If #4687763 is the real Steve Jackson, then this could be a rather deeper comment than it appears. Still not seeing the joke, but at least the "funny" mods don't appear to be from obvious trolls.
It's a parody phrasing of Jack Nicholson's speech in A Few Good Men.
...and offer fiber-to-the-home across the country with the specific marketing pledge of always-guaranteed net neutrality.
Some player that has spoken out about favoring net neutrality, and which already has experience piloting these kind of networks in some cities.
That player has the attention span of a gnat and wildly unrealistic expectations about how quickly any new project should catch on with the general public. Also no interest in doing anything that's actually difficult.
These things should be standardized - like what happened with 95% of Cell phones and the Micro USB. That became a pseudo standard for many devices that are still usable!
That was not an accident, nor is it a pseudo standard. The European Union mandated Micro USB for cellular phones, by law. The EU is a large enough market that it sloshed into a global standard. The extra vigorish extracted by making two different models of the same phone and charging for proprietary replacement chargers in the rest of the world wasn't worth the expense.
If this is going to be on ham radio frequencies, hams are going to essentially be able to cite FCC regs and say "shut that shit off" due to interference. Hams are GOOD at triangulating interferance, and if they discover it's coming from *all around them* they're going to speak up *quick*.
I'd bet a pizza that AT&T has received assurances from Ajit Pai that the protests of hams will be ignored this time. Power line data has been tried before. It always makes a mess of the radio spectrum. Hams file the paperwork, and it goes away. Until the next time. This is the next time, but it might be a little different from the other times, since we have a blatantly corrupt chairman of the FCC doing what we all thought Tom Wheeler would do but didn't. I'm sure Mr. Wheeler was a great disappointment to his former employers.
At this point, the only thing I can hope for is that the RIAA and MPAA start going around suing ISPs after Net Neutrality is abolished. If Net Neutrality doesn't exist then the ISPs are no longer a common carrier under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
It's a sad day for the internet indeed when our hopes rest on that.
And a vain hope. Comcast, the most hated company in America, is owned by NBC Universal. They won't sue their own property. Instead, they will exploit their own property's window into the viewing habits of their subscribers. And of course, extort every last one of them for $29.95 + tax or your Netflix is throttled to 64 kilobits per second.
And there is fuck all any Comcast subscriber can do about it. What are you going to do, switch to another ISP? There isn't one. Suddenly, cordcutting stops dead in its tracks, Netflix ceases to be viable competition for NBC Universal at all and all is right with the kleptocracy.
You may say that Comcast wouldn't dare, but only if you're not listening to yourself. This is Comcast we're talking about. They work hard at earning that most-hated ranking. They won't take the boiled frog approach because they're Comcast and fuck you, that's why.
No, everything you mentioned works best with government-created fiat currencies. The serial numbers can only identify the currency itself, not who had it and not where it has been.
For that, they use dusting with radioactive isotopes. Not quite as precise as bitcoin tracking, but pretty good.
These movie studios need to realize that consumers would be happy as hell to buy from them without the middle man, and wind up with media purchases that are portable across platforms. That seems like the only real solution.
If movie studios were remotely sane about distribution, that would have happened a decade ago. Direct studio purchasing would have destroyed Blockbuster, Redbox would never have existed (or been much smaller), and the current balkanization wouldn't be happening either.
Unfortunately the movie studios are stark staring insane about distribution. They dug a very deep hole and dragged us all in after them. Their insanity is ongoing to this day.
Some of that insanity stems from MBA idiocy. IT and software development are not "core competencies" of a movie studio. Unless it's being used to distribute the product, in which case it is, but you can't tell an MBA that. Even granting that premise, they still could have outsourced development while owning the infrastructure and software. Bittorrent was already half a decade old by then, and plenty of other viable protocols also existed.
The rest of that insanity stems from sheer greed. Their wet dream is pay-per-EVERY-view and they still haven't given up on that dream, to this day. A convenient, portable, downloadable format is anathema to that dream.
When your dealing with moving that much mass you run into all new kinds of engineering problems that I don't think anyone at Tesla has a clue about so far.
You guess wrong. Jerome Guillen is Tesla's VP of Truck and Programs. He was the Director and General Manager of the Cascadia program at Daimler AG. He knows more about trucks than you could dream.
100% of US freight haulers don't have 8-12 hours to wait for their truck to "refuel"
You could have read the article. Oh wait, this is Slashdot...
