That's their job. They are social assassins sent in to destroy a community's defenses so that it's ripe for a hostile takeover.
Why was Brendan Eich targeted for his political views of a decade ago? Because somebody wanted him out of his position at Mozilla so that something could be done with the organization that he wouldn't allow. The drama was all a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
As someone from a German decent I abhor neo-nazi rhetoric and white supremacy rhetoric
Your heart is in the wrong place, but you've been fooled into accepting the doctrine of your enemies.
You believe that it's possible to be a good white person who does all the right things and thus will not be attacked any more, because since you are a moral and virtuous person you tend to believe others are like you.
In the final analysis, a "white supremacist" is any white person who is still breathing.
You can disavow racism, and suprecemacy, and nazis, and anything else they tell you to disavow, but now matter how much you comply they will not stop attacking you until you stop breathing.
Lower operational temperature is a result of still using solid fuel/water cooled designs.
We're stuck cladding the fuel with zirconium, which become flammable/produces hydrogen at embarrassingly low temperatures.
MSR/LFTR doesn't have that problem...
You really think that no public sector employee has figured out yet that they could infect their own work computers with malware and get a bitcoin advance on their pension while blaming the east fuckistanians?
(*) I'm a fan of Trump, and would welcome informed debate about the candidates. Unfortunately, most people here can't rub two words together to spark a rational argument. Anyone is welcome to take that as a challenge, if you feel up to it.
If you can listen to Trump for more than 60 seconds without recoiling in disgust and wanting to change the channel then I have bad news for you. That makes you an even bigger douchebag than Trump.
I suppose trying and failing is better than not even trying at all.
You know, if I had all the FICA money that went to the Feds on my account over the years, either with interest applied or inflation-adjusted with a reasonable real interest rate added, my personal savings would be even healthier than they are.
The reason people like me don't want to have Social Security and Medicare stripped is that we have been forced to pay for these all of our working lives, and we think we deserve at least something of what we paid for.
Sorry, but you were robbed. You didn't "pay in" to anything - you money was taken and given to your grandparents (as well as being spent by politicians to buy votes).
You can justly complain all you want about how unfair this is, and you can try to take up the issue with the people who actually robbed you, but you have no right whatsoever to inflict the same robbery on your descendants. They aren't the ones who robbed you, so they aren't responsible for it.
You also had your entire life to prepare for retirement, and at ample warning going all the way back to the 1980s about how the system was financially unsustainable, so if you didn't heed the warnings and aren't prepared now, that's also not your descendants' fault.
The generation who doesn't vote is busy building technology which renders the politicians' mandates increasingly-impossible to enforce.
By the time that generation is done, it won't matter what the politicians say anymore because math will trump force.
That's the possibility that should really terrify the Boomers and make them clamour for increased surveillance - the possibility that their grandchildren might have both the means and the desire to avoid paying the payroll taxes which keep the Boomers' monthly checks flowing.
Don't assume that anyone involved with Bitcoin since the beginning had any illusions about how it would be received by the incumbents.
Bitcoin early adopters are more prepared for the conflict than the incumbents, because they knew a fight was coming before the incumbents knew Bitcoin existed.
It's a great point: people who don't have an emotional investment in the Department of X can easily see that the people who make up the Department only care only for improving their own power and financial position, and are making X even worse both by getting in the way and also by consuming valuable resources that could be used to actually provide X instead.
The difficult part is realizing this is true for all X, even the ones which are your personal favorites.
You can send Dollars or gold over Ripple - you can transfer promissory nodes for those things.
The difference between a promissory note and the value the note represents is something that Ripple should be trying to clarify - instead they seek to obscure it.
Because they try to pretend that promissory notes are equal to underlying assets, they don't include any features that would act like leverage limits. There is no ability to deal with counterparty risk rationally in their system, since trust in a counterpary is binary.
In real world, liabilities of different entities are discounted by a value that reflects their credit risk. Ripple does not permit this operation. You either value liabilities at par or not at all.
As others have mentioned, their consensus system is neither distributed nor trustless. It's a centralized, badly-designed, debt accounting system trying to pretend it's a trustless cryptocurrency.
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That's their job. They are social assassins sent in to destroy a community's defenses so that it's ripe for a hostile takeover.
Why was Brendan Eich targeted for his political views of a decade ago? Because somebody wanted him out of his position at Mozilla so that something could be done with the organization that he wouldn't allow. The drama was all a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
As someone from a German decent I abhor neo-nazi rhetoric and white supremacy rhetoric
Your heart is in the wrong place, but you've been fooled into accepting the doctrine of your enemies.
