I share your sentiment but it's unfortunate this is the way the world has progressed.
People get hold of land when it's cheap, then a city is built around it. These landowners may have helped a bit to develop the city over generations, but ultimately it's the many other people who choose to come to the city and settled down that make the city a good place to live, and the land valuable. Early land owners reap the benefits of the increased economic activity on the land they own, then they become rich and powerful.
Up to a less peaceful level, wealth and power disparity induce revolution, but after every revolution the society is just reshuffled and new self-serving elites pop up the same way they did before. But over history, the lives of people are improving, and the world becomes a teenie bit fairer. Bitcoin may just be like that; it's all the same crap but overall it's a big change that might promise a better world.
I personally hope Bitcoin would fail but the many better versions of it would succeed, so that there is a better likelihood that things would turn out "fair".
1) Bitcoin can migrate to new crypto algorithms. The process may not be easy, but there should be enough time to buffer.
2) Eletronic cash systems do not offer anything close to the vision promised by decentralized cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
For 2), it is important to note that the "use of real currency" is far from immaterial. These real cash still have to pass through banks, and it is still ultimately a currency over which a central bank and by extension its government has full control, exactly the thing Bitcoin was trying to avoid. They can use "anything", but before Bitcoin this "anything" would also have been something controlled by a central authority, which in Mondo's case would be Mastercard.
There are many things to worry about Bitcoin, such as failing to properly maintain true decentralization, but some of your concerns aren't valid.
Unlike URLs, it's easy to brute force phone numbers from their hashes. Phone numbers are short and often have low entropy, from what I have seen the arbitrarily assignable part is usually no more than 8 digits, the rest being related to geographic region etc. Even with say 10-11 digits it is trivial for a GPU.
Many people are simply not so much exposed to these events / competitions, but still go on to become better students at undergraduate level and beyond.
They bring out talent from high school students, but at that point it is still far, far from real innovation. The problem setters and mentors are often university students anyway. These things encourage students to go beyond their high-school curriculum and think cleverly, so they have some great skills to use in industrial or academic settings. They are capable of entering the workforce, capable of joining and growing new businesses, but there is nothing special about their ability to "innovate". They still have a lot to learn, and in terms of cleverness there are many, many comparable university graduates out here.
Inventing really new things require some luck, and unless you're extremely lucky it would require extensive exploration. One page of new mathematics requires lots of thinking and learning. Even a prodigy like Erik Demaine spent 6 years on his PhD. Being smart doesn't mean you can always create something new - new, valid ideas are so scarce and hard to reach, and there is immense competition, so you still need to work hard for a long time to actually produce the results.
For any Playstation 4 household with more than one TV I think the PS Vita TV will become a 'must-have' accessory; it's almost like getting a second PS4 for $100.'"
Can you still call it a killer app if it could only fill the intersection of three niches?
On a related note, I wonder if they will try to force VAT (Value Added Tax) on bitcoin transactions?
Once they place Bitcoin on an appropriate place in the law books, I don't see any reason they won't. It's mostly as easy as taxing "normal" transactions.
Sorry, I didn't read carefully: he does claim to own a corporation. But I maintain that he shows more sympathy to workers than corporations in his arguments.
Don't mod parent down so much that it disappears. It must stay and be exposed to ridicule. It serves as a blatant example for why people should at least RTFS before posting, and also why this ruling is important - there is an entire rotten culture to be cleared up around unpaid internships, and this ruling is a start.
You shall be ashamed to patronize people for so little that you repay them for their labor. It should also be quite clear the ruling does not apply to unpaid internships that actually have real educational value to the student (it's written right there FFS). Free labor for grunt work is simply abuse; both of students and regular employees. If we let people take these internship positions because "it looks good on their CV" or any other crap like that, it is a race down to the bottom of no benefit to the society.
Goodbye to those kind of internships? If a job like that is lost, we really lose nothing. Paid internships and unpaid meaningful work are unaffected. If a student has to do meritless free labor to gain credits, then the college is equally guilty. The student may as well be jobless, and find a better way to learn something of value - the student pays the opportunity cost, so you have nothing to patronize them about. Everyone doing worthless internships is worse than nobody doing internships, except for the pockets of those abusive employers.
Then there are much more important things to do than searching the phone immediately at the crash just for evidence of texting and calling. There's plenty of time for the police to do whatever they want.
Neither does it care about international borders. The fact is that if people in China live their lives like people in the US then their pollution levels and energy spending would only be much, much higher. If you take countries instead of human beings as your base units this way, you would well come to the conclusion that the Chinese should starve because they eat more food than the Americans.
Not that I have a problem with what you say, but the context was... again that fnj was stating the beginning of your argument, then an AC didn't notice why he was picking out CO2, which I pointed out to him.
