This is a false equivalency. The US government is allowed to regulate it's own money - that is - the sovereign currency that it issues. Bitcoins aren't defined or issued by the US government, so it has as much right to regulate Bitcoins as it has to regulate the Euro.
This is utter nonsense - the US government is allowed to regulate anyone conducting financial transactions within the US. As I've said before, they don't care what those transactions are reckoned in - dollars, Bitcoins, or jars of hamster poop. The same rules apply to all of them.
You don't need specific government regulations on marshmallows to make stealing them illegal, the same goes for Bitcoins.
Yep, you're right - all they need to do is ensure that Bitcoins follow the same rules as anyone else. Which is exactly what they're trying to do.
I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until real rebuttal arrives, say from someone who can point out actual errors in the proposal.
Translation: Somebody asked a valid question, but it impugns my hero, and thus I must write a handwaving reply praising the 'hero' and cursing the person who dares to question him.
I think Mr. Musk has demonstrated four times now that he is the financial equivalent of riding a unicycle across a tightrope while juggling bananas.
To believe that requires... well, either an incredible disconnect from reality or... well, there really isn't another option though I could speculate at length as to the causes.
Elon Musk takes technology that's been languishing on the bench and turns it into viable companies.
Well, considering he's founded pretty much only one viable company to date - that's a bit of a stretch. (Neither Tesla nor SpaceX are viable at this point.)
Yes, I do see a pattern.
I do too - unabashed hero worship, admantium blinders, and a stack of special pleadings from here to the Moon.
Just because he can hire enough experts to do what has already been done or mostly done... doesn't mean he can do everything or anything. This isn't Paypal, which took existing technology and convinced people to use him rather than the banks. Nor is this SpaceX, which has taken existing technology and may (someday) provide commercial space travel by hiring existing experts. Nor is this Tesla, which took existing technology... I think you see the pattern.
(Seriously, if you believe that someones ability to eat a banana proves that that can ride a tricycle across a tightrope, you'd abandoned all common sense.)
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this concentration on encryption is fiddling while the house burns. Encryption is sexy, and easy, and kewl, and l33t... but it won't protect against the real threat - traffic analysis.
"The application process is ongoing; have you signed up?"
Nope. I'm not a fool.
And I suspect all but a tiny number of those signed up would turn tail and run if and when they were actually selected and it came time to board. The number of people chasing a 'net fad is pretty much meaningless.
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[[Citation Needed.]] Seriously, every reputable analysis I've ever seen (like this one from Money magazine) places that figure much lower.
You got moderated troll because though Musk has received government loans/subsidies, he is a shining example of positive use of such loans/subsidies.
in other words, you don't dispute my facts, but (as I said), take issue with me for daring to question the Holy One.
Here's a clue for you, facts are neutral and stating them is not 'targeting' someone. You, and the people who moderated me down, are the ones doing any 'targeting'.
Delegation often doesn't work for endeavours like that. He'll delegate it to someone else (or more likely: a team of executives), and they will certainly push work and decisions even further down the chain until you end up with a typical corporate managerial quicksand geared to kill any innovative idea.
That's not a problem with delegation - that's poor oversight (by Musk) and poor choices (by Musk) of who to delegate to.
Compare that with a driven, visionary, smart and in-control CEO, who knows when to step in and has the authority to do so (and knows how to make his middle managers sit up straight when ordered, too). Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, people like that who are not afraid to take charge of the nitty-gritty,
Apples and oranges - you're trying to equate the folks being delegated to with the folks doing the delegating. You've got your levels all confused.
You can say a lot things about Mr.Musk, but he is taking risks with his own money that everyone might one day profit from. As opposed to the usual route of billionaires which seems to be taking risks with everyone elses money so that they can profit from it.
Hmm.... let's take the tax money pumped into Tesla, and repaid not from income but from bonds sold on the market. And the tax money being pumped into SpaceX...
The point the author was making wasn't to contest that dolphins are doing something different than humans. His point was to emphasize that dolphins are doing something different than humans.
The quote was intended as an amusing way of pointing out how what dolphins are doing is different from the human use of proper names.
Except, as myself and another poster demonstrated, humans in analogous circumstances do behave like that. The author completely and utterly failed to consider the context of the environment.
The article linked to provides more detail.
I read the linked article, and as the authors "evidence" of the lack of proper names consists of an irrelevant example and "well, *I* don't think they proved anything"....
The author of TFA is deeply confused - she can't distinguish between pictures used as content (what she wanted to to, and not fair use), and pictures used as links to content (a murky grey area under fair use). Because of her inability to distinguish the difference, she feels unfairly treated.
Now, think about that. If you call out "Geoff Pullum!" in a crowded street, and I'm there within earshot, I'm likely to turn round and look at you. But what I am not likely to do is yell "Geoff Pullum!" back at you.
Why can't dolphins do intelligent and interesting things without people applying unfounded anthropomorphic qualities to their behavior?
Um... that's exactly what the author you quote does - assumes that since humans wouldn't do it, dolphins wouldn't do it either.
