Should I be happy because they'll almost certainly go after people burning energy on useless crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, or angry because patents on software methods should never be granted in the first place?
You sure like things in black and white, don't you?
The point is, unless you have a disease like diabetes, those foods aren't *actually* going to do your body any harm if you take them in reasonable quantities.
Yes, I'm aware that "reasonable" is a non-specific term, but hopefully you can cope with that.
Yeah, their advice resembles the "don't drink and drive" sign hanging in a bar. You may want to consider the fact that advice is often given for no other reason other than to check a box in the legal liability category.
Well, that and not wanting their patrons to die or kill someone else. Not all business owners are soulless psychopaths.
Highly refined carbohydrates are poison only to people who can't properly process them (diabetics).
Excessive consumption of those highly refined carbohydrates often leads to diabetes. Presumably that's the Behaviour A you mentioned.
The desired outcome (a "cure") would be for people who go through the horribly restrictive and unpleasant diet in Behaviour B can return to a normal life and adopt Behaviour C (consuming highly refined carbohydrates in sane amounts) like the rest of us.
Bitcoin was designed so that individuals and their computers did the mining. Instead we have mining performed by exotic and expensive ASIC hardware that it under the control of only a few.
If this site is still News For Nerds (and not Echo Chamber For Morons), then there won't be a single person here who didn't see that logical conclusion coming from the very start.
If we're taking "hand" literally then yes, the cost of producing the cash must come into it.
Not entirely without electricity, but these days it's easy to just "hand" over money at home with your online banking and a couple of milliwatt-hours of electricity.
All the ones I've seen in the past ten years briefly run the compressor in the reverse direction to prevent icing up, or have a small resistive coil in around the outdoor unit. Not sure if that's exactly what you're taking about though, since you mention the refrigerant in the compressor rather than external ice. How cold does it get there?
As another poster points out, there are better ways to heat your home than resistive heat. By doing to, you have a heat transfer system with a COP of 1.0.
Most homes where I live use electric heat pumps (think Air Conditioners that can work in either direction for you Americans), and their COP typically exceeds 4 (less if the temperature differential is extreme, making the compressor transfer energy up as steeper hill, so to speak).
For some reason it seems to attract the worst kind of troll and lowlife. Sure you get the harassment you mentioned, but also pretty much every other kind imaginable so much that the former is lost in the noise. Wear a bright shirt in a video? You're screwed.
And as for Hack a Day, perhaps you and I have been visiting different versions of that website for the past ten years. Did that actually happen or are you again claiming persecution where none exists?
I have yet to see a Tesla in my town, but I have seen Nissan Leafs ("Leaves"?) literally every day for the past fortnight when travelling across town. If I had to guess, perhaps 1 in 50 cars I see at the moment is a Leaf.
That blows my mind.
Many have been of different colours and some had signwriting for small businesses. Either we've had a massive rise in their popularity or it's a very persistent and dedicated marketing campaign.
We don't check the valve clearances on our petrol cars because, as you say, the auto manufacturer has likely built a car as functionally and perfectly as possible, and with your interests in mind. Until you find out which parts are designed to break in which order, of course.
PC manufacturers have demonstrated time and again that they clearly do not have your interests in mind, otherwise we would not be having this discussion.
Most of those crapwares HP actually thinks serves a purpose for the consumer. Otherwise they wouldn't have bