they're probably figured out the cultural problems that are destroying us; we'd look like a particularly poor, insane, and violent slum
Violence is a consequence of evolution. If there are any aliens, they are probably equally violent and insane.
I believe that evolution to the point of comprehending FTL travel requires a transcendence beyond violence into a state of calm, self assured control of one's own destiny - and sharing that sense with a larger society.
I think somebody needs to make an "Aliens" movie where the extra-terrestrials have infiltrated Earth and averted multiple nuclear wars by various shenanigans, including making launched ICBMs malfunction.
It is indeed magnificent hair, but so incongruous with his head as to make one wonder why Trump can't allow someone with an actual sense of style to refine his look?
There will come the day that Linux has a "good enough" desktop experience and anything offered by commercial competition just doesn't matter. For me, for most applications, that day came somewhere 5-10 years ago. For big companies' IT departments, hell shall freezeth over long before...
This will never go mainstream at scale as long as the underlying transactions are so fabulously expensive. I read a recent analysis that actual blockchain verified trades can cost as much as $20 to execute (when accounting for the capital and power costs of all the people involved in competing for the initial hash solution).
Even if a trade only costs $0.20, that's still too high to compete with the likes of Visa and MasterCard - at scale, and the 2.75%+ that CC companies charge is going to have to creep into mainstream cybercurrency transaction schemes as well to cover practical costs of fraud, customer service and investor dividends in the real world.
I used to work for a (thinly) publicly traded penny-stock company, every year near Christmas its value would tank, usually to around 30-50% of where it was in the October-November time frame. What it was mostly attributed to was people reviewing their portfolio at the end of the year and selling their holdings for "whatever the market will pay," which is what drives the price down initially - then a little bit of panic selling follows that. I think some people do it to book their loss (or gain) before the tax year ends.
ISPs are the new interstate highway system. I don't think the progress in commerce since Eisenhower was attributable to the toll roads that are a part of our highway system, it was the free access high speed long distance arteries.
Getting the regulations out of the hands of the Executive Branch's appointees and into the muck of the Legislature and Supreme Court will go a long way to stabilizing the playing field.
The internet has been "a big deal" for 20 years, I think we should be able to craft some sensible legislation about it by now.
I had to justify the purchase of a specialized hypervisor developers' license (~$30K USD) that comes with a per-copy sold royalty (~$50/copy) to an "engineering" director a little over a year ago... his astute observation: "aren't we already paying a per device license fee for Microsoft Office?"
The product has a copy of Microsoft Windows embedded, there is nothing resembling a word processing, spreadsheet, or powerpoint presentation anywhere in the product. But, it's all that software stuff, right?
It's a backwards analogy, but I have found that good law resembles programming. Legal documents, with clearly defined terms, good coverage of the possible use cases, and explicit prescriptions as to what happens in response to the described actions are a better analogy for computer programming than most other things I have encountered.
It will make an impact, but the next 16 years are going to be a period of extreme environmental upheaval in the Arctic as the cap starts to melt every summer.
I realize that bitcoin is traded like a stock or commodity, but with the complete lack of underlying substance, wouldn't predicting the future odds of the Jets winning the Superbowl be equally relevant to society? Maybe even moreso?
Nice thought Cringely, but if Netflix used ZeroTier, somebody is going to pay more than $750 per month just for the electricity to power the switches that carry their traffic.
What they're setting the stage for here are takedown notices to YouTube, etc. to suppress the community. Like the guy said, there's no stopping it, but if we burn all the books, it will slow it down.
Sometimes the people with the medical license are prohibited from helping you by law
This actually happens a LOT. The legal mainstream stuff is basically all that their license/insurance/institution allows them to practice. There are many treatments that have better risk/benefit ratios than the mainstream, but are under-developed, not widely studied, nor publicized and even if your doc does know of one that's applicable to you, odds are he's not going to even tell you about it because he's negatively incentivized to do so.
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they're probably figured out the cultural problems that are destroying us; we'd look like a particularly poor, insane, and violent slum
Violence is a consequence of evolution. If there are any aliens, they are probably equally violent and insane.
I believe that evolution to the point of comprehending FTL travel requires a transcendence beyond violence into a state of calm, self assured control of one's own destiny - and sharing that sense with a larger society.
I think somebody needs to make an "Aliens" movie where the extra-terrestrials have infiltrated Earth and averted multiple nuclear wars by various shenanigans, including making launched ICBMs malfunction.
