That's a pretty harsh punishment for throwing recyclable materials into the trash bin:-)
(Yeah, I know, he would have lost them all the same if he had sent the drive in to be recycled, but still, I kind of like the fact that this happened to the kind of person who just throws anything into a regular trash bin)
Actually, the majority of bitcoins is being horded right now. Stuffed into a wallet and put into a safe or an encrypted file, only to be used years from now.
First of all, even if there's just one bitcoin left, the system still works. Bitcoins are pretty much infinitely divisible.
Second, you can only buy bitcoins if someone sells them to you. If you start buying all bitcoins on the market, the price will not just double but will eventually go up a thousandfold and more. Expect to pay a huge amount of money for the last few remaining bitcoins, if anyone even wants to sell them to you.
I would like nothing better than for a government to start buying up all bitcoins. Mine will just become much more valuable. If they buy and destroy 90% of the bitcoins, the remaining 10% will still have the same total value, so each will be worth 10 times as much as before.
Now, if they bought a huge number of coins and then threw large batches onto the market at once, sure, that could destabilise things a bit. Temporarily. But it would cost them a lot of money and would end up benefiting those who bought at ridiculously low prices.
1. Buy 2 bitcoins (spending $2000), short one, bitcoin drops to zero: you have $1000 (gain from the short) 2. Buy 1 bitcoin (only spending $1000), bitcoin drops to zero: you still have $1000 (saved from the start)
How on earth did you expect to make more money by shorting something while being long on the same thing, rather than directly selling what you have?
Bitcoins can be subdivided pretty much indefinitely. If the US government buys an enormous amount of bitcoins, the value will just go up and prices will be quoted in microBitcoins. People who own bitcoins today would like nothing better.
Of course, if they then threw all of those coins back onto the market, that would be a different story.
The US senate hearing treating it as a real currency? One of the big fears has always been that it would be declared illegal, but quite the opposite seems to be happening. They actually seem to be embracing it.
Wikipedia lists it as a unit of energy, in fact it's the first example in the list of US units. You can calculate energy by multiplying a force with the distance along which the force has been applied (while you can indeed also calculate a torque by multiplying a force with the orthogonal distance from the center, which is a completely different thing but yields the same units).
Yes, security through obscurity is a bad idea. What they should have done, is use a completely transparent but strong container clearly visible through the back window, secured with a lock running Linux. That ought to keep the bad guys at bay.
As such, 'rubber banded to your hip' would still count as concealed if the cop can't see the firearm THROUGH your body. This resulted in jokes about carrying it on the top of your head.
I'm sure you could get some state governments to do just that. If it hasn't already been done, that is. Didn't they declare pi to be equal to three a few years ago?
Nope, that's a tethered flying wind turbine. It's a mystery to me how you can harvest wind energy from something that's flying inside that very wind without any kind of tethering. Updrafts, sure, you can use those. But horizontal wind? If the drone is not tethered to the ground, the moving air is the only reference system in contact with the drone, so it can't use that to draw energy. It's exactly the same as flying in zero wind with the ground moving rapidly underneath.
Do you have any examples of Apple suing people/companies for violating patents that were not already part of Apple's products? In the Samsung case, they were clearly litigating because of the way Samsung stole their design. You can argue about the validity of rounded rectangle design patents, but they were part of their actual product and Samsung only started producing them well after the introduction of the iPhone.
Companies can and do sue for submarine patents, but to specifically name Apple in this context seems a bit of a stretch.
And in case of Air France, all 3 pitot tubes froze over, making the flight computer completely blind
And you think the pilot's appreciation of velocity was as precise as the pitot tubes? I strongly doubt it.
The same type of incident with pitots freezing over had already happened several times in the past, and was on those occasions correctly handled by the crew, avoiding a crash.
Also, not all of the automation had failed, some of it (especially aural warnings) were still working and actually misleading the pilots. And for some reason the plane kept trimming up, which was exactly what they didn't need. It's not as clear cut as it would seem from certain summaries.
NASA has actually conducted tests with special flight control software that can fly the aircraft using only differential engine power, even in some cases with an engine inoperative. It performed beautifully, much better than a human pilot could. But this is just one of the many unexpected things that can happen to an airplane (and extremely rare at that). You can't program everything into the systems, you still need basic on the spot common sense surprisingly often. As an airline pilot, I can't tell you how many times I've had to keep the plane's automation from doing something completely stupid because of some malfunction in the software.
People often cite the statistic saying that most accidents are caused by pilot error, but those don't include the huge number of malfunctions of automation that were corrected by the pilots and therefore did NOT end up in the statistics.
Well, science has shown that dino DNA in amber has degraded so much that it would be impossible to create a real Jurassic Park with it. However, DNA on a rock that flew into space and stayed at very low temperatures might give better results, right? So they could come up with a scenario in which a space ship flies to Titan, finds a rock containing dino DNA, incubates it into a real life T-rex on board the ship, etcetera. It will be unlike any movie ever done before!
I couldn't agree more. It's actually funny to see how with this new 8-in-1 card, the US now has the latest and greatest in obsolete financial technology.
From the Tesla website: Model S is designed to allow a fast battery swap, exchanging your battery for a fully charged battery in less than half the time it takes to refill a gas tank. This offers Model S drivers another, even faster option when recharging while driving long distances.
If you connect a battery to a higher resistance, you get less power, not more. It's not hard to keep 1.5V if you connect it to 10 megaohm, but a lot harder if you connect it to a circuit of a few milli-ohms. The formula is voltage squared divided by resistance.
However, the article doesn't seem to mention ohms, so I don't know where GP got that, and harvesting 0.7 Watt from a 0.1 W transmitter seems a tiny bit improbable.
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OK, looks like you're a friend of Ison but before you go on a date with Jupiter, maybe you should first talk to those who knew Shoemaker-Levy 9.
That's a pretty harsh punishment for throwing recyclable materials into the trash bin :-)
(Yeah, I know, he would have lost them all the same if he had sent the drive in to be recycled, but still, I kind of like the fact that this happened to the kind of person who just throws anything into a regular trash bin)
Betamax was better than VHS.
Actually, the majority of bitcoins is being horded right now. Stuffed into a wallet and put into a safe or an encrypted file, only to be used years from now.
If you think short-selling is evil, wait till someone figures out how to short bitcoins.
You already can. Some exchanges (e.g. Kraken) allow you to short bitcoins, and future contracts also exist.
No.
First of all, even if there's just one bitcoin left, the system still works. Bitcoins are pretty much infinitely divisible.
Second, you can only buy bitcoins if someone sells them to you. If you start buying all bitcoins on the market, the price will not just double but will eventually go up a thousandfold and more. Expect to pay a huge amount of money for the last few remaining bitcoins, if anyone even wants to sell them to you.
I would like nothing better than for a government to start buying up all bitcoins. Mine will just become much more valuable. If they buy and destroy 90% of the bitcoins, the remaining 10% will still have the same total value, so each will be worth 10 times as much as before.
Now, if they bought a huge number of coins and then threw large batches onto the market at once, sure, that could destabilise things a bit. Temporarily. But it would cost them a lot of money and would end up benefiting those who bought at ridiculously low prices.
You obviously suck at math, then.
If you have $2000 and can buy bitcoins at $1000:
1. Buy 2 bitcoins (spending $2000), short one, bitcoin drops to zero: you have $1000 (gain from the short)
2. Buy 1 bitcoin (only spending $1000), bitcoin drops to zero: you still have $1000 (saved from the start)
How on earth did you expect to make more money by shorting something while being long on the same thing, rather than directly selling what you have?
Bitcoins can be subdivided pretty much indefinitely. If the US government buys an enormous amount of bitcoins, the value will just go up and prices will be quoted in microBitcoins. People who own bitcoins today would like nothing better.
Of course, if they then threw all of those coins back onto the market, that would be a different story.
The US senate hearing treating it as a real currency? One of the big fears has always been that it would be declared illegal, but quite the opposite seems to be happening. They actually seem to be embracing it.
There are quite a few other exchanges now, not just MtGox: BitStamp, btce, bitfinex, localbitcoins, kraken,...
Especially BitStamp is becoming quite popular.
Or you could just buy one bitcoin and have exactly the same profit/loss.
Wikipedia lists it as a unit of energy, in fact it's the first example in the list of US units. You can calculate energy by multiplying a force with the distance along which the force has been applied (while you can indeed also calculate a torque by multiplying a force with the orthogonal distance from the center, which is a completely different thing but yields the same units).
Yes, security through obscurity is a bad idea. What they should have done, is use a completely transparent but strong container clearly visible through the back window, secured with a lock running Linux. That ought to keep the bad guys at bay.
As such, 'rubber banded to your hip' would still count as concealed if the cop can't see the firearm THROUGH your body. This resulted in jokes about carrying it on the top of your head.
That wouldn't work for me, I'm too tall.
Yeah, why don't they use a sensible unit of energy like, say, foot-pound force? Or grams of TNT if you really want to scare people?
I'm sure you could get some state governments to do just that. If it hasn't already been done, that is. Didn't they declare pi to be equal to three a few years ago?
Nope, that's a tethered flying wind turbine. It's a mystery to me how you can harvest wind energy from something that's flying inside that very wind without any kind of tethering. Updrafts, sure, you can use those. But horizontal wind? If the drone is not tethered to the ground, the moving air is the only reference system in contact with the drone, so it can't use that to draw energy. It's exactly the same as flying in zero wind with the ground moving rapidly underneath.
Do you have any examples of Apple suing people/companies for violating patents that were not already part of Apple's products? In the Samsung case, they were clearly litigating because of the way Samsung stole their design. You can argue about the validity of rounded rectangle design patents, but they were part of their actual product and Samsung only started producing them well after the introduction of the iPhone.
Companies can and do sue for submarine patents, but to specifically name Apple in this context seems a bit of a stretch.
And you think the pilot's appreciation of velocity was as precise as the pitot tubes? I strongly doubt it.
The same type of incident with pitots freezing over had already happened several times in the past, and was on those occasions correctly handled by the crew, avoiding a crash.
Also, not all of the automation had failed, some of it (especially aural warnings) were still working and actually misleading the pilots. And for some reason the plane kept trimming up, which was exactly what they didn't need. It's not as clear cut as it would seem from certain summaries.
NASA has actually conducted tests with special flight control software that can fly the aircraft using only differential engine power, even in some cases with an engine inoperative. It performed beautifully, much better than a human pilot could. But this is just one of the many unexpected things that can happen to an airplane (and extremely rare at that). You can't program everything into the systems, you still need basic on the spot common sense surprisingly often. As an airline pilot, I can't tell you how many times I've had to keep the plane's automation from doing something completely stupid because of some malfunction in the software.
People often cite the statistic saying that most accidents are caused by pilot error, but those don't include the huge number of malfunctions of automation that were corrected by the pilots and therefore did NOT end up in the statistics.
Well, science has shown that dino DNA in amber has degraded so much that it would be impossible to create a real Jurassic Park with it. However, DNA on a rock that flew into space and stayed at very low temperatures might give better results, right? So they could come up with a scenario in which a space ship flies to Titan, finds a rock containing dino DNA, incubates it into a real life T-rex on board the ship, etcetera. It will be unlike any movie ever done before!
I couldn't agree more. It's actually funny to see how with this new 8-in-1 card, the US now has the latest and greatest in obsolete financial technology.
From the Tesla website:
Model S is designed to allow a fast battery swap, exchanging your battery for a fully charged battery in less than half the time it takes to refill a gas tank. This offers Model S drivers another, even faster option when recharging while driving long distances.
You can watch a demo video, doing two battery swaps in the time it takes to fill up one car's gas tank, here:
http://www.teslamotors.com/en_BE/batteryswap
If you connect a battery to a higher resistance, you get less power, not more. It's not hard to keep 1.5V if you connect it to 10 megaohm, but a lot harder if you connect it to a circuit of a few milli-ohms. The formula is voltage squared divided by resistance.
However, the article doesn't seem to mention ohms, so I don't know where GP got that, and harvesting 0.7 Watt from a 0.1 W transmitter seems a tiny bit improbable.
Unfortunately, Wolfram is unable to give me the weight of a standard cat.
At least you know you can safely assume it to be spherical and of uniform density.