A crypto currency is a very convenient way to store and move money. Banks will charge 5% or more to convert your money from one currency to another and wire transfers are a pain and usually cost $10. Other money transfers often come with 1 or 2% fees and banks in some countries are corrupt and incompetent. Crypto currencies could replace a good portion of M2 since they work better than most traditional money. M2 world wide is equivalent to almost 30 Trillion USD. One day one crypto currency will likely approach this amount.
ICOs are a scam. They replace shares but are inferior in almost every way except they by-pass the traditional stock markets. (I suppose some conspiracy people might think this is a good idea). ICOs also don't allow high frequency trading since trades can only take place as fast as blocks are added to the block chain and buried to a sufficient depth to be trusted.
Crypto currencies are a lot of things. "Convenient" is not among those things. I've tried several times to use bitcoins but it's a total pain in the ass, so I own zero bitcoins. Bitcoin? more like shitcoin. I'm joking, but seriously - bitcoin has to be the world's least convenient way to pay for anything.
I don't remember signing for a credit card statement in YEARS. I think the only country I have heard that is still using signatures is the United States. Oddly they are also the only country I know that doesn't have straight up debit cards with no credit card company as a pre-processor.
I think both Visa and MasterCard have known for a long time that signatures doesn't a good way to prevent fraud from happening there just hasn't been much traction in letting the change happen.
I do it all the time. I signed the credit card thingy after paying for dinner last night. I don't know how you've avoided it, it's not like it's optional unless you selected debit and used chip+pin.
They better hope so because otherwise they're doomed eventually. At least in Tampa, FL. USA, they share all the same drivers - but lyft rides are about twice the price. Honestly, given that it's the exact same thing for twice the money I don't know why anyone would choose to use lyft. It must be that they operate in some areas that Uber doesn't or something like that.
I just hope an unsent text on a mobile never counts as a marriage proposal.
Marriage proposals have no legal weight. You are effectively hoping your unposted memes never count as a posted meme because neither has any legal impact.
I know my brothers bank account information and he knows my information. For this to be legit they need to look at the draft timestamp and compare it to the autopsy time of death.
Yes, but that seems obvious enough that the court MUST have checked it.
In other news Elon Musk doesn't understand being poor.
In other other news, PR (or Donald Trump) is going to have to pay someone for a new power grid. Might as well give them the new hotness instead of the old busted.
This is a pretty expensive thin client. For a little bit more, I can buy a MacBook with 16 gigs of RAM, an i7, and 512 GB of SSD.
Enjoy your soldered-in SSD and RAM. I'm not interested in the Chromebooks, either, but for that money I will rather buy an easily expandable laptop. And it won't be a barn-burner, either, but once that SSD craps out, I will be able to replace it or upgrade it.
Agreed. 1992 called and they want their chromebooks and macbooks back. It was a hard fought battle with manufacturers before we started seeing expandable portable devices on the market. It's very frustrating when you see people just accepting this reversion to inferior solutions that some of us worked very hard to eliminate.
No shit, sherlock. Thanks for figuring that out for us. Pretty much every company that has made a product has such goals. In other news, water is still wet.
Meh. I once spent $1400 on a video card for a computer. Some people are phone enthusiasts. Unless they don't have the money, to those people there is no price that is "too much."
Funny how they slipped "entertainment" in with the needs list. It can be argued transportation isn't a need, either but entertainment doesn't even really need an argument. I guess those selling entertainment (Chicago Tribune) would love for entertainment to become a need.
Forbes.com the internet site is just a blogging platform like Wordpress.com.
Really? I'm surprised. I don't read it because of their aggressive popups that happen when you first go to the site so I would have never known. Funny how things change...
"Hey guys, we think you're corrupt and stealing money, so we want you to adopt this new system that will make it harder to be corrupt and steal money."
And we're surprised the plan failed?
Exactly. Nobody should be surprised at all. Maybe next year we can spend a few hundred million on a campaign to have criminals imprison themselves instead of the inefficient process of having them be apprehended, prosecuted, transported to prison etc...