Recharge time from empty to 80% full is 30 minutes at a Tesla megacharger. (A new battery-backed version of the supercharger, required in order to stuff that much energy that fast into a truck's batteries without browning out the local grid.) And because it's just an electrical box, depot owners can install them on premises without so much as a peep from the EPA. No environmental study and no paperwork. A depot owner could even install one right at the dock, and recharge while loading/unloading. It's actually more time efficient than a diesel for all of the deliveries where the trailer isn't just dropped off, because you never have to go anywhere else and spend time at a pump in order to recharge, once the infrastructure is built out.
And make no mistake, the infrastructure will be built out. The major trucking companies who buy most trucks are absolutely salivating at the prospect of chopping 17% off their running costs before their competitors get the chance to. That's a huge competitive advantage, while it lasts.
IOW, Spacex is getting the stuff that is reduced to practice, and tweaking the hell out of it to improve it, and now NASA still provides the facilities, and doesn't have to do the mundane work, and can continue to work on the balls to the wall stuff that sure as hell isn't ready to transfer yet. You need to research the F1 engines used on the Saturn, and now the F1-b's. Many superlatives like the loudest non- nuclear detonation noise made by humans, the emplacement of Mission control based on a minimum survivable distance from the launchpad to realize that private industry isn't going to develop much less take on that responsibility.
Everything you know is correct, and obsolete.
SpaceX pays NASA for those facilities. They have a long term lease on pad 39A now, and will have others. NASA doesn't "provide" Cape Canaveral launch pads out of the goodness of their hearts. They get paid for it, and get paid a fee every time SpaceX launches from one of them. For ISS resupply missions, that's effectively the government paying itself, but for all the myriad commercial payloads SpaceX launches, NASA's costs are covered by the fee. (Not profitable, since it's illegal for the federal government to make a profit, but not a loss either.)
You need to research SpaceX Raptor engines. SpaceX paid NASA to refurbish the test stand used to develop the F-1 engine and equip it for operation with methane, then used it to test fire Raptor engines. Raptor is "only" 430,000 lbf thrust compared to F-1's 1,746,000 lbf, but it operates at a little more than triple the chamber pressure, resulting in Isp's 50% higher at sea level and 25% higher in vacuum than F-1. Private industry very much can and is doing original research into fantastically powerful and dangerous engines, and paying the US government for the privilege.
SpaceX is the only company that behaves this way in the modern era, but it most definitely does behave this way.
Are you a NASA employee who knows for a fact that there is absolutely no need for the SLS? It is very unusual for a Rocket to be built that there are no projects ever needed to be launced with it. If a single launch will put 130,000 pounds into LEO, you can bet that there will be payloads approaching that.
And if you want to make 2 60,000 launches of payload with the Falcon Heavy (it will probably be 3 because someone is going to have to assemble the objects in orbit, as well as the payloads being designed to be assembled in orbit, your costs are going to go up, and probablity of success is going to go down.
Are you a Lockheed employee? Because if you are, you just missed Mars. Again.
Falcon Heavy Payload to LEO is 63,800 kg (140,660 lb). Falcon Heavy will have a considerably higher lift capacity than Block 2 of SLS.
As of September 2017, Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy both are slated to be retired. SpaceX will produce enough of the various cores to satisfy their current launch manifest and then stop building them in favor of producing only BFRs, which are projected to have a 100% reusable payload to LEO capacity of 330,000 lbs and an expendable payload to LEO of 550,000 lbs.
NASA may or may not come up with payloads heavier than an unladen 747 Block 8, but SpaceX already has plans for 6 payloads that will push their own limit.
Anything less than production values equal to the movies won't do well.
Aside from that, it'll depend on the writing. A TV adaptation of the tale of Lúthien and Beren could be very cool. Tolkien wrote the bare outline in the Silmarillion, but no dialog and not a whole lot of detail. It's a love story, so Hollywood can just use it, rather than shoehorning in a bullshit love story of their own (thanks for nothing, Hobbit). It also fits well in the current zeitgeist, since Lúthien does a lot of the heavy lifting, again without any shoehorning of bullshit.
Now as another poster has pointed out, it's a tragedy. Everybody dies. More than once, in Beren's case. (Yay for divine intervention.) That plays well in Asian markets, but not so well in the West. There is a happily-ever-after for the pair though, so good enough.
Done well, it could work. Done badly, it could look and feel like MTV's travesty of an adaptation of the Elfstones of Shannara. We can expect Netflix to do a better job than MTV. How much better remains to be seen.
Those pesky laws, constitutions, and amendments, we should just do away with them since they're interfering with investigations, right? Bring back the Writ of Assistance too I suppose?
