You're doing this wrong. You're supposed to imply that I'm the actual noob here, and then demand that I egress from your meticulously manicured landscape.
No, it's a joke that isn't meant for stupid people.
You see, language is ambiguous; you're expected to be smart enough to realize when someone is exploiting that ambiguity with humorous intent, to evoke mirth in their audience.
If language wasn't ambiguous, whole swaths of comedy would be eliminated and we'd be stuck with nothing but pedants trying to explain to us how we misinterpreted a headline.
I think you're right; they did the gag multiple times, with variations. But it was fun to pretend to be just as incensed at your description of WEC/RR, as you were about the apostrophe.
I'm sorry, but you are very much mistaken. It was Wile E. Coyote who drew the tunnel; Roadrunner ran through it. W.E.C. then tried to pursue, and smacked into the wall.
And then got run over by a truck coming through his tunnel.
... Also, I was apparently browsing at score=2 when I first replied, and didn't realize that the question "how was it also not equally true of gold itself?" was actually a side-topic about whether or not fiat currencies are worthwhile, and not about TFA.
Correct. But, we're talking about the proposal-- permitting 'approximate mining'-- not how things presently are. But, upon re-reading my original comment, I didn't do the best job of explaining it. (And the mods apparently agree.)
It was not true of the gold market, because the gold market won't let you externalize the cost of the last 1% of work (30% of effort.) To continue the analogy: You can't just show up at market with a pile of rocks and say, "there's gold in there, pay me" and expect the market to do the last bit of effort to determine whether there really is gold in there, and how much.
The bitcoin market *could* permit you to do this, since it checks your proof-of-work before accepting it.
The idea is that, with bitcoins, that last 1% of work takes 30% of the overall effort, so it is in the miners' interest to get loose with the math.
Ft. Hood is Army not Navy, and 2009 was perpetrated by an insider, not an intruder driving through gates unchecked. There was also a 2014 shooting there (also insider.)
No. Friends are the point of Facebook specifically, but not social media generally.
The point of G+ is to find people who are a source of material that you find interesting.... Those people may become friends to one degree or another after that, but they start out as strangers.
True, but I figure anyone who's going to be savvy enough to be aware of H.A.R.E.M. is going to be familiar with the word's etymology, and make the connection....And if a few neckbeards get a chuckle out of it, what's the harm?
They missed the boat on that acronym, IMO. Change the last word from 'System' to 'Mechanism' or 'Method', and then they'd have HAREM, which evokes the Arabic word for 'forbidden'. (Not that I approve of this DRM chicanery, of course.)
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You're doing this wrong. You're supposed to imply that I'm the actual noob here, and then demand that I egress from your meticulously manicured landscape.
You use a window manager? That's cute.
No, it's a joke that isn't meant for stupid people.
You see, language is ambiguous; you're expected to be smart enough to realize when someone is exploiting that ambiguity with humorous intent, to evoke mirth in their audience.
If language wasn't ambiguous, whole swaths of comedy would be eliminated and we'd be stuck with nothing but pedants trying to explain to us how we misinterpreted a headline.
Curious, what specific functions of Pebble Time required servers?
I know, right?
Get off my lawn.
Can we start with the latter?
I think you're right; they did the gag multiple times, with variations. But it was fun to pretend to be just as incensed at your description of WEC/RR, as you were about the apostrophe.
I'm sorry, but you are very much mistaken. It was Wile E. Coyote who drew the tunnel; Roadrunner ran through it. W.E.C. then tried to pursue, and smacked into the wall.
And then got run over by a truck coming through his tunnel.
... Also, I was apparently browsing at score=2 when I first replied, and didn't realize that the question "how was it also not equally true of gold itself?" was actually a side-topic about whether or not fiat currencies are worthwhile, and not about TFA.
Correct. But, we're talking about the proposal-- permitting 'approximate mining'-- not how things presently are. But, upon re-reading my original comment, I didn't do the best job of explaining it. (And the mods apparently agree.)
In capitalist United States, TV watches you!
It was not true of the gold market, because the gold market won't let you externalize the cost of the last 1% of work (30% of effort.) To continue the analogy: You can't just show up at market with a pile of rocks and say, "there's gold in there, pay me" and expect the market to do the last bit of effort to determine whether there really is gold in there, and how much. The bitcoin market *could* permit you to do this, since it checks your proof-of-work before accepting it. The idea is that, with bitcoins, that last 1% of work takes 30% of the overall effort, so it is in the miners' interest to get loose with the math.
Get off my lawn!
Kids these days...
I think it is time to replace "NOBODY expects the SPANISH INQUISITION!" With "NOBODY expects APK!"
OK... didn't *regularly* use a lightsaber. :) Enough to develop a distinctive grip.
Han Solo didn't use a light saber. I'm starting to think you didn't really bed all those SW groupies...
Ft. Hood is Army not Navy, and 2009 was perpetrated by an insider, not an intruder driving through gates unchecked. There was also a 2014 shooting there (also insider.)
Aren't friends the whole point of social media?
No. Friends are the point of Facebook specifically, but not social media generally. The point of G+ is to find people who are a source of material that you find interesting. ... Those people may become friends to one degree or another after that, but they start out as strangers.
True, but I figure anyone who's going to be savvy enough to be aware of H.A.R.E.M. is going to be familiar with the word's etymology, and make the connection. ...And if a few neckbeards get a chuckle out of it, what's the harm?
They missed the boat on that acronym, IMO. Change the last word from 'System' to 'Mechanism' or 'Method', and then they'd have HAREM, which evokes the Arabic word for 'forbidden'. (Not that I approve of this DRM chicanery, of course.)
And what if this is one of those chalkboard menus, and they are wanting to recreate that vibe on their website?
Bluetooth headsets are an edge case?
You seem to be unclear on the meaning of 'analogy'. Either that, or you read the GP's post without also reading the GGP's.