> However, the government is still constrained by the constitution
Ha! ROFLMAO at that.
The Airline can tell me whatever they like, and I can tell them whatever I like, and they can go frack themselves.
The government are the ones who threaten you with prison if you talk to someone while you are on an aircraft -- but only if you are not wealthy enough for a private charter.
I found the notion that this was common sense and courtesy to be amusing. If you have to threaten people with prison, then it is neither common sense nor courtesy.
It''s pretty damn uncourteous to put people in prison.
You seem to be missing a dose of reality. A quality product at a discount price typically cannot compete with established manufacturing, distribution and advertising channels. It requires deep pockets and order of magnitude value improvements to succeed against an entrenched player. That's why we don't have flying cards and a Mars colony. Competition is so inefficient as an economic organizing principle that it is literally killing millions every day. Perhaps the only worse principle is central planning.
and that's a good thing. we need to render presecriptive grammar obsolete. this can only be done incrementally, by habituating our correspondents to ideographic style
It doesn't matter how much the price of bitcoin fluctuates when you are just using it to form a contract. When I send USD using bitpay or any of its competitors, it saves me money, and bitcoin is invisible.
It doesn't matter what bitcoin costs when it is used to transmit USD. Bitcoins are just elements of a protocol for secure transmission of funds. Because they are in limited supply, they are valuable, but you don't need to speculate in bitcoins to use them to transmit funds at much lower cost than other systems allow.
That's not true. Just as HTTP runs as a layered protocol on TCP/IP (and TCP runs on IP) so too, layered protocols on top of the Bitcoin protocol are perfectly compatible with Bitcoin. In fact, much of future innovation in transactions and smart contracts will be layered on the Bitcoin protocol.
Why do you say the value has not gone up 50x? I think the value is much higher, but the market is attempting to adjust to rational value. This is slow because most punters in the game now are not rational, but that is changing, as financial professionals get in the game.
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I would point out that you can be put in a federal prison if you don't obey the waitress on an airplane.
I hope they ban you from opening your mouth in public. E-mail and texting should handle it.
> However, the government is still constrained by the constitution
Ha! ROFLMAO at that.
The Airline can tell me whatever they like, and I can tell them whatever I like, and they can go frack themselves.
The government are the ones who threaten you with prison if you talk to someone while you are on an aircraft -- but only if you are not wealthy enough for a private charter.
I see, so it is an unconstitutional law.
I found the notion that this was common sense and courtesy to be amusing. If you have to threaten people with prison, then it is neither common sense nor courtesy.
It''s pretty damn uncourteous to put people in prison.
I propose a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and endorsement for the Nobel Peace Prize.
You seem to be missing a dose of reality. A quality product at a discount price typically cannot compete with established manufacturing, distribution and advertising channels. It requires deep pockets and order of magnitude value improvements to succeed against an entrenched player. That's why we don't have flying cards and a Mars colony. Competition is so inefficient as an economic organizing principle that it is literally killing millions every day. Perhaps the only worse principle is central planning.
To lump Java with Ruby demonstrates utter disregard for actual performance in favor of ideological blinders.
> you also need to use 2-pass algorithms to compute Mean Absolute Deviation
Only naively. One pass will suffice.
In other news, there is more than one dimension!
and that's a good thing. we need to render presecriptive grammar obsolete. this can only be done incrementally, by habituating our correspondents to ideographic style
I don't trust der speigel. show us the docs or it didn't happen.
Anyone who finds it useful to call people useless fucking morons is a useless fucking moron.
I have tripled my money in 2 months of bitcoin investing. Wake me up when you triple your money.
It doesn't matter how much the price of bitcoin fluctuates when you are just using it to form a contract. When I send USD using bitpay or any of its competitors, it saves me money, and bitcoin is invisible.
It doesn't matter what bitcoin costs when it is used to transmit USD. Bitcoins are just elements of a protocol for secure transmission of funds. Because they are in limited supply, they are valuable, but you don't need to speculate in bitcoins to use them to transmit funds at much lower cost than other systems allow.
Corruption is the system which enforces the rules against corruption.
With non-anonymous coins, theft is not merely a possibility, but a guarantee. Someone with a gun will take your coins, period.
That's not true. Just as HTTP runs as a layered protocol on TCP/IP (and TCP runs on IP) so too, layered protocols on top of the Bitcoin protocol are perfectly compatible with Bitcoin. In fact, much of future innovation in transactions and smart contracts will be layered on the Bitcoin protocol.
by serious i mean generating at least USD $1000 per day.
only until it reaches fair value. then it will, hopefully, stop climbing.
untrue. coinbase.com. bitstamp.net, literally hundreds of services will convert your bitcoin to dollars, if you are stupid enough to sell them.
..convert btc back into usd...
now that would not be clever. a savings vehicle that will be worth 5x more in a year versus one that will be worth 5% less in a year...
bitcoin price levels are set almost exclusively by value investors. speculators are children playing on the sidelines.
Why do you say the value has not gone up 50x? I think the value is much higher, but the market is attempting to adjust to rational value. This is slow because most punters in the game now are not rational, but that is changing, as financial professionals get in the game.
bitfinex is a very good venue. there are many dodgy operators in the cryptocurrency world, but also several very excellent and honorable ones.