As kind of a side note, the behavior he claims humans don't do is much like how we often communicated in the Navy when we couldn't see or look at the person we wanted to talk to.... If I was doing something I couldn't take my eyes off of or needed to get the attention of someone who was in earshot but not in sight, I'd call out "Clark!", and the expected rely was "Clark, Aye!" - indicating that he's heard me and was paying attention.
The first is that it's an easy and obvious device to stress test materials, construction, and designs. No need for expensive test equipment, you know exactly the stresses generated by a round.
No you don't know exactly what stresses a round will generate. While you *do* know how much powder is in a round, the way the stresses manifest themselves are heavily dependent on the design details of the weapon and the nature of the material it's made from. Nor is it particularly useful test, because a material that will hold up well to shock loading isn't necessarily one that will hold up well to long term stresses. (And that's without getting into the difference between tension and compression.) Etc... etc...
Printed guns are popular because of the 'Jamie want big boom" factor, and the illusion that it's a useful test.
I suppose this "fuzziness" is why I got curious. I would have thought that the border areas would be too fuzzy to enable someone to release a set of files for it.
They're fuzzy, but not so fuzzy that useful boundaries can't be drawn.... in my experience any fuzziness isn't generally more than a couple of blocks unless the area is very desirable to live in or to be associated with. (This happens on both the personal and marketing levels.)
Assuming Wikipedia is correct, it seems to differ a little depending on where in the states you live.
In this instance, Wikipedia is off on the same misleading track that the poster I replied to is - it confuses legal status (which varies wildly across the country) with geographical status (which is omnipresent).
In older areas, a "neighborhood" is usually a self-identified group of houses in a given geographical area, that might or might not share a common construction history, but have banded together to promote their common interests.
Close, but no cigar, because neighborhoods exist that aren't banded together and don't have HOA's. If I tell people I live in West Hills, everyone knows more-or-less where I live - but there's no organization of any type representing the area. (If I say Navy Yard City, fewer people know because that term has fallen out of use over the last couple of decades.) Generally a neighborhood is both self identified and recognized by the general population.
Part of my neighborhood - called Shoalmont Addition - was built at once, by a common set of builders, and have very limited deed restrictions (mostly illegal now, heh) but no HOA to enforce them. But the larger Allandale Neighborhood Association (an optional group with no enforcement powers of its own) claims the entire Shoalmont area, and residents of Shoalmont probably don't even know that's where they live. Legally, the ANA has enough clout that the city recognizes it and sends a representative to neighborhood meetings, and zoning correlates with neighborhood boundaries and wishes, but there's not really any legal definition when there's no deed restrictions or HOA involved. Indeed, a small area claimed by the Allandale Neighborhood Association in the south is also claimed by the Rosedale Neighborhood Association, and I think people in that area can join both.
You're confusing Association boundaries (which are fixed for legal reasons) with neighborhood boundaries (which are, even when widely agreed to exist, often quite fuzzy). Where I live, the boundary between Mannete and not Manette is generally recognized to lie somewhere north of East 16th, but where depends on who you ask. Rocky Point on the other hand... pretty much everyone agrees it lies North of the City/County border... except the few dozen folks who who live between that border and the junction with Marine Dr, they think they live in Rocky Point too. Nobody cares about Anderson Cove but the folks who live there and the city planners... etc.. etc..
The ship in the article is 'only' fit for up to 60 cm. in sideways and 100 cm. of ice in regular mode, not exactly a lot of obstruction when you consider the typical ice sheet north of Russia is between 1.2 and 2.5 m. thick.
Ice breakers don't wait for the ice to accumulate to start breaking. Plus, this is meant for harbors and shipping routes, not pack ice.
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This is utter nonsense - the US government is allowed to regulate anyone conducting financial transactions within the US. As I've said before, they don't care what those transactions are reckoned in - dollars, Bitcoins, or jars of hamster poop. The same rules apply to all of them.
Yep, you're right - all they need to do is ensure that Bitcoins follow the same rules as anyone else. Which is exactly what they're trying to do.
"Despite recent demonstrations by the US Navy, we still think of laser weapons as being things of the future."
"We" who? Somebody who has been living in a box for the past seventy years?
Translation: Somebody asked a valid question, but it impugns my hero, and thus I must write a handwaving reply praising the 'hero' and cursing the person who dares to question him.
To believe that requires... well, either an incredible disconnect from reality or... well, there really isn't another option though I could speculate at length as to the causes.
Well, considering he's founded pretty much only one viable company to date - that's a bit of a stretch. (Neither Tesla nor SpaceX are viable at this point.)
I do too - unabashed hero worship, admantium blinders, and a stack of special pleadings from here to the Moon.
Just because he can hire enough experts to do what has already been done or mostly done... doesn't mean he can do everything or anything. This isn't Paypal, which took existing technology and convinced people to use him rather than the banks. Nor is this SpaceX, which has taken existing technology and may (someday) provide commercial space travel by hiring existing experts. Nor is this Tesla, which took existing technology... I think you see the pattern.
