It's totally virtual and has no direct use value, just like fiat money.
Fiat money has the backing of the government that issues the money. That includes the police and military who can prevent you from using other currencies whenever they want and the government that will enforce laws and protect said currency. Tell me, which army will force you to use only bitcoin? In a "free country" you are free to use whatever medium of exchange you want - within certain limits. You're also free to go bankrupt. Start a business granted special status by the government because it's a vital service and then oblige people to pay in chocolate chips only and see how long it takes for the government to show up on your door. Judging by the behavior of many countries, some governments are actually doing the opposite - with varying degrees of success.
Yes, they can be wrong while still being far more correct than conspiracy theorists and religious nuts. Wrong is not an absolute. There are different shades of wrong. There is "oops I made a typo" wrong, and "delete your account" wrong, and the FBI is about to break down your door and put a bullet in your head wrong. See?
Not only that I but distinctly remember studying the mesentery and its functions in medical school when I was there over 20 years ago... although it may not have been specifically granted the name "organ", that's not really how medical students classify things anyway. Organ simply means a collection of tissues performing a specific function or functions. You're far more likely to get a question asking about those functions, or where the blood supply comes from, or what embryological layers went into forming this structure on any test at medical school than "is this an organ?". We've known for a long time that the mesentery has quite a few functions from immune system functions (the thing is FULL of lymph nodes as anyone who has ever had adenitis mesenterica will testify) to being able to move through chemotaxis towards and plug any leaks in the bowel.
disassembled a single unit and came up with the speculation just to promote their own company
Bellingcat will sue for stealing their business method. They will also lose because Bellingcat doesn't even bother disassembling even a single unit, they just make shit up at a bar one night then publish it.
But rest assured, the scale itself changes day to day, sometimes even as much as stocks change day to day.
Rubbish. Currencies tend to be stable over time. It's when they're NOT stable (witness the Russian Rouble, the Euro, and the British Pound last year) that the shit tends to hit the fan. Which proves GP's point - people like STABILITY in their currencies. Instability is a sign of failure not success.
Seeing bitcoin and "professional investor" in the same sentence, as well as seeing real world economic situations used as an excuse for the latest bitcoin bubble.
It's very easy to look "professional" when the bubble is inflating. Let's see how professional they look when it pops again, as it will - because Bitcoin is SPECULATION not investment. I'm pretty sure that tulip salesmen were highly respected financial professionals in the 1630's, a few months before they turned gardener again.
Now don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with a bit of speculation and money can be made. However it is a universe of risk away from the term "investment" and the buyer must beware.
Those who give a shit about their customers and try to do their very best for them DO make themselves available 24/7. These are the people I will do business with. In my experience, the most important selection criteria for anything is the quality of the product itself, and the second close behind is the type of support you'll receive.
Of course usually you expect to pay premium price for premium service. In MY experience, the world is full of shitstains who want 24/7 availability but don't want to pay for it.
If you don't do exactly as I say, you will have 7 years of bad luck. To avoid this bad luck you must do the following:
Spend 2 minutes every morning writing a positive email to one of your contacts before checking your email. Then send that email along with a copy of this email to your contacts. This is the only way you can avoid the bad luck.
Critical things - like how to handle a crash state - are ALWAYS loaded because you never know when you'll crash. Non critical things like perhaps your printer driver or some exotic font can be loaded later if there's a need and/or relegated to some paged memory.
I doubt that. I'm sure it's hardcoded in a binary somewhere.
I would hate to see your programs. I bet you call all your variables a,b,c,i and x too right? There is zero difference in performance if a program loads a value into a variable at program initialization versus being assigned a value during a function call. Pretty sure that the color of the crash screen is not assigned only when a fault condition is detected but rather forms part of a whole range of data that Windows carries around in memory once it loads.
MS engineers responsible need to be told to keep it simple, stupid.
Oh I see what the problem is. You're just not familiar with Microsoft and its products.
Not in my city. Not one single fruit from my plants, despite plenty of flowers. Of course I remember someone marketing urban apiaries too but I can imagine those would not survive the first lawsuit when a neighbor or window-cleaner gets stung.
new markets with better-curated and more local-language content
If I want to watch reruns of Betty La Fea (Ugly Betty) I will watch my local fucking cable channel. I want the stuff I CAN'T get here. In the language (English) I CAN'T get here. Not the same poorly translated movies I am already watching. That is the whole fucking point of the internet - breaking old models and allowing the viewer to watching things he couldn't watch before. "Localization" merely attempts to shove the viewer back into the box some committee thinks he belongs in.
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$110 is still way too expensive. Syringe = $0.05. Epinephrine = $2.
It's totally virtual and has no direct use value, just like fiat money.
Fiat money has the backing of the government that issues the money. That includes the police and military who can prevent you from using other currencies whenever they want and the government that will enforce laws and protect said currency. Tell me, which army will force you to use only bitcoin? In a "free country" you are free to use whatever medium of exchange you want - within certain limits. You're also free to go bankrupt. Start a business granted special status by the government because it's a vital service and then oblige people to pay in chocolate chips only and see how long it takes for the government to show up on your door. Judging by the behavior of many countries, some governments are actually doing the opposite - with varying degrees of success.
