A cubic meter of air at standard atmospheric conditions (0C, 1ATM) has a mass of 1.3Kg. If you had a perfect vacuum and somehow the walls were negligible yet able to stand that pressure, a balloon 1 meter in each side would only be able to carry a handful of tubes of toothpaste which are about 0.2Kg each, yet the craft would be the size of a doorway.
Black hole evaporation is extremely slow via Hawking radiation. It's less on the order of billions of years and more on the order 1 followed by a billion zeros. Gravitational interactions don't preference older or younger objects, more denser and heavier objects are drawn inward as momentum is transferred to the lighter mass object.
This will likely end up being called FaceCoin, because two syllables is easy to say.
There isn't yet a cryptocoin called this, but I expect one will be created in a day. Then Facebook will have to buy them out to get the name. Call it coin-squatting.
Your side is USD -> Middlemen -> BTC then Ohio is going to go BTC -> Middlemen -> USD. The middlemen in both transactions will be a combination of your banks, and the exchange provider who is commiting to buy and sell at some fixed price at a moment. Increased volatility puts that exchange middleman in greater risk so it doesn't help you.
Trolley problems fail rigor because they make a critical assumption, an artificial intelligence is smart enough that it knows the results of two choices each with negative outcomes but is somehow not smart enough to have avoided that situation to begin with. An AI developer who is trying to produce the safest AI system possible is prioritizing the likely cases first and attempting to produce the best reaction in your typical crash. Nobody in development is concerned about the situation where you have a car speeding down a narrow road where a pedestrian steps out at just the right time and place where the only cause of actions is to crash into them or crash into a power pole. That situation is rare and shouldn't be optimized yet.
Let's say that we're worried about optimizing that situation now and we somehow have omniscient AI that still runs into this situation. Now our problem is probabilities. What's the probability that the pedestrian will survive jump out of the road in time and no crash will happen? What's the probability that the pedestrian will die from the crash? What's the probability that the passenger will die when if we swerve into the light pole? Who is going to be harmed by that falling light pole?
Many of our existing algorithms, AES, ECDH, and others scale to the 2^(N-K) for N bits used in their keys with classical computers in terms of the operations to break them and that K is very small compared to the 64, 128, or 256-bits. Some of the proposed quantum attacks reduce these states by about the square root causing it to become 2^(N/2) operations. 2^32 states isn't that many for a classical computer to evaluate so 64-bit keys could reasonably break. 256-bit keys are reduced to 2^128 operations which is likely still 'age of the universe' even with these updates.
The practical costo of using these larger keys is slightly slower key generation and encryption calculations. Aes takes about 1.4 times as long for doubling of the key size for instance so between these factors, the existing encryption methods are scaling a lot better against advances in quantum computers but we likely will want to update our minimum acceptable standards.
A drug seller doesn't value Bitcoins, they can't pay their rent with it and someone down the line needs to pay taxes with boring old fiat currency. Someone has to facilitate the transaction between fiat to bitcoin and back to fiat. That person is your weak point which can be targeted by governments.
If cryptocurrency's entire utility is reduced to money laundering, tax evasion, and similar illegal activities, it is in the governments' interest to eliminate it. Any business operating or transferring financial assets into our out of their borders needs to be heavily regulated to ensure compliance with local laws or declared illegal. That law would relatively easily pass in country with gambling, drug, or finance laws which represents almost the entire world. Those exchanges would be forced to move to smaller and less developed countries. Now we need a legal way to get money from good ol' USA into Timbuktu legally. 2 more middlemen are born to handle either end of the exchange and I'm thinking that it'll be easier to just walk over to the sketchy part of town with a 50 in cash before submitting my credit card number to that sketchy website.
Maybe you should look up what pseudoscience is? Quite literally, it means "false science."
The problem with words like 'pseudoscience' and 'homeopathic' is the demographic which is being scammed is unaware of what it is. It's not like 95% of the population is aware what the latin roots mean and while 'pseudoscience' literally translates to 'false-science', other usages of the root 'pseudo-' are not given negative connotations and words like 'homeopathic' give no indication of their falsehoods.