(Seriously, if you believe that someones ability to eat a banana proves that that can ride a tricycle across a tightrope, you'd abandoned all common sense.)
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this concentration on encryption is fiddling while the house burns. Encryption is sexy, and easy, and kewl, and l33t... but it won't protect against the real threat - traffic analysis.
"The application process is ongoing; have you signed up?"
Nope. I'm not a fool.
And I suspect all but a tiny number of those signed up would turn tail and run if and when they were actually selected and it came time to board. The number of people chasing a 'net fad is pretty much meaningless.
[[Citation Needed.]] Seriously, every reputable analysis I've ever seen (like this one from Money magazine) places that figure much lower.
in other words, you don't dispute my facts, but (as I said), take issue with me for daring to question the Holy One.
Here's a clue for you, facts are neutral and stating them is not 'targeting' someone. You, and the people who moderated me down, are the ones doing any 'targeting'.
That's not a problem with delegation - that's poor oversight (by Musk) and poor choices (by Musk) of who to delegate to.
Apples and oranges - you're trying to equate the folks being delegated to with the folks doing the delegating. You've got your levels all confused.
Yeah, but it got moderated 'Troll' because I dared question the Holy One.
Hmm.... let's take the tax money pumped into Tesla, and repaid not from income but from bonds sold on the market. And the tax money being pumped into SpaceX...
Whose money is he taking a risk with?
No, it's the world looks like from under his tinfoil hat. (Though if you're wearing the same chapeau and blinders... yes, it will look like fear.)
Except, as myself and another poster demonstrated, humans in analogous circumstances do behave like that. The author completely and utterly failed to consider the context of the environment.
I read the linked article, and as the authors "evidence" of the lack of proper names consists of an irrelevant example and "well, *I* don't think they proved anything"....
Even so, a sharp projectile hitting your at 23MPH still isn't something to laugh at as the grandparent attempts to do.
The author of TFA is deeply confused - she can't distinguish between pictures used as content (what she wanted to to, and not fair use), and pictures used as links to content (a murky grey area under fair use). Because of her inability to distinguish the difference, she feels unfairly treated.
Um... that's exactly what the author you quote does - assumes that since humans wouldn't do it, dolphins wouldn't do it either.
As kind of a side note, the behavior he claims humans don't do is much like how we often communicated in the Navy when we couldn't see or look at the person we wanted to talk to.... If I was doing something I couldn't take my eyes off of or needed to get the attention of someone who was in earshot but not in sight, I'd call out "Clark!", and the expected rely was "Clark, Aye!" - indicating that he's heard me and was paying attention.
Five volts RMS or DC? What's the allowed ripple? Current draw? Etc... etc...
It's a lot more complicated than "just providing 5 volts".
No you don't know exactly what stresses a round will generate. While you *do* know how much powder is in a round, the way the stresses manifest themselves are heavily dependent on the design details of the weapon and the nature of the material it's made from. Nor is it particularly useful test, because a material that will hold up well to shock loading isn't necessarily one that will hold up well to long term stresses. (And that's without getting into the difference between tension and compression.) Etc... etc...
Printed guns are popular because of the 'Jamie want big boom" factor, and the illusion that it's a useful test.
They're fuzzy, but not so fuzzy that useful boundaries can't be drawn.... in my experience any fuzziness isn't generally more than a couple of blocks unless the area is very desirable to live in or to be associated with. (This happens on both the personal and marketing levels.)
In this instance, Wikipedia is off on the same misleading track that the poster I replied to is - it confuses legal status (which varies wildly across the country) with geographical status (which is omnipresent).
Those few of us on Slashdot who are geeks of the naval history persusasion will remember the British and the Through Deck Cruiser.
Close, but no cigar, because neighborhoods exist that aren't banded together and don't have HOA's. If I tell people I live in West Hills, everyone knows more-or-less where I live - but there's no organization of any type representing the area. (If I say Navy Yard City, fewer people know because that term has fallen out of use over the last couple of decades.) Generally a neighborhood is both self identified and recognized by the general population.
You're confusing Association boundaries (which are fixed for legal reasons) with neighborhood boundaries (which are, even when widely agreed to exist, often quite fuzzy). Where I live, the boundary between Mannete and not Manette is generally recognized to lie somewhere north of East 16th, but where depends on who you ask. Rocky Point on the other hand... pretty much everyone agrees it lies North of the City/County border... except the few dozen folks who who live between that border and the junction with Marine Dr, they think they live in Rocky Point too. Nobody cares about Anderson Cove but the folks who live there and the city planners... etc.. etc..
Ice breakers don't wait for the ice to accumulate to start breaking. Plus, this is meant for harbors and shipping routes, not pack ice.
There's a difference between being ignorant, and (like yourself) being willfully ignorant.
Since I didn't say it was a slap on the wrist, I fail to see your point. Reading comprehension, fuck off somewhere else until you get some.