You can't compare a stock like AAPL or MSFT to something like Bitcoin. Stocks have value that can be measured according to GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and other measures. People bought AAPL or MSFT because they make products, and they assumed (rightly so) that they would continue to make products, and eventually pay dividends.
Bitcoin has none of that. It's pure supply and demand. There is no revenue. There's no interest. There is no balance sheet. There's nothing for an accountant to analyze in the traditional sense. You can only make money on it by selling it on to the next guy, or the "greater fool" if you want to be a critic. It's more like virtual gold than a virtual stock.
AFAIK, the primary, if not only users of bunker fuel are container ships at sea. The fuel is one step away from asphalt in the refining process. It's so heavy that they have to bring it up to the right temperature before the diesel can use it. I don't think anybody uses it in a vehicle that runs on the roads. They're definitely not putting it in trucks in North America or Europe.
This is user error. It's like going to Google Maps and plugging in a route for New York to Atlanta when you live in LA, and then wondering why you don't have directions to Denver. Then you drive around aimlessly looking for the tunnels, end up in a bad neighborhood and get robbed.
The title presumes that convergence will occur. The history of language is divergence and mixing. I expect more of that. There will not likely be a "winner" of English. Increased connectivity has reduced divergence, but hasn't created convergence. American English isn't even all one thing. We have yinz and y'all, soda and pop, etc.
Should we really be worried about this? Maybe it's heresy here; but what are they doing with these systems? Are the Chinese using them to solve problems that are more interesting and important, or are they just using them to build prestige? Does it really say anything about the country, or are these systems just the computing equivalent of Dubai skyscrapers? Dubai is blowing us away in the skyscraper dept., but I don't want to live there. China might blow us away in flops on these computers, but if they're not doing any interesting science or other applications on them, so what?
This is not the biggest percent drop ever. Here's a 30% drop I found quickly googling.. It wouldn't surprise me if it has many double-digit percent changes up and down. It's well known to be volatile. Call us when it's been bouncing around at last year's price for a while. Then you know it's in a real bear market.
The irony of this--Colorado rejects Federal drug laws and goes rogue because the "war on drugs" has become nothing but pork for the prison-industrial complex. Now their counties reject the state's law because it's just pork for the telecoms.
My love is that there's a fight back against these things. My hate is that we even got here in the first place.
I don't get this. Why can't you just upload the hash? There are some really fantastic algorithms that are virtually impossible to falsely collide. Then if your former SO uploads something that collides, a real human can still make the final call. A smart algorithm could also "fuzz" the pictures so that if your ex tries to sprinkle pixels, resize, crop, etc., the "fuzzed" shot still has the same hash as the clean shot. All of that could be done client side. FB has no need for the data... but when did that ever stop them?
Whatever. As soon as they started allowing anything other than text, they were sort of doing that anyway. You could encode text in an image and use a front-end to get big tweets, or do what a lof of people do and post images of text (yuck), and get huge ugly tweets with the normal front end. It's all a bunch of silliness. If you don't lock it down to text, there's not much of a limit. Even then, you've got the Trumpian... tweets that continue... because I'm too... bigly to adhere to... your limit.
Big company decides that bots are "good enough". They aren't. That's all this is. As bad as it is to sit your kids in front of the old fashioned tube, as much as you might complain about the FCC, there was pretty much zero chance that we were going to see Oscar, Big Bird, and the Count going at it in a 3-way. That's because real human adults were in charge, and were paid what they were worth. The Internet isn't broken. A bunch of greedy pigs just paid some cheap coders far less to create something much less safe, then a bunch of lazy parents sat their kids down in front of it. The results were predictable.
