it doesn't matter why this or that happened in case of Bitcoins, faith based money, the faith being that it will go up in price and that there always be somebody there, buying these off of you when you need it.
mtgox doesn't accept Bitcoins or money transfers, if people can't get other currencies for Bitcoins easily, they just may turn to alternative ways of 'cashing in' their BTCs, I am talking about buying actual products with them on a much higher scale, which will prompt the sellers of the products to flood BTC exchanges to get their preferred currencies (because almost no seller actually keeps BTCs). This will put more downward pressure on the market, more exchanges may shut down not and for technical reasons at all. Meanwhile there are all these people that bought BTCs at a much higher price, there are still millions of those who hold BTCs that they got for almost free. Once BTCs fall below 200, many will rush in to sell, who otherwise wouldn't have.
I bet Beta is a money laundering scheme. Florida authorities should be notified.
As to the topic itself, of-course the gov't sees Bitcoins and thinks 'money laundering'. Don't you know? All money belongs to the government, they can't stand the thought of people figuring out this whole freedom thing, what if the people realise they don't actually have to pay taxes en mass and simply don't pay. What happens when everybody simply stops paying?
Brits are behind everything, Beta included. In fact look over your shoulder right now, look over, chances are, there is a Brit there now. Now look at beta.slash...... the proof is in the pudding, brittish pudding.
Why do we write code in text? Because we are not all Picasso and it is easier for us to express our thoughts and ideas that brew in our heads in words rather than in pictures if we had to draw the way we have to type. Because it is easier to structure text, because with text you can do hacks that you most likely will not be able to do with limiting GUIs.
Oh, and how else if not in text would I be able to say this on/., which doesn't even support UNICODE yet, but it's doing something as awful as FUCKING BETA.
Of-course FDA is hugely responsible for all sorts of issues and barriers to entry, from denying drugs altogether, to basically costing companies hundreds of millions to put a new drug on the shelves, where none of it is necessary. Even the crazy Europeans don't do what FDA does in terms of adding costs based on 'efficacy' requirements, never mind 'safety' (which is also quite problematic, when this comes from gov't), but efficacy, which shouldn't cost anything but the company's reputation in the market. There is a ton and a half of designer drugs with minor modifications, the companies are searching for 'cure' to boldness and erectile dysfunction, but thousands of fairly rare conditions will never be addressed, because under such system it is uneconomical.
What a day it would be if instead of lobbying the USA gov't to do more to deny individual freedoms, corporations like these lobbied to INCREASE individual freedoms instead and to REMOVE government prohibitions and regulations in the industry. Get rid of FDA, get rid of government and basically costs drop dramatically that prices could truly be taken down by normal market forces and simultaneously much more money could be made by working on drugs that are not economically feasible given various government barriers to entry, added costs, etc.
Single-payer universal nationalized healthcare is right around the corner.
Just a few more insurance rate hikes and government regulatory fiascos should do the trick.
I used to be against it. Now it looks like a blessing.
- which of-course is the entire purpose of the ACA, because ACA destroyed health insurance as an industry, that's what it means, to prevent companies from denying coverage based on existence of a pre-existing conditions to new clients.
You can't have an insurance business, where your risks are nearly 100%, that is 100% of people that are signing up, who are there not because of a subsidy, are there because they actually need 'insurance' right NOW, this moment to pay for them. Health insurance, as an industry, was destroyed the moment ACA was signed and the obvious next step for the gov't would be to claim that it was the private sector that doesn't work and now gov't needs to step in some more, to turn things to government completely.
So here is how gov't operates: apply gov't. If it doesn't work (obviously), apply more government. Repeat until the system crashes and gov't can no longer be maintained and the system is reset, which hopefully is soon now.
The comments on this story reek of class warfare, jealousy, mob mentality. You want 1917 style revolution?
Part of my family were 'kulaks', the reason for it was simple. During the the Alexander II, serfs became free people, they could start owning land. During Nikolai II, there were new reforms introduced, (Stolypin reforms) that allowed peasants not only to buy land, but even to take credit to buy it, where size of credit depended on the size of family. So one lineage of my ancestors used that fact, they had 12 kids by the time of the revolution, they owned some land at that point. They were deemed 'kulaks' because they actually ended up hiring two people to help in the fields. Their lands were taken away, the family was thrown onto a train and they were moved to Kazakhstan, with half the family dying in the crowded train from typhoid. This happened in the twenties, they actually restarted a farm in Kazakhstan and in mid fifties, during the second large scale collectivisation, their farm was taken away once again, it became 'collective property', whatever the fuck that means, because there is no such thing as property if it is not owned by an actual owner, which is why the country couldn't even feed itself - no incentives.
The country was stripped of the best, most entrepreneurial people in that era, this is what is happening in USA today, it's a bit different methodology, they don't throw them into trains yet, but just wait. In the former USSR they needed more and more sacrificial lambs to keep the fucking 'proletariat revolution' going, so eventually it didn't matter if you hired anybody or not, if you had a metal roof on your house, you were 'the rich' and needed to be fed to the revolution machine.
Anyway, someone here mentioned that top 85 people "have as much wealth" as bottom 3.5Billion people. That shouldn't be a surprise, the economies of scale allow fewer people to satisfy the needs of the many in a mostly free market capitalist system. Of-course today that is greatly skewed by the central banks creating inflation, which favours people with non-currency assets and hits hardest at those, who live paycheck to paycheck or pension to pension or are on any form of fixed income, denominated in the currency that is being debased.
Of-course the mob being what it is (and here on/. as well) has no brains at all, it's all 'feelings', so it can't understand what's going on, it is rampaging, it is ready to destroy, ready for a revolution.
Well, this is why people with even half a brain and some assets move their business to less regulated, freer markets, wherever they can find them. You have to diversify away from the welfare states, welfare states will end up being the poorest, because welfare state implies that fewer and fewer people actually work, there is more and more feeling of entitlement.
You feel entitled to something, anything at all, you think you are owed somehow by the collective to take care of you simply because you have 'honoured' us with your presence. By the mere fact of you being born, you believe people owe you something. You believe they owe you free stuff for no reason at all, except that you are there and thus you feel you need it and you believe that it is the duty of those, who have it, to give it to you specifically because you cannot make it yourself.
Kid's play. I won against a number of people with exactly the same (move by move) game. Gates just doesn't play against anybody who practices the game even lightly, otherwise he would not have made a number of absolute beginnet mistakes on the board, starting with his second move. Gates played in a 'think only of one move' mode, he has no strategy and doesn't even try to look at the board from POV of his opponent, so this was childs game. By the way, the fastest I ever beat someone, who did not know the game was in total of 3 moves. It is only possible against somebody who does not consider the possible next move by the opponent. Gates played white and started with king's pawn, so because of both those things he didn't lose in an even fewer moves.
Obviously this does not threaten the evolution in any way, why would it? Why is that sentence in there in the first place?
Evolution of species vs. how physical structures may create patterns that allow it to maintain lowest energy state..... I don't understand the confusion of ideas that may lead somebody to believe there is some conflict there in the first place.
I wonder why this person even lives in the land of the 'free' when she so clearly despises freedom. She's obviously not brave, either. What is her purpose here, other than to sacrifice all of our principles in order to make idiots feel safe?
Freedom of thought, freedom from societal standards and expectations. If only the society did not attempt to steal from the truly engaged with its ideas of morality or justice they may even be able to monetise their own inventions and creations and not be beholden to existing structures most often protected by gov't meddling in the market. Also gov't enforced patents and copyrights are tools of destruction in such systems, not the tools of creation.
Except that now, that USA doesn't produce much to feed itself (500Billion USD/year trade deficit) once the importers decide that the USD is not worth the paper it's printed on and won't buy US bonds anymore, the only government cheese that those, trained to get it will get is dick-cheese, and if I understand the term correctly, it wouldn't provide much of any nutritional value.
When I talk about being comfortable in the vehicle you are in, driving at the speed you choose, I do mean taking it very seriously. I prefer driving in Germany, on the autobahn sections without speed limits, where everybody goes at their preferred speed they are comfortable with and it's very serious.
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it doesn't matter why this or that happened in case of Bitcoins, faith based money, the faith being that it will go up in price and that there always be somebody there, buying these off of you when you need it.
mtgox doesn't accept Bitcoins or money transfers, if people can't get other currencies for Bitcoins easily, they just may turn to alternative ways of 'cashing in' their BTCs, I am talking about buying actual products with them on a much higher scale, which will prompt the sellers of the products to flood BTC exchanges to get their preferred currencies (because almost no seller actually keeps BTCs). This will put more downward pressure on the market, more exchanges may shut down not and for technical reasons at all. Meanwhile there are all these people that bought BTCs at a much higher price, there are still millions of those who hold BTCs that they got for almost free. Once BTCs fall below 200, many will rush in to sell, who otherwise wouldn't have.
I bet Beta is a money laundering scheme. Florida authorities should be notified.
As to the topic itself, of-course the gov't sees Bitcoins and thinks 'money laundering'. Don't you know? All money belongs to the government, they can't stand the thought of people figuring out this whole freedom thing, what if the people realise they don't actually have to pay taxes en mass and simply don't pay. What happens when everybody simply stops paying?
http://eprof.com - free market answer to the failures of government (redundancy detected) 'education' system.
It is that school system that is about to bring you Beta.
Brits are behind everything, Beta included. In fact look over your shoulder right now, look over, chances are, there is a Brit there now. Now look at beta.slash...... the proof is in the pudding, brittish pudding.
The one time JTRIG may do some good by DDOSing Beta.
Oh, also governments of the world = /. Beta IMNSHO.
Can DMCA be used for good once and stop beta?
Why do we write code in text? Because we are not all Picasso and it is easier for us to express our thoughts and ideas that brew in our heads in words rather than in pictures if we had to draw the way we have to type. Because it is easier to structure text, because with text you can do hacks that you most likely will not be able to do with limiting GUIs.
Oh, and how else if not in text would I be able to say this on /., which doesn't even support UNICODE yet, but it's doing something as awful as FUCKING BETA.
Oh, and of-course, Beta needs to ingest poison and die a horrible, incurable death, could pharma help to get some belladonna or ricin or something?
Of-course FDA is hugely responsible for all sorts of issues and barriers to entry, from denying drugs altogether, to basically costing companies hundreds of millions to put a new drug on the shelves, where none of it is necessary. Even the crazy Europeans don't do what FDA does in terms of adding costs based on 'efficacy' requirements, never mind 'safety' (which is also quite problematic, when this comes from gov't), but efficacy, which shouldn't cost anything but the company's reputation in the market. There is a ton and a half of designer drugs with minor modifications, the companies are searching for 'cure' to boldness and erectile dysfunction, but thousands of fairly rare conditions will never be addressed, because under such system it is uneconomical.
What a day it would be if instead of lobbying the USA gov't to do more to deny individual freedoms, corporations like these lobbied to INCREASE individual freedoms instead and to REMOVE government prohibitions and regulations in the industry. Get rid of FDA, get rid of government and basically costs drop dramatically that prices could truly be taken down by normal market forces and simultaneously much more money could be made by working on drugs that are not economically feasible given various government barriers to entry, added costs, etc.
The idea is to consider different hadron collider designs similar to the existing LHC but more powerful â" much more powerful.
- The new LHC is actually designed with the ability to turn Beta into a black hole.
Most tech out there is a hack on top of a hack, that's what people do, they hack shit together.
Believe it or not, once upon a time layoffs would cause a company's stock price to fall.
- not in the age of massive government generated inflation.
Single-payer universal nationalized healthcare is right around the corner.
Just a few more insurance rate hikes and government regulatory fiascos should do the trick.
I used to be against it. Now it looks like a blessing.
- which of-course is the entire purpose of the ACA, because ACA destroyed health insurance as an industry, that's what it means, to prevent companies from denying coverage based on existence of a pre-existing conditions to new clients.
You can't have an insurance business, where your risks are nearly 100%, that is 100% of people that are signing up, who are there not because of a subsidy, are there because they actually need 'insurance' right NOW, this moment to pay for them. Health insurance, as an industry, was destroyed the moment ACA was signed and the obvious next step for the gov't would be to claim that it was the private sector that doesn't work and now gov't needs to step in some more, to turn things to government completely.
So here is how gov't operates: apply gov't. If it doesn't work (obviously), apply more government. Repeat until the system crashes and gov't can no longer be maintained and the system is reset, which hopefully is soon now.
My fucking toaster is a bread-browning platform.
- not until it has a web service interface :)
As to Javascript, why, I always wanted to write huge applications in a language that wouldn't give compilation level errors.
On a more serious note: I can't be serious about it, though I am probably wrong, Javascript probably will become the new Cobol in the next 10 years.
The comments on this story reek of class warfare, jealousy, mob mentality. You want 1917 style revolution?
