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"Deflation" just means that your money is worth more as time goes by because the economy grows in productivity. This only happens if the growth is actually taking place - and growth does not happen forever in a finite universe, and certainly not on a finite planet.
Anyone arguing against deflation is simply arguing for the State's right to reach into every pocket at the same time by printing money. This is a great deal if your pockets are empty and the some portion of the proceeds from the theft might land in them. Otherwise it plain old sucks.
Proponents of government-issued fiat currency: be honest and call inflation a tax. But don't lie and paint non-rotting money as some kind of Medieval torment which the Enlightenment graciously set us free from.
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via, http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/analysis_of_how.html#c927907
Economics is an open field and and ongoing debate. You go to a school and they only teach you to use microsoft tools or whatever tech companies have been financially supporting them with their generous 'free' licenses. So guess what type of economics the state run schools are going to teach you..
Deflation - good for you, bad for the state. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6E1k2YO9qU
Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
The argument is basically that hoarding will make Bitcoins so valuable that nobody will be willing to offer people enough to part with them. Does that pass the giggle test? Another way of stating the argument is this, "If gold is $2,000/oz today but people think it will be $5,000/oz next year, nobody will trade any gold today." Again, think about it. Does that pass the giggle test either?
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/408/does-hoarding-really-hurt-bitcoin
Yah, I got the 3rd party app to work no problem whatsoever. You have to subscribe to the tmobile unlimited internet service. I think its like $29.99 a month.
"But the tangle offers a safe refuge for the academics. It erects a wall between them and the rest of the world. It immunizes them against having to confront their own failings, since any genuine criticism can simply be absorbed into the morass and made indistinguishable from all the other verbiage. Intellectual tools that might help prune the thicket are systematically ignored or discredited. This is why, for example, science, psychology and economics are represented in the literary world by theories that were abandoned by practicing scientists, psychologists and economists fifty or a hundred years ago. The field is absorbed in triviality."
Here, despite all that you have learned about deconstruction, you show that you have yet succeeded in understanding it. Deconstruction has always been not about the practical, but about the bare foundations of thought. Though this may be trivial to you and your goals, this is exactly what the purpose of deconstruction is.
As for 'the wall between them and the rest of the world', your notion seems to lead more towards conformity and ad populum, rather then express rationality.
It is still going to require another registry that has central control. All this does is "one up" the game. What would be better is a global decentralized directory where anyone can broadcast their own name, and it is verified and authenticated by users storing the proper authentication key. This is slightly similair to what Skype has done with their global decentralized user directory.
Any downfalls you can name for this system still doesn't rule out the benefits of it being run IN ADDITION to central controled DNS with problems like Verisign.
Segway LCC is informing Segway HT owners by written letter of a voluntary recall to install new Version 12.0 software in all human transporters. Segway has filed it's intent with the US Consumer Products Safety Commission. The CSPC is a central source for manufacturers to coordinate necessary safety recall improvements to outstanding products.
A program of installing Version 12.0 software has already begun. All Segway HT machines in inventory at both Segway LLC and Segway Experience have been given the Version 12.0 software enhancement. The software will direct the human transporter to notify the rider earlier when the battery power is nearing a level when the power is not adequate to notify the rider of an impending safety shutdown.
All Segway owners will be contacted by written letter explaining the procedure that will bring the Version 12.0 software to their Segway HT. There is an information hotline 1-877-889-9020 from 8am to 8pm weekdays. There is no cost to the Segway HT owner for this software Version 12.0 enchancement. Customers of Segway Experience may call without cost, leave a question, and expect a prompt response. Or email questions to info@segwayexperience.net Having test riden the Version 12.0 software installed we can report there is no discernible change in the operation of the Segway HT and the added knowledge of a even safer riding experience. Electric batteries tend to have reduced capacity in cooler weather than warm weather.
"There are restrictions on this rebirth argument, though. For one thing, the fact that the universe will expand forever prevents a big crunch in our future, so we're at the end of the line if such a line existed."
But I think I remember Stephen Hawkings saying something like... A infinitely expanded and infinitely flat universe is relatively speaking, exactly the same thing as an infintesmal.
Hence, no contraction, but you get another big bang.
"An estimated 3 million people illegally watch satellite television using devices that unscramble satellite TV signals. The industry estimates it loses $4 billion a year in revenue."
Monopolistic distribution, intellectual roperty companies have been using this argument for a long time. When is someone going to do something to make it common knowledge that just because someone subverts barriers to GAIN, that it does not imply the company would have LOST money. Do any economists know a simple term for this principle? How do we make this public knowledge?
Sure, if you want to imply cathedral type individual idealism to everything. Personally, I think society is constantly moving towards a decentralized post-individual world.
What do you think of the new P2P Push breed (see story) that is emerging? Being yourself an expert in the P2P field, what do you think the possiblities are of P2P/decentralization growing out into broader types of location such as user location (think chat buddy lists) or website location (decentrealized DNS.)
Slashdot Mirror
" "Deflation" just means that your money is worth more as time goes by because the economy grows in productivity. This only happens if the growth is actually taking place - and growth does not happen forever in a finite universe, and certainly not on a finite planet. Anyone arguing against deflation is simply arguing for the State's right to reach into every pocket at the same time by printing money. This is a great deal if your pockets are empty and the some portion of the proceeds from the theft might land in them. Otherwise it plain old sucks. Proponents of government-issued fiat currency: be honest and call inflation a tax. But don't lie and paint non-rotting money as some kind of Medieval torment which the Enlightenment graciously set us free from. " via, http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/analysis_of_how.html#c927907
Economics is an open field and and ongoing debate. You go to a school and they only teach you to use microsoft tools or whatever tech companies have been financially supporting them with their generous 'free' licenses. So guess what type of economics the state run schools are going to teach you.. Deflation - good for you, bad for the state. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6E1k2YO9qU Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
In almost all forms of investment, early adopters profit from the rise in value. I dont see why this is any different.
