The tradition to gift gold exists basically in every country. The question is how much you give, and of course many now rather give money.
I give the wife rhodium plated silver now instead. Cost is much cheaper- and she always wanted "white" gold anyway- so the look isn't any different. She's fine with that.
No, I'm expanding on what "fixed" really means. If someone can just create a cryptocurrency out of thin air, then the old notion of "fixed" is inadequate.
It doesn't matter how easy it is to switch to another competing coin. The fact that a competitor can exist means supply has increased. If demand for a competitor is high, that affects the value of your coin whether or not you can sell it. And that makes it even worse because you can't do anything about it. At least with "real" money in a stock market, you can still trade. With crypto, per your own argument, you're stuck.
Wish I could mod you up- this is insightful and not something I'd thought about. Bitcoin was supposed to be deflationary because there was a limited amount; but it's impossible to be completely deflationary when anyone can come along and make a new crypto. Sure, bitcoin itself is limited- but Bitcoin can't ever have a monopoly on the crypto scene without the backing of a government. Something it was created to avoid. A major oversight from the creator of bitcoin.
The general idea I got that the majority of postings here said that it would break, only that nobody knew when. So I would like to see who these hundreds of users are that claimed it and I see AC as one user. That said, saying it will go up is a standard thing to say when you want to sell.
Yeah, it was all pretty predictable. And because there is a use for them on the blackmarket I think a lot of us saw that when the bubble did pop- it wouldn't lose all value- it would retain some baseline value.
Everything went how I expected it- except one. I thought that when the banks got involved it would stabalise the currency and make the ups and downs less extreme. If anything, the banks getting involved have made it more volatile. So I definitely got that prediction wrong.
I want to know where the hundreds of people who used to post here about how Bitcoin had no limits, that every last Bitcoin would soon be worth a million bucks went to. They've been embarrassingly silent lately.
Come back! We want to say "told you so!".
Seriously, where are they now?
To be honest- I still wish I had bought a bunch of bitcoin when they were $1 or $2 each. I remember laughing at them then... I still would be a wealthy man if I had bought then and sold now./assuming they weren't stolen from me, or I lost the key... or... any of the many other dangers of losing bitcoins.
In the words of Warren Buffett, it's called "the greater fool business model" and it's the belief that a greater fool will come along and pay you more than you paid.
It worked for some of them. For every man that lost $1000 in this scheme, another man gained $1000. Of course, overall there is a net loss because it takes energy to create the coins in the first place.... and it's probably going to happen all over again- I hear Bitcoin is up sharply again now... another cycle of redistribution of wealth from one investor to another may be about to begin.
I'd hang on to that book. It could actually be handy when EMP from the nuclear war knocks out stuff. Even the solar calculators may not work in nuclear winter. But your book will continue to work.
I don't think I'll be looking up chi square values after the bomb drops.
Do they only allow the TI-84? My school allowed either a Casio (model # forgotten) or a TI-84. I used the Casio for a while but I realized the coin cell batteries to keep them going was going to add up over the years. I know HP had some good calculators that some college classes allowed.
I had a Casio, I liked it because I already knew BASIC so I could easily write my own games for the Casio. I can't remember why, but the TIs out at the time were less desirable to me to program on.
Then senior year at high school rolled around and they made us get those HP calculators... they already had so many games written for them I didn't bother writing my own.
Just let about a dozen cats loose in the building and they'll automatically find the warmest spots to snuggle up and take a nap on. Then you add more fans or whatever to that area. That costs basically nothing
You've not met my cats!!!! Vet bills are not free!
In my case, I work at a public university in a state where emails from state employees are considered public record - so I'm guessing we won't be seeing this "confidential mode" anytime soon.
In any case, I use IMAP with Google mail because the web interface sucks (compared to a desktop mail program).
They asked us to delete all our e-mails (and did it for us if over a certain date); but everyone I knew, kept a copy of all their important emails saved to their desktops.
I’m assuming admins can disable it, given records retention policies...
Some places I've worked retention policies worked the other way. You were against policy to keep an e-mail for more than X time frame. (3 months one place, 1 year another). When you work at a bank, e-mails are a potential liability.
Because your university keeps adding nice to have features like Echo Dots instead of investing in actually teaching you something.
Whereas what you say is undeniably true; one could say that this has been fairly inexpensive advertising. As cheap as dots are commercially (frequently on sale $30 or less)- this probably cost SLU in bulk $20 each or less. If they have 5,000 dorm rooms that's $100k at most (I see they have about 13,000 students- some surely live off campus and the others I'm sure are two to a room- so they probably have less than 5,000 dorm rooms in reality).
$100k sounds a lot of money, but it's probably a fairly cheap ad campaign for the coverage they've got- and the students get something out of it. Probably better use of advertising money than putting out traditional advertising of the same cost. If they get 5 students to sign up as a result of this advertisement that wouldn't have otherwise, the ad has probably paid for itself.
It concluded that the vast majority of Americans get plenty of the hormone naturally, and advised doctors to test only patients at high risk of certain disorders, such as osteoporosis.
