Finally cryptocurrency is getting back to normal. Now that the speculators have been brushed aside, we're seeing normal values again. Bubbles are what happen when speculators artificially inflate the value of something. Cryptocurrency, if used as an investment, is a long term one. Like 10 years. Adoption is just NOW becoming easier. Still, there will be added resistance because of the burnout from the speculative bubble. But ultimately, it's Digital Cash and will be the big thing everyone says it is.
Stable compared to what? Why should you care? Buy it, use it, receive it, exchange it. Boom. Easy money. There's plenty of options for accepting cryptocurrency online. WordPress site? Use WooCommerce and MyCryptoCheckout. Building your own? Coinbase has their Commerce API (which I use). It's easy and getting easier every day. And if you insist on holding on to it, its value will increase NATURALLY over time.
I swear, I'm surrounded by idiots. "Oh, it's a scam!" "No, it's a stock!" "It's a ponzi scheme!" --- Guys guys guys... It's just money. "Digital Cash." Powered by a novel idea. You don't invest in Euros like stocks, do you? You don't think about Pesos when buying Cheetos at an American 7-11, do you? Of course not. Then why are you trying to complicate Cryptocurrency? It's just "Digital Cash" for buying stuff on the Internet, when you don't want to mess with (or have access to) credit cards. Get out of this speculative investment mindset. See it for what it is, and what value that has. CASH.
We haven't even begun to exploit this planet's resources. We currently treat some of our most valuable resources as waste products. Thorium is an excellent example of this. Human waste is another. In general, our waste, past and present, will serve as a valuable resource for every day life in the near future. It might not be "Mr. Fusion," but it'll be as profound. And this is only possible under Capitalism. No other system has been, can be, or will be capable of it. So put away your hammer and sickle, "scientists."
Yep, another blowhard who thinks he has the right to censor anything he doesn't like. Senator, you do not have the right to not be offended. You do have the right to choose what you view, read or listen to. If you don't like a source of media, don't consume that media. You have the right to change the channel. You have the right to avoid a particular website. Companies have the right to determine what content they find acceptable, and what they don't want posted on their websites... and to take action against users who violate their policies. They also have the right to allow whatever content they wish. At no point have you been given the authority to decide for us. As a matter of fact, it's spelled out very plainly in the Constitution that you are forbidden that power. So take your little ball and go home before this gets ugly.
See, the problem with lithium oxide batteries is they explode when damaged. This happens when you overcharge, overdischarge, or physically damage the cell. Packing more energy into them is only going to make things worse. I'll stick with Lithium Iron Phosphate, thanks.
Several family computers came and went in my youth. Your standard TI/99a and C64 types. But once we got a PC, I dusted off an old 1200 baud modem someone had given us and found some local BBS numbers. It wasn't long after that people were giving me old parts and my own personal PC took shape. I like to say my desktop today started it's life as a Zenith Data Systems 8088. Just made upgrades and upgrades and upgrades over the years. In short time, that 8088 was back together and sold to someone whose sister was planning to buy a word processor, for less than she'd have spent on it. Which allowed me to buy better parts for the then completed 286 that replaced it. IIRC I managed to cram 2MB of memory chips into that 286, found a 286 driver for it (EMM286), coprocessor, and a way too big 250mb hard drive I had to use software to run because that size of a drive was way more than the BIOS could handle. Ran a nighttime BBS myself on that old rig. Those were the days.
Using cryptocurrency as a short-term speculative investment is foolish. What happens today can reverse itself dramatically tomorrow. Ultimately of the over 1800 cryptocurrencies available on the market, over 99% of them will fail to become anything useful. Cryptocurrency is just that... currency. It's internet money. Your primary use of cryptocurrency should be in financial transactions, not speculative investment. More and more people are beginning to accept cryptocurrencies as payment for goods and services. I myself am in the process of developing an application for this purpose. Cryptocurrency itself is going to be world-changing, never mind blockchain technology. But these things don't happen overnight. I have absolutely no concern for or over what market speculators do. I know where this is heading. It's obvious to anyone who's really paying attention. So articles like this really aren't helpful.