Already done. It's called a National Security Letter, and it's even better than a Writ of Assistance. When you receive it, you can't tell anyone you have.
Do you actually think that we are going to stop at Lithium??
Uh, yes, actually, it stops with Lithium. It's the lightest group 1 metal, and therefore has the smallest nuclei, making it the most mobile ion and it the highest electrochemical potential. There's nowhere else to go, chemically.
Now what you use to move the lithium ions around, that will change. There are already three different lithium chemistries that are mainstream, and if John B. Goodenough's team in Texas actually has something, there will be a fourth and best: lithium metal.
Manganese, cobalt, phosphorous, these are all subject to change. Lithium is here to stay.
Not sure what the OP is peddling, but the fact is that SFO's budget is sheer fantasy already without adding the ridiculous cost of shoving fiber-internet everywhere.
Even in California you can't build infrastructure out of candy, unicorns, and rainbows.
Maybe they heard that municipal broadband is frequently profitable after a few years. Given their track record, San Francisco will probably manage to be one of the few that isn't...
That aside why the heck are slashdot people so damn fascinated/obsessed with high-speed internet access? A huge number of people would be perfectly OK with 1meg service (i.e. a slight improvement over a phone modem) if it was dead-nuts reliable and you always got 1 meg, they are screwing around with social media that is mostly a text medium and playing youtube videos, what they heck are they going to do with 50-100 meg or higher?
Because we personally already have uses for gigabit Internet access, and the more widespread it is, the cheaper it is.
Also, this is truly a case of "if you build it, they will come." Youtube did not exist in the era of POTS modems. Neither did Netflix. Now video streaming is considered an industry in its own right, with multiple multi-billion dollar companies. In 2000, everybody thought an on-demand streaming service was nearly impossible. Cable companies had tried, and given up.
We don't know what ubiquitous gigabit service would enable because it doesn't exist yet. These things have to evolve.
(insert evil country/government/company name here) could be secretly (insert hot topic of the day here) on your (computer|smartphone|tablet|smart tv|digital assistant|electric car)
It's called clickbait. Just slightly more sophisticated clickbait than one weird trick, but still clickbait.
I can't wait for the collapse of Internet advertising to finally come to fruition. Unfortunately I'm probably going to be waiting a very long time. PT Barnum was right: there's a sucker born every minute. There are enough suckers to fuel Internet advertising for the rest of eternity.
I did my part. I didn't click on the link to the article. But my ability to stem the tide is a match for King Canute.
Sure, the cryptocoin developers will find workarounds for such measures, but even a threat of a government trying something like this would likely cause the value of the currency to drop.
You seriously misunderstand the nature of many cryptocurrency users. An overt move by any government against any cryptocurrency would do nothing but validate their worldview and cause them to double down on their devotion to their cryptocurrency of choice. Bitcoin value against the dollar would go up, not down if a government tried to restrict its existence by interfering with the network. Even if it actually did become harder to use. A fair number of cryptocurrency users are conspiracy theorists who have been feeling immensely validated since the Snowden leaks. A move against Bitcoin would be yet more validation.
If the number of people actually producing goods collapses to a small handful, it will become increasingly obvious who's dollar is backed by production and who's dollar is just worthless UBI.
Really? How will you tell? Will you just assume that because the majority of dollars are UBI, they're all worthless? And do you refuse Bill Gates' dollars today? He's not doing anything to get them anymore. Hasn't in years. Are his dollars worthless?
As a member of the productive class, I have no motivation to accept UBI dollars for my produce. The only people that can legitimately trade with me are other producers -- they are the only people that produce anything of value to offer in return for my productive efforts.
Right. So today, you only accept dollars from farmers, miners, and lumberjacks, right? Somehow I doubt it. You're probably just a Libertarian (big L) jackass with an inflated notion of the wondrous "value" of his own productivity. I've got news for you, snowflake. Your marvelous productivity wouldn't be missed if you died this afternoon. Nothing you do is remotely important or particularly valuable to anybody at all. You're lucky anybody is willing to take your worthless dollars.
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If #4687763 is the real Steve Jackson, then this could be a rather deeper comment than it appears. Still not seeing the joke, but at least the "funny" mods don't appear to be from obvious trolls.
It's a parody phrasing of Jack Nicholson's speech in A Few Good Men.
...and offer fiber-to-the-home across the country with the specific marketing pledge of always-guaranteed net neutrality.
Some player that has spoken out about favoring net neutrality, and which already has experience piloting these kind of networks in some cities.