Actually most CS PhD's out there don't do too heavy theoretical work. They do, however, write more proof-of-concept level programs and systems, than actually producing engineering quality programs.
Try to pick up a paper in non-theoretical journals or conference proceedings you'll see most of them describing a new concept or application of theory, and then its implementation. A lot PhD students come up with the concepts and write the code, which are sometimes referred to as "experiments". Many projects are even about making the programs themselves.
On the other hand, I agree a lot of theoreticians don't like to code, but a lot of them were also once quite good at it. They maybe did so much coding since before school that they began to hate it, or simply have little interest in pure engineering. Then you'll find some who still retain an interest in coding, and I think they are quite easy to spot.
Except you can now compare Kobo not with Amazon, but the e-book department of Amazon.
I didn't really buy into the CEO's comments because I believe Amazon would have had an e-book team larger than their entire company. But I didn't think his conclusions must be wrong, because indeed the Amazon would adjust its e-book related operations to serve the enterprise's other interests.
Now that I know Rakuten owns it, it's a different story.
Indeed. In "A Brief History of Time", he says he likes to make bets against his own theories, as a kind of insurance for when they go wrong. He'd definitely like to bet against what he would like to believe.
You'll need to look at the economic value of mining, and also compare the numbers to the cost of the infrastructure those of current currency/payment systems. I have no substantial information on both, but let's not pretend cash and credit cards are cheap to maintain...
Not that I think Hawking contributed that much to his field, but I think even being in the top 100 alive makes it into the list of "one of the greatest". After all, there are dozens of physics Nobel laureates still alive, a lot of them haven't even retired yet...
Not really.. using touch to me has been a compromise, usually made in exchange for the nice form factor of a tablet. If ASUS touchpads weren't so bad I would have used my Transformer without touching the screen. I am still quite a lot more accurate and swift using the keyboard and the mouse, and touch screen interfaces are has really not been optimal for doing real work.
Learn to separate the following three things:
1) What the CEO says
2) What the accounting department shows you
3) How people in the company actually do stuff
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I share your sentiment but it's unfortunate this is the way the world has progressed.
People get hold of land when it's cheap, then a city is built around it. These landowners may have helped a bit to develop the city over generations, but ultimately it's the many other people who choose to come to the city and settled down that make the city a good place to live, and the land valuable. Early land owners reap the benefits of the increased economic activity on the land they own, then they become rich and powerful.
Up to a less peaceful level, wealth and power disparity induce revolution, but after every revolution the society is just reshuffled and new self-serving elites pop up the same way they did before. But over history, the lives of people are improving, and the world becomes a teenie bit fairer. Bitcoin may just be like that; it's all the same crap but overall it's a big change that might promise a better world.
I personally hope Bitcoin would fail but the many better versions of it would succeed, so that there is a better likelihood that things would turn out "fair".
At least that would give us better voters. Letting people recognize good political decisions is better than making them successful.
Didn't you see the phrase "lesser extent"?
1) Bitcoin can migrate to new crypto algorithms. The process may not be easy, but there should be enough time to buffer.
2) Eletronic cash systems do not offer anything close to the vision promised by decentralized cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
For 2), it is important to note that the "use of real currency" is far from immaterial. These real cash still have to pass through banks, and it is still ultimately a currency over which a central bank and by extension its government has full control, exactly the thing Bitcoin was trying to avoid. They can use "anything", but before Bitcoin this "anything" would also have been something controlled by a central authority, which in Mondo's case would be Mastercard.
There are many things to worry about Bitcoin, such as failing to properly maintain true decentralization, but some of your concerns aren't valid.
Unlike URLs, it's easy to brute force phone numbers from their hashes. Phone numbers are short and often have low entropy, from what I have seen the arbitrarily assignable part is usually no more than 8 digits, the rest being related to geographic region etc. Even with say 10-11 digits it is trivial for a GPU.
Many people are simply not so much exposed to these events / competitions, but still go on to become better students at undergraduate level and beyond.
They bring out talent from high school students, but at that point it is still far, far from real innovation. The problem setters and mentors are often university students anyway. These things encourage students to go beyond their high-school curriculum and think cleverly, so they have some great skills to use in industrial or academic settings. They are capable of entering the workforce, capable of joining and growing new businesses, but there is nothing special about their ability to "innovate". They still have a lot to learn, and in terms of cleverness there are many, many comparable university graduates out here.
Inventing really new things require some luck, and unless you're extremely lucky it would require extensive exploration. One page of new mathematics requires lots of thinking and learning. Even a prodigy like Erik Demaine spent 6 years on his PhD. Being smart doesn't mean you can always create something new - new, valid ideas are so scarce and hard to reach, and there is immense competition, so you still need to work hard for a long time to actually produce the results.