You really don't want to give this up, do you? Just to play devil's advocate, I think the myth stems from the fact that consumers are more likely to be exposed directly to Chinese goods. ie, if manufacturing is only "small appliances sold at Wal Mart" then you're right; but that's not all manufacturing. Manufacturing encompasses a much broader sector--things such as oil rigs, specialized heavy machinery, and defense related items to which the consumer is not exposed. On a dollar basis though, the most expensive manufactured item I have is my car, and it was made in the USA even though the company is Japanese. It's easily 10X the value of the manufactured goods inside my house--but all you see when you turn over a coffee-maker or look behind a TV at Target is "Made in China", so the myth persists.
BTW, how well curated is *your* source? You haven't even offered one.
Edit Wikipedia then and see how long it lasts then. The article says China surpassed the US in 2010, which to me is "fairly recent" when we're on the scale of nations and their manufacturing capability. Other sources claim that US manufacturing *cost* is now equal to China's, probably due to us being more productive and other economic factors. Even if we're a solid no. 2 as opposed to no 1 these days, the "nothing is made here any more" meme really is mostly myth. Sure, iPhones, blah, blah; but that's not the only good that's manufactured.
Union advocates often like to point out that they gave us the 40 hour work week. But wait... nobody has to belong to a union to get that now. Nobody pays dues to get it. See where I'm heading here? If there's no union, and you feel like your rights are being violated, you can use the political process and get laws pass via broader activism. The best part of all is that once the battle is won, you only have to pay the "dues" of vigilance to make sure the laws aren't repealed. It's a lower cost.
It used to be that this virtual union was the Democratic Party; but they sold labor down river ages ago. This is part of why Trump won.
Yeah, some people might get the idea that China is doing more than we are because of this. The thing is, the USA doesn't need to "shut down factories" because the EPA has been a thing since the 1970s and *most* of the regulations are followed. It's less dramatic, but it's more effective.
I'm near the recent NorCal fires, and for just a few days we had air quality similar to Beijing. It's unfathomable to me that people live like that for a significant fraction of an entire year.
Listerine also kills the computer viruses that can cause bad breath. It was developed in the early 60s and is based on Lisp which stands for LISt Processing, hence the list in Listerine.
Humans are also using their ears and their body to sense things. You don't just see the road, you feel it. You definitely don't see wind buffeting with your eyes. You're going to make a high level decision that "this road is crap" and drive accordingly to be safe and comfortable. The computer, even if it can determine that the road is crap, isn't going to be able to know that the ride is uncomfortable. Let's see a computer work the throttle and brake over washboard back-roads without rattling my teeth out or wrecking. That's a skill that even humans have a hard time with, and it takes force feedback to get it right, not just visuals.
We've been living in a world of fossil-fuel powered earth movers instead of shovels. A lot of people are weak and/or fat, but not everybody. Some people hit the gym. For simple jobs some of us still use shovels. Computers can be for the brain what construction equipment is for the muscles. They can help us build things faster and better; but we can't use them as a crutch all the time. We need to hit the *mental* gym sometimes. I'm not sure what that looks like. Maybe it's as simple as reading, playing games like Chess and poker, or working a few math problems in your head once in a while. It's probably more than just turning off the phone for a while. Merely idling a dump truck doesn't give you stronger muscles.
They split one brain structure, not the whole neurological system. I don't think they even split the whole brain, so it could be that lower level brain structures are picking up the slack. At the very least we know they didn't split the spine since that'd kill you. It's conceivable that these lower levels of the brain and peripheral nerves are an integral part of being a person. I've heard that the heart actually turns out to have more to do with personality than modern medicine once thought. It's not just a stupid pump. Users of artificial hearts report that it lacks that certain something. Receivers of transplanted organs sometimes acquire traits from the donor, such as food preferences. You wouldn't think such traits could be conferred via those organs. Your sense of self may be more "distributed" than some of us think.
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You can't compare a stock like AAPL or MSFT to something like Bitcoin. Stocks have value that can be measured according to GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and other measures. People bought AAPL or MSFT because they make products, and they assumed (rightly so) that they would continue to make products, and eventually pay dividends.