Spotify knows how many ads I've ever seen, Spotify know what ads I've seen and what their payment rates are per view. If they didn't they wouldn't be able to sell ads at all. Spotify also knows how much money I've ever given them in subscription payments, if they didn't, they couldn't track who was subscribed. This means that Spotify knows how much money I brought in every month to their company.
Spotify knows what songs I've listened to, they keep track of how many people listen to each song. If they didn't, they wouldn't be able to do analytics given me recommended songs, they wouldn't have top 100 lists, or be able to report how many monthly listeners an artist has and how much they will pay those artists per listen. What is the problem that the blockchain is solving which wasn't solved with database queries?
There is nothing that prevents a service like cloud storage or video hosting site or anything else from creating a publicly accessible data storage without exposing an API that allows editing or deleting content. That doesn't exist not because the limit is people not technology.
It wouldn't matter as much if there wasn't a big difference when it comes to 'memory' and 'storage'. They both remember stuff, but the modern terminology has made the words analogous for Dynamic RAM and Static RAM. DRAM suffers almost no wear and tear from usage and is designed to change state until thermal breakdown occurs. SRAM is typically implemented with components that suffer wear and tear.
Windows 7 is about $100 and Office 2010 is $200, total cost $300. An office worker making near minimum wage costs $10/h. If that office worker loses 30 hours of labor, it becomes worth while to buy the software. A reduction of productivity by just 2% over the course of a year amounts to 40 hours of labor lost.
A non-productive worker actually costs much more than their hourly wage though, benefits, employer taxes, facility costs also which roughly double that cost to $20/h. We can safely assume that it'll take a few hours to get acquainted with new software, after words your productivity returns to it's previous value, but if that learning curve costs just 2 work days they've come out behind with a cost of 20*8*2=$320.
Educators may not like it, but the entire K-uni system is geared to vocational training. In the US, it costs taxpayers ~100k to pay for a K-12 education for each student. Public universities are further subsidized about 10-20k per pupil leading to a net cost of ~200k to taxpayers to produce a college educated student. You'd need to be able to justify an increase in tax revenue of at least 5k a year to justify such expenses given a 40 year long career. Based on tax brackets, this would mean 10-15k a year increase in salary. This isn't even covering the money that students themselves spend which is typically now on the order of 30k for a 4 year program.
The people who die in the first few minutes are going to be those who's lives are dependent on technology. That's list contains almost exclusively those in planes and those dependent on medical devices. How's a power grid update going to protect those people? Hospitals already have backup generators and you can't do anything about fried equipment.
I find it amusing that Anarchy will supposedly spring forth from a technology that depends on highly refined, multi-disciplinary engineering and built from precision materials that are only manufactured and sold at affordable pricing in the context of a highly ordered society.
There can be order without a ruler. P2P technologies is a human made prof of that. I am sure there are many others and many more example in nature. Fuck off.
The ruler within technology is the standards committee. These groups designed every layer required for P2P software from the physical connections inside and between computers to the software protocols that permit packet transfer to the P2P protocol itself. They're not legally binding regulations, but realistically driving the wrong way on a freeway isn't going to result in a ticket either. Selling software or hardware which can't interact with existing products would be suicide too.
After reading the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, I think when talking about the space elevator, we should always consider what happens if (when?) it fails. Space fountains seem much more appealing.
* The center of mass is in orbit, the structure won't fling itself far off into space.
* The segment of the string above the break will be under less tension which means it'll spring back a bit, but it's not in orbit down there so it'll be pulled back down to the earth so we could repair it.
* The segment below the cut will plummet down. Regardless of the material, we can safely assume at least several hundred tons of material will be falling from the sky which will completely destroy the ground based installation.
* Weird part is that it's not going to fall straight down. Even though the thing is stationary over the surface of the earth, the angular momentum at the top is going to be higher than below. As the top falls, it'll speed relative to the Eastward rotation of the Earth causing it to fall on the stuff to the East.