Who exactly got the $160 million bucks? That would be a story actually worth reading.
Lenovo sees profits in Android shrinking, cuts costs.
Maybe, but many of us who use android hate the customizations done by handset manufacturers. It's why so many people went to the trouble of installing 3rd party operating systems. I can't adequately explain my disdain for the bixby virus that I've got on my Galaxy S8+. I guess that's my bad for not doing research before buying an upgrade this year.
Honestly I had no idea lenovo made cell phones. Now that I know they're making them with stock android they will definitely be on my list to check out before my upgrade next year.
Isn't encryption pretty much the only reason to use whatsapp? There's far easier software to use if you don't care about encryption.. facebook, aol instant messenger, IRC... there's probably only about 5,000 different options.
This. I work for the Seattle city government, and we demand a less than four hour response to all break-ins. We are trying very hard.
That's pretty pathetic. To be useful it needs to be a lot closer to 15 minutes. Otherwise, they're never going to catch anyone or save any lives. At 1+ hours, all they're doing is playing secretary as they write a report.
If you can't protect your citizens better than that, you should be encouraging gun ownership and self defense/home security type training for citizens.
In Tampa, FL I've had to call the police 2 or 3 times in the past decade. They've always come very quickly, I don't have actual times but I'm thinking close to 15 minutes for sure.
I just can't get over it. You're proud of a 4 hour response time? That's really bad.
I should also point out, that in one of those incidents they caught the perpetrator nearby. If they'd waited 2 or 3 hours he would have been long gone.
This. I work for the Seattle city government, and we demand a less than four hour response to all break-ins. We are trying very hard.
That's pretty pathetic. To be useful it needs to be a lot closer to 15 minutes. Otherwise, they're never going to catch anyone or save any lives. At 1+ hours, all they're doing is playing secretary as they write a report. If you can't protect your citizens better than that, you should be encouraging gun ownership and self defense/home security type training for citizens. In Tampa, FL I've had to call the police 2 or 3 times in the past decade. They've always come very quickly, I don't have actual times but I'm thinking close to 15 minutes for sure.
I just can't get over it. You're proud of a 4 hour response time? That's really bad.
Seriously, this is why we have such serious problems in this country today! You are laying a problem at the hands of capitalism, which is actually entirely created by government! Let me guess you solution is going to be more regulations too.
Lets break this day.
FDA (government) say to drug makers you need to set expiration dates. They say okay well we know they will be good for three years our packaging technology and stabilizers are at least that good. Safe bet for us, because...
FDA (government) tells Hospitals/pharmacies/individuals they must toss out any expired drugs. So the drug makers don't need to worry about anyone actually determining these things can be used long past the manufacture guarantee, or worse that one of their competitors has better packaging / a more stable drug that they might choose for its long shelf life.
Still more context government F'ed over the market place by creating the perverse nonsense of employers buying you health insurance. When they created complex rules around taxable income. Think about this, does your employer offer you auto insurance as a benefit, or a homeowners/renters policy, NO! literally no employees do that, why is that? Because health insurance got setup as a way for company to pay people more without incurring additional employment or income taxes. Similar tax breaks don't exist for other kinds of insurance so you don't seem them as part of employment compensation packages. 45 years later Democrats come along and offer this terrible sob story about how so many people lose coverage because the lose or change a jobs, and government has to do something about; a problem created entirely by bad government policy in the first place.
So half the population does not really feel what they are paying for insurance because half of it is the employer contribution and they don't ever have to directly write those checks. Than insurers actually pay their medical bills so they don't feel writing those checks either. Consequence 80% of the participants in medical care don't have any clear perspective or care about what things actually cost! So nobody bothers to figure out if we are tossing good drugs into the landfill. All thanks to big government interference in the market place!
Seriously there is a STUPID simple fix to the healthcare problems we are facing! 1) Repeal Obamacare. 2) Ensure medicaid is available and adequately funded to help the people who really are below the poverty line and can't afford any kind of even catastrophic coverage. 3) Withdraw the corporate tax incentives to offer medical coverage, this will mean all the HR time associated with that is pure overhead and will discourage them from doing so. 3a) Allow individuals to deduct medical coverage from income taxes but ONLY if they pay them directly, not if they are done as payroll deduction, this make employees not want corporate heal benefits. Now this is actually government interference but its to counter decades of expectations and should have an expiration date, maybe ten years, after which you would be allow to deduct anything done as a payroll deduction as well. 4) Allow people to choose "inferior" care, relax rules that require physicians to perform certain procedures and issue a range of prescriptions, so patients can choose facilities where nurse practitioners and other less expensive resources can do these. 5) Reduce regulations on drugs and drug manufacture, not eliminate mind you just roll back the number of inspections, identifying the most expensive regulations to comply with that are offering the least benefit in terms of safety. Torts will take care of the rest.
Let the market work. This will result in enough price consciousness to actually lower prices, and creates opportunities to lower real costs. A strong individual insurance market would reemerge.
You had me up until the point where you said we should do exactly what you claim the problem is in the first place. It's horrible.. horrible, I tell you! But let's do it anyway, because it will serve my interests this time.
How does a coal gasification plant switch to natural gas? It doesn't. You close the coal gasification plant and the power generation station switches from coal gas to natural gas.
Who the fuck lets these illiterate morons publish shit?
So what? Presumably, the one plant had both types of equipment. You must have been desperate to go on a rant today. I've been there.
You raise a good point. What will happen when people realize they don't need to pay for land if they are in a vehicle that constantly drives itself around?
Sounds like something that would make for a good book or movie.
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Does this include the Pixel2 XL?
A crypto currency is a very convenient way to store and move money. Banks will charge 5% or more to convert your money from one currency to another and wire transfers are a pain and usually cost $10. Other money transfers often come with 1 or 2% fees and banks in some countries are corrupt and incompetent. Crypto currencies could replace a good portion of M2 since they work better than most traditional money. M2 world wide is equivalent to almost 30 Trillion USD. One day one crypto currency will likely approach this amount. ICOs are a scam. They replace shares but are inferior in almost every way except they by-pass the traditional stock markets. (I suppose some conspiracy people might think this is a good idea). ICOs also don't allow high frequency trading since trades can only take place as fast as blocks are added to the block chain and buried to a sufficient depth to be trusted.
Crypto currencies are a lot of things. "Convenient" is not among those things. I've tried several times to use bitcoins but it's a total pain in the ass, so I own zero bitcoins. Bitcoin? more like shitcoin. I'm joking, but seriously - bitcoin has to be the world's least convenient way to pay for anything.
I don't remember signing for a credit card statement in YEARS. I think the only country I have heard that is still using signatures is the United States. Oddly they are also the only country I know that doesn't have straight up debit cards with no credit card company as a pre-processor.
I think both Visa and MasterCard have known for a long time that signatures doesn't a good way to prevent fraud from happening there just hasn't been much traction in letting the change happen.
I do it all the time. I signed the credit card thingy after paying for dinner last night. I don't know how you've avoided it, it's not like it's optional unless you selected debit and used chip+pin.
That they will win that lawsuit with Uber...
They better hope so because otherwise they're doomed eventually. At least in Tampa, FL. USA, they share all the same drivers - but lyft rides are about twice the price. Honestly, given that it's the exact same thing for twice the money I don't know why anyone would choose to use lyft. It must be that they operate in some areas that Uber doesn't or something like that.
Relevant song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml6FNJAiH8I
That was awful. There has to be 20 songs based on SMB that are better.
I just hope an unsent text on a mobile never counts as a marriage proposal.
Marriage proposals have no legal weight. You are effectively hoping your unposted memes never count as a posted meme because neither has any legal impact.
Not necessarily: http://www.emedialaw.com/do-yo...
I know my brothers bank account information and he knows my information. For this to be legit they need to look at the draft timestamp and compare it to the autopsy time of death.
Yes, but that seems obvious enough that the court MUST have checked it.