That player has the attention span of a gnat and wildly unrealistic expectations about how quickly any new project should catch on with the general public. Also no interest in doing anything that's actually difficult.
Won't happen.
These things should be standardized - like what happened with 95% of Cell phones and the Micro USB. That became a pseudo standard for many devices that are still usable!
That was not an accident, nor is it a pseudo standard. The European Union mandated Micro USB for cellular phones, by law. The EU is a large enough market that it sloshed into a global standard. The extra vigorish extracted by making two different models of the same phone and charging for proprietary replacement chargers in the rest of the world wasn't worth the expense.
If this is going to be on ham radio frequencies, hams are going to essentially be able to cite FCC regs and say "shut that shit off" due to interference. Hams are GOOD at triangulating interferance, and if they discover it's coming from *all around them* they're going to speak up *quick*.
I'd bet a pizza that AT&T has received assurances from Ajit Pai that the protests of hams will be ignored this time. Power line data has been tried before. It always makes a mess of the radio spectrum. Hams file the paperwork, and it goes away. Until the next time. This is the next time, but it might be a little different from the other times, since we have a blatantly corrupt chairman of the FCC doing what we all thought Tom Wheeler would do but didn't. I'm sure Mr. Wheeler was a great disappointment to his former employers.
At this point, the only thing I can hope for is that the RIAA and MPAA start going around suing ISPs after Net Neutrality is abolished. If Net Neutrality doesn't exist then the ISPs are no longer a common carrier under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
It's a sad day for the internet indeed when our hopes rest on that.
And a vain hope. Comcast, the most hated company in America, is owned by NBC Universal. They won't sue their own property. Instead, they will exploit their own property's window into the viewing habits of their subscribers. And of course, extort every last one of them for $29.95 + tax or your Netflix is throttled to 64 kilobits per second.
And there is fuck all any Comcast subscriber can do about it. What are you going to do, switch to another ISP? There isn't one. Suddenly, cordcutting stops dead in its tracks, Netflix ceases to be viable competition for NBC Universal at all and all is right with the kleptocracy.
You may say that Comcast wouldn't dare, but only if you're not listening to yourself. This is Comcast we're talking about. They work hard at earning that most-hated ranking. They won't take the boiled frog approach because they're Comcast and fuck you, that's why.
No, everything you mentioned works best with government-created fiat currencies. The serial numbers can only identify the currency itself, not who had it and not where it has been.
For that, they use dusting with radioactive isotopes. Not quite as precise as bitcoin tracking, but pretty good.
These movie studios need to realize that consumers would be happy as hell to buy from them without the middle man, and wind up with media purchases that are portable across platforms. That seems like the only real solution.
If movie studios were remotely sane about distribution, that would have happened a decade ago. Direct studio purchasing would have destroyed Blockbuster, Redbox would never have existed (or been much smaller), and the current balkanization wouldn't be happening either.
Unfortunately the movie studios are stark staring insane about distribution. They dug a very deep hole and dragged us all in after them. Their insanity is ongoing to this day.
Some of that insanity stems from MBA idiocy. IT and software development are not "core competencies" of a movie studio. Unless it's being used to distribute the product, in which case it is, but you can't tell an MBA that. Even granting that premise, they still could have outsourced development while owning the infrastructure and software. Bittorrent was already half a decade old by then, and plenty of other viable protocols also existed.
The rest of that insanity stems from sheer greed. Their wet dream is pay-per-EVERY-view and they still haven't given up on that dream, to this day. A convenient, portable, downloadable format is anathema to that dream.
If the POTUS can't do that, than why don't we just elect a cat to sit in as the POTUS.
Bill the Cat for President!
When your dealing with moving that much mass you run into all new kinds of engineering problems that I don't think anyone at Tesla has a clue about so far.
You guess wrong. Jerome Guillen is Tesla's VP of Truck and Programs. He was the Director and General Manager of the Cascadia program at Daimler AG. He knows more about trucks than you could dream.
100% of US freight haulers don't have 8-12 hours to wait for their truck to "refuel"
You could have read the article. Oh wait, this is Slashdot...
Recharge time from empty to 80% full is 30 minutes at a Tesla megacharger. (A new battery-backed version of the supercharger, required in order to stuff that much energy that fast into a truck's batteries without browning out the local grid.) And because it's just an electrical box, depot owners can install them on premises without so much as a peep from the EPA. No environmental study and no paperwork. A depot owner could even install one right at the dock, and recharge while loading/unloading. It's actually more time efficient than a diesel for all of the deliveries where the trailer isn't just dropped off, because you never have to go anywhere else and spend time at a pump in order to recharge, once the infrastructure is built out.