Journalists invent sensationalist bullshit around whatever their sources actually say. It would appear to be required for success in their field.
If they've been visiting frequently since the 1950s, they must have some kind of "non-contamination" policy at work.
I can't "believe" like Mulder yet, either - but I'm not ready to disbelieve based on the lack of evidence.
It is indeed magnificent hair, but so incongruous with his head as to make one wonder why Trump can't allow someone with an actual sense of style to refine his look?
The death of the desktop was a thing being pushed a few years back... doesn't seem to have completely taken hold yet.
There will come the day that Linux has a "good enough" desktop experience and anything offered by commercial competition just doesn't matter. For me, for most applications, that day came somewhere 5-10 years ago. For big companies' IT departments, hell shall freezeth over long before...
This will never go mainstream at scale as long as the underlying transactions are so fabulously expensive. I read a recent analysis that actual blockchain verified trades can cost as much as $20 to execute (when accounting for the capital and power costs of all the people involved in competing for the initial hash solution).
Even if a trade only costs $0.20, that's still too high to compete with the likes of Visa and MasterCard - at scale, and the 2.75%+ that CC companies charge is going to have to creep into mainstream cybercurrency transaction schemes as well to cover practical costs of fraud, customer service and investor dividends in the real world.
I used to work for a (thinly) publicly traded penny-stock company, every year near Christmas its value would tank, usually to around 30-50% of where it was in the October-November time frame. What it was mostly attributed to was people reviewing their portfolio at the end of the year and selling their holdings for "whatever the market will pay," which is what drives the price down initially - then a little bit of panic selling follows that. I think some people do it to book their loss (or gain) before the tax year ends.
ISPs are the new interstate highway system. I don't think the progress in commerce since Eisenhower was attributable to the toll roads that are a part of our highway system, it was the free access high speed long distance arteries.
Getting the regulations out of the hands of the Executive Branch's appointees and into the muck of the Legislature and Supreme Court will go a long way to stabilizing the playing field.
The internet has been "a big deal" for 20 years, I think we should be able to craft some sensible legislation about it by now.
But, is HFT a game that's even worth playing - for society at large?
Is there anything (significant) about HFT that doesn't just concentrate wealth into fewer hands?
I'm missing the distinction between throttling and fast-lanes?
Will there be a guaranteed minimum bandwidth? If not, then anyone not in the fast-lanes is effectively being throttled.
I had to justify the purchase of a specialized hypervisor developers' license (~$30K USD) that comes with a per-copy sold royalty (~$50/copy) to an "engineering" director a little over a year ago... his astute observation: "aren't we already paying a per device license fee for Microsoft Office?"
The product has a copy of Microsoft Windows embedded, there is nothing resembling a word processing, spreadsheet, or powerpoint presentation anywhere in the product. But, it's all that software stuff, right?
It's a backwards analogy, but I have found that good law resembles programming. Legal documents, with clearly defined terms, good coverage of the possible use cases, and explicit prescriptions as to what happens in response to the described actions are a better analogy for computer programming than most other things I have encountered.
Bad law is like java.
Not-Invented-Here is a major cultural component in engineering.
It will make an impact, but the next 16 years are going to be a period of extreme environmental upheaval in the Arctic as the cap starts to melt every summer.
I realize that bitcoin is traded like a stock or commodity, but with the complete lack of underlying substance, wouldn't predicting the future odds of the Jets winning the Superbowl be equally relevant to society? Maybe even moreso?
Seriously now, for a moment, systemd on Raspbian seems to slash boot time by about half - which is important when you power the Pi on...
Tobacco managed to stall until broadcast TV has begun to dwindle into irrelevance... the fight with big Sugar will last much longer.
Nice thought Cringely, but if Netflix used ZeroTier, somebody is going to pay more than $750 per month just for the electricity to power the switches that carry their traffic.
Next up: self driving electric semi trucks.
Waiting for charging will be a bummer.
What they're setting the stage for here are takedown notices to YouTube, etc. to suppress the community. Like the guy said, there's no stopping it, but if we burn all the books, it will slow it down.
Sometimes the people with the medical license are prohibited from helping you by law
This actually happens a LOT. The legal mainstream stuff is basically all that their license/insurance/institution allows them to practice. There are many treatments that have better risk/benefit ratios than the mainstream, but are under-developed, not widely studied, nor publicized and even if your doc does know of one that's applicable to you, odds are he's not going to even tell you about it because he's negatively incentivized to do so.