Let me be poor in a nation where the basic necessities of life are too cheap to meter. Where the jobs we don't want today are the breadwinners of tomorrow. Where the services of today's rich are available to the average person. It will all take care of itself folks, just relax and try not to screw up our economy by messing with it.
The answer is neither. There will always... ALWAYS... be jobs for people to do. Yes, many of today's jobs will disappear. There's not much of a market for a typesetter these days, but someone still runs the press. That new machine might crank out cheese burgers all day long, but someone needs to refill it with supplies every now and then, and fix it when it breaks down. The shipping industry is growing, not shrinking. Blue collar jobs are desperate for people to fill them, and they'll never go away. So, enough with the commie nonsense. Many things are better off left in human hands. You don't build a million dollar machine to change one light bulb every couple of years, but you may need to pay a human $100k to do it some day.
Who buys phones made in Europe? I haven't owned a Nokia in 10 years. Archos? Phillips? Please. You know darned well we all buy Asian phones anyway. There's no one that can compete with Android outside of Apple. Even if a hole opened up in Europe. Even Microsoft stopped trying.
I don't see where the EU has the authority to dictate anything to Google, let alone issue fines. Alphabet is an American corporation, not a European one. And I know of no law anywhere on Earth that says a company has to charge money for access to its services. The cost of using the Google Play store is bundling Google's apps in your phone. Period. If I were CEO of Google, I'd tell them to suck it.
Using the Thorium fuel cycle in molten salt reactors (LFTR) has always been the way to go with nuclear power. We'd already be doing it if it weren't for the Cold War and objections from the oil and gas industry. The amount of energy available is several orders of magnitude more than any other source on the planet, and from a sustainable source. The things we can do with that energy will change our world forever; by cleaning up the environment, providing resources we need where we need them, performing tasks that were once too energy intensive to be economical, providing more than enough power for all-electric transportation, etc. So people can freak out all they like. They can waste their time, money and effort with piddly wind and solar projects, and alternative energy pipe dreams. I already know how this turns out. It's just a matter of time and a question of who does it first.
Given the sheer volume of straws cranked out by the fast-food industry, this can only be a good thing. Paper straws work just fine for single-use. And if you don't like paper straws, buy your own plastic ones. Better yet, buy one meant to be reused. A simple change for McDonald's, but it will have a huge impact in reducing waste.
Life exists on this planet to consume the energy delivered by the sun. If a species goes extinct, it was not conducive to efficient energy consumption. If it thrives, it's efficient. As humans, we are without a doubt the most efficient energy consuming life form on the planet. Therefore if a species does not support human life, it does not need to exist. However, as stewards of our planet, and with a sense of self preservation, we should be very careful which species we dispatch, as we may not understand its importance to our continued dominance and indeed our continued existence. Wipe out the wrong species and something else will dominate the planet in our place.
Anyone with plans to do this can just stop right now. SpaceX won. They have the licenses, they have the launch vehicles, they have the most cost-effective plan to implement it. Even if Facebook paid SpaceX to launch their satellites, they're launching their own right along side of them. Game over.
Exactly. Unless they made changes to OpenWRT itself, they're well within their use rights. They're under no obligation to publish their source code for a program that runs under a specific Linux distro. If that were the case, Linux would die overnight.
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I want to be fined by the EU, just so I can give them both fingers and smooch at them.
Finally cryptocurrency is getting back to normal. Now that the speculators have been brushed aside, we're seeing normal values again. Bubbles are what happen when speculators artificially inflate the value of something. Cryptocurrency, if used as an investment, is a long term one. Like 10 years. Adoption is just NOW becoming easier. Still, there will be added resistance because of the burnout from the speculative bubble. But ultimately, it's Digital Cash and will be the big thing everyone says it is.