And make no mistake, the infrastructure will be built out. The major trucking companies who buy most trucks are absolutely salivating at the prospect of chopping 17% off their running costs before their competitors get the chance to. That's a huge competitive advantage, while it lasts.
The article did NOT says 250 MPH, it said the average route was 250 miles in length....
He was referring to the top speed of the new Roadster, not the semi.
IOW, Spacex is getting the stuff that is reduced to practice, and tweaking the hell out of it to improve it, and now NASA still provides the facilities, and doesn't have to do the mundane work, and can continue to work on the balls to the wall stuff that sure as hell isn't ready to transfer yet. You need to research the F1 engines used on the Saturn, and now the F1-b's. Many superlatives like the loudest non- nuclear detonation noise made by humans, the emplacement of Mission control based on a minimum survivable distance from the launchpad to realize that private industry isn't going to develop much less take on that responsibility.
Everything you know is correct, and obsolete.
SpaceX pays NASA for those facilities. They have a long term lease on pad 39A now, and will have others. NASA doesn't "provide" Cape Canaveral launch pads out of the goodness of their hearts. They get paid for it, and get paid a fee every time SpaceX launches from one of them. For ISS resupply missions, that's effectively the government paying itself, but for all the myriad commercial payloads SpaceX launches, NASA's costs are covered by the fee. (Not profitable, since it's illegal for the federal government to make a profit, but not a loss either.)
You need to research SpaceX Raptor engines. SpaceX paid NASA to refurbish the test stand used to develop the F-1 engine and equip it for operation with methane, then used it to test fire Raptor engines. Raptor is "only" 430,000 lbf thrust compared to F-1's 1,746,000 lbf, but it operates at a little more than triple the chamber pressure, resulting in Isp's 50% higher at sea level and 25% higher in vacuum than F-1. Private industry very much can and is doing original research into fantastically powerful and dangerous engines, and paying the US government for the privilege.
SpaceX is the only company that behaves this way in the modern era, but it most definitely does behave this way.
Are you a NASA employee who knows for a fact that there is absolutely no need for the SLS? It is very unusual for a Rocket to be built that there are no projects ever needed to be launced with it. If a single launch will put 130,000 pounds into LEO, you can bet that there will be payloads approaching that.
And if you want to make 2 60,000 launches of payload with the Falcon Heavy (it will probably be 3 because someone is going to have to assemble the objects in orbit, as well as the payloads being designed to be assembled in orbit, your costs are going to go up, and probablity of success is going to go down.
Are you a Lockheed employee? Because if you are, you just missed Mars. Again.
Falcon Heavy Payload to LEO is 63,800 kg (140,660 lb). Falcon Heavy will have a considerably higher lift capacity than Block 2 of SLS.
As of September 2017, Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy both are slated to be retired. SpaceX will produce enough of the various cores to satisfy their current launch manifest and then stop building them in favor of producing only BFRs, which are projected to have a 100% reusable payload to LEO capacity of 330,000 lbs and an expendable payload to LEO of 550,000 lbs.
NASA may or may not come up with payloads heavier than an unladen 747 Block 8, but SpaceX already has plans for 6 payloads that will push their own limit.
We can expect Netflix to do a better job than MTV.
Crap. Of course I meant Amazon, not Netflix. Still better than MTV, if not quite as good as Netflix.
Anything less than production values equal to the movies won't do well.
Aside from that, it'll depend on the writing. A TV adaptation of the tale of Lúthien and Beren could be very cool. Tolkien wrote the bare outline in the Silmarillion, but no dialog and not a whole lot of detail. It's a love story, so Hollywood can just use it, rather than shoehorning in a bullshit love story of their own (thanks for nothing, Hobbit). It also fits well in the current zeitgeist, since Lúthien does a lot of the heavy lifting, again without any shoehorning of bullshit.
Now as another poster has pointed out, it's a tragedy. Everybody dies. More than once, in Beren's case. (Yay for divine intervention.) That plays well in Asian markets, but not so well in the West. There is a happily-ever-after for the pair though, so good enough.
Done well, it could work. Done badly, it could look and feel like MTV's travesty of an adaptation of the Elfstones of Shannara. We can expect Netflix to do a better job than MTV. How much better remains to be seen.
Those pesky laws, constitutions, and amendments, we should just do away with them since they're interfering with investigations, right? Bring back the Writ of Assistance too I suppose?