Bitcoin has none of that. It's pure supply and demand. There is no revenue. There's no interest. There is no balance sheet. There's nothing for an accountant to analyze in the traditional sense. You can only make money on it by selling it on to the next guy, or the "greater fool" if you want to be a critic. It's more like virtual gold than a virtual stock.
AFAIK, the primary, if not only users of bunker fuel are container ships at sea. The fuel is one step away from asphalt in the refining process. It's so heavy that they have to bring it up to the right temperature before the diesel can use it. I don't think anybody uses it in a vehicle that runs on the roads. They're definitely not putting it in trucks in North America or Europe.
This is user error. It's like going to Google Maps and plugging in a route for New York to Atlanta when you live in LA, and then wondering why you don't have directions to Denver. Then you drive around aimlessly looking for the tunnels, end up in a bad neighborhood and get robbed.
One seat in the truck. No hitch-hikers or co-drivers need apply.
The title presumes that convergence will occur. The history of language is divergence and mixing. I expect more of that. There will not likely be a "winner" of English. Increased connectivity has reduced divergence, but hasn't created convergence. American English isn't even all one thing. We have yinz and y'all, soda and pop, etc.
Should we really be worried about this? Maybe it's heresy here; but what are they doing with these systems? Are the Chinese using them to solve problems that are more interesting and important, or are they just using them to build prestige? Does it really say anything about the country, or are these systems just the computing equivalent of Dubai skyscrapers? Dubai is blowing us away in the skyscraper dept., but I don't want to live there. China might blow us away in flops on these computers, but if they're not doing any interesting science or other applications on them, so what?
This is not the biggest percent drop ever. Here's a 30% drop I found quickly googling.. It wouldn't surprise me if it has many double-digit percent changes up and down. It's well known to be volatile. Call us when it's been bouncing around at last year's price for a while. Then you know it's in a real bear market.
I'm wishing not for states rights; but for laws based on the will of the people as opposed to corruption.
The irony of this--Colorado rejects Federal drug laws and goes rogue because the "war on drugs" has become nothing but pork for the prison-industrial complex. Now their counties reject the state's law because it's just pork for the telecoms.
My love is that there's a fight back against these things. My hate is that we even got here in the first place.
I don't get this. Why can't you just upload the hash? There are some really fantastic algorithms that are virtually impossible to falsely collide. Then if your former SO uploads something that collides, a real human can still make the final call. A smart algorithm could also "fuzz" the pictures so that if your ex tries to sprinkle pixels, resize, crop, etc., the "fuzzed" shot still has the same hash as the clean shot. All of that could be done client side. FB has no need for the data... but when did that ever stop them?
Whatever. As soon as they started allowing anything other than text, they were sort of doing that anyway. You could encode text in an image and use a front-end to get big tweets, or do what a lof of people do and post images of text (yuck), and get huge ugly tweets with the normal front end. It's all a bunch of silliness. If you don't lock it down to text, there's not much of a limit. Even then, you've got the Trumpian... tweets that continue... because I'm too... bigly to adhere to... your limit.
Big company decides that bots are "good enough". They aren't. That's all this is. As bad as it is to sit your kids in front of the old fashioned tube, as much as you might complain about the FCC, there was pretty much zero chance that we were going to see Oscar, Big Bird, and the Count going at it in a 3-way. That's because real human adults were in charge, and were paid what they were worth. The Internet isn't broken. A bunch of greedy pigs just paid some cheap coders far less to create something much less safe, then a bunch of lazy parents sat their kids down in front of it. The results were predictable.
You really don't want to give this up, do you? Just to play devil's advocate, I think the myth stems from the fact that consumers are more likely to be exposed directly to Chinese goods. ie, if manufacturing is only "small appliances sold at Wal Mart" then you're right; but that's not all manufacturing. Manufacturing encompasses a much broader sector--things such as oil rigs, specialized heavy machinery, and defense related items to which the consumer is not exposed. On a dollar basis though, the most expensive manufactured item I have is my car, and it was made in the USA even though the company is Japanese. It's easily 10X the value of the manufactured goods inside my house--but all you see when you turn over a coffee-maker or look behind a TV at Target is "Made in China", so the myth persists.