For any Playstation 4 household with more than one TV I think the PS Vita TV will become a 'must-have' accessory; it's almost like getting a second PS4 for $100.'"
Can you still call it a killer app if it could only fill the intersection of three niches?
On a related note, I wonder if they will try to force VAT (Value Added Tax) on bitcoin transactions?
Once they place Bitcoin on an appropriate place in the law books, I don't see any reason they won't. It's mostly as easy as taxing "normal" transactions.
Sorry, I didn't read carefully: he does claim to own a corporation. But I maintain that he shows more sympathy to workers than corporations in his arguments.
I'm pretty sure he's speaking in support of the labor side rather than any corporation you think he owns.
Don't mod parent down so much that it disappears. It must stay and be exposed to ridicule. It serves as a blatant example for why people should at least RTFS before posting, and also why this ruling is important - there is an entire rotten culture to be cleared up around unpaid internships, and this ruling is a start.
You shall be ashamed to patronize people for so little that you repay them for their labor. It should also be quite clear the ruling does not apply to unpaid internships that actually have real educational value to the student (it's written right there FFS). Free labor for grunt work is simply abuse; both of students and regular employees. If we let people take these internship positions because "it looks good on their CV" or any other crap like that, it is a race down to the bottom of no benefit to the society.
Goodbye to those kind of internships? If a job like that is lost, we really lose nothing. Paid internships and unpaid meaningful work are unaffected. If a student has to do meritless free labor to gain credits, then the college is equally guilty. The student may as well be jobless, and find a better way to learn something of value - the student pays the opportunity cost, so you have nothing to patronize them about. Everyone doing worthless internships is worse than nobody doing internships, except for the pockets of those abusive employers.
Then there are much more important things to do than searching the phone immediately at the crash just for evidence of texting and calling. There's plenty of time for the police to do whatever they want.
Neither does it care about international borders. The fact is that if people in China live their lives like people in the US then their pollution levels and energy spending would only be much, much higher. If you take countries instead of human beings as your base units this way, you would well come to the conclusion that the Chinese should starve because they eat more food than the Americans.
Not that I have a problem with what you say, but the context was... again that fnj was stating the beginning of your argument, then an AC didn't notice why he was picking out CO2, which I pointed out to him.
Divide 20% by 120% and see what you get.
If you bothered to RTFA, CO2 emissions was the only metric used in the report. Hence the context.
Actually most CS PhD's out there don't do too heavy theoretical work. They do, however, write more proof-of-concept level programs and systems, than actually producing engineering quality programs.
Try to pick up a paper in non-theoretical journals or conference proceedings you'll see most of them describing a new concept or application of theory, and then its implementation. A lot PhD students come up with the concepts and write the code, which are sometimes referred to as "experiments". Many projects are even about making the programs themselves.
On the other hand, I agree a lot of theoreticians don't like to code, but a lot of them were also once quite good at it. They maybe did so much coding since before school that they began to hate it, or simply have little interest in pure engineering. Then you'll find some who still retain an interest in coding, and I think they are quite easy to spot.
Except you can now compare Kobo not with Amazon, but the e-book department of Amazon.
I didn't really buy into the CEO's comments because I believe Amazon would have had an e-book team larger than their entire company. But I didn't think his conclusions must be wrong, because indeed the Amazon would adjust its e-book related operations to serve the enterprise's other interests.
Now that I know Rakuten owns it, it's a different story.
Indeed. In "A Brief History of Time", he says he likes to make bets against his own theories, as a kind of insurance for when they go wrong. He'd definitely like to bet against what he would like to believe.
It is interesting to note that politicians who claim to want the best for big business are NEVER themselves successful big business owners
I would worry about some other things when a powerful politician, who can deal with policies about businesses, also runs a successful business.
You'll need to look at the economic value of mining, and also compare the numbers to the cost of the infrastructure those of current currency/payment systems. I have no substantial information on both, but let's not pretend cash and credit cards are cheap to maintain...
Not that I think Hawking contributed that much to his field, but I think even being in the top 100 alive makes it into the list of "one of the greatest". After all, there are dozens of physics Nobel laureates still alive, a lot of them haven't even retired yet...
Not really.. using touch to me has been a compromise, usually made in exchange for the nice form factor of a tablet. If ASUS touchpads weren't so bad I would have used my Transformer without touching the screen. I am still quite a lot more accurate and swift using the keyboard and the mouse, and touch screen interfaces are has really not been optimal for doing real work.
Learn to separate the following three things: 1) What the CEO says 2) What the accounting department shows you 3) How people in the company actually do stuff
With all the hard work beating Donkey Kong she'll find herself ending up with a short fatty with a funny moustache that dresses like a pervert...