And tulips now cost $10 trillion each.
Hilarious. You seem to know me quite well for someone who doesn't know me at all. Here's a hint: you are arguing with yourself.
Not to mention that it needs to be relatively cheap. Like steel. Academics tend to forget that little detail since they rarely have to pay the bill.
Eventually your laptop will double as a kitchen knife. At least I think that's what the goal is.
Yes, they can be wrong while still being far more correct than conspiracy theorists and religious nuts. Wrong is not an absolute. There are different shades of wrong. There is "oops I made a typo" wrong, and "delete your account" wrong, and the FBI is about to break down your door and put a bullet in your head wrong. See?
Not only that I but distinctly remember studying the mesentery and its functions in medical school when I was there over 20 years ago... although it may not have been specifically granted the name "organ", that's not really how medical students classify things anyway. Organ simply means a collection of tissues performing a specific function or functions. You're far more likely to get a question asking about those functions, or where the blood supply comes from, or what embryological layers went into forming this structure on any test at medical school than "is this an organ?". We've known for a long time that the mesentery has quite a few functions from immune system functions (the thing is FULL of lymph nodes as anyone who has ever had adenitis mesenterica will testify) to being able to move through chemotaxis towards and plug any leaks in the bowel.
Nobody uses Gray's anymore. Netter is the thing.
disassembled a single unit and came up with the speculation just to promote their own company
Bellingcat will sue for stealing their business method. They will also lose because Bellingcat doesn't even bother disassembling even a single unit, they just make shit up at a bar one night then publish it.
I'll refer you to all those people who bought Bitcoin at $1000 per a few years ago and who only NOW have access to their money again.
People buy US dollars because everyone else buys US dollars. It's as simple as that.
It's only a matter of time before one BTC is worth $200 in US money, too. How much are you willing to gamble?
But rest assured, the scale itself changes day to day, sometimes even as much as stocks change day to day.
Rubbish. Currencies tend to be stable over time. It's when they're NOT stable (witness the Russian Rouble, the Euro, and the British Pound last year) that the shit tends to hit the fan. Which proves GP's point - people like STABILITY in their currencies. Instability is a sign of failure not success.
Seeing bitcoin and "professional investor" in the same sentence, as well as seeing real world economic situations used as an excuse for the latest bitcoin bubble.
It's very easy to look "professional" when the bubble is inflating. Let's see how professional they look when it pops again, as it will - because Bitcoin is SPECULATION not investment. I'm pretty sure that tulip salesmen were highly respected financial professionals in the 1630's, a few months before they turned gardener again.
Now don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with a bit of speculation and money can be made. However it is a universe of risk away from the term "investment" and the buyer must beware.
Those who give a shit about their customers and try to do their very best for them DO make themselves available 24/7. These are the people I will do business with. In my experience, the most important selection criteria for anything is the quality of the product itself, and the second close behind is the type of support you'll receive.
Of course usually you expect to pay premium price for premium service. In MY experience, the world is full of shitstains who want 24/7 availability but don't want to pay for it.
If you don't do exactly as I say, you will have 7 years of bad luck. To avoid this bad luck you must do the following: Spend 2 minutes every morning writing a positive email to one of your contacts before checking your email. Then send that email along with a copy of this email to your contacts. This is the only way you can avoid the bad luck.
I foresee myself avoiding Microsoft AR.
when most of those variables won't even be used.
Critical things - like how to handle a crash state - are ALWAYS loaded because you never know when you'll crash. Non critical things like perhaps your printer driver or some exotic font can be loaded later if there's a need and/or relegated to some paged memory.
I doubt that. I'm sure it's hardcoded in a binary somewhere.
I would hate to see your programs. I bet you call all your variables a,b,c,i and x too right? There is zero difference in performance if a program loads a value into a variable at program initialization versus being assigned a value during a function call. Pretty sure that the color of the crash screen is not assigned only when a fault condition is detected but rather forms part of a whole range of data that Windows carries around in memory once it loads.
MS engineers responsible need to be told to keep it simple, stupid.
Oh I see what the problem is. You're just not familiar with Microsoft and its products.
Are you too lazy to pollinate the flowers by hand, or just ignorant?
I already have a job, sweetheart.
Not in my city. Not one single fruit from my plants, despite plenty of flowers. Of course I remember someone marketing urban apiaries too but I can imagine those would not survive the first lawsuit when a neighbor or window-cleaner gets stung.
All that money to figure out you don't get many bees or pollinators downtown on the 24th floor, so any fruiting plant is out.
new markets with better-curated and more local-language content
If I want to watch reruns of Betty La Fea (Ugly Betty) I will watch my local fucking cable channel. I want the stuff I CAN'T get here. In the language (English) I CAN'T get here. Not the same poorly translated movies I am already watching. That is the whole fucking point of the internet - breaking old models and allowing the viewer to watching things he couldn't watch before. "Localization" merely attempts to shove the viewer back into the box some committee thinks he belongs in.
Quick, we need a tax on cheap Chinese neodymium magnets!