We need to kill the dumbass myth that the best programmers started when they're in diapers. The exception isn't the kid who've been making simple games for the last 6 years before academy or college, that's simply a kid who has 6 years more experience with loops, conditionals, and a handful of calls that can draw sprites onto the screen. A good student should be able to understand and properly apply those concepts in a few months and now their at the same level here. A great student is one who knows how to learn things that have not been taught to him. While the kid who taught himself programming in middle-school has this attribute, he's not the only one in the world who does.
Of course everyone there was talking about delivery over the Internet a third of the name is dedicated to the Internet as a delivery platform. Frankly I'd find it weird if anyone who was in the streaming media business talked about how awesome bundled packages of television channels are.
The best way to create customers is to tell them that they are dirty, disgusting perverts and that if their family and friends knew what they where doing they'd be disowned.
Wait, if this is the world they want to pretend we live in, why would I ever buy a physical copy when it can be easily discovered. A password protected file of all my torrents is so much safer.
Remember how bad Microsoft Office was when you transitioned to 2007? Everything moved and you couldn't find anything! Now imagine that you are used to doing everything the same way for 12 years now. It's going to take a few weeks to figure out how to do your every day tasks again. A company can train you, costing profit; or they can wait for you to figure it out yourself, costing sales.
Say a company makes 10k a year for each employee, that's 200 dollars a week. Each of their employees makes another 500 a week in their own salary which means that the employee brought 700 dollars into the company each week. Say it takes just a week for an employee to catch up and perform his duties at 100% of pre-upgrade level and during this time, he performs at only 50%.... Now the employee is bringing in 350 but taking out 500. Your upgrade, which even if it's free, is now $350. This will take nearly an entire month to break even. For what? Long term gains 6 months from now.
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A cubic meter of air at standard atmospheric conditions (0C, 1ATM) has a mass of 1.3Kg. If you had a perfect vacuum and somehow the walls were negligible yet able to stand that pressure, a balloon 1 meter in each side would only be able to carry a handful of tubes of toothpaste which are about 0.2Kg each, yet the craft would be the size of a doorway.
Black hole evaporation is extremely slow via Hawking radiation. It's less on the order of billions of years and more on the order 1 followed by a billion zeros. Gravitational interactions don't preference older or younger objects, more denser and heavier objects are drawn inward as momentum is transferred to the lighter mass object.
This will likely end up being called FaceCoin, because two syllables is easy to say.
There isn't yet a cryptocoin called this, but I expect one will be created in a day. Then Facebook will have to buy them out to get the name. Call it coin-squatting.
FaceCoin exists: https://coinmarketcap.com/curr...
Your side is USD -> Middlemen -> BTC then Ohio is going to go BTC -> Middlemen -> USD. The middlemen in both transactions will be a combination of your banks, and the exchange provider who is commiting to buy and sell at some fixed price at a moment. Increased volatility puts that exchange middleman in greater risk so it doesn't help you.
Trolley problems fail rigor because they make a critical assumption, an artificial intelligence is smart enough that it knows the results of two choices each with negative outcomes but is somehow not smart enough to have avoided that situation to begin with. An AI developer who is trying to produce the safest AI system possible is prioritizing the likely cases first and attempting to produce the best reaction in your typical crash. Nobody in development is concerned about the situation where you have a car speeding down a narrow road where a pedestrian steps out at just the right time and place where the only cause of actions is to crash into them or crash into a power pole. That situation is rare and shouldn't be optimized yet.
Let's say that we're worried about optimizing that situation now and we somehow have omniscient AI that still runs into this situation. Now our problem is probabilities. What's the probability that the pedestrian will survive jump out of the road in time and no crash will happen? What's the probability that the pedestrian will die from the crash? What's the probability that the passenger will die when if we swerve into the light pole? Who is going to be harmed by that falling light pole?
