BTC supporters tell me that BTC is going to fundamentally transform the economy. I'd certainly like to know a little about who created it, why they created it, and who financed its creation. Sunlight...disinfectant...and all that.
Volatility is a weakness, not a strength, for a digital currency. It's fine to be volatile when a currency is just starting out, but no supporter should be excited by it or want more of it.
You expect the waiter to act like a professional, not whine about their feeings, and do their job like a boss. When did being professional become a lost art?
The market economy, based on deep human psychological propensities, is an extraordinarily effective societal instrumentality for planning and coordinating the production and distribution of scarce, rival, excludable commodities.
There'll be a short-term bounce back--people have too much ideology invested in BTC to believe otherwise, but the long-term viability may be in danger. But I doubt the attackers care about that issue.
Many Olympic sports have "a single country cannot send more than X athletes to compete in this sport" rule. So a pure medals per capita analysis may be misleading.
I've tried the rsync and Unison solutions. If you have all Windows boxes (2 PCs and 2 laptops for my family), the free Microsoft SyncToy is very user friendly to keep a Documents or a Pictures directory synchronized across multiple boxes.
Petrol may well be more valuable than gold in a Mad Max scenario, but don't think for a moment that any collection of humans will not want a way to disintermediate their labor and have a means of trade.
Within their society they'd use reputation-based credit, and with outsiders they'd use petrol. It's not clear why they'd need gold at all in your example.
Almost everyone would pick a million US dollars over the equivalent in gold or bitcoin. You can exchange it easily for practically anything you'd want, and the value is relatively stable.
Same here. I developed an allergy to a certain type of tree nut. Before I went into shock as a child, my parents fed me all sorts of food and nuts, no hesitations. It's bizarre when people assume that food allergies are caused by parental avoidance--usually they just happen.
The problem is that there are an infinite possible number of cryptographically signed digital currencies.
I'm not a BitCoin fan, but I'm not sure I buy this argument, because it seems too close to saying "gold can have no value because lots of other metals exist." How do you differentiate those two arguments?
I understood him to be commenting on the number, not the existence, of the photos. I'm the designated archivist for the family's (7 members in 2 households) photos. At last check , I have about 20k photos in the archive. It's hard to imagine having "hundreds of thousands" without having enormous amounts of redundant or irrelevant photos, which is what the parent post is poking fun of.
You're describing an issue that's independent of DST. School districts have school hours, job have work hours, and people have to coordinate the two, which often don't match.
Sounds like your school district needs to set the school hours so that the start hour in winter is later than the sunrise hour. I'm not sure why you would blame the clock or time zone for the decisions of your school superintendent.
" All the good learning and counter points that have helped me grow, or pissed me off entirely, have been in forums and comments. Not in books."
Reading a book gives you a well-reasoned, long-view argument but omits alternate perspectives. Reading comments on internet news gives you those alternate perspectives but the articles often can't see the forest for the trees, unless you're specifically visiting a site that does long-term-research, multi-page articles. I've found that the best of both worlds is to read a book, then to search on C-SPAN Video or similar sites to watch author interviews and viewer-call-in shows. CSPAN Book TV is really great for this purpose.
It takes chutzpah to make an extraordinary claim, then when people ask you for evidence of your claim, call them lazy gits for not debunking you themselves.
If there's anything the Euro crisis is teaching the political leaders of the world, it's that if you give up control of your nation's currency, you risk giving up control of your nation's fate and losing your political power. No one wants to be the next equivalent of the Southern Europeans groveling before the next equivalent of the Germans. Global currency in 20 years? Yeah not going to happen.
I'm concerned that you qualified "freedom" with "economic." It's the sort of thing people who live in relative political and religious freedom do because they take it for granted.
I was just reading a book about the civil rights era. A black man had irritated the local Southern sheriff. The local sheriff took him out back, shouted "he's coming right at me!" in his police radio, and shot the man several times. The man miraculously survived, so the local prosecutor charged him with assaulting the sheriff. This particular incident had little to do with economic freedom.
All the economic freedom in the world is fantastic, but political and religious freedom matter just as much.
"It's always been socially cool to mock something that's new and different."
Really? What other new technologies have been mocked? Smartphones? DVD players? Walkmans? Game consoles?
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BTC supporters tell me that BTC is going to fundamentally transform the economy. I'd certainly like to know a little about who created it, why they created it, and who financed its creation. Sunlight...disinfectant...and all that.
