Musk is a PR guy, not a tech guy. It takes an autist, or a team of autists, to come up with something like Bitcoin.
That said: Sa = Samsung, Toshi = Toshiba, Naka = Nakamuchi, Moto = Motorola. At least according to the latest time travel conspiracy theory. This could also be an indication that those 4 cracked crypto algorithms and want to seed that psyop as a means to cash in on the unclaimed/lost bitcoins over the years and those to come in the future without anyone raising an eye at them doing so.
You're looking at $100,000 now. Hope you've learnt your lesson and make better backups now.
Not really, even if I had them I would have sold at $100-$1,000 of total value. I'm not quite arrogant enough to claim I would have expected Bitcoin to become the chosen currency of the black market. I'm too much of a nerd to believe a permanent ledger of transactions would be suitable for a black market currency, or that people would be dumb enough to use it for that. Live and learn, never overestimate the intelligence of your fellow man.
They don't have to be chemically-driven, but at the very least a muscle should be a self-contained unit. If you have to have a central pump (vacuum, hydraulic, etc) it's not a muscle, it's a piston. The difference is that a muscle is something you can stick in place and just need a power source to drive, whereas a piston requires that thing plus the power source plus some kind of transformer (in this case electric to pnumatic) to operate and is in turn much heavier, noisier, etc.
Nope, I'm assuming most transactions are illicit because Bitcoin is a PitA to use and you have to have some motivation for doing so with exceeds the added effort.
Congratulations on winning the "I don't know what net neutrality is" award!
Pretty sure you're the one getting that award. Net neutrality is just a way of saying "don't make the major users of bandwidth like YouTube pay more for the service." The internet has been the wild west for a long time, regulations ALWAYS favor the people lobbying for them, which are the people with enough money to do so. Nobody is going to pay outright for a YouTube subscription and nobody is going to watch it at 14.4kb/s, so that means Google will be shelling out money to cover it, they will still make a profit on it but not nearly as much, and that means they can't use their bulk to expand into every other sector horizontally at breakneck speed. That means startups might once again compete with them in some area, etc. It has a bubble effect from one sector to the next which fucks Google sideways a dozen times at once, it's not just a good thing, it's actually profoundly good for society as a whole. There's no reason a company based so heavily in marketing that it has convinced people it isn't just a marketing company should have that much sway, if anything that's a sign they're too good at what they do to be allowed to exist at all.
I didn't suggest it wasn't stupid to use Bitcoin for criminal activity, I said it's the primary use. There are approx $6.5b worth of BTC traded daily, most of that is illicit. The global black market is estimated at $1.81t, which would come to a daily volume of a hair under $5b, it's safe to say the majority of that is taking place in BTC these days - especially when you get into the international stuff where it's just easier to clean money and trade between different currencies.
Yes, that is why the government is throwing itself for inventing cash.
Governments exist to protect people from foreign forces. Then they exist to extract resources from people. It doesn't matter what the reason is, just that the population will accept it. Most people barely understand what Bitcoin is, but if the government came out saying "we caught the primary guy responsible for facilitating the drug trade, human trafficking, and terrorism across the world" then "the government confiscated 9 billion dollars" would barely be mentioned, let alone make a headline.
Or are you one of those people who believe they tax cigarettes because they have your best interests at heart?
I'd disagree on two points. First, it's very likely people mined some Bitcoin and forgot about them or at least how to access them.
This is very likely the case. Back at the start when it was worth shit I mined about a dozen BTC. Lost them when I reformatted my computer and didn't even remember until years later when it would have been worth over $1,000.
Bitcoin is the chosen currency for the black market, the black market in every nation on Earth. That gives it value, but it also means the creator of it would be hunted until the day he died if he left any trace of himself anywhere. I seriously doubt the ~9 billion dollars worth of Bitcoin he has, if he were to cash it all in, would do more than get seized by the US government, get him thrown in jail for life of suicided, and result in the subsequent collapse of Bitcoin. They can't stop something which does every illicit thing on Earth under the name "anonymous," but when they can pin a face on it they can crush it in under a week.
I can confirm, this is the only way I'd ever consider buying a Google bot. Dishwashers are worthless because even with the most potent chemical corrosives known to man you have to wash the fucking things before putting them in.