I will stop using Python if they succumb to this nonsense! Oh wait, I don't use Python anyway. It has horrible syntax.
Stable compared to what? Why should you care? Buy it, use it, receive it, exchange it. Boom. Easy money. There's plenty of options for accepting cryptocurrency online. WordPress site? Use WooCommerce and MyCryptoCheckout. Building your own? Coinbase has their Commerce API (which I use). It's easy and getting easier every day. And if you insist on holding on to it, its value will increase NATURALLY over time.
I swear, I'm surrounded by idiots. "Oh, it's a scam!" "No, it's a stock!" "It's a ponzi scheme!" --- Guys guys guys... It's just money. "Digital Cash." Powered by a novel idea. You don't invest in Euros like stocks, do you? You don't think about Pesos when buying Cheetos at an American 7-11, do you? Of course not. Then why are you trying to complicate Cryptocurrency? It's just "Digital Cash" for buying stuff on the Internet, when you don't want to mess with (or have access to) credit cards. Get out of this speculative investment mindset. See it for what it is, and what value that has. CASH.
We haven't even begun to exploit this planet's resources. We currently treat some of our most valuable resources as waste products. Thorium is an excellent example of this. Human waste is another. In general, our waste, past and present, will serve as a valuable resource for every day life in the near future. It might not be "Mr. Fusion," but it'll be as profound. And this is only possible under Capitalism. No other system has been, can be, or will be capable of it. So put away your hammer and sickle, "scientists."
Yep, another blowhard who thinks he has the right to censor anything he doesn't like. Senator, you do not have the right to not be offended. You do have the right to choose what you view, read or listen to. If you don't like a source of media, don't consume that media. You have the right to change the channel. You have the right to avoid a particular website. Companies have the right to determine what content they find acceptable, and what they don't want posted on their websites... and to take action against users who violate their policies. They also have the right to allow whatever content they wish. At no point have you been given the authority to decide for us. As a matter of fact, it's spelled out very plainly in the Constitution that you are forbidden that power. So take your little ball and go home before this gets ugly.
See, the problem with lithium oxide batteries is they explode when damaged. This happens when you overcharge, overdischarge, or physically damage the cell. Packing more energy into them is only going to make things worse. I'll stick with Lithium Iron Phosphate, thanks.
It reminds me of the Qwest commercial: "All rooms have every movie, ever made, in every language, any time, day or night." Well, here we are.
Several family computers came and went in my youth. Your standard TI/99a and C64 types. But once we got a PC, I dusted off an old 1200 baud modem someone had given us and found some local BBS numbers. It wasn't long after that people were giving me old parts and my own personal PC took shape. I like to say my desktop today started it's life as a Zenith Data Systems 8088. Just made upgrades and upgrades and upgrades over the years. In short time, that 8088 was back together and sold to someone whose sister was planning to buy a word processor, for less than she'd have spent on it. Which allowed me to buy better parts for the then completed 286 that replaced it. IIRC I managed to cram 2MB of memory chips into that 286, found a 286 driver for it (EMM286), coprocessor, and a way too big 250mb hard drive I had to use software to run because that size of a drive was way more than the BIOS could handle. Ran a nighttime BBS myself on that old rig. Those were the days.
Using cryptocurrency as a short-term speculative investment is foolish. What happens today can reverse itself dramatically tomorrow. Ultimately of the over 1800 cryptocurrencies available on the market, over 99% of them will fail to become anything useful. Cryptocurrency is just that... currency. It's internet money. Your primary use of cryptocurrency should be in financial transactions, not speculative investment. More and more people are beginning to accept cryptocurrencies as payment for goods and services. I myself am in the process of developing an application for this purpose. Cryptocurrency itself is going to be world-changing, never mind blockchain technology. But these things don't happen overnight. I have absolutely no concern for or over what market speculators do. I know where this is heading. It's obvious to anyone who's really paying attention. So articles like this really aren't helpful.