Part of my family were 'kulaks', the reason for it was simple. During the the Alexander II, serfs became free people, they could start owning land. During Nikolai II, there were new reforms introduced, (Stolypin reforms) that allowed peasants not only to buy land, but even to take credit to buy it, where size of credit depended on the size of family. So one lineage of my ancestors used that fact, they had 12 kids by the time of the revolution, they owned some land at that point. They were deemed 'kulaks' because they actually ended up hiring two people to help in the fields. Their lands were taken away, the family was thrown onto a train and they were moved to Kazakhstan, with half the family dying in the crowded train from typhoid. This happened in the twenties, they actually restarted a farm in Kazakhstan and in mid fifties, during the second large scale collectivisation, their farm was taken away once again, it became 'collective property', whatever the fuck that means, because there is no such thing as property if it is not owned by an actual owner, which is why the country couldn't even feed itself - no incentives.
The country was stripped of the best, most entrepreneurial people in that era, this is what is happening in USA today, it's a bit different methodology, they don't throw them into trains yet, but just wait. In the former USSR they needed more and more sacrificial lambs to keep the fucking 'proletariat revolution' going, so eventually it didn't matter if you hired anybody or not, if you had a metal roof on your house, you were 'the rich' and needed to be fed to the revolution machine.
Anyway, someone here mentioned that top 85 people "have as much wealth" as bottom 3.5Billion people. That shouldn't be a surprise, the economies of scale allow fewer people to satisfy the needs of the many in a mostly free market capitalist system. Of-course today that is greatly skewed by the central banks creating inflation, which favours people with non-currency assets and hits hardest at those, who live paycheck to paycheck or pension to pension or are on any form of fixed income, denominated in the currency that is being debased.
Of-course the mob being what it is (and here on /. as well) has no brains at all, it's all 'feelings', so it can't understand what's going on, it is rampaging, it is ready to destroy, ready for a revolution.
Well, this is why people with even half a brain and some assets move their business to less regulated, freer markets, wherever they can find them. You have to diversify away from the welfare states, welfare states will end up being the poorest, because welfare state implies that fewer and fewer people actually work, there is more and more feeling of entitlement.
You feel entitled to something, anything at all, you think you are owed somehow by the collective to take care of you simply because you have 'honoured' us with your presence. By the mere fact of you being born, you believe people owe you something. You believe they owe you free stuff for no reason at all, except that you are there and thus you feel you need it and you believe that it is the duty of those, who have it, to give it to you specifically because you cannot make it yourself.
Who is John Galt, right?
Kid's play. I won against a number of people with exactly the same (move by move) game. Gates just doesn't play against anybody who practices the game even lightly, otherwise he would not have made a number of absolute beginnet mistakes on the board, starting with his second move. Gates played in a 'think only of one move' mode, he has no strategy and doesn't even try to look at the board from POV of his opponent, so this was childs game. By the way, the fastest I ever beat someone, who did not know the game was in total of 3 moves. It is only possible against somebody who does not consider the possible next move by the opponent. Gates played white and started with king's pawn, so because of both those things he didn't lose in an even fewer moves.
Obviously this does not threaten the evolution in any way, why would it? Why is that sentence in there in the first place?
Evolution of species vs. how physical structures may create patterns that allow it to maintain lowest energy state..... I don't understand the confusion of ideas that may lead somebody to believe there is some conflict there in the first place.
Basics indeed.
Learn Mandarin.
You gotta be gotoing me!
I wonder why this person even lives in the land of the 'free' when she so clearly despises freedom. She's obviously not brave, either. What is her purpose here, other than to sacrifice all of our principles in order to make idiots feel safe?
- really?
Who is John Galt?
It is not an either or proposition. Regardless of what Accenture does, ACA is leading into disaster.
Freedom of thought, freedom from societal standards and expectations. If only the society did not attempt to steal from the truly engaged with its ideas of morality or justice they may even be able to monetise their own inventions and creations and not be beholden to existing structures most often protected by gov't meddling in the market. Also gov't enforced patents and copyrights are tools of destruction in such systems, not the tools of creation.
Except that now, that USA doesn't produce much to feed itself (500Billion USD/year trade deficit) once the importers decide that the USD is not worth the paper it's printed on and won't buy US bonds anymore, the only government cheese that those, trained to get it will get is dick-cheese, and if I understand the term correctly, it wouldn't provide much of any nutritional value.
When I talk about being comfortable in the vehicle you are in, driving at the speed you choose, I do mean taking it very seriously. I prefer driving in Germany, on the autobahn sections without speed limits, where everybody goes at their preferred speed they are comfortable with and it's very serious.