In other news Elon Musk doesn't understand being poor.
In other other news, PR (or Donald Trump) is going to have to pay someone for a new power grid. Might as well give them the new hotness instead of the old busted.
This is a pretty expensive thin client. For a little bit more, I can buy a MacBook with 16 gigs of RAM, an i7, and 512 GB of SSD.
Enjoy your soldered-in SSD and RAM. I'm not interested in the Chromebooks, either, but for that money I will rather buy an easily expandable laptop. And it won't be a barn-burner, either, but once that SSD craps out, I will be able to replace it or upgrade it.
Agreed. 1992 called and they want their chromebooks and macbooks back. It was a hard fought battle with manufacturers before we started seeing expandable portable devices on the market. It's very frustrating when you see people just accepting this reversion to inferior solutions that some of us worked very hard to eliminate.
No shit, sherlock. Thanks for figuring that out for us. Pretty much every company that has made a product has such goals. In other news, water is still wet.
Meh. I once spent $1400 on a video card for a computer. Some people are phone enthusiasts. Unless they don't have the money, to those people there is no price that is "too much."
Funny how they slipped "entertainment" in with the needs list. It can be argued transportation isn't a need, either but entertainment doesn't even really need an argument. I guess those selling entertainment (Chicago Tribune) would love for entertainment to become a need.
Forbes.com the internet site is just a blogging platform like Wordpress.com.
Really? I'm surprised. I don't read it because of their aggressive popups that happen when you first go to the site so I would have never known. Funny how things change...
"Hey guys, we think you're corrupt and stealing money, so we want you to adopt this new system that will make it harder to be corrupt and steal money."
And we're surprised the plan failed?
Exactly. Nobody should be surprised at all. Maybe next year we can spend a few hundred million on a campaign to have criminals imprison themselves instead of the inefficient process of having them be apprehended, prosecuted, transported to prison etc...
Who exactly got the $160 million bucks? That would be a story actually worth reading.
"All that interest"? I though the public has *lost* interest in this since then.
You are correct. He's just sensationalizing. The money was probably all gone after DB spent a week in vegas... or a weekend in New York.
This article is poppycock. Steve Jobs loved the ipod shuffle because he got millions of dollars from selling it. End of story.
Lenovo sees profits in Android shrinking, cuts costs.
Maybe, but many of us who use android hate the customizations done by handset manufacturers. It's why so many people went to the trouble of installing 3rd party operating systems. I can't adequately explain my disdain for the bixby virus that I've got on my Galaxy S8+. I guess that's my bad for not doing research before buying an upgrade this year.
Honestly I had no idea lenovo made cell phones. Now that I know they're making them with stock android they will definitely be on my list to check out before my upgrade next year.
Headlines that contain questions should be answered with no. The answer to this headline is no. Thank you, Ian Betteridge.
There's no question in this headline...
Isn't encryption pretty much the only reason to use whatsapp? There's far easier software to use if you don't care about encryption.. facebook, aol instant messenger, IRC... there's probably only about 5,000 different options.
Maybe is down, because everyone is checking if is really down...
Are they checking because it's down or is it down because they are checking. The world may never know.
This. I work for the Seattle city government, and we demand a less than four hour response to all break-ins. We are trying very hard.
That's pretty pathetic. To be useful it needs to be a lot closer to 15 minutes. Otherwise, they're never going to catch anyone or save any lives. At 1+ hours, all they're doing is playing secretary as they write a report. If you can't protect your citizens better than that, you should be encouraging gun ownership and self defense/home security type training for citizens. In Tampa, FL I've had to call the police 2 or 3 times in the past decade. They've always come very quickly, I don't have actual times but I'm thinking close to 15 minutes for sure. I just can't get over it. You're proud of a 4 hour response time? That's really bad.
I should also point out, that in one of those incidents they caught the perpetrator nearby. If they'd waited 2 or 3 hours he would have been long gone.
This. I work for the Seattle city government, and we demand a less than four hour response to all break-ins. We are trying very hard.
