They can change the algorithm pretty easily. As long as a majority of the miners agrees to use the new algorithm starting from a specific date, they can transition to pretty much anything they want and the old bitcoins remain valid. You may have to transfer your bitcoins from an old wallet to a new one, so we'll finally know how many coins have been lost by people forgetting their passwords or erasing their hard drives.
They only slowed down the devices after detecting a problem with the battery which would have made the device shut down unexpectedly. I once had an iPhone 5 that suffered from that problem: battery would decrease to about 25% and then the whole device would suddenly shut off without warning.
So you have a choice: replace the battery or accept lower performance to keep the device from shutting down randomly.
This is not because the device is old, but because the battery has a problem (for example after having been dropped, or discharged too deeply too many times). I don't see how you can call this planned obsolescence.
It's like a car that detects a problem in the ignition system and therefore limits engine power until it's fixed. Would you sue the car company for that?
Oh, my, some student has handed in his "study" and it made the papers. The next study that debunks it, probably won't so everyone will keep believing this one. Like that old "study" that said 80 km/h was the ideal speed for max throughput (it's not).
They probably did a simulation where all cars were following the same algorithm. Which only works if, you guessed it, all cars are using the same algorithm. Otherwise, only a huge mess results.
I can see so many things wrong with this. For starters, if I understood correctly, when somebody tailgates me, I should tailgate the car in front of me as well so we keep an equal distance? Great way to cause pile-ups when one car starts to brake. (Been in one of those myself, I could stop just in time, so could the car behind me, but the three cars further back slammed us all together, fortunately there was a dashcam).
So we're back to a minimum safe distance between me and the car in front, which is what I normally do. Now, if the car behind me is further back, according to the "study", I should slow down to increase my distance in front and reduce my distance behind. But then of course the car behind me is going to slow again to get back to its old distance, so I keep slowing until I have as much distance in front of me as the car behind me. Now the car in front of me is going to slow down to as well, because he wants as much distance in front of him as behind him. I don't exactly see throughput improving here...
Max throughput is achieved if cars simply keep the shortest safe distance, allowing for small fluctuations in distance to keep speed as constant as possible. And yes, indeed, very few drivers actually do that.
I'm a bit confused, though: is the USPS subsidized or not? The summary says it's running at a huge loss but it's not receiving tax dollars.
The U.S. Postal Service, which runs at a big loss, is an independent agency within the federal government and does not receive tax dollars for operating expenses, according to its website.
That's why there are multiple news outlets for people to choose from. It only becomes a real problem when people with power try to selectively curtail some of them.
The question is not whether dumb people deserve to get ripped off. The question is whether Birkenstock deserves to lose those sales. Anti-counterfeiting laws are not meant to protect customers (even if that's how they are sold to the public).
What does puzzle me a bit, though, is how Birkenstock can prohibit certified Birkenstock retailers from selling on Amazon, and threaten to close them forever if they do. Wouldn't that run afoul of a bunch of competition laws?
I used to be all for the metric system, but apparently God himself (in the form of the Spaghetti Monster and its pirates) has decided that the US system should remain. So be it.
Selling happens off-chain. You may need to transfer bitcoin from your wallet to an exchange, but if they are already on the exchange, there's no waiting period at all. The exchange just changes the balances on your account and the buyer's while the actual bitcoins never leave cold storage.
Tesla has a car with a 600 mile range planned for 2020. Yes, it's a sports car, but their other models won't stay far behind. By 2030 you'll probably have 1000 miles of range. That means most people need a fast charge a couple of times a year at most (in fact, this is already the case for a large majority of people today). Also, those charges will become faster and faster. In 2030 you'll probably be looking at less than 10 minutes for 500 miles of range.
And apart from those very few long distance trips, the rest of the time you just plug in in your own garage or at work, instead of having to go to a hydrogen refueling station every week or so to fill up.
What exactly were the advantages of hydrogen again? The extra entertainment when filling stations catch fire?
Which is quite weird given the fact that they are actively advertising that, "soon", you will be able to let your Tesla generate income for you driving other people around on autopilot while you are at work or on vacation.
OK, I do understand that they don't want you to drive around taxis for free, but surely if you pay for it, there shouldn't be any problem? The way I read it, you can't even use superchargers at all, not even if you pay for the electricity. I thought they considered taxi companies to be great advertising for Tesla, but now they want to get rid of them? No more Tesla taxis? Because even if they buy their own private supercharging station (which, last time I checked, is impossible), that would mean that all the taxis have to come and charge at that same location and can't go on long trips.
Also, "any other commercial venture" would include salespeople, for example. Jeez, they are cutting off a whole lot of potential customers here.
They shouldn't just ban cell phones. Files, too, should be banned because inmates can use them to saw through bars. And chisels and shovels which can be used to tunnel out of the prison. All illegal for sale from now on!
O, and the number one facilitator of illegal transactions in prison: cash. Should definitely be outlawed as well.
O, and cakes. Often used to smuggle contraband into prison. No more cakes, anywhere, worldwide! Yeah, that will solve the problem.
Actually, yes you can. You can't project a sphere from a cartesian 3D space onto a cartesian 2D plane, but the surface of a sphere is, in fact, a 2D space.
There are people (serious scientists) who believe that the entire universe might be 2D, with a special geometry and rules of physics that make it appear 3D to us. They base this on the assumption that entropy in a black hole must be conserved, and a black hole can only hold an amount of entropy proportional to its surface area, but personally I think it's a bit far-fetched. I think it's far more logical to just accept that black holes can decrease entropy.
Yeah, as I've said before commenting on similar articles, Microsoft software has been based on quantum mechanics for as long as I can remember. Users of Microsoft software are constantly struggling with the uncertainty principle and can often make systems collapse merely by observing them.
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They can change the algorithm pretty easily. As long as a majority of the miners agrees to use the new algorithm starting from a specific date, they can transition to pretty much anything they want and the old bitcoins remain valid. You may have to transfer your bitcoins from an old wallet to a new one, so we'll finally know how many coins have been lost by people forgetting their passwords or erasing their hard drives.
I think there's a world market for maybe five quantum computers...
Nah, since they removed the gorilla label, the AI probably labels all gorillas as "black person" now,
They only slowed down the devices after detecting a problem with the battery which would have made the device shut down unexpectedly. I once had an iPhone 5 that suffered from that problem: battery would decrease to about 25% and then the whole device would suddenly shut off without warning.
So you have a choice: replace the battery or accept lower performance to keep the device from shutting down randomly.
This is not because the device is old, but because the battery has a problem (for example after having been dropped, or discharged too deeply too many times). I don't see how you can call this planned obsolescence.
It's like a car that detects a problem in the ignition system and therefore limits engine power until it's fixed. Would you sue the car company for that?
Actually, CBOE and CME have existed for a wee bit longer than 5 years.
This is the scary bit: actual financial institutions are getting in.
Wouldn't be a problem if they were working for Big Train.
Great, so now they can bring back the duration of copyright to a more sensible duration like it was before.
In an ideal world, sure. In the real world, though, as long as actual humans are driving, it doesn't work.
What you are saying makes sense, but that's not what the study says. Read the summary again.
Oh, my, some student has handed in his "study" and it made the papers. The next study that debunks it, probably won't so everyone will keep believing this one. Like that old "study" that said 80 km/h was the ideal speed for max throughput (it's not).
They probably did a simulation where all cars were following the same algorithm. Which only works if, you guessed it, all cars are using the same algorithm. Otherwise, only a huge mess results.
I can see so many things wrong with this. For starters, if I understood correctly, when somebody tailgates me, I should tailgate the car in front of me as well so we keep an equal distance? Great way to cause pile-ups when one car starts to brake. (Been in one of those myself, I could stop just in time, so could the car behind me, but the three cars further back slammed us all together, fortunately there was a dashcam).
So we're back to a minimum safe distance between me and the car in front, which is what I normally do. Now, if the car behind me is further back, according to the "study", I should slow down to increase my distance in front and reduce my distance behind. But then of course the car behind me is going to slow again to get back to its old distance, so I keep slowing until I have as much distance in front of me as the car behind me. Now the car in front of me is going to slow down to as well, because he wants as much distance in front of him as behind him. I don't exactly see throughput improving here...
Max throughput is achieved if cars simply keep the shortest safe distance, allowing for small fluctuations in distance to keep speed as constant as possible. And yes, indeed, very few drivers actually do that.
I'm a bit confused, though: is the USPS subsidized or not? The summary says it's running at a huge loss but it's not receiving tax dollars.
The U.S. Postal Service, which runs at a big loss, is an independent agency within the federal government and does not receive tax dollars for operating expenses, according to its website.
So who's paying for those losses, then?
That's why there are multiple news outlets for people to choose from. It only becomes a real problem when people with power try to selectively curtail some of them.
The question is not whether dumb people deserve to get ripped off. The question is whether Birkenstock deserves to lose those sales. Anti-counterfeiting laws are not meant to protect customers (even if that's how they are sold to the public).
What does puzzle me a bit, though, is how Birkenstock can prohibit certified Birkenstock retailers from selling on Amazon, and threaten to close them forever if they do. Wouldn't that run afoul of a bunch of competition laws?
I used to be all for the metric system, but apparently God himself (in the form of the Spaghetti Monster and its pirates) has decided that the US system should remain. So be it.
Actually, I don't even think you're exaggerating. Haven't they passed the electricity usage of Denmark a while ago?
Well, it's better than Venezuelan Bolivar...
Selling happens off-chain. You may need to transfer bitcoin from your wallet to an exchange, but if they are already on the exchange, there's no waiting period at all. The exchange just changes the balances on your account and the buyer's while the actual bitcoins never leave cold storage.
I'm not sure anyone's opened the box yet.
30k hydrogen cars a year by... when?! 2030?!
Tesla has a car with a 600 mile range planned for 2020. Yes, it's a sports car, but their other models won't stay far behind. By 2030 you'll probably have 1000 miles of range. That means most people need a fast charge a couple of times a year at most (in fact, this is already the case for a large majority of people today). Also, those charges will become faster and faster. In 2030 you'll probably be looking at less than 10 minutes for 500 miles of range.
And apart from those very few long distance trips, the rest of the time you just plug in in your own garage or at work, instead of having to go to a hydrogen refueling station every week or so to fill up.
What exactly were the advantages of hydrogen again? The extra entertainment when filling stations catch fire?
30k cars a year by 2030, lol :-)
Which is quite weird given the fact that they are actively advertising that, "soon", you will be able to let your Tesla generate income for you driving other people around on autopilot while you are at work or on vacation.
OK, I do understand that they don't want you to drive around taxis for free, but surely if you pay for it, there shouldn't be any problem? The way I read it, you can't even use superchargers at all, not even if you pay for the electricity. I thought they considered taxi companies to be great advertising for Tesla, but now they want to get rid of them? No more Tesla taxis? Because even if they buy their own private supercharging station (which, last time I checked, is impossible), that would mean that all the taxis have to come and charge at that same location and can't go on long trips.
Also, "any other commercial venture" would include salespeople, for example. Jeez, they are cutting off a whole lot of potential customers here.
They shouldn't just ban cell phones. Files, too, should be banned because inmates can use them to saw through bars. And chisels and shovels which can be used to tunnel out of the prison. All illegal for sale from now on!
O, and the number one facilitator of illegal transactions in prison: cash. Should definitely be outlawed as well.
O, and cakes. Often used to smuggle contraband into prison. No more cakes, anywhere, worldwide! Yeah, that will solve the problem.
Actually, yes you can. You can't project a sphere from a cartesian 3D space onto a cartesian 2D plane, but the surface of a sphere is, in fact, a 2D space.
There are people (serious scientists) who believe that the entire universe might be 2D, with a special geometry and rules of physics that make it appear 3D to us. They base this on the assumption that entropy in a black hole must be conserved, and a black hole can only hold an amount of entropy proportional to its surface area, but personally I think it's a bit far-fetched. I think it's far more logical to just accept that black holes can decrease entropy.
Only the miners carry the whole chain. Not ordinary users.
Yeah, as I've said before commenting on similar articles, Microsoft software has been based on quantum mechanics for as long as I can remember. Users of Microsoft software are constantly struggling with the uncertainty principle and can often make systems collapse merely by observing them.
Bigger spirals at the same rate of turn are higher G, not lower.