BTW, how well curated is *your* source? You haven't even offered one.
Edit Wikipedia then and see how long it lasts then. The article says China surpassed the US in 2010, which to me is "fairly recent" when we're on the scale of nations and their manufacturing capability. Other sources claim that US manufacturing *cost* is now equal to China's, probably due to us being more productive and other economic factors. Even if we're a solid no. 2 as opposed to no 1 these days, the "nothing is made here any more" meme really is mostly myth. Sure, iPhones, blah, blah; but that's not the only good that's manufactured.
Myth. China recently reached *parity* with US manufacturing.
Union advocates often like to point out that they gave us the 40 hour work week. But wait... nobody has to belong to a union to get that now. Nobody pays dues to get it. See where I'm heading here? If there's no union, and you feel like your rights are being violated, you can use the political process and get laws pass via broader activism. The best part of all is that once the battle is won, you only have to pay the "dues" of vigilance to make sure the laws aren't repealed. It's a lower cost.
It used to be that this virtual union was the Democratic Party; but they sold labor down river ages ago. This is part of why Trump won.
Yeah, some people might get the idea that China is doing more than we are because of this. The thing is, the USA doesn't need to "shut down factories" because the EPA has been a thing since the 1970s and *most* of the regulations are followed. It's less dramatic, but it's more effective.
I'm near the recent NorCal fires, and for just a few days we had air quality similar to Beijing. It's unfathomable to me that people live like that for a significant fraction of an entire year.
Preach on, brother.
Listerine also kills the computer viruses that can cause bad breath. It was developed in the early 60s and is based on Lisp which stands for LISt Processing, hence the list in Listerine.
A beige screen of uncertainty appears. Press any key to find out.
I wasn't holding it up as a uniquely human thing. I was refuting the statement that humans do it with only vision.
Humans are also using their ears and their body to sense things. You don't just see the road, you feel it. You definitely don't see wind buffeting with your eyes. You're going to make a high level decision that "this road is crap" and drive accordingly to be safe and comfortable. The computer, even if it can determine that the road is crap, isn't going to be able to know that the ride is uncomfortable. Let's see a computer work the throttle and brake over washboard back-roads without rattling my teeth out or wrecking. That's a skill that even humans have a hard time with, and it takes force feedback to get it right, not just visuals.
If poor answers are floating to the top because of reputation, then Stack Overflow has effectively automated argument from authority.
This is not too surprising. Automating fallacy is probably easy. Automating security is likely to be hard. Trust me. I'm an expert on this.
We've been living in a world of fossil-fuel powered earth movers instead of shovels. A lot of people are weak and/or fat, but not everybody. Some people hit the gym. For simple jobs some of us still use shovels. Computers can be for the brain what construction equipment is for the muscles. They can help us build things faster and better; but we can't use them as a crutch all the time. We need to hit the *mental* gym sometimes. I'm not sure what that looks like. Maybe it's as simple as reading, playing games like Chess and poker, or working a few math problems in your head once in a while. It's probably more than just turning off the phone for a while. Merely idling a dump truck doesn't give you stronger muscles.
They split one brain structure, not the whole neurological system. I don't think they even split the whole brain, so it could be that lower level brain structures are picking up the slack. At the very least we know they didn't split the spine since that'd kill you. It's conceivable that these lower levels of the brain and peripheral nerves are an integral part of being a person. I've heard that the heart actually turns out to have more to do with personality than modern medicine once thought. It's not just a stupid pump. Users of artificial hearts report that it lacks that certain something. Receivers of transplanted organs sometimes acquire traits from the donor, such as food preferences. You wouldn't think such traits could be conferred via those organs. Your sense of self may be more "distributed" than some of us think.