A few months later, in June 2011, Dr. Holick oversaw the publication of a report that took a starkly different view.
There is definitely some sort of big D conspiracy going on.
I'm not a doctor, and I don't even play one on TV; but I can state I'm skeptical of the whole Vit D. Every year my doctor tells me to up my D intake. First it was, take a multivitamin; then it was... that's not enough, that only has 100% of daily need- you should be getting 500% of what is recommended the recommended level is too low.
Every year he tells me I should be taking more and more...... I've stopped listening to him about the issue, even though every year he tells my Vit D levels in my blood are too low- they're merely average. I think he's become brain washed by some strange D cult. He's all about the D.
So in other words someone who believed NDEs were just a hallucination had a hallucination and so assumed it was real. Lots of intelligent people have had hallucinations, experienced delusions, or developed dementia or other mental problems.
Being a neurosurgeon doesn't prevent you from being a victim of delusion.
The same goes with flooding: the reason flooding seems to be getting worse is due to the destruction of marshlands and buffer areas and building hardscape surfaces on coastal areas. It has nothing to do with "rising sea levels" or anything else. You can't destroy the local environment and expect things to remain the same.
Whereas flooding IS made much worse nowadays compared to the past by the reasons you state above there is no reason to put "rising sea levels" in quotes. This is a known phenomenon. Even if you don't believe in global warming for whatever reason, sea levels are very accurately measured by satellites and unless all the global space agencies are conspiring to lie about sea levels*; sea level rising is a fact.
Coupled with sea level rising though, and perhaps a much bigger problem in most places is the fact that many coastal cities are sinking. With ground water being pumped out it causes subsidence- many cities are sinking at a much faster rate than sea level is rising.
* Which probably is more believable than believing global warming is fake- but still absurd.
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The tradition to gift gold exists basically in every country.
The question is how much you give, and of course many now rather give money.
I give the wife rhodium plated silver now instead. Cost is much cheaper- and she always wanted "white" gold anyway- so the look isn't any different. She's fine with that.
At that point, does it become cheaper to look for Gold outside of Earth- or get it from sea water?
No, I'm expanding on what "fixed" really means. If someone can just create a cryptocurrency out of thin air, then the old notion of "fixed" is inadequate.
It doesn't matter how easy it is to switch to another competing coin. The fact that a competitor can exist means supply has increased. If demand for a competitor is high, that affects the value of your coin whether or not you can sell it. And that makes it even worse because you can't do anything about it. At least with "real" money in a stock market, you can still trade. With crypto, per your own argument, you're stuck.
Wish I could mod you up- this is insightful and not something I'd thought about. Bitcoin was supposed to be deflationary because there was a limited amount; but it's impossible to be completely deflationary when anyone can come along and make a new crypto. Sure, bitcoin itself is limited- but Bitcoin can't ever have a monopoly on the crypto scene without the backing of a government. Something it was created to avoid. A major oversight from the creator of bitcoin.
It should begin with:
Surprising Exactly Nobody...
Well, OK, surprising the poor suckers who bought into this high-tech reinvention of the classic pump-and-dump I guess, but no-one else.
I don't think it even surprised most of the investors. They just thought they would get out before it crashed. Oops!
The general idea I got that the majority of postings here said that it would break, only that nobody knew when.
So I would like to see who these hundreds of users are that claimed it and I see AC as one user.
That said, saying it will go up is a standard thing to say when you want to sell.
Yeah, it was all pretty predictable. And because there is a use for them on the blackmarket I think a lot of us saw that when the bubble did pop- it wouldn't lose all value- it would retain some baseline value.
Everything went how I expected it- except one. I thought that when the banks got involved it would stabalise the currency and make the ups and downs less extreme. If anything, the banks getting involved have made it more volatile. So I definitely got that prediction wrong.
I want to know where the hundreds of people who used to post here about how Bitcoin had no limits, that every last Bitcoin would soon be worth a million bucks went to. They've been embarrassingly silent lately.
Come back! We want to say "told you so!".
Seriously, where are they now?
To be honest- I still wish I had bought a bunch of bitcoin when they were $1 or $2 each. I remember laughing at them then... I still would be a wealthy man if I had bought then and sold now. /assuming they weren't stolen from me, or I lost the key... or... any of the many other dangers of losing bitcoins.
In the words of Warren Buffett, it's called "the greater fool business model" and it's the belief that a greater fool will come along and pay you more than you paid.
It worked for some of them. For every man that lost $1000 in this scheme, another man gained $1000. Of course, overall there is a net loss because it takes energy to create the coins in the first place. ... and it's probably going to happen all over again- I hear Bitcoin is up sharply again now... another cycle of redistribution of wealth from one investor to another may be about to begin.
I'd hang on to that book. It could actually be handy when EMP from the nuclear war knocks out stuff. Even the solar calculators may not work in nuclear winter. But your book will continue to work.
I don't think I'll be looking up chi square values after the bomb drops.
I actually don't think it's that outrageous considering that it is hardware. At least kids today can instead use an app on their phone.
