We would have just as much government waste and military spending even if all transactions were done with Bitcoin. You can't attribute those costs to the production of currency.
You would have a point if all transactions were conducted by exchanging truckloads of US penny coins (which should have been abolished 20 years ago, BTW).
But they're not. Most transactions don't even use paper cash.
The US government makes up billions of fresh dollars every day out of nothing simply by writing a few bits to a database. If you think that, like your Bitcoin mining example, it costs the government 25% in overhead to do this, then you're high. It's a small fraction of 1%.
$1B out of the global GDP OF $84 trillion is only.0011% of overall economic activity. Assuming that energy consumption of most economic activities is roughly proportional to cost, you've only accounted for 1/420th of Bitcoin's energy use.
And don't forget that the US dollar is used for orders of magnitude more total transaction value than Bitcoin. Even if you add in the energy use of the portion of the global banking industry that deals specifically with fiat currencies, here is simply no way that they use anywhere near the amount of energy per unit of value transacted as Bitcoin does.
FFS, you pop up for every article that mentions the term "AI" to post the same predictable lame insults. Now you're showing up for an article that doesn't even mention the term so you can bash it.
What's wrong? Did an AI steal your lunch when you were in grade school?
If an actual Nigerian prince ever gets into a pickle and needs some assistance from strangers, it's good to know that the general public hasn't yet become too jaded to help, and he still has some hope.
If AT&T had a program where they provide you with phone service in exchange for letting them store recordings of all of your conversations, analyze them with AI, and sell the resulting analysis of your personality to 3rd parties, then you can bet that it would also include free spam filtering.
Researchers hinted they could have also went after the cars' braking and acceleration system, but stopped due to fear of breaking VW's intellectual property on those systems.
This is yet another example of how strong IP laws can help to protect a nations' citizens from evildoers.
Coal is a type of rock made from accumulating sediments, just as I stated.
As has been pointed out to you, coal may not form at all today. However, even if it did, it would still be a SLOW process.
We're currently on track to burn through half a billion years of coal deposits in less than one thousand years. Our current rate of fossil carbon extraction completely overwhelms any natural processes to sequester it.
... and as soon as those plants die, fungus and bacteria eat the plants and release that same CO2.
The only way that CO2 get stored for very long time frames is indeed in rocks. Typically, that involves the very slow process of sediment accumulating at the bottom of seas and oceans.
If they're jettisoning wallpaper, it seems like they're scraping the bottom of the barrel. Even Windows 95 had wallpaper.
I would suggest to them that they could try getting rid of all of those spam applet tiles in the start menu. That would certainly free up more space than a couple of wallpaper jpegs.
Regardless of whether the patent was "properly instantiated as IP", whatever that means, the applicant has forfeited property, including fees paid and trade secrets revealed.
By the same token, if a patent is issued inappropriately, then everybody else other than the applicant forfeits their right to use concepts that ought to be in the public domain.
The government has "taken" that right from all of them, and that needs to be rectified.
I bet this whole problem would rapidly disappear if we made patent examiners personally liable for the damages caused by these types of mistakes.
I thought this would be an article about different techniques for web pagination through large data sets efficiently.
Sorry, there is no more pagination on the web.
Now all of the content for each site is concatenated together into a single endless page which stuffs more crap onto the bottom every time you scroll down a bit.
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This finding explains why the USA has been having 12% annual growth in GDP ever since vivid LED street lamps started to come into widespread use.
The unplugged one.
Not necessarily.
You should always follow safety practices appropriate for each type of tool.
Why should he when there's no way in hell that you ever would?
We would have just as much government waste and military spending even if all transactions were done with Bitcoin. You can't attribute those costs to the production of currency.
You would have a point if all transactions were conducted by exchanging truckloads of US penny coins (which should have been abolished 20 years ago, BTW).
But they're not. Most transactions don't even use paper cash.
The US government makes up billions of fresh dollars every day out of nothing simply by writing a few bits to a database. If you think that, like your Bitcoin mining example, it costs the government 25% in overhead to do this, then you're high. It's a small fraction of 1%.