You believe that it's possible to be a good white person who does all the right things and thus will not be attacked any more, because since you are a moral and virtuous person you tend to believe others are like you.
In the final analysis, a "white supremacist" is any white person who is still breathing.
You can disavow racism, and suprecemacy, and nazis, and anything else they tell you to disavow, but now matter how much you comply they will not stop attacking you until you stop breathing.
Lower operational temperature is a result of still using solid fuel/water cooled designs. We're stuck cladding the fuel with zirconium, which become flammable/produces hydrogen at embarrassingly low temperatures. MSR/LFTR doesn't have that problem...
You really think that no public sector employee has figured out yet that they could infect their own work computers with malware and get a bitcoin advance on their pension while blaming the east fuckistanians?
NSA needs plausible deniability for their hardware backdoors, thus the push for software backdoors.
I suppose trying and failing is better than not even trying at all.
I went down the same road, and sometime circa 2005 I switched to Gentoo and never looked back.
If your definition of currency requires that it be the liability of a counterparty, then who need that shit anyway?
By that standard, Bitcoin is better than currency.
Don't forget mass murder.
There's a very good reason for that: periodic internal purges are an essential component of the belief system.
CO2 levels below 400 ppm is relatively close to the level at which plants can not survive.
In terms of having healthy land ecosystems, 1000 - 2000 ppm is a far more historically normal range
Sorry, but you were robbed. You didn't "pay in" to anything - you money was taken and given to your grandparents (as well as being spent by politicians to buy votes).
You can justly complain all you want about how unfair this is, and you can try to take up the issue with the people who actually robbed you, but you have no right whatsoever to inflict the same robbery on your descendants. They aren't the ones who robbed you, so they aren't responsible for it.
You also had your entire life to prepare for retirement, and at ample warning going all the way back to the 1980s about how the system was financially unsustainable, so if you didn't heed the warnings and aren't prepared now, that's also not your descendants' fault.
The will rediscover the value of personal savings, and won't rely on a Ponzi scheme for their retirement plan.
The generation who doesn't vote is busy building technology which renders the politicians' mandates increasingly-impossible to enforce.
By the time that generation is done, it won't matter what the politicians say anymore because math will trump force.
That's the possibility that should really terrify the Boomers and make them clamour for increased surveillance - the possibility that their grandchildren might have both the means and the desire to avoid paying the payroll taxes which keep the Boomers' monthly checks flowing.
It's shocking exactly how easy it is to verify this fact and how little difference that has made to the narrative.
Clearly the people who continue to verbally attack McCarthy aren't attacking him for being incorrect - they're attacking him for being right.
Really?
I would have thought the description of how the copilot behaved would have brought out some MKUltra speculation by now.
Schools are boredom generators which teach students to loathe and fear learning.
Putting coding in the schools is a great way to plow salt into the fields and demoralize the next generation of programmers.
Why isn't this headline, "Game Theory Called Into Question for Failing to Predict Observed Examples of Cooperation?"
Don't assume that anyone involved with Bitcoin since the beginning had any illusions about how it would be received by the incumbents.
Bitcoin early adopters are more prepared for the conflict than the incumbents, because they knew a fight was coming before the incumbents knew Bitcoin existed.
...until the nerds invented Bitcoin.
Imagine a Netflix subscriber who lives in the USA, then moves to Europe for work reasons.
Unless they use a VPN to appear to still be accessing from the US, they'll lose access to certain shows.
It's a great point: people who don't have an emotional investment in the Department of X can easily see that the people who make up the Department only care only for improving their own power and financial position, and are making X even worse both by getting in the way and also by consuming valuable resources that could be used to actually provide X instead.
The difficult part is realizing this is true for all X, even the ones which are your personal favorites.
Ripple is a debt accounting system.
You can send Dollars or gold over Ripple - you can transfer promissory nodes for those things.
The difference between a promissory note and the value the note represents is something that Ripple should be trying to clarify - instead they seek to obscure it.
Because they try to pretend that promissory notes are equal to underlying assets, they don't include any features that would act like leverage limits. There is no ability to deal with counterparty risk rationally in their system, since trust in a counterpary is binary.
In real world, liabilities of different entities are discounted by a value that reflects their credit risk. Ripple does not permit this operation. You either value liabilities at par or not at all.
As others have mentioned, their consensus system is neither distributed nor trustless. It's a centralized, badly-designed, debt accounting system trying to pretend it's a trustless cryptocurrency.
Use whatever services you want to use.
Refrain from using services you do not wish to use.
Allow other people to make their own choices, or fuck off.
Why, in 2014, are there still people who don't know how to use search engines? The mind boggles.