Many of our existing algorithms, AES, ECDH, and others scale to the 2^(N-K) for N bits used in their keys with classical computers in terms of the operations to break them and that K is very small compared to the 64, 128, or 256-bits. Some of the proposed quantum attacks reduce these states by about the square root causing it to become 2^(N/2) operations. 2^32 states isn't that many for a classical computer to evaluate so 64-bit keys could reasonably break. 256-bit keys are reduced to 2^128 operations which is likely still 'age of the universe' even with these updates.
The practical costo of using these larger keys is slightly slower key generation and encryption calculations. Aes takes about 1.4 times as long for doubling of the key size for instance so between these factors, the existing encryption methods are scaling a lot better against advances in quantum computers but we likely will want to update our minimum acceptable standards.
A drug seller doesn't value Bitcoins, they can't pay their rent with it and someone down the line needs to pay taxes with boring old fiat currency. Someone has to facilitate the transaction between fiat to bitcoin and back to fiat. That person is your weak point which can be targeted by governments.
If cryptocurrency's entire utility is reduced to money laundering, tax evasion, and similar illegal activities, it is in the governments' interest to eliminate it. Any business operating or transferring financial assets into our out of their borders needs to be heavily regulated to ensure compliance with local laws or declared illegal. That law would relatively easily pass in country with gambling, drug, or finance laws which represents almost the entire world. Those exchanges would be forced to move to smaller and less developed countries. Now we need a legal way to get money from good ol' USA into Timbuktu legally. 2 more middlemen are born to handle either end of the exchange and I'm thinking that it'll be easier to just walk over to the sketchy part of town with a 50 in cash before submitting my credit card number to that sketchy website.
Maybe you should look up what pseudoscience is? Quite literally, it means "false science."
The problem with words like 'pseudoscience' and 'homeopathic' is the demographic which is being scammed is unaware of what it is. It's not like 95% of the population is aware what the latin roots mean and while 'pseudoscience' literally translates to 'false-science', other usages of the root 'pseudo-' are not given negative connotations and words like 'homeopathic' give no indication of their falsehoods.
The difference is you have more years of actual coding experience than a recent grad has with reading. At some point that trumps everything else.
Spotify knows how many ads I've ever seen, Spotify know what ads I've seen and what their payment rates are per view. If they didn't they wouldn't be able to sell ads at all. Spotify also knows how much money I've ever given them in subscription payments, if they didn't, they couldn't track who was subscribed. This means that Spotify knows how much money I brought in every month to their company.
Spotify knows what songs I've listened to, they keep track of how many people listen to each song. If they didn't, they wouldn't be able to do analytics given me recommended songs, they wouldn't have top 100 lists, or be able to report how many monthly listeners an artist has and how much they will pay those artists per listen. What is the problem that the blockchain is solving which wasn't solved with database queries?
There is nothing that prevents a service like cloud storage or video hosting site or anything else from creating a publicly accessible data storage without exposing an API that allows editing or deleting content. That doesn't exist not because the limit is people not technology.
That's not quite accurate: Developers can port games to from Macs to Windows? Ridiculous! We need those platform exclusives!
It wouldn't matter as much if there wasn't a big difference when it comes to 'memory' and 'storage'. They both remember stuff, but the modern terminology has made the words analogous for Dynamic RAM and Static RAM. DRAM suffers almost no wear and tear from usage and is designed to change state until thermal breakdown occurs. SRAM is typically implemented with components that suffer wear and tear.
Windows 7 is about $100 and Office 2010 is $200, total cost $300. An office worker making near minimum wage costs $10/h. If that office worker loses 30 hours of labor, it becomes worth while to buy the software. A reduction of productivity by just 2% over the course of a year amounts to 40 hours of labor lost.
A non-productive worker actually costs much more than their hourly wage though, benefits, employer taxes, facility costs also which roughly double that cost to $20/h. We can safely assume that it'll take a few hours to get acquainted with new software, after words your productivity returns to it's previous value, but if that learning curve costs just 2 work days they've come out behind with a cost of 20*8*2=$320.