The argument is basically that hoarding will make Bitcoins so valuable that nobody will be willing to offer people enough to part with them. Does that pass the giggle test? Another way of stating the argument is this, "If gold is $2,000/oz today but people think it will be $5,000/oz next year, nobody will trade any gold today." Again, think about it. Does that pass the giggle test either? http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/408/does-hoarding-really-hurt-bitcoin
PdaNet
Yah, I got the 3rd party app to work no problem whatsoever. You have to subscribe to the tmobile unlimited internet service. I think its like $29.99 a month.
wonder how did that whole overlords joke get started?
/etc/firmware/ipw2100-1.0.fw
/etc. Im glad to see people are following the LSB.
wow, so now firmware is considered a config file that belongs in
"But the tangle offers a safe refuge for the academics. It erects a wall between them and the rest of the world. It immunizes them against having to confront their own failings, since any genuine criticism can simply be absorbed into the morass and made indistinguishable from all the other verbiage. Intellectual tools that might help prune the thicket are systematically ignored or discredited. This is why, for example, science, psychology and economics are represented in the literary world by theories that were abandoned by practicing scientists, psychologists and economists fifty or a hundred years ago. The field is absorbed in triviality."
Here, despite all that you have learned about deconstruction, you show that you have yet succeeded in understanding it. Deconstruction has always been not about the practical, but about the bare foundations of thought. Though this may be trivial to you and your goals, this is exactly what the purpose of deconstruction is.
As for 'the wall between them and the rest of the world', your notion seems to lead more towards conformity and ad populum, rather then express rationality.
The new gentoo image creation program, called catalyst, does exactly what you are looking for.
Totally check it out. The movie is cool !
From Justin Nullsoft's .plan
June 27 2003 @ 5:17pm
Mmm got a Go Big Scooter today. IT ROCKS. So fast.
http://www.gobigscooters.com. Rad. Expensive, but good.
It is still going to require another registry that has central control. All this does is "one up" the game. What would be better is a global decentralized directory where anyone can broadcast their own name, and it is verified and authenticated by users storing the proper authentication key. This is slightly similair to what Skype has done with their global decentralized user directory.
Any downfalls you can name for this system still doesn't rule out the benefits of it being run IN ADDITION to central controled DNS with problems like Verisign.
Segway LCC is informing Segway HT owners by written letter of a voluntary recall to install new Version 12.0 software in all human transporters. Segway has filed it's intent with the US Consumer Products Safety Commission. The CSPC is a central source for manufacturers to coordinate necessary safety recall improvements to outstanding products.
A program of installing Version 12.0 software has already begun. All Segway HT machines in inventory at both Segway LLC and Segway Experience have been given the Version 12.0 software enhancement. The software will direct the human transporter to notify the rider earlier when the battery power is nearing a level when the power is not adequate to notify the rider of an impending safety shutdown.
All Segway owners will be contacted by written letter explaining the procedure that will bring the Version 12.0 software to their Segway HT. There is an information hotline 1-877-889-9020 from 8am to 8pm weekdays. There is no cost to the Segway HT owner for this software Version 12.0 enchancement. Customers of Segway Experience may call without cost, leave a question, and expect a prompt response. Or email questions to info@segwayexperience.net Having test riden the Version 12.0 software installed we can report there is no discernible change in the operation of the Segway HT and the added knowledge of a even safer riding experience. Electric batteries tend to have reduced capacity in cooler weather than warm weather.
Then I can spend the rest of eternity getting first posts!
"There are restrictions on this rebirth argument, though. For one thing, the fact that the universe will expand forever prevents a big crunch in our future, so we're at the end of the line if such a line existed."
... A infinitely expanded and infinitely flat universe is relatively speaking, exactly the same thing as an infintesmal.
But I think I remember Stephen Hawkings saying something like
Hence, no contraction, but you get another big bang.
"An estimated 3 million people illegally watch satellite television using devices that unscramble satellite TV signals. The industry estimates it loses $4 billion a year in revenue."
Monopolistic distribution, intellectual roperty companies have been using this argument for a long time. When is someone going to do something to make it common knowledge that just because someone subverts barriers to GAIN, that it does not imply the company would have LOST money. Do any economists know a simple term for this principle? How do we make this public knowledge?
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!
Do you understand how nice and customized a system the government could have if they put $471 million into personalizing their linux desktop ?
To give you an idea, Redhat, the leading linux distribution, as a company puts about $10 million into R&D each year.
Thats good. I like.
I also like, "Substantiality is inversely proportional to ponderability." - Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Hume
figured that out more then 200 years ago.
Why is science always the last to figure things out?
>All models are wrong. Some are useful.
What is your tagline based upon?
Sure, if you want to imply cathedral type individual idealism to everything. Personally, I think society is constantly moving towards a decentralized post-individual world.
What do you think of the new P2P Push breed (see story) that is emerging? Being yourself an expert in the P2P field, what do you think the possiblities are of P2P/decentralization growing out into broader types of location such as user location (think chat buddy lists) or website location (decentrealized DNS.)
Can anyone think of a printer I can buy which will not force me to use their own chipped cartridges ? That would be very hip and grooovy man.
Freenet, a system for free exchange of information without centralized control, is great. But isn't it time someone did this for Instant Messaging?
This is important. Mod this up.