Not at my kid's school. They made us all buy $180 calculators for our kids going into Freshman year.
Do they only allow the TI-84? My school allowed either a Casio (model # forgotten) or a TI-84. I used the Casio for a while but I realized the coin cell batteries to keep them going was going to add up over the years. I know HP had some good calculators that some college classes allowed.
I had a Casio, I liked it because I already knew BASIC so I could easily write my own games for the Casio. I can't remember why, but the TIs out at the time were less desirable to me to program on.
Then senior year at high school rolled around and they made us get those HP calculators... they already had so many games written for them I didn't bother writing my own.
That's a LOT better than the knots-on-strings I learned with.
I remember when string was invented. It saved time on having to make arrays of chars.
800 Million Users; only one political opinion allowed.
That's correct -- what an embarrassing error. Thanks for pointing it out. We have fixed it.
It may have been a misquote; but it was probably an accurate one.
'This is Now Your Father's Microsoft'
I was always suspicious why my mum carried a photo of Bill Gates in her purse.
Just let about a dozen cats loose in the building and they'll automatically find the warmest spots to snuggle up and take a nap on. Then you add more fans or whatever to that area. That costs basically nothing
You've not met my cats!!!! Vet bills are not free!
and cats are provably smarter than AI.
You've not met my cats!!!
In my case, I work at a public university in a state where emails from state employees are considered public record - so I'm guessing we won't be seeing this "confidential mode" anytime soon.
In any case, I use IMAP with Google mail because the web interface sucks (compared to a desktop mail program).
They asked us to delete all our e-mails (and did it for us if over a certain date); but everyone I knew, kept a copy of all their important emails saved to their desktops.
Not that it'll be worth much, I bet he plagiarised that too..
I’m assuming admins can disable it, given records retention policies...
Some places I've worked retention policies worked the other way. You were against policy to keep an e-mail for more than X time frame. (3 months one place, 1 year another). When you work at a bank, e-mails are a potential liability.
Unplugging it would be so much easier.
Because your university keeps adding nice to have features like Echo Dots instead of investing in actually teaching you something.
Whereas what you say is undeniably true; one could say that this has been fairly inexpensive advertising. As cheap as dots are commercially (frequently on sale $30 or less)- this probably cost SLU in bulk $20 each or less. If they have 5,000 dorm rooms that's $100k at most (I see they have about 13,000 students- some surely live off campus and the others I'm sure are two to a room- so they probably have less than 5,000 dorm rooms in reality).
$100k sounds a lot of money, but it's probably a fairly cheap ad campaign for the coverage they've got- and the students get something out of it. Probably better use of advertising money than putting out traditional advertising of the same cost. If they get 5 students to sign up as a result of this advertisement that wouldn't have otherwise, the ad has probably paid for itself.
I'd be pissed if I had already made plans to stay in one of their halls and they then pull this crap.
Yes, it would be very difficult to unplug it if you personally had a problem with the device.
One last time:
KALE is what you put AROUND the salad - it is the garnish, it is NOT the salad!
Within reason, people should eat whatever they want. Ideally it would be something healthy (and kale isn't unhealthy).
I'm not a huge fan of the stuff myself, but if people want to eat kale, let them eat kale.
It concluded that the vast majority of Americans get plenty of the hormone naturally, and advised doctors to test only patients at high risk of certain disorders, such as osteoporosis.
A few months later, in June 2011, Dr. Holick oversaw the publication of a report that took a starkly different view.
There is definitely some sort of big D conspiracy going on.
I'm not a doctor, and I don't even play one on TV; but I can state I'm skeptical of the whole Vit D. Every year my doctor tells me to up my D intake. First it was, take a multivitamin; then it was... that's not enough, that only has 100% of daily need- you should be getting 500% of what is recommended the recommended level is too low.
Every year he tells me I should be taking more and more... ... I've stopped listening to him about the issue, even though every year he tells my Vit D levels in my blood are too low- they're merely average. I think he's become brain washed by some strange D cult. He's all about the D.
So in other words someone who believed NDEs were just a hallucination had a hallucination and so assumed it was real. Lots of intelligent people have had hallucinations, experienced delusions, or developed dementia or other mental problems.
Being a neurosurgeon doesn't prevent you from being a victim of delusion.
The same goes with flooding: the reason flooding seems to be getting worse is due to the destruction of marshlands and buffer areas and building hardscape surfaces on coastal areas. It has nothing to do with "rising sea levels" or anything else. You can't destroy the local environment and expect things to remain the same.
Whereas flooding IS made much worse nowadays compared to the past by the reasons you state above there is no reason to put "rising sea levels" in quotes. This is a known phenomenon. Even if you don't believe in global warming for whatever reason, sea levels are very accurately measured by satellites and unless all the global space agencies are conspiring to lie about sea levels*; sea level rising is a fact.
Coupled with sea level rising though, and perhaps a much bigger problem in most places is the fact that many coastal cities are sinking. With ground water being pumped out it causes subsidence- many cities are sinking at a much faster rate than sea level is rising.
* Which probably is more believable than believing global warming is fake- but still absurd.