The blockchain will be part of our future but bitcoin could easily be displaced by another digital coin.
Not so easy. The problems you've indicated with mining would be even worse for a new coin with a smaller user base/network.
Bitcoin fees and transaction verification time make it ill suited for small and quick purchases.
That's not a bitcoin specific issue. That's a general problem with distributed global blockchain technology. Implementing a trustless network is always going to be less efficient.
The value of Bitcoin rests upon the functionality of the global market and currency systems.
Basically everything we have rests upon the functionality of everything else, bitcoin is not an exception. If all the major currencies crashed, you're not going to buy a loaf of bread from the supermarket with a gold coin either, because the supermarket won't have bread.
you'll see that this required a far more detailed scan of the face than could be recovered from stereoscopy alone. They had to use FLIR to get an accurate enough scan.
There's a suitable camera in every iPhone X. Someone will figure out a hack to use that to scan someone else's face.
But that does not mean that the education level is the cause.
What happens if a 6 year old goes to an accelerated education program, and learns about siphons and capillary actions, and which edge of a shingle to seal ? Wouldn't she be able to answer the questions for the 16 year old ?
And what if the 16 year old grew in a country where they don't use shingles for roofing, but clay tiles ? Would they know which edge to seal ?
Performance at certain tasks that may or may not be biased towards one or more cultures, which require some degree of practice to reach full potential at?
Pretty much, yes. And the tasks are probably designed to reflect useful skills in life, which are also biased towards the culture you're in.
practicing IQ tests is also the most effective way to boost your innate intelligence.
In don't think anybody claims that IQ tests measure your innate intelligence. They aim to measure your actual intelligence level, and that's something that could be improved with practice and study.
Of course, if a standardized IQ test has a limited sampling of questions, and you only practice those particular types of questions, you'll skew the results.
Hmm... first you said you wanted one byte, and now you want two bytes, or magic bits. Doesn't seem like a well thought out proposal. What about alignment, or endianness, or non-8 bit systems, or cases where 64k strings aren't long enough ? No matter what you choose, you're going to have unhappy people.
I've been programming in C for a few decades, and I've made plenty of mistakes over the years, but very few of them had anything to do with strong typing or pointers. Most of them are just logic mistakes that I could have made in any other language.
Slashdot Mirror
The obvious countermeasure is to have your own bot answer your phone
That's what I do. If I don't recognize the number, I'll let the answering machine take the call.
If you don't want to lose control, don't put your music in a place you don't control.
The blockchain will be part of our future but bitcoin could easily be displaced by another digital coin.
Not so easy. The problems you've indicated with mining would be even worse for a new coin with a smaller user base/network.
Bitcoin fees and transaction verification time make it ill suited for small and quick purchases.
That's not a bitcoin specific issue. That's a general problem with distributed global blockchain technology. Implementing a trustless network is always going to be less efficient.
However, most of the dollars are held by US citizens
If you add up all the dollars held by US citizens, including their share of all the debts, you'd get a negative amount.
The value of Bitcoin rests upon the functionality of the global market and currency systems.
Basically everything we have rests upon the functionality of everything else, bitcoin is not an exception. If all the major currencies crashed, you're not going to buy a loaf of bread from the supermarket with a gold coin either, because the supermarket won't have bread.
Your comment doesn't actually answer either of my two questions.
Well, we could certainly eliminate that problem simply by going back to the gold standard
I think it's a bad idea to go the gold standard, but a good idea to own some gold. Same with bitcoin.
By the way, you can transfer money across borders using any of the hundreds of competing cryptocurrencies. Many faster and at a lower cost to boot.
Speed and cost are not nearly as important as liquidity and security. There's a reason people pay a premium to transfer bitcoin.
Next item: FBI hires a bunch of 13 year old kids to unlock phones confiscated from criminal suspects.
What are you going to do with BTC if the whole thing crashes down and you don't get out?
What are you going to do with a bar of gold if the whole thing crashes down ?
No, 1 bitcoin does not represent $8,000. $8,000 is the market price of a bitcoin
If someone offered you a bitcoin for $4000 would you buy it ?
Even if I completely buy into that line of thinking it in no way justifies the current price of bitcoin
So, what's a reasonable price of bitcoin ? And if you apply the same reasoning, what would be a reasonable price for a kilogram of gold ?
Did you do the calculations for that ?
Have you tried reading the article ?
I've also seen tons of stories with a headline similar to "Drone takes amazing pictures of volcano" without the actual picture.
you'll see that this required a far more detailed scan of the face than could be recovered from stereoscopy alone. They had to use FLIR to get an accurate enough scan.
There's a suitable camera in every iPhone X. Someone will figure out a hack to use that to scan someone else's face.
I agree, but that's not how some people treat it.
That's their problem.
But that does not mean that the education level is the cause.
What happens if a 6 year old goes to an accelerated education program, and learns about siphons and capillary actions, and which edge of a shingle to seal ? Wouldn't she be able to answer the questions for the 16 year old ?
And what if the 16 year old grew in a country where they don't use shingles for roofing, but clay tiles ? Would they know which edge to seal ?
Performance at certain tasks that may or may not be biased towards one or more cultures, which require some degree of practice to reach full potential at?
Pretty much, yes. And the tasks are probably designed to reflect useful skills in life, which are also biased towards the culture you're in.
practicing IQ tests is also the most effective way to boost your innate intelligence.
In don't think anybody claims that IQ tests measure your innate intelligence. They aim to measure your actual intelligence level, and that's something that could be improved with practice and study.
Of course, if a standardized IQ test has a limited sampling of questions, and you only practice those particular types of questions, you'll skew the results.
Hmm... first you said you wanted one byte, and now you want two bytes, or magic bits. Doesn't seem like a well thought out proposal. What about alignment, or endianness, or non-8 bit systems, or cases where 64k strings aren't long enough ? No matter what you choose, you're going to have unhappy people.
To shoot fish in a barrel the zero-terminated C strings was made to save one length-prefix byte
A maximum string length of 256 would be very painful if you routinely deal with longer strings.
And you have to consider that when C was developed, some computer hardware had 6, 7, 8 or 9 bit bytes.
How does Simulink perform when you have to write a USB device driver ?
1. No strong typing.
2. Pointers
I've been programming in C for a few decades, and I've made plenty of mistakes over the years, but very few of them had anything to do with strong typing or pointers. Most of them are just logic mistakes that I could have made in any other language.
Here's a nice demonstration how the greenhouse effect of CO2 works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...