If 50% of biohackers were capable of repeating that work, someone would have become famous by now for doing exactly that. There is an infinitely greater chance that you're piece of shit liar.
You don't "become famous" by repeating proprietary work bought out by one of the largest most corrupt corporations on the planet at a huge cost which could ruin a large proportion of their sales permanently if it got out in the public view, you "get sued into oblivion."
The only people competent enough to repeat the research on their own are also competent enough to know better than to ever take credit for it.
You clearly didn't bother to read the points listed or you are just a hapless shill. Keep going with your "NN is good" brainwashing, I'm sure Google appreciates that their PR campaign so effectively controlled your mind.
Sure, 'simple' breakthrough that Big Pharma doesn't want to pursue for some reason or doesn't know about. But your neighborhood biohacker understands.
Are you aware AIDs was cured about a decade ago? It was cured by a company called Human Genome Sciences, they created a one-time gene therapy treatment tailored to the individual. It worked in clinical trials 100% of the time without side effects. They published their final results and within a month were bought out by Glaxo-Kline-Smith. Know why you haven't heard of it? GKS has a competing therapy-based (as in, you pay them for life, for your whole life) treatment. Not all biohackers are capable of replicating that work, but probably 50% of them are. And biohackers are "some borderline retarded 16 year old kid who thinks he knows everything" as the word "hacker" tends to illicit the impression of, they are people with degrees in biotechnology, often genetic engineering. Biotech engineers do biotech for fun as well as work. When they do it for a company they are called "engineers," when those same people do it in their garage because they find it cool they are called "hackers."
It is incredibly disingenuous to paint these people as hacks living down the road, there's maybe 2-3 dozen per large city and they have PhDs in their fields.
Whenever there is a massive political or PR campaign, it's not good. Yet for net neutrality it seems overwhelmingly good, yet it's still happening. You really have to stop and ask why.
Lets start with what everyone hates about the internet or is intimately connected to the internet:
DRM - wouldn't work without the internet.
Government spying - wouldn't work remotely at the scale it does without the internet.
Corporate spying - wouldn't work without the internet.
Bitching at people you've never met because they said something you didn't like a thousand miles away, even though you'll never meet or give a shit about eachother otherwise - wouldn't work without the internet.
Now the things we like about the internet:
Information.
Communication with people we care about.
Working from home.
Now what happens if net neutrality is removed:
Corporations start charging an arm and a leg for some services over others.
It becomes like pay-per-view and most people can't access anything they want.
People who can access things they want are pissy about the cost.
Large corporations (those guys everyone and their mother hate) become the only voices on the internet.
So what happens next? Is that the end of the internet? Yes and no. Meshnet routers are already cheaper than cellphones. They are already being implemented in cities. There are rural networks not run by cable companies which will work with their local communities. The answer should be pretty obvious at this point: if people hate the internet enough but want the good it had back, they will build meshnets (Hell, you can already link your neighbors together for less than the cost of a monthly cable bill, on a faster connection, as a one-time hardware fee.) The only thing stopping this now is that there is no motive, people are complacent because the internet works and there's a critical mass aspect wherein not enough people are irritated with it yet.
So what happens when the removal of net neutrality inevitably makes people replace the internet with mesh networking:
DRM - won't work because it will be blocked by everyone setting these things up.
Government spying - won't work because they can't intercept enough nodes.
Corporate spying - won't work because they won't be able to afford to stick the monitors in every community across the nation when they aren't getting paid to do so by the people they are spying on.
Bitching at people you've never met because they said something you didn't like a thousand miles away, even though you'll never meet or give a shit about eachother otherwise - won't happen as much because networks will become inherently more local.
You'll still have all the information you want and need, because all the important stuff will get distributed through the network by anyone deeming it worthy.
Communication with people we care about will be enhanced because idiots won't be competing with people who life in another country they went to preschool with over who has the bigger wallet, thereby depressing all their friends in the process.
Working from home will still work just as efficiently.
But wait, because there's oh so much more:
Piracy will be unregulatable - this means movies, TV shows, software, etc will all effectively become free, much of it will likely become more community driven in nature as a result.
