
You are right, but the dollar amounts are still in the billions. The profit potential combined with the shorter sentences vs. drug crimes make this an attractive market opportunity for criminals. I've read estimates that 59% of the tobacco sold in New York is black market. I can't say if that's credible, but it's a shocking number.
In my case I need it to not be anonymized. I'm working on an inner join of voter data against death certificates to see if anything interesting comes up. I doubt it will, but I'd like to put the old "Cemetery votes for the incumbent" adage to rest.
(You can do this too. I'm only looking at my tiny county. There is a whole country of data out there if you want to play with it.)
I do application compatibility work. Part of that is helping customers move applications to newer machines when the original install media has been lost or (for homebrew apps) never existed.
I go DLL fishing on a regular basis, and dependency walker (depends.exe) and Process Monitor (Procmon.exe) are lifesavers.
(I work for Microsoft supporting Enterprise Customers. A very small part of my job is helping customers get that last blocker-application moved off of/win[ntxp0-9]{,4}/ so they can finally upgrade to Win10.)
This event is one of the reasons I am quietly afraid when we talk about eliminating, introducing, or de-extincting a species. I don't trust us not to repeat it.
Oculus seriously derped this. It's very hard to set up a rift to work around a traditional desk+chair+monitor setup. You end up having a 6x6+ "play space" in addition to the normal workspace. It's not great.
Quietly I don't trust Uber to do this. They have repeatedly made outright wrong or morally questionable decisions that make their customers and vendors less safe.
I don't trust them to build and safely operate flying food-dispensing lawnmowers. No.
Forgive my ignorance, but what phone costs that much? I think I spent $50 for a new screen and battery for an iPhone 6 and $10 for a new Wiha Pentalobe driver when I got tired of the toy screwdrivers.
This material's strength at high temperatures allow it to be used as the "boiler" for a solar steam turbine.
For a boiler like this you want the material as thin as possible to allow heat to flow through it rapidly, but it also needs to withstand an internal pressure of many atmospheres*. You also don't want it to melt through and fail if there is an interruption of flow in the heat transfer liquid.
*73 atmospheres for CO2, 225 atmospheres for water.
As an aside, it could also be used for the hot end of a Stirling engine. That's been a difficult material science application for a while.
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Here's the CVE with a link to the details https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/deta...
My grievances with traditional money supplies are:
Taler does not appear to address these problems. I don't see the appeal.
There is a significant difference between baseload nuclear generation and renewable generation. If you include the cost of storing energy for nights, cloudy, or windless days then the economics of nuclear power make a great deal more sense.
I'm not saying you are wrong. I'm saying it's an apples and oranges comparison if you only look at the dollars-per-megawatt number.
Logitech deserves a look for their Unifying line of wireless kit. They have been incredibly reliable for me, latency low enough that I don't notice them, and the batteries last forever.
It is rumored that respawning is part of the Eastern Religion expansion pack, but no-one in game has confirmed that.
Parent is right. 60% of men smoked in the Apollo Era. Even the submarines had ashtrays.
Fun fact, NASA cannot by law "advertise". They can educate, but not advertise.
I respectfully disagree. If 95% of the Earth's population dies from a plague then the survivors aren't going to be worried about fixing the Earth.They are going to be worried about starving or freezing to death. In a generation or two modern technology becomes magic relics. We'll be a sparsely populated planet full of cargo cults praying to long dead fragments of solar panels.
A self sufficient Mars can help bring humanity back from that. They can return Prometheus' gift and save us centuries of R&D to get back to where we are today. It could easily be the difference between survival and extinction.
I believe that the universe is littered with the ashes of civilizations that chose to remain on a single island, continent, planet, or around a single star. One day we'll find them, if we don't make the same mistake first.
It is a game. The world's largest MMRPG. http://reddit.com/r/outside
The immutable question is:
If we don't colonize Mars, the moon, space, or somewhere else other than this rock then what happens to our species when (insert catastrophic event here) hits and we have no backup plan?