$1B out of the global GDP OF $84 trillion is only .0011% of overall economic activity. Assuming that energy consumption of most economic activities is roughly proportional to cost, you've only accounted for 1/420th of Bitcoin's energy use.
And don't forget that the US dollar is used for orders of magnitude more total transaction value than Bitcoin. Even if you add in the energy use of the portion of the global banking industry that deals specifically with fiat currencies, here is simply no way that they use anywhere near the amount of energy per unit of value transacted as Bitcoin does.
FFS, you pop up for every article that mentions the term "AI" to post the same predictable lame insults. Now you're showing up for an article that doesn't even mention the term so you can bash it.
What's wrong? Did an AI steal your lunch when you were in grade school?
If an actual Nigerian prince ever gets into a pickle and needs some assistance from strangers, it's good to know that the general public hasn't yet become too jaded to help, and he still has some hope.
The Clinton foundation was doing? Send us money now, for a big pay off once I'm in office!
No, that would have been a sound investment.
The actual scam from 2016 was: Send us money now, and we'll "drain the swamp"!
If AT&T had a program where they provide you with phone service in exchange for letting them store recordings of all of your conversations, analyze them with AI, and sell the resulting analysis of your personality to 3rd parties, then you can bet that it would also include free spam filtering.
Logic fail. The rich already got richer without this law.
Ironically, your attempt at irony was sunk by the fact that all of those items are literally true.
Concrete is heavy, and plastic is light. So by weight, it seems reasonable that "we" produce more concrete than plastic.
Is that why there's more gold produced than concrete?
Researchers hinted they could have also went after the cars' braking and acceleration system, but stopped due to fear of breaking VW's intellectual property on those systems.
This is yet another example of how strong IP laws can help to protect a nations' citizens from evildoers.
And what do you call COAL?
Coal is a type of rock made from accumulating sediments, just as I stated.
As has been pointed out to you, coal may not form at all today. However, even if it did, it would still be a SLOW process.
We're currently on track to burn through half a billion years of coal deposits in less than one thousand years. Our current rate of fossil carbon extraction completely overwhelms any natural processes to sequester it.
... and as soon as those plants die, fungus and bacteria eat the plants and release that same CO2.
The only way that CO2 get stored for very long time frames is indeed in rocks. Typically, that involves the very slow process of sediment accumulating at the bottom of seas and oceans.
If a language needs its own marketing department, from a multi-billion-dollar company, then maybe it's not that great in the first place.
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If they're jettisoning wallpaper, it seems like they're scraping the bottom of the barrel. Even Windows 95 had wallpaper.
I would suggest to them that they could try getting rid of all of those spam applet tiles in the start menu. That would certainly free up more space than a couple of wallpaper jpegs.
Thats why they have a safe in all rooms im sure will be the answer to this.
You mean those hotel safes that were found to all share the same master combination of 00000?
Regardless of whether the patent was "properly instantiated as IP", whatever that means, the applicant has forfeited property, including fees paid and trade secrets revealed.
By the same token, if a patent is issued inappropriately, then everybody else other than the applicant forfeits their right to use concepts that ought to be in the public domain.
The government has "taken" that right from all of them, and that needs to be rectified.
I bet this whole problem would rapidly disappear if we made patent examiners personally liable for the damages caused by these types of mistakes.
It's taken. Cracker groups have been successfully cracking software for decades.
Which just goes to show that there is still much work to be done to promote diversity in the field software development.
I thought this would be an article about different techniques for web pagination through large data sets efficiently.
Sorry, there is no more pagination on the web.
Now all of the content for each site is concatenated together into a single endless page which stuffs more crap onto the bottom every time you scroll down a bit.
Try your cell company...
That's why anyone who outsources their cell production to a 3rd party is a fool.
I'm going to keep making cells for myself the old fashioned way: by mitosis.
One needs to consider not only the employees, but the consumers who are getting an advantage from Amazon's efficiencies.
Indeed, Amazon's employees are like a bunch of Mr. Spocks, closed up in a warp core. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Our illustrious president says: just Amazon.