Already done. It's called a National Security Letter, and it's even better than a Writ of Assistance. When you receive it, you can't tell anyone you have.
Do you actually think that we are going to stop at Lithium??
Uh, yes, actually, it stops with Lithium. It's the lightest group 1 metal, and therefore has the smallest nuclei, making it the most mobile ion and it the highest electrochemical potential. There's nowhere else to go, chemically.
Now what you use to move the lithium ions around, that will change. There are already three different lithium chemistries that are mainstream, and if John B. Goodenough's team in Texas actually has something, there will be a fourth and best: lithium metal.
Manganese, cobalt, phosphorous, these are all subject to change. Lithium is here to stay.
http://i.imgur.com/axJmn.gif
That was an epic woosh. I had to quote it and post just so I can be sure to find it again someday, in my own post history.
Nothing the peasants do or say will have any effect on that, elect Trump or Sanders or Batman...
"I'm Batman, and I approve this message."
Yep, I'd vote for that. Only question is, should it be Christian Bale's or Will Arnett's voice in the voiceover.
Not sure what the OP is peddling, but the fact is that SFO's budget is sheer fantasy already without adding the ridiculous cost of shoving fiber-internet everywhere.
Even in California you can't build infrastructure out of candy, unicorns, and rainbows.
Maybe they heard that municipal broadband is frequently profitable after a few years. Given their track record, San Francisco will probably manage to be one of the few that isn't...
That aside why the heck are slashdot people so damn fascinated/obsessed with high-speed internet access? A huge number of people would be perfectly OK with 1meg service (i.e. a slight improvement over a phone modem) if it was dead-nuts reliable and you always got 1 meg, they are screwing around with social media that is mostly a text medium and playing youtube videos, what they heck are they going to do with 50-100 meg or higher?
Because we personally already have uses for gigabit Internet access, and the more widespread it is, the cheaper it is.
Also, this is truly a case of "if you build it, they will come." Youtube did not exist in the era of POTS modems. Neither did Netflix. Now video streaming is considered an industry in its own right, with multiple multi-billion dollar companies. In 2000, everybody thought an on-demand streaming service was nearly impossible. Cable companies had tried, and given up.
We don't know what ubiquitous gigabit service would enable because it doesn't exist yet. These things have to evolve.
(insert evil country/government/company name here) could be secretly (insert hot topic of the day here) on your (computer|smartphone|tablet|smart tv|digital assistant|electric car)
It's called clickbait. Just slightly more sophisticated clickbait than one weird trick, but still clickbait.
I can't wait for the collapse of Internet advertising to finally come to fruition. Unfortunately I'm probably going to be waiting a very long time. PT Barnum was right: there's a sucker born every minute. There are enough suckers to fuel Internet advertising for the rest of eternity.
I did my part. I didn't click on the link to the article. But my ability to stem the tide is a match for King Canute.
Sure, the cryptocoin developers will find workarounds for such measures, but even a threat of a government trying something like this would likely cause the value of the currency to drop.
You seriously misunderstand the nature of many cryptocurrency users. An overt move by any government against any cryptocurrency would do nothing but validate their worldview and cause them to double down on their devotion to their cryptocurrency of choice. Bitcoin value against the dollar would go up, not down if a government tried to restrict its existence by interfering with the network. Even if it actually did become harder to use. A fair number of cryptocurrency users are conspiracy theorists who have been feeling immensely validated since the Snowden leaks. A move against Bitcoin would be yet more validation.
Read Godel much? (Umlat the o)
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If the number of people actually producing goods collapses to a small handful, it will become increasingly obvious who's dollar is backed by production and who's dollar is just worthless UBI.
Really? How will you tell? Will you just assume that because the majority of dollars are UBI, they're all worthless? And do you refuse Bill Gates' dollars today? He's not doing anything to get them anymore. Hasn't in years. Are his dollars worthless?
As a member of the productive class, I have no motivation to accept UBI dollars for my produce. The only people that can legitimately trade with me are other producers -- they are the only people that produce anything of value to offer in return for my productive efforts.
Right. So today, you only accept dollars from farmers, miners, and lumberjacks, right? Somehow I doubt it. You're probably just a Libertarian (big L) jackass with an inflated notion of the wondrous "value" of his own productivity. I've got news for you, snowflake. Your marvelous productivity wouldn't be missed if you died this afternoon. Nothing you do is remotely important or particularly valuable to anybody at all. You're lucky anybody is willing to take your worthless dollars.