Volatility is a weakness, not a strength, for a digital currency. It's fine to be volatile when a currency is just starting out, but no supporter should be excited by it or want more of it.
It's just an excuse to have an open thread and chat. If that's not your thing, that's fine.
You expect the waiter to act like a professional, not whine about their feeings, and do their job like a boss. When did being professional become a lost art?
Malkavian on 2nd playthrough is how I played it and it was fantastic.
If you like the Batman series, you might like the newest Tomb Raider. Uncharted-style gameplay with Arkham Asylum-style exploring and collectibles.
If you like Beyond Good & Evil, you should try Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, which was ported to Windows in October. I really enjoyed both.
There'll be a short-term bounce back--people have too much ideology invested in BTC to believe otherwise, but the long-term viability may be in danger. But I doubt the attackers care about that issue.
Many Olympic sports have "a single country cannot send more than X athletes to compete in this sport" rule. So a pure medals per capita analysis may be misleading.
I've tried the rsync and Unison solutions. If you have all Windows boxes (2 PCs and 2 laptops for my family), the free Microsoft SyncToy is very user friendly to keep a Documents or a Pictures directory synchronized across multiple boxes.
Within their society they'd use reputation-based credit, and with outsiders they'd use petrol. It's not clear why they'd need gold at all in your example.
Almost everyone would pick a million US dollars over the equivalent in gold or bitcoin. You can exchange it easily for practically anything you'd want, and the value is relatively stable.
Same here. I developed an allergy to a certain type of tree nut. Before I went into shock as a child, my parents fed me all sorts of food and nuts, no hesitations. It's bizarre when people assume that food allergies are caused by parental avoidance--usually they just happen.
The problem is that there are an infinite possible number of cryptographically signed digital currencies.
I'm not a BitCoin fan, but I'm not sure I buy this argument, because it seems too close to saying "gold can have no value because lots of other metals exist." How do you differentiate those two arguments?
I understood him to be commenting on the number, not the existence, of the photos. I'm the designated archivist for the family's (7 members in 2 households) photos. At last check , I have about 20k photos in the archive. It's hard to imagine having "hundreds of thousands" without having enormous amounts of redundant or irrelevant photos, which is what the parent post is poking fun of.
Perhaps we should start exchanging goods and services with the exchange of WELL FUCK I DONNO goods and services?
You have a small business with several employees. It's time to make payroll so you whip out the goods and services box and...
You're describing an issue that's independent of DST. School districts have school hours, job have work hours, and people have to coordinate the two, which often don't match.
Sounds like your school district needs to set the school hours so that the start hour in winter is later than the sunrise hour. I'm not sure why you would blame the clock or time zone for the decisions of your school superintendent.
" All the good learning and counter points that have helped me grow, or pissed me off entirely, have been in forums and comments. Not in books."
Reading a book gives you a well-reasoned, long-view argument but omits alternate perspectives. Reading comments on internet news gives you those alternate perspectives but the articles often can't see the forest for the trees, unless you're specifically visiting a site that does long-term-research, multi-page articles. I've found that the best of both worlds is to read a book, then to search on C-SPAN Video or similar sites to watch author interviews and viewer-call-in shows. CSPAN Book TV is really great for this purpose.
It takes chutzpah to make an extraordinary claim, then when people ask you for evidence of your claim, call them lazy gits for not debunking you themselves.
The parent post asked for a citation, which you haven't provided.
If there's anything the Euro crisis is teaching the political leaders of the world, it's that if you give up control of your nation's currency, you risk giving up control of your nation's fate and losing your political power. No one wants to be the next equivalent of the Southern Europeans groveling before the next equivalent of the Germans. Global currency in 20 years? Yeah not going to happen.
I'm concerned that you qualified "freedom" with "economic." It's the sort of thing people who live in relative political and religious freedom do because they take it for granted.
I was just reading a book about the civil rights era. A black man had irritated the local Southern sheriff. The local sheriff took him out back, shouted "he's coming right at me!" in his police radio, and shot the man several times. The man miraculously survived, so the local prosecutor charged him with assaulting the sheriff. This particular incident had little to do with economic freedom.
All the economic freedom in the world is fantastic, but political and religious freedom matter just as much.
"It's always been socially cool to mock something that's new and different."
Really? What other new technologies have been mocked? Smartphones? DVD players? Walkmans? Game consoles?