newbies get less and less as more and more people join.
As a mining system/wealth distribution system, sure. But mining on bitcoin is pretty much completely insignificant compared to the rest of its uses these days. It is the trade value, not the storage value, where the interestingness of bitcoin truly lies.
Why do you expect the prosecutor not to prosecute him under the law when he clearly violated the law?
The whole point of this thread is not that the prosecutor shouldn't have, but that the system is broken if it causes this situation to arise in the first place, which it has, dozens of times if not more.
I would argue #1 isn't either of those...it's to form emotional, intellectual and social bonds with people who are going into your field. To know who knows and thinks what and why. To understand not just the problems of your field, but who's working on them and how far they've gotten, and the motivations for all of it. Science occurs in a context, and we go to school to take part in that context. Of course you have to be capable of the above, too, but this is an example of a higher level goal.
Watson will be able to outpace us in this area, someday, too. All it needs is to marry Siri or Google and all our motivations and social bonds become compromised to it.
Really, under any sane interpretation of north american politics, Toronto *is* under the sphere of influence, militarily(wasn't US force used during G20?), culturally(American TV & movies, etc) and so on of the centres of power in the US. For all intents other than taxes and other relatively insignificant matters, Watson was *right*.
People in Toronto are basically US subjects, with taxation(Canada giving the US government handouts for softwood lumber, etc) but no representation.
And ask him what you can do to improve yourself? Do so in a way that gives him work to do in correcting you. But either way...offer to buy bad code offsets
You can always learn, and the world can always stand to benefit from more people offsetting their Bad Code.
There are types who can do without. Different strokes for different folks
Way to completely miss his point. Of course you can. It's not about whether an individual is naturally immune to Tuberculosis or not, it's whether the herd is. There is value in a highly educated society that emerges only when you've got enough of them. When your friends and family aren't killing themselves over the latest suicide cult because they have enough education to understand the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, you're better off.
To what 'depth' are you suspecting bitcoin transactions are going, if not one-level deep? While I'll admit that its' in principle possible to have non-final transactions, have you ever actually heard of any?
'Access to the internet' is a bit of a fluid concept. Everyone has access to Iridium internet connections, for the forseable future. Given that a substantial majority of the population of the world own a comptuer (read: cellphone), we're almost there. This isn't 1992 where universal internet access was still a pipe dream -- we're *almost* there. Not quite, but within our lifetime we'll see it. See M-PESA and how the bottom of the pyramid is where this is happening -- access to free banking systems might just be the "killer app" for the remaining parts of humanity without access to them.
The difference is BitCoins are pretty much useless, while the others are processing real data in an attempt to benefit society.
Tell that to Wikileaks(1hb5x), who were able to raise 35,000$+ worth of bitcoin when all other methods failed. Admittedly that number could be larger, but the fact that they were able to do that much in and of itself is something.
Right now, we've been looking at a consistent 1E6-2E6 BTC worth of transactions a day. That's, at current prices, about 1E7-2E7 USD per day in transactions. 365 days of that, is about 7E9 USD, which is actually more than the economy of Somalia. So what kind of "trouble" are "we" in, anyway?
This will only work if we can cut default fees down from the 0.0005 BTC they are currently at. Not saying it can't be done, but we're not there yet. (Disclaimer: I am long bitcoin)
These glasses offer no major advantages over a smartphone.
You can use both hands while wearing them, and probably drive and operate complex equipment requiring both hands with them
It's not like they won't be able to make them with curved lenses. The *glass* might have to be somewhat custom to the wearer, but that's already the case for most of our computers/mobes anyway, right?
Being able to photograph a random stranger and, with the picture, pull up personal details about the person is what is going to allow our Dunbar number to astronomically rise and to facilitate social interaction and organization on an *unheard of* level in human history.
It's not like the world consists entirely of software, contrary to some people around here -- there are real problems to be solved out there that require real engineering talent and effort. The solutions to those problems are either valuable in themselves and worth working on for their own sake or for the sake of their rewards.
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So if it's not the prosecutor, which part of the system do you think is broken?
The whole damn thing.
Also, even in the maximalist US, Copyright isn't property. You don't pay property tax on it.
newbies get less and less as more and more people join.
As a mining system/wealth distribution system, sure. But mining on bitcoin is pretty much completely insignificant compared to the rest of its uses these days. It is the trade value, not the storage value, where the interestingness of bitcoin truly lies.
