Cryptocurrencies are neither crypto, nor currencies. Discuss.
True. I would use the term 'digital commodities' because their perceived value derives from the notion that the amount of each is algorithmically fixed. A currency is managed by a central bank to stay at a fixed ratio to the total value of goods they can be traded for.
I'm talking about the reruns of Keillor's version of the show he hosted before retiring, which is still far more popular than the forgettable new version that nobody really cares about. NPR will no longer be rebroadcasting the Keillor episodes. People who remember them and still demand them are guilty of thoughtcrime.
this makes NPR look like a bunch of retards, which they essentially are. Starbucks latte sipping snobs...
No, what makes NPR look like a bunch of retards is canceling every rerun of their biggest cash cow, their listeners' favorite weekly program, and trying to erase every trace of its existence, all because some chick suddenly pops up to object to Garrison Keillor hugging her forty years ago.
How much job automation will be driven by corporate legal and HR when they realize that a robot cannot be accused of sexual harassment? This will push automation even into the highly "social" jobs that involve a lot of interfacing with either customers or other employees, because these are the most legally vulnerable.
The next time a long-range sample return mission like the recently launched OSIRIS-REx is sent up, it could include a surface collection system to trap dust it encounters enroute. If panspermia is hiding in this stuff, revealing it in dust collected far from Earth's atmosphere would be much better proof, especially if the findings correlate with analysis of the returned sample itself. OSIRIS-REx will sample the surface of an asteroid, so whatever it finds will have been sitting out there for eons. That ship has sailed, but there will be other sample return probes.
It would not be that difficult for a private party to send up a special-purpose Earth-orbital mission to spend a year or two well outside the atmosphere exposing a collection surface, then return. OR...trap and return an old, dead geosynchronous satellite.
How does one go about it on a mac? I mean, I'm not in a hurry and my computer sits idle most of the time anyway. And it's in a cold room that could use the heat.
To do mining today, you will need your own dam. Then you get a roomful of ASIC servers. It's like Breaking Bad, but a lot less plausible.
The government has nukes, our little rifles won't mean squat.
Our military has highly developed powers for laying waste to large swatches of territory, but is no more ineffective than King George's minions at beating lightly armed guerrilla irregulars. It lost to the Viet Cong, and keeps losing Afghan territory to the Taliban as soon as our massed forces withdraw from an area and return control to the locals we so carefully trained.
Netflix invested large bucks in upgraded servers and bandwidth for streaming, but then found that rights holders were unwilling to let them do it. That’s why the streaming side of the company is a ghin gruel of expiring and second-line movies. To get selection, stay with Netflix DVD.
Unlike the James Damore faggot most men don't become afraid of women just by sitting next to them.
Except that if the man has a high-profile job forty years later, that woman can "come forward" and accuse him of anything they feel like. Under the new liberal parallel justice system that does not require evidence, the man automatically has to resign.
Considering the small but non-zero chance that one of these morons initiates something contagious and harmful, yes, I'm fine with the Feds cracking down on "basement biolabs".
But then again, it's even easier for this scenario to occur with normal hybridization in places where pigs and ducks are raised on farms.
Biohacking to produce lethal epidemics is more likely to be intentional and by terrorists. We will keep on watching for this using existing antiterror strategies.
Would you allow someone without a medical license to operate on you?
Being treated by a biohacker is a high-risk strategy that will kill quite a few people, but patients for whom the cost and availability of treatment exceeds their means are going to try it. And it is in the high-risk field that the next breakthrough may come.
Isn't the limited money supply one of the features? posting AC because I modded people.
Mathematically limited money supply was intended to make Bitcoin immune to inflation. This worked; since BTC was invented, the algorithm has never been cracked and the money supply has been asymptotically edging toward the limit of 21 million coins as new coin is mined.
What the Bitcoiners failed to realize is that if you hold the supply of a money constant, it loses its value as a neutral medium of exchange because people perceive it as becoming more valuable with time. It gets hoarded, and this is what is happening with Bitcoin. When BYC first went on the air, coins were priced low and people rushed to buy things with them. Now people buy BTC only in hopes that they can sell it for more later.
Real national currencies are managed by central banks whose job it is to keep the money supply growing at ideally the same rate at which the sum of all goods the currency can be traded for grows. Because currencies are political, there is a general tendency to print a little more each year than the value of goods has actually grown. This is called inflation, and so long as the percentage change each year stays small, people will use the currency to buy things with but are not motivated to hoard it.