Educators may not like it, but the entire K-uni system is geared to vocational training. In the US, it costs taxpayers ~100k to pay for a K-12 education for each student. Public universities are further subsidized about 10-20k per pupil leading to a net cost of ~200k to taxpayers to produce a college educated student. You'd need to be able to justify an increase in tax revenue of at least 5k a year to justify such expenses given a 40 year long career. Based on tax brackets, this would mean 10-15k a year increase in salary. This isn't even covering the money that students themselves spend which is typically now on the order of 30k for a 4 year program.
If you put an old photograph in a NMR machine it might just tell you there's silver in them hills.
The people who die in the first few minutes are going to be those who's lives are dependent on technology. That's list contains almost exclusively those in planes and those dependent on medical devices. How's a power grid update going to protect those people? Hospitals already have backup generators and you can't do anything about fried equipment.
I find it amusing that Anarchy will supposedly spring forth from a technology that depends on highly refined, multi-disciplinary engineering and built from precision materials that are only manufactured and sold at affordable pricing in the context of a highly ordered society.
There can be order without a ruler. P2P technologies is a human made prof of that. I am sure there are many others and many more example in nature. Fuck off.
The ruler within technology is the standards committee. These groups designed every layer required for P2P software from the physical connections inside and between computers to the software protocols that permit packet transfer to the P2P protocol itself. They're not legally binding regulations, but realistically driving the wrong way on a freeway isn't going to result in a ticket either. Selling software or hardware which can't interact with existing products would be suicide too.
After reading the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, I think when talking about the space elevator, we should always consider what happens if (when?) it fails. Space fountains seem much more appealing.
* The center of mass is in orbit, the structure won't fling itself far off into space.
* The segment of the string above the break will be under less tension which means it'll spring back a bit, but it's not in orbit down there so it'll be pulled back down to the earth so we could repair it.
* The segment below the cut will plummet down. Regardless of the material, we can safely assume at least several hundred tons of material will be falling from the sky which will completely destroy the ground based installation.
* Weird part is that it's not going to fall straight down. Even though the thing is stationary over the surface of the earth, the angular momentum at the top is going to be higher than below. As the top falls, it'll speed relative to the Eastward rotation of the Earth causing it to fall on the stuff to the East.
I think that this is a, 'we don't have any gays in Iran,' type of situation.
We need to kill the dumbass myth that the best programmers started when they're in diapers. The exception isn't the kid who've been making simple games for the last 6 years before academy or college, that's simply a kid who has 6 years more experience with loops, conditionals, and a handful of calls that can draw sprites onto the screen. A good student should be able to understand and properly apply those concepts in a few months and now their at the same level here. A great student is one who knows how to learn things that have not been taught to him. While the kid who taught himself programming in middle-school has this attribute, he's not the only one in the world who does.
Of course everyone there was talking about delivery over the Internet a third of the name is dedicated to the Internet as a delivery platform. Frankly I'd find it weird if anyone who was in the streaming media business talked about how awesome bundled packages of television channels are.
The best way to create customers is to tell them that they are dirty, disgusting perverts and that if their family and friends knew what they where doing they'd be disowned.
Wait, if this is the world they want to pretend we live in, why would I ever buy a physical copy when it can be easily discovered. A password protected file of all my torrents is so much safer.
Remember how bad Microsoft Office was when you transitioned to 2007? Everything moved and you couldn't find anything! Now imagine that you are used to doing everything the same way for 12 years now. It's going to take a few weeks to figure out how to do your every day tasks again. A company can train you, costing profit; or they can wait for you to figure it out yourself, costing sales.
Say a company makes 10k a year for each employee, that's 200 dollars a week. Each of their employees makes another 500 a week in their own salary which means that the employee brought 700 dollars into the company each week. Say it takes just a week for an employee to catch up and perform his duties at 100% of pre-upgrade level and during this time, he performs at only 50%.... Now the employee is bringing in 350 but taking out 500. Your upgrade, which even if it's free, is now $350. This will take nearly an entire month to break even. For what? Long term gains 6 months from now.
My passwords all come in the following variations
yyyyyy
xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx1
Xxxxxxxxxx_1
tell me again how strong password policies prevent re-use.