Why do you expect the prosecutor not to prosecute him under the law when he clearly violated the law?
The whole point of this thread is not that the prosecutor shouldn't have, but that the system is broken if it causes this situation to arise in the first place, which it has, dozens of times if not more.
I would argue #1 isn't either of those...it's to form emotional, intellectual and social bonds with people who are going into your field. To know who knows and thinks what and why. To understand not just the problems of your field, but who's working on them and how far they've gotten, and the motivations for all of it. Science occurs in a context, and we go to school to take part in that context. Of course you have to be capable of the above, too, but this is an example of a higher level goal.
Watson will be able to outpace us in this area, someday, too. All it needs is to marry Siri or Google and all our motivations and social bonds become compromised to it.
On the contrary -- it's us who gets it wrong
Really, under any sane interpretation of north american politics, Toronto *is* under the sphere of influence, militarily(wasn't US force used during G20?), culturally(American TV & movies, etc) and so on of the centres of power in the US. For all intents other than taxes and other relatively insignificant matters, Watson was *right*.
People in Toronto are basically US subjects, with taxation(Canada giving the US government handouts for softwood lumber, etc) but no representation.
And ask him what you can do to improve yourself? Do so in a way that gives him work to do in correcting you. But either way...offer to buy bad code offsets
You can always learn, and the world can always stand to benefit from more people offsetting their Bad Code.
That is not how 1 block, 1 vote works.
There are types who can do without. Different strokes for different folks
Way to completely miss his point. Of course you can. It's not about whether an individual is naturally immune to Tuberculosis or not, it's whether the herd is. There is value in a highly educated society that emerges only when you've got enough of them. When your friends and family aren't killing themselves over the latest suicide cult because they have enough education to understand the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, you're better off.
To what 'depth' are you suspecting bitcoin transactions are going, if not one-level deep? While I'll admit that its' in principle possible to have non-final transactions, have you ever actually heard of any?
GDP measures flow. Transaction volume measures flow. Where's the stock?
That's been done, it's not profitable
'Access to the internet' is a bit of a fluid concept. Everyone has access to Iridium internet connections, for the forseable future. Given that a substantial majority of the population of the world own a comptuer (read: cellphone), we're almost there. This isn't 1992 where universal internet access was still a pipe dream -- we're *almost* there. Not quite, but within our lifetime we'll see it. See M-PESA and how the bottom of the pyramid is where this is happening -- access to free banking systems might just be the "killer app" for the remaining parts of humanity without access to them.
The difference is BitCoins are pretty much useless, while the others are processing real data in an attempt to benefit society.
Tell that to Wikileaks(1hb5x), who were able to raise 35,000$+ worth of bitcoin when all other methods failed. Admittedly that number could be larger, but the fact that they were able to do that much in and of itself is something.
hit 'submit' instead of 'preview'. doh.
Right now, we've been looking at a consistent 1E6-2E6 BTC worth of transactions a day. That's, at current prices, about 1E7-2E7 USD per day in transactions. 365 days of that, is about 7E9 USD, which is actually more than the economy of Somalia. So what kind of "trouble" are "we" in, anyway?
This will only work if we can cut default fees down from the 0.0005 BTC they are currently at.
Not saying it can't be done, but we're not there yet.
(Disclaimer: I am long bitcoin)
These glasses offer no major advantages over a smartphone.
It's not like they won't be able to make them with curved lenses. The *glass* might have to be somewhat custom to the wearer, but that's already the case for most of our computers/mobes anyway, right?
They haven't "caught up" with the bandwidth requirements because they've been too busy pushing DRM and "customer frustration" down your throat.
Are you an american?
I'll take it seriously when I get my Baywords account back.
Being able to photograph a random stranger and, with the picture, pull up personal details about the person is what is going to allow our Dunbar number to astronomically rise and to facilitate social interaction and organization on an *unheard of* level in human history.
Fuck the MPAA, and those who watch and promote this movie giving them fuel.
To scratch the next itch?
It's not like the world consists entirely of software, contrary to some people around here -- there are real problems to be solved out there that require real engineering talent and effort. The solutions to those problems are either valuable in themselves and worth working on for their own sake or for the sake of their rewards.
Banking and buying online won't be the last things to be cut off, either.
Interacting in any way shape or form with any computers which are used to bank or buy online will be the next on the chopping block.
That's the windows tablet memory I remember.