Look at the history of gold. Gold has always enjoyed value because the amount of it grows only very slowly with new mining and there is no low-value simulant that has the same density and was available in the times when gold was used as everyday money. In ancient and medieval times, gold could be used directly as money because the good it traded for had the same total value year after year. But as soon as the Enlightenment and the Industrial revolution started increasing the value of traded goods, those goods in trade drove gold out of circulation by making gold a hoarded commodity. Countries began printing fiat money for everyday transactions. Today gold holds its value and with monetary inflation increases in value relative to fiat monies - it is hoarded. Bitcoin is just an attempt to recreate gold as a digital medium.
That might pop the ethereum bubble, but I think bitcoin is here to stay.
The blockchain basically has one use: cryptocurrency. Any other use and you're probably just getting sucked into a scam.
Except that the blockchain as implemented in BTC is not scaling. Transaction times are stretching into days and open-market transaction fees are now greater than many small transactions, all besides the basic problem of limited money supply. It has already failed as a currency.
Because though the lowly outsourcees working gigs at TriangleShirtwaist.com may not burn to death when the exits are blocked, they may go hungry if the site gets DDoSed.
I'm not talking about swooping down on people leading normal lives and accusing them of pre-crime, but taking a closer look at those people who engage in behaviors that are known markers for serious crime against persons (animal mutilation) or who others need to edge around because of their personal strangeness. All of these mass shooters expressed odd behavior before the fact. Let's identify them and get them into facilities that can help them.
There is a corollary to this: politically and religiously motivated terrorists are never ordinary people who happen to come across the wrong book. There is something about them in their earlier lives that makes them open to social messages that the rest of us are not receptive to.
"Coming forward" years after the fact may constitute a case in the alternative legal system that SJWs are building for themselves, but the real world legal system is perfectly capable of prosecuting molesters if you tell your family about molestation by your teacher, minister, or counselor at the time it happens. If you are an adult, you can call the cops themselves when a rape kit will identify the perpetrator according to the real rules of evidence that have been ironed out by years of experience and judicial review.
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Cryptocurrencies are neither crypto, nor currencies. Discuss.
True. I would use the term 'digital commodities' because their perceived value derives from the notion that the amount of each is algorithmically fixed. A currency is managed by a central bank to stay at a fixed ratio to the total value of goods they can be traded for.
Hack / Crack
Ah yes, the most headbangingly desperate marketing failure since that vain attempt to get people to pronounce Canoe Men's Cologne "Can-no-way."
I'm talking about the reruns of Keillor's version of the show he hosted before retiring, which is still far more popular than the forgettable new version that nobody really cares about. NPR will no longer be rebroadcasting the Keillor episodes. People who remember them and still demand them are guilty of thoughtcrime.
this makes NPR look like a bunch of retards, which they essentially are. Starbucks latte sipping snobs ...
No, what makes NPR look like a bunch of retards is canceling every rerun of their biggest cash cow, their listeners' favorite weekly program, and trying to erase every trace of its existence, all because some chick suddenly pops up to object to Garrison Keillor hugging her forty years ago.
How much job automation will be driven by corporate legal and HR when they realize that a robot cannot be accused of sexual harassment? This will push automation even into the highly "social" jobs that involve a lot of interfacing with either customers or other employees, because these are the most legally vulnerable.
The next time a long-range sample return mission like the recently launched OSIRIS-REx is sent up, it could include a surface collection system to trap dust it encounters enroute. If panspermia is hiding in this stuff, revealing it in dust collected far from Earth's atmosphere would be much better proof, especially if the findings correlate with analysis of the returned sample itself. OSIRIS-REx will sample the surface of an asteroid, so whatever it finds will have been sitting out there for eons. That ship has sailed, but there will be other sample return probes.
It would not be that difficult for a private party to send up a special-purpose Earth-orbital mission to spend a year or two well outside the atmosphere exposing a collection surface, then return. OR...trap and return an old, dead geosynchronous satellite.
How does one go about it on a mac? I mean, I'm not in a hurry and my computer sits idle most of the time anyway. And it's in a cold room that could use the heat.
To do mining today, you will need your own dam. Then you get a roomful of ASIC servers. It's like Breaking Bad, but a lot less plausible.
This tech would be useful in a high-radiation environment.
The government has nukes, our little rifles won't mean squat.
Our military has highly developed powers for laying waste to large swatches of territory, but is no more ineffective than King George's minions at beating lightly armed guerrilla irregulars. It lost to the Viet Cong, and keeps losing Afghan territory to the Taliban as soon as our massed forces withdraw from an area and return control to the locals we so carefully trained.
Finally, a really good name for a new processor.
Netflix invested large bucks in upgraded servers and bandwidth for streaming, but then found that rights holders were unwilling to let them do it. That’s why the streaming side of the company is a ghin gruel of expiring and second-line movies. To get selection, stay with Netflix DVD.