You don't cut people's Internet access off. That's like taking cigarettes away from a smoker. You wanna see some violence? WOW!
Let me be poor in a nation where the basic necessities of life are too cheap to meter. Where the jobs we don't want today are the breadwinners of tomorrow. Where the services of today's rich are available to the average person. It will all take care of itself folks, just relax and try not to screw up our economy by messing with it.
The answer is neither. There will always... ALWAYS... be jobs for people to do. Yes, many of today's jobs will disappear. There's not much of a market for a typesetter these days, but someone still runs the press. That new machine might crank out cheese burgers all day long, but someone needs to refill it with supplies every now and then, and fix it when it breaks down. The shipping industry is growing, not shrinking. Blue collar jobs are desperate for people to fill them, and they'll never go away. So, enough with the commie nonsense. Many things are better off left in human hands. You don't build a million dollar machine to change one light bulb every couple of years, but you may need to pay a human $100k to do it some day.
Who buys phones made in Europe? I haven't owned a Nokia in 10 years. Archos? Phillips? Please. You know darned well we all buy Asian phones anyway. There's no one that can compete with Android outside of Apple. Even if a hole opened up in Europe. Even Microsoft stopped trying.
I don't see where the EU has the authority to dictate anything to Google, let alone issue fines. Alphabet is an American corporation, not a European one. And I know of no law anywhere on Earth that says a company has to charge money for access to its services. The cost of using the Google Play store is bundling Google's apps in your phone. Period. If I were CEO of Google, I'd tell them to suck it.
Using the Thorium fuel cycle in molten salt reactors (LFTR) has always been the way to go with nuclear power. We'd already be doing it if it weren't for the Cold War and objections from the oil and gas industry. The amount of energy available is several orders of magnitude more than any other source on the planet, and from a sustainable source. The things we can do with that energy will change our world forever; by cleaning up the environment, providing resources we need where we need them, performing tasks that were once too energy intensive to be economical, providing more than enough power for all-electric transportation, etc. So people can freak out all they like. They can waste their time, money and effort with piddly wind and solar projects, and alternative energy pipe dreams. I already know how this turns out. It's just a matter of time and a question of who does it first.
How can the beer industry be short on CO2? Doesn't the fermentation process produce CO2 in the first place?
Given the sheer volume of straws cranked out by the fast-food industry, this can only be a good thing. Paper straws work just fine for single-use. And if you don't like paper straws, buy your own plastic ones. Better yet, buy one meant to be reused. A simple change for McDonald's, but it will have a huge impact in reducing waste.
The difference is nuclear can actually produce 100 GW of power. Continuously. Solar can't. Not even close.
Tesla has been burning short sellers since its IPO. They never seem to learn. I'm no expert trader, but I know better than to short Tesla.
Life exists on this planet to consume the energy delivered by the sun. If a species goes extinct, it was not conducive to efficient energy consumption. If it thrives, it's efficient. As humans, we are without a doubt the most efficient energy consuming life form on the planet. Therefore if a species does not support human life, it does not need to exist. However, as stewards of our planet, and with a sense of self preservation, we should be very careful which species we dispatch, as we may not understand its importance to our continued dominance and indeed our continued existence. Wipe out the wrong species and something else will dominate the planet in our place.
Anyone with plans to do this can just stop right now. SpaceX won. They have the licenses, they have the launch vehicles, they have the most cost-effective plan to implement it. Even if Facebook paid SpaceX to launch their satellites, they're launching their own right along side of them. Game over.
Have we not learned yet? Don't ever short Tesla. That's a fast way to lose a lot of money, as has been demonstrated time and time again since its IPO.
Exactly. Unless they made changes to OpenWRT itself, they're well within their use rights. They're under no obligation to publish their source code for a program that runs under a specific Linux distro. If that were the case, Linux would die overnight.