I'm on PC mobile actually, so it only has the 365 day option on $100 top-ups, but it looks like the coverage map for PC mobility (uses Bell towers) is better than Speakout. However, I have to admit that Speakout is certainly very good as well.
I live in Canada and can't believe what people are willing to pay, but that's just it -- the phone companies charge it and they pay it. Myself, I have a pay-as-you-go plan where I can buy minutes in a $100 chunk which doesn't expire for 365 days, and for several years I've never maxed out that $100 so it keeps rolling over. I think I have about $250 still in there right now. That's the best deal I could find, as it's only $8.33 per month, but I only use it for a few phone calls and maybe about a dozen texts per week with my wife. No data, I just use WiFi everywhere. My wife, on the other hand, with her iPhone 7 is paying around $60/month including data on a Rogers account, I think.
It could just as easily go the other way. If he's found innocent (unlikely perhaps, but possible) and the value goes up, doesn't that mean he gets it back? Wouldn't it be safer in that case to just return the bitcoins you seized, whatever their value?
This is a more informative answer, thanks. So is it that Earth's iron has been exposed to too much oxygen over the billions of years and oxidized, but meteoric iron has not? I'm just trying to understand the why...
I'm clueless about this... what's the difference between meteoric iron and iron ore? Is it just purity? If so, why is it that meteoric iron is more pure?
Yes, paper money is essentially debt owed to the holder of the money. You did something valuable, and someone gave you money to signify that you haven't been compensated for it yet. The money they gave you came from someone else signifying that they did something of value for someone else. You then exchange that debt of value you created for value created by others when you spend it on something you want. So, the company you work for buys a bunch of steel for $1000 and you work for them turning that into $1100 worth of parts that they sell to their customer (there's little markup on stamped parts). This took you 2 hours, and they pay you $20 an hour including your benefits, etc., so $40. That's your share of what the economy now owes you in terms of value for the value you created.
Money is a representation of something that someone did for someone else that had value in the receiving person's eyes. For instance, if I go buy some wood for $100 at the store and spend some time turning it into furniture, then I might sell it for $400. That means I created $300 more value in the eyes of the market, or at least the buyer, by doing that. I then take that $300 profit and trade it for other useful things that people will do for me. On the other hand, if you give people money for doing nothing, and eventually everyone's doing nothing of value, then what is there of value left to buy? Just the stuff made by robots? So I own a robot, it makes furniture for me which I sell to people who haven't done anything useful for anyone except consume oxygen, then I take that money and do what... buy food from the robot food manufacturer? Why can't the robot food manufacturer just give me some food in exchange for some furniture I build for her? The only reason for UBI is to pay useless people enough money that they can afford enough drugs to get so stoned that the don't bother going out to commit crimes, because that's cheaper than a bigger police force.
Yes, your private key is protected by a... password. And nobody's ever had their bitcoin wallet hacked. I'm not saying blockchain technology brings nothing to the table, but it's certainly not a panacea.
I agree with you, but how is this different than say, the online worlds depicted in novels like "Snow Crash," "REAMDE," or "Ready Player One"? Aren't those worlds full of rare and valuable virtual items that the players/users invest enormous amounts of time to acquire?
I'm in Ontario, Canada and it's difficult for me to actually say what electricity costs per kWh. It ranges by time-of-use, of course, with about double the cost during peak times vs. off-peak times. Those prices are around $0.10 per kWh. However, delivery is outside that, and typically doubles the cost of the bill. In industry it's completely different. They may only pay $0.01 per kWh but get huge charges for delivery and peak usage. As I said, it's no longer easy to say what electricity actually costs per kWh.
That 215 kWh per transaction number is out of date, since the power consumption is growing so rapidly. Last I saw, late this week, it was over 250 kWh per transaction. This is a ridiculous amount of electricity to consume per transaction. Sure, bitcoin is an interesting experiment, but the power consumption problem needs to get fixed. At some rough cost of $0.10 per kWh, that's creating a cost of $25 per transaction. Insane.