Unlike the James Damore faggot most men don't become afraid of women just by sitting next to them.
Except that if the man has a high-profile job forty years later, that woman can "come forward" and accuse him of anything they feel like. Under the new liberal parallel justice system that does not require evidence, the man automatically has to resign.
Considering the small but non-zero chance that one of these morons initiates something contagious and harmful, yes, I'm fine with the Feds cracking down on "basement biolabs".
But then again, it's even easier for this scenario to occur with normal hybridization in places where pigs and ducks are raised on farms.
Biohacking to produce lethal epidemics is more likely to be intentional and by terrorists. We will keep on watching for this using existing antiterror strategies.
Would you allow someone without a medical license to operate on you?
Being treated by a biohacker is a high-risk strategy that will kill quite a few people, but patients for whom the cost and availability of treatment exceeds their means are going to try it. And it is in the high-risk field that the next breakthrough may come.
Hotpot impersonation, the bane of holiday cookouts across the nation.
How about a nice game of TicTacToe?
Yes, playing this game would certainly give away that you were a Jill Stein voter.
Isn't the limited money supply one of the features? posting AC because I modded people.
Mathematically limited money supply was intended to make Bitcoin immune to inflation. This worked; since BTC was invented, the algorithm has never been cracked and the money supply has been asymptotically edging toward the limit of 21 million coins as new coin is mined.
What the Bitcoiners failed to realize is that if you hold the supply of a money constant, it loses its value as a neutral medium of exchange because people perceive it as becoming more valuable with time. It gets hoarded, and this is what is happening with Bitcoin. When BYC first went on the air, coins were priced low and people rushed to buy things with them. Now people buy BTC only in hopes that they can sell it for more later.
Real national currencies are managed by central banks whose job it is to keep the money supply growing at ideally the same rate at which the sum of all goods the currency can be traded for grows. Because currencies are political, there is a general tendency to print a little more each year than the value of goods has actually grown. This is called inflation, and so long as the percentage change each year stays small, people will use the currency to buy things with but are not motivated to hoard it.
Look at the history of gold. Gold has always enjoyed value because the amount of it grows only very slowly with new mining and there is no low-value simulant that has the same density and was available in the times when gold was used as everyday money. In ancient and medieval times, gold could be used directly as money because the good it traded for had the same total value year after year. But as soon as the Enlightenment and the Industrial revolution started increasing the value of traded goods, those goods in trade drove gold out of circulation by making gold a hoarded commodity. Countries began printing fiat money for everyday transactions. Today gold holds its value and with monetary inflation increases in value relative to fiat monies - it is hoarded. Bitcoin is just an attempt to recreate gold as a digital medium.
He may believe the Earth is flat, but his flight will help convince the rest of us about Darwin.
That might pop the ethereum bubble, but I think bitcoin is here to stay.
The blockchain basically has one use: cryptocurrency. Any other use and you're probably just getting sucked into a scam.
Except that the blockchain as implemented in BTC is not scaling. Transaction times are stretching into days and open-market transaction fees are now greater than many small transactions, all besides the basic problem of limited money supply. It has already failed as a currency.
This could be the great OS convergence that Apple users have been waiting for.
This is the track record of the Initial Coin Offering. And people keep putting money into them.
Based on historical precedent, the third and largest collapse of a scammy ICO will be the pin that pops the cryptocurrency bubble.
Because though the lowly outsourcees working gigs at TriangleShirtwaist.com may not burn to death when the exits are blocked, they may go hungry if the site gets DDoSed.
I'm not talking about swooping down on people leading normal lives and accusing them of pre-crime, but taking a closer look at those people who engage in behaviors that are known markers for serious crime against persons (animal mutilation) or who others need to edge around because of their personal strangeness. All of these mass shooters expressed odd behavior before the fact. Let's identify them and get them into facilities that can help them.
There is a corollary to this: politically and religiously motivated terrorists are never ordinary people who happen to come across the wrong book. There is something about them in their earlier lives that makes them open to social messages that the rest of us are not receptive to.
"Coming forward" years after the fact may constitute a case in the alternative legal system that SJWs are building for themselves, but the real world legal system is perfectly capable of prosecuting molesters if you tell your family about molestation by your teacher, minister, or counselor at the time it happens. If you are an adult, you can call the cops themselves when a rape kit will identify the perpetrator according to the real rules of evidence that have been ironed out by years of experience and judicial review.
The current state of the audio filtering technology is not up snuff. So be it. These real-world tests will only make it stronger.
And when audio filtering does get good, the world will finally have a hearing aid that works.