Research will become free - imagine trying to shutdown Sci-Hub when it involves locking up half the nation, it can't happen.
No more cable bills - that's like $100/month or more off everyone's plate.
No more media monopolies - they won't be able to afford the distributed servers.
No more.com's ruling over entire sectors without actual competition.
No matter how you slice this, killing net neutrality is a good thing. It's going to be like ripping off a
Look at it as a patient. Two options are presented:
You presented those two options (interesting, the same number most shills present when arguing anything.) In reality, there are many more, such as: you have to spend your life savings for a drug which can be manufactured for pennies from the guy across town. Or: there's a treatment in R&D which appears safe but you can't get it before you die, but it's relatively simple to do and there's a fully-certified biohacker (hint: 90%+ of them are actually biotech majors) who will do it under the table because he happens to have a lab and he's your buddy.
Just like most regulations, this has nothing whatsoever to do with public safety and everything to do with taxation. If biohackers and individual treatments become as common as the local barber (hint: they could be, there are plenty of biotech majors and they nearly all have their own labs, all of them can follow a protocol,) then it cuts out the trillions of dollars in getting FDA approval, going through trials, cuts out pharma monopolies, healthcare device manufacturer contracts paying out 10,000x or more the cost of the hardware to the manufacturer, all of which gets taxed, etc.
I'm not saying biotech isn't hard, or that it can't be fucked up - but if you fuck it up the potential for harming another person is astronomically low, you'd be more likely to die from the aforementioned barber choking on saliva, twitching, and slicing your throat with the scissors then having a panick attack and drowning you in barbasol to try to cover up the crime before you bled out. When you fuck up biotech it just dies before you can do anything with it, it's working with living things and those die when they stray outside of the parameters designed for.
Worst case scenario you get some charlatans who pop up and take advantage of people, just like we already have with holistic and faith healers.
Amazing (like puss leaking out of an infected wound,) you appear to have observed people having arguments online, selected who you deemed the winner without regard to context (perhaps the up/down votes of reddit gave you some indication,) then regurgitated those same points in the hope that you might be the "winner" for once. Sadly it didn't work, still amazing (in a "puss leaking out of an infected wound" sort of way.)
Aptitude doesn't get ahead, it doesn't lead to controlling resource allocation, it doesn't lead to making great things.
Social skills and willingness to take risks while simultaneously being blind to the potential consequences yields wealth, which controls resource allocation, which makes shit things.
We have a fundamental issue with the nature of our societies which prevents us from having nice things, no amount of PM or skill can change this.
I'm not saying the least suited for wealth will always have it, but the most suited likely never will given our current methods.
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Musk is a PR guy, not a tech guy. It takes an autist, or a team of autists, to come up with something like Bitcoin.
That said: Sa = Samsung, Toshi = Toshiba, Naka = Nakamuchi, Moto = Motorola. At least according to the latest time travel conspiracy theory. This could also be an indication that those 4 cracked crypto algorithms and want to seed that psyop as a means to cash in on the unclaimed/lost bitcoins over the years and those to come in the future without anyone raising an eye at them doing so.
You're looking at $100,000 now. Hope you've learnt your lesson and make better backups now.
Not really, even if I had them I would have sold at $100-$1,000 of total value. I'm not quite arrogant enough to claim I would have expected Bitcoin to become the chosen currency of the black market. I'm too much of a nerd to believe a permanent ledger of transactions would be suitable for a black market currency, or that people would be dumb enough to use it for that. Live and learn, never overestimate the intelligence of your fellow man.
They don't have to be chemically-driven, but at the very least a muscle should be a self-contained unit. If you have to have a central pump (vacuum, hydraulic, etc) it's not a muscle, it's a piston. The difference is that a muscle is something you can stick in place and just need a power source to drive, whereas a piston requires that thing plus the power source plus some kind of transformer (in this case electric to pnumatic) to operate and is in turn much heavier, noisier, etc.
Nope, I'm assuming most transactions are illicit because Bitcoin is a PitA to use and you have to have some motivation for doing so with exceeds the added effort.
Congratulations on winning the "I don't know what net neutrality is" award!