I did some googling as well, and found this page, where its current estimate is a shocking 245 kWh per transaction. Most days my house averages about 25 to 26 kWh per day, so each transaction could power my house for almost 10 days! Using a very rough estimate of $0.10 per kWh, each transaction costs about $25. While I consider bitcoin to be an interesting experiment, this data is enough for me to say it should *not* be adopted widely until they can develop a much less power-hungry way to run the network.
Granted I work in a factory, but we've seen everything. People playing on their phones in the bathroom for 30 or more minutes. People literally sleeping on the job. People who only come in for 2 or 3 of their scheduled days per week, and when questioned about it say, "well, I just don't need more than 2 or 3 days of income per week to live." Yes, most of that is unskilled labour, but not all of it. There are many skilled and technical employees who really need nearly constant supervision to be productive. The problem is that they don't realize it, so they complain if someone else gets to work from home or unsupervised. Companies feel they deal with enough BS from employees, so their easy fix is to make a policy and ban work-from-home.
A friend of mine was talking to a surgeon (a friend of his) about the risks of some surgery, and the doctor quoted his own success rates, so maybe he said "8% had a bad outcome" (I forget the number but it was in that range) but then he added, "but please realize every single one of those patients had serious complications such as being morbidly obese, usually with diabetes", etc. In those cases the risk of not doing the surgery was certain death, so the patient and doctor had little choice but to take the risk. However, I can see why a surgeon would want to avoid "non-urgent" surgery on a patient if they could significantly reduce the risk by losing some weight first.
I opted to just install an SSD rather than upgrade our PCs at home, and definitely got a few extra years out of them. However, the SSDs are maxing out the data rate of the SATA ports, and now they're coming out the NVMe drives that are 4 times faster than SSDs but you need an M.2 port (as I understand it a direct connection into your PCI bus). For these you typically need a new motherboard. So whereas the upgrade from an HDD to an SSD was very simple and easy, taking the next step means a new motherboard, so if you were already delaying buying a new PC because you did the SSD thing, you're almost certainly going to buy a new PC next time. There's a lot more incentive now.
I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon and Aliexpress now. All the products in the local stores are made in China anyway, so it's all the same manufacturers. Now I pay $8 on Amazon with 2-day prime shipping for stuff that's $11 in the local store, and I only pay $3 if I buy it from China, free shipping, if I'm willing to wait 6-8 weeks. The local store's paying less than $3 for the same item anyway, in volume. Yeah it's hurting local stores. Good riddance.
Sure, 9/11 was big. But JonKatz's Voices from the Hellmouth about Columbine was a big deal. Yes, we all grew tired of JonKatz eventually, but a lot of people opened up about their horrible experiences being bullied in high school. There's been a lot of improvements in schools recognizing bullying, though a lot of that has just moved online and gotten worse there. Still, for those of us who were here, that was a really memorable time. I'm surprised there was no mention.
I have a co-worker who lives out in the country and he can legally pull something like 20,000 L a day from his well. He pumps it into a couple big holding tanks he has, and he has a water truck and he sells it to people who want to fill their swimming pools. He's basically just charging for delivery. The water is free. Nurseries around here don't pay for water either, depending on how much they use. On the other hand, my house is near a town well so I'm in a source water protection area, and I can't even put a sand point in to water my lawn (they're trying to prevent contamination, but also means I have to purchase their town water at a rather high rate). That's part of the homeowner's agreement. Anyway, if you're getting short of water, then regulate the resource. It can be done.
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I'm on PC mobile actually, so it only has the 365 day option on $100 top-ups, but it looks like the coverage map for PC mobility (uses Bell towers) is better than Speakout. However, I have to admit that Speakout is certainly very good as well.
I live in Canada and can't believe what people are willing to pay, but that's just it -- the phone companies charge it and they pay it. Myself, I have a pay-as-you-go plan where I can buy minutes in a $100 chunk which doesn't expire for 365 days, and for several years I've never maxed out that $100 so it keeps rolling over. I think I have about $250 still in there right now. That's the best deal I could find, as it's only $8.33 per month, but I only use it for a few phone calls and maybe about a dozen texts per week with my wife. No data, I just use WiFi everywhere. My wife, on the other hand, with her iPhone 7 is paying around $60/month including data on a Rogers account, I think.
It could just as easily go the other way. If he's found innocent (unlikely perhaps, but possible) and the value goes up, doesn't that mean he gets it back? Wouldn't it be safer in that case to just return the bitcoins you seized, whatever their value?
This is a more informative answer, thanks. So is it that Earth's iron has been exposed to too much oxygen over the billions of years and oxidized, but meteoric iron has not? I'm just trying to understand the why...
I'm clueless about this... what's the difference between meteoric iron and iron ore? Is it just purity? If so, why is it that meteoric iron is more pure?
Yes, paper money is essentially debt owed to the holder of the money. You did something valuable, and someone gave you money to signify that you haven't been compensated for it yet. The money they gave you came from someone else signifying that they did something of value for someone else. You then exchange that debt of value you created for value created by others when you spend it on something you want. So, the company you work for buys a bunch of steel for $1000 and you work for them turning that into $1100 worth of parts that they sell to their customer (there's little markup on stamped parts). This took you 2 hours, and they pay you $20 an hour including your benefits, etc., so $40. That's your share of what the economy now owes you in terms of value for the value you created.
Money is a representation of something that someone did for someone else that had value in the receiving person's eyes. For instance, if I go buy some wood for $100 at the store and spend some time turning it into furniture, then I might sell it for $400. That means I created $300 more value in the eyes of the market, or at least the buyer, by doing that. I then take that $300 profit and trade it for other useful things that people will do for me. On the other hand, if you give people money for doing nothing, and eventually everyone's doing nothing of value, then what is there of value left to buy? Just the stuff made by robots? So I own a robot, it makes furniture for me which I sell to people who haven't done anything useful for anyone except consume oxygen, then I take that money and do what... buy food from the robot food manufacturer? Why can't the robot food manufacturer just give me some food in exchange for some furniture I build for her? The only reason for UBI is to pay useless people enough money that they can afford enough drugs to get so stoned that the don't bother going out to commit crimes, because that's cheaper than a bigger police force.
Yes, your private key is protected by a ... password. And nobody's ever had their bitcoin wallet hacked. I'm not saying blockchain technology brings nothing to the table, but it's certainly not a panacea.
For those of you who can't (or won't) go to a Facebook like, here's another link to the manifesto.
I agree with you, but how is this different than say, the online worlds depicted in novels like "Snow Crash," "REAMDE," or "Ready Player One"? Aren't those worlds full of rare and valuable virtual items that the players/users invest enormous amounts of time to acquire?
I'm in Ontario, Canada and it's difficult for me to actually say what electricity costs per kWh. It ranges by time-of-use, of course, with about double the cost during peak times vs. off-peak times. Those prices are around $0.10 per kWh. However, delivery is outside that, and typically doubles the cost of the bill. In industry it's completely different. They may only pay $0.01 per kWh but get huge charges for delivery and peak usage. As I said, it's no longer easy to say what electricity actually costs per kWh.
That 215 kWh per transaction number is out of date, since the power consumption is growing so rapidly. Last I saw, late this week, it was over 250 kWh per transaction. This is a ridiculous amount of electricity to consume per transaction. Sure, bitcoin is an interesting experiment, but the power consumption problem needs to get fixed. At some rough cost of $0.10 per kWh, that's creating a cost of $25 per transaction. Insane.