That's pretty pathetic. To be useful it needs to be a lot closer to 15 minutes. Otherwise, they're never going to catch anyone or save any lives. At 1+ hours, all they're doing is playing secretary as they write a report.
If you can't protect your citizens better than that, you should be encouraging gun ownership and self defense/home security type training for citizens.
In Tampa, FL I've had to call the police 2 or 3 times in the past decade. They've always come very quickly, I don't have actual times but I'm thinking close to 15 minutes for sure.
I just can't get over it. You're proud of a 4 hour response time? That's really bad.
Seriously, this is why we have such serious problems in this country today! You are laying a problem at the hands of capitalism, which is actually entirely created by government! Let me guess you solution is going to be more regulations too.
Lets break this day.
FDA (government) say to drug makers you need to set expiration dates. They say okay well we know they will be good for three years our packaging technology and stabilizers are at least that good. Safe bet for us, because...
FDA (government) tells Hospitals/pharmacies/individuals they must toss out any expired drugs. So the drug makers don't need to worry about anyone actually determining these things can be used long past the manufacture guarantee, or worse that one of their competitors has better packaging / a more stable drug that they might choose for its long shelf life.
Still more context government F'ed over the market place by creating the perverse nonsense of employers buying you health insurance. When they created complex rules around taxable income. Think about this, does your employer offer you auto insurance as a benefit, or a homeowners/renters policy, NO! literally no employees do that, why is that? Because health insurance got setup as a way for company to pay people more without incurring additional employment or income taxes. Similar tax breaks don't exist for other kinds of insurance so you don't seem them as part of employment compensation packages. 45 years later Democrats come along and offer this terrible sob story about how so many people lose coverage because the lose or change a jobs, and government has to do something about; a problem created entirely by bad government policy in the first place.
So half the population does not really feel what they are paying for insurance because half of it is the employer contribution and they don't ever have to directly write those checks. Than insurers actually pay their medical bills so they don't feel writing those checks either. Consequence 80% of the participants in medical care don't have any clear perspective or care about what things actually cost! So nobody bothers to figure out if we are tossing good drugs into the landfill. All thanks to big government interference in the market place!
Seriously there is a STUPID simple fix to the healthcare problems we are facing! 1) Repeal Obamacare. 2) Ensure medicaid is available and adequately funded to help the people who really are below the poverty line and can't afford any kind of even catastrophic coverage. 3) Withdraw the corporate tax incentives to offer medical coverage, this will mean all the HR time associated with that is pure overhead and will discourage them from doing so. 3a) Allow individuals to deduct medical coverage from income taxes but ONLY if they pay them directly, not if they are done as payroll deduction, this make employees not want corporate heal benefits. Now this is actually government interference but its to counter decades of expectations and should have an expiration date, maybe ten years, after which you would be allow to deduct anything done as a payroll deduction as well. 4) Allow people to choose "inferior" care, relax rules that require physicians to perform certain procedures and issue a range of prescriptions, so patients can choose facilities where nurse practitioners and other less expensive resources can do these. 5) Reduce regulations on drugs and drug manufacture, not eliminate mind you just roll back the number of inspections, identifying the most expensive regulations to comply with that are offering the least benefit in terms of safety. Torts will take care of the rest.
Let the market work. This will result in enough price consciousness to actually lower prices, and creates opportunities to lower real costs. A strong individual insurance market would reemerge.
You had me up until the point where you said we should do exactly what you claim the problem is in the first place. It's horrible.. horrible, I tell you! But let's do it anyway, because it will serve my interests this time.
How about no.
How does a coal gasification plant switch to natural gas? It doesn't. You close the coal gasification plant and the power generation station switches from coal gas to natural gas.
Who the fuck lets these illiterate morons publish shit?
So what? Presumably, the one plant had both types of equipment. You must have been desperate to go on a rant today. I've been there.
You raise a good point. What will happen when people realize they don't need to pay for land if they are in a vehicle that constantly drives itself around?
Sounds like something that would make for a good book or movie.