We are an apex species, and evolution is not kind to apex species. There is literally an entire planet full of creatures evolving to kill us. It doesn't have to be that either. A giant meteor, nuclear despot, major tectonic event, biological weapon, or an as-yet unknown thing could pound off a big chunk of the population and we are back in the stone age finishing each other off with rocks and sticks.
If not Mars, where?
Mr. Assange's platform has shrunk dramatically during his internment. If we had the audacity to put him on trial he'd become more powerful than he has ever been.
That would not be permitted. There would be a Jack Ruby. I'd wager a pint on it.
I'm strongly against prohibition. Tobacco smuggling is already a billion dollar industry. Prohibition would only make that worse.
I'd honestly rather see more people die from smoking than to create another revenue stream for criminal enterprises and the private prisons that hold their offal.
In all fairness, the profitability of illegal tobacco manufacturing and/or smuggling isnÃ(TM)t anywhere near close to that of something like cocaine.
You are right, but the dollar amounts are still in the billions. The profit potential combined with the shorter sentences vs. drug crimes make this an attractive market opportunity for criminals. I've read estimates that 59% of the tobacco sold in New York is black market. I can't say if that's credible, but it's a shocking number.
In my case I need it to not be anonymized. I'm working on an inner join of voter data against death certificates to see if anything interesting comes up. I doubt it will, but I'd like to put the old "Cemetery votes for the incumbent" adage to rest.
(You can do this too. I'm only looking at my tiny county. There is a whole country of data out there if you want to play with it.)
I agree with privacy for political affiliation, but I would prefer the did/did-not vote data remain public. It is of statistical interest to me.
Seconded. The one useful class I took was "communications". It made me better at PowerPoint. The rest was just for the line item on my resume.
I do application compatibility work. Part of that is helping customers move applications to newer machines when the original install media has been lost or (for homebrew apps) never existed.
I go DLL fishing on a regular basis, and dependency walker (depends.exe) and Process Monitor (Procmon.exe) are lifesavers.
(I work for Microsoft supporting Enterprise Customers. A very small part of my job is helping customers get that last blocker-application moved off of /win[ntxp0-9]{,4}/ so they can finally upgrade to Win10.)
This event is one of the reasons I am quietly afraid when we talk about eliminating, introducing, or de-extincting a species. I don't trust us not to repeat it.
AC is right. History teaches us, specifically the Four Pests Campaign , that eliminating "pest" species can end very poorly.
What you describe is the value proposition for plant-based ethanol. It's a complicated machine, yes, but that's what it does.
(And no I don't mean corn. Whatever idiot thought we should make fuel-hooch out of that needs to reconsider their career choices.)
Oculus seriously derped this. It's very hard to set up a rift to work around a traditional desk+chair+monitor setup. You end up having a 6x6+ "play space" in addition to the normal workspace. It's not great.
I thought it was just me.... I love Mission:ISS, but it's frustrating that I can be 10cm from a switch and not read what it says.
It's a two-tier problem. The software problem is that the textures aren't deep enough. The hardware problem is the resolution isn't high enough.
For me there is also a third tier biological problem. I can't adjust the kit to be in focus. I assume that's a bug with my skull or optics.
(Oculus Rift, Radeon R290X, i7)
Quietly I don't trust Uber to do this. They have repeatedly made outright wrong or morally questionable decisions that make their customers and vendors less safe.
I don't trust them to build and safely operate flying food-dispensing lawnmowers. No.
Forgive my ignorance, but what phone costs that much? I think I spent $50 for a new screen and battery for an iPhone 6 and $10 for a new Wiha Pentalobe driver when I got tired of the toy screwdrivers.
This material's strength at high temperatures allow it to be used as the "boiler" for a solar steam turbine.
For a boiler like this you want the material as thin as possible to allow heat to flow through it rapidly, but it also needs to withstand an internal pressure of many atmospheres*. You also don't want it to melt through and fail if there is an interruption of flow in the heat transfer liquid.
*73 atmospheres for CO2, 225 atmospheres for water.
As an aside, it could also be used for the hot end of a Stirling engine. That's been a difficult material science application for a while.