I did some googling as well, and found this page, where its current estimate is a shocking 245 kWh per transaction. Most days my house averages about 25 to 26 kWh per day, so each transaction could power my house for almost 10 days! Using a very rough estimate of $0.10 per kWh, each transaction costs about $25. While I consider bitcoin to be an interesting experiment, this data is enough for me to say it should *not* be adopted widely until they can develop a much less power-hungry way to run the network.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but it's an astounding claim. Can you provide a reference for that?
Granted I work in a factory, but we've seen everything. People playing on their phones in the bathroom for 30 or more minutes. People literally sleeping on the job. People who only come in for 2 or 3 of their scheduled days per week, and when questioned about it say, "well, I just don't need more than 2 or 3 days of income per week to live." Yes, most of that is unskilled labour, but not all of it. There are many skilled and technical employees who really need nearly constant supervision to be productive. The problem is that they don't realize it, so they complain if someone else gets to work from home or unsupervised. Companies feel they deal with enough BS from employees, so their easy fix is to make a policy and ban work-from-home.
Shouldn't you also include Brave New World?
A friend of mine was talking to a surgeon (a friend of his) about the risks of some surgery, and the doctor quoted his own success rates, so maybe he said "8% had a bad outcome" (I forget the number but it was in that range) but then he added, "but please realize every single one of those patients had serious complications such as being morbidly obese, usually with diabetes", etc. In those cases the risk of not doing the surgery was certain death, so the patient and doctor had little choice but to take the risk. However, I can see why a surgeon would want to avoid "non-urgent" surgery on a patient if they could significantly reduce the risk by losing some weight first.
I opted to just install an SSD rather than upgrade our PCs at home, and definitely got a few extra years out of them. However, the SSDs are maxing out the data rate of the SATA ports, and now they're coming out the NVMe drives that are 4 times faster than SSDs but you need an M.2 port (as I understand it a direct connection into your PCI bus). For these you typically need a new motherboard. So whereas the upgrade from an HDD to an SSD was very simple and easy, taking the next step means a new motherboard, so if you were already delaying buying a new PC because you did the SSD thing, you're almost certainly going to buy a new PC next time. There's a lot more incentive now.
That will also prevent people on the bus from using their cell phones. I hate distracted driving too, but yours isn't an acceptable solution.
I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon and Aliexpress now. All the products in the local stores are made in China anyway, so it's all the same manufacturers. Now I pay $8 on Amazon with 2-day prime shipping for stuff that's $11 in the local store, and I only pay $3 if I buy it from China, free shipping, if I'm willing to wait 6-8 weeks. The local store's paying less than $3 for the same item anyway, in volume. Yeah it's hurting local stores. Good riddance.
Yes, they're concentrating them in the Amazon warehouses, and then they're going to replace them with robots due to economy of scale.
Sure, 9/11 was big. But JonKatz's Voices from the Hellmouth about Columbine was a big deal. Yes, we all grew tired of JonKatz eventually, but a lot of people opened up about their horrible experiences being bullied in high school. There's been a lot of improvements in schools recognizing bullying, though a lot of that has just moved online and gotten worse there. Still, for those of us who were here, that was a really memorable time. I'm surprised there was no mention.
I have a co-worker who lives out in the country and he can legally pull something like 20,000 L a day from his well. He pumps it into a couple big holding tanks he has, and he has a water truck and he sells it to people who want to fill their swimming pools. He's basically just charging for delivery. The water is free. Nurseries around here don't pay for water either, depending on how much they use. On the other hand, my house is near a town well so I'm in a source water protection area, and I can't even put a sand point in to water my lawn (they're trying to prevent contamination, but also means I have to purchase their town water at a rather high rate). That's part of the homeowner's agreement. Anyway, if you're getting short of water, then regulate the resource. It can be done.
I'm pretty sure anyone who cared (like myself) would just turn off facial ID unlock and use a pass code.
Apparently it won't unlock if your eyes are closed.