Pretty sure you're the one getting that award. Net neutrality is just a way of saying "don't make the major users of bandwidth like YouTube pay more for the service." The internet has been the wild west for a long time, regulations ALWAYS favor the people lobbying for them, which are the people with enough money to do so. Nobody is going to pay outright for a YouTube subscription and nobody is going to watch it at 14.4kb/s, so that means Google will be shelling out money to cover it, they will still make a profit on it but not nearly as much, and that means they can't use their bulk to expand into every other sector horizontally at breakneck speed. That means startups might once again compete with them in some area, etc. It has a bubble effect from one sector to the next which fucks Google sideways a dozen times at once, it's not just a good thing, it's actually profoundly good for society as a whole. There's no reason a company based so heavily in marketing that it has convinced people it isn't just a marketing company should have that much sway, if anything that's a sign they're too good at what they do to be allowed to exist at all.
Google does not change its search algorithm to re-rank individual websites
Of course not, they just make their algorithms include the material they want omitted, that way they also catch similar material.
I didn't suggest it wasn't stupid to use Bitcoin for criminal activity, I said it's the primary use. There are approx $6.5b worth of BTC traded daily, most of that is illicit. The global black market is estimated at $1.81t, which would come to a daily volume of a hair under $5b, it's safe to say the majority of that is taking place in BTC these days - especially when you get into the international stuff where it's just easier to clean money and trade between different currencies.
Yes, that is why the government is throwing itself for inventing cash.
Governments exist to protect people from foreign forces. Then they exist to extract resources from people. It doesn't matter what the reason is, just that the population will accept it. Most people barely understand what Bitcoin is, but if the government came out saying "we caught the primary guy responsible for facilitating the drug trade, human trafficking, and terrorism across the world" then "the government confiscated 9 billion dollars" would barely be mentioned, let alone make a headline.
Or are you one of those people who believe they tax cigarettes because they have your best interests at heart?
I'd disagree on two points. First, it's very likely people mined some Bitcoin and forgot about them or at least how to access them.
This is very likely the case. Back at the start when it was worth shit I mined about a dozen BTC. Lost them when I reformatted my computer and didn't even remember until years later when it would have been worth over $1,000.
Bitcoin is the chosen currency for the black market, the black market in every nation on Earth. That gives it value, but it also means the creator of it would be hunted until the day he died if he left any trace of himself anywhere. I seriously doubt the ~9 billion dollars worth of Bitcoin he has, if he were to cash it all in, would do more than get seized by the US government, get him thrown in jail for life of suicided, and result in the subsequent collapse of Bitcoin. They can't stop something which does every illicit thing on Earth under the name "anonymous," but when they can pin a face on it they can crush it in under a week.
So let me get this straight:
Oh, brave new world!
I seriously doubt Thiel wants to delete the archives proving one of the original fake news agencies made nearly everything up.
If you get lucky you will have cockroach infestation to clean dishes for you
They don't eat nearly as fast as you might expect.
Is concerned about people getting cucked. What a turn of events.
I thought this was the whole point of joining in marriage with a female? I hear they make good sandwiches, too.
They outlawed buying and selling them though so nerds are SoL and doomed to a life of consuming fast food.
I can confirm, this is the only way I'd ever consider buying a Google bot. Dishwashers are worthless because even with the most potent chemical corrosives known to man you have to wash the fucking things before putting them in.
If 50% of biohackers were capable of repeating that work, someone would have become famous by now for doing exactly that. There is an infinitely greater chance that you're piece of shit liar.
You don't "become famous" by repeating proprietary work bought out by one of the largest most corrupt corporations on the planet at a huge cost which could ruin a large proportion of their sales permanently if it got out in the public view, you "get sued into oblivion."
The only people competent enough to repeat the research on their own are also competent enough to know better than to ever take credit for it.
You clearly didn't bother to read the points listed or you are just a hapless shill. Keep going with your "NN is good" brainwashing, I'm sure Google appreciates that their PR campaign so effectively controlled your mind.
Sure, 'simple' breakthrough that Big Pharma doesn't want to pursue for some reason or doesn't know about. But your neighborhood biohacker understands.
Are you aware AIDs was cured about a decade ago? It was cured by a company called Human Genome Sciences, they created a one-time gene therapy treatment tailored to the individual. It worked in clinical trials 100% of the time without side effects. They published their final results and within a month were bought out by Glaxo-Kline-Smith. Know why you haven't heard of it? GKS has a competing therapy-based (as in, you pay them for life, for your whole life) treatment. Not all biohackers are capable of replicating that work, but probably 50% of them are. And biohackers are "some borderline retarded 16 year old kid who thinks he knows everything" as the word "hacker" tends to illicit the impression of, they are people with degrees in biotechnology, often genetic engineering. Biotech engineers do biotech for fun as well as work. When they do it for a company they are called "engineers," when those same people do it in their garage because they find it cool they are called "hackers."
It is incredibly disingenuous to paint these people as hacks living down the road, there's maybe 2-3 dozen per large city and they have PhDs in their fields.
Whenever there is a massive political or PR campaign, it's not good. Yet for net neutrality it seems overwhelmingly good, yet it's still happening. You really have to stop and ask why.
Lets start with what everyone hates about the internet or is intimately connected to the internet:
Now the things we like about the internet:
Now what happens if net neutrality is removed:
So what happens next? Is that the end of the internet? Yes and no. Meshnet routers are already cheaper than cellphones. They are already being implemented in cities. There are rural networks not run by cable companies which will work with their local communities. The answer should be pretty obvious at this point: if people hate the internet enough but want the good it had back, they will build meshnets (Hell, you can already link your neighbors together for less than the cost of a monthly cable bill, on a faster connection, as a one-time hardware fee.) The only thing stopping this now is that there is no motive, people are complacent because the internet works and there's a critical mass aspect wherein not enough people are irritated with it yet.
So what happens when the removal of net neutrality inevitably makes people replace the internet with mesh networking:
But wait, because there's oh so much more:
No matter how you slice this, killing net neutrality is a good thing. It's going to be like ripping off a
Look at it as a patient. Two options are presented:
You presented those two options (interesting, the same number most shills present when arguing anything.) In reality, there are many more, such as: you have to spend your life savings for a drug which can be manufactured for pennies from the guy across town. Or: there's a treatment in R&D which appears safe but you can't get it before you die, but it's relatively simple to do and there's a fully-certified biohacker (hint: 90%+ of them are actually biotech majors) who will do it under the table because he happens to have a lab and he's your buddy.
Just like most regulations, this has nothing whatsoever to do with public safety and everything to do with taxation. If biohackers and individual treatments become as common as the local barber (hint: they could be, there are plenty of biotech majors and they nearly all have their own labs, all of them can follow a protocol,) then it cuts out the trillions of dollars in getting FDA approval, going through trials, cuts out pharma monopolies, healthcare device manufacturer contracts paying out 10,000x or more the cost of the hardware to the manufacturer, all of which gets taxed, etc.
I'm not saying biotech isn't hard, or that it can't be fucked up - but if you fuck it up the potential for harming another person is astronomically low, you'd be more likely to die from the aforementioned barber choking on saliva, twitching, and slicing your throat with the scissors then having a panick attack and drowning you in barbasol to try to cover up the crime before you bled out. When you fuck up biotech it just dies before you can do anything with it, it's working with living things and those die when they stray outside of the parameters designed for.
Worst case scenario you get some charlatans who pop up and take advantage of people, just like we already have with holistic and faith healers.
That's what happens when you talk to NPCs.
Amazing (like puss leaking out of an infected wound,) you appear to have observed people having arguments online, selected who you deemed the winner without regard to context (perhaps the up/down votes of reddit gave you some indication,) then regurgitated those same points in the hope that you might be the "winner" for once. Sadly it didn't work, still amazing (in a "puss leaking out of an infected wound" sort of way.)
Oh, I see. You're a euphorically-enlighteneded-fedora-wearing-idiot. That makes more sense.
Aptitude doesn't get ahead, it doesn't lead to controlling resource allocation, it doesn't lead to making great things.
Social skills and willingness to take risks while simultaneously being blind to the potential consequences yields wealth, which controls resource allocation, which makes shit things.
We have a fundamental issue with the nature of our societies which prevents us from having nice things, no amount of PM or skill can change this.
I'm not saying the least suited for wealth will always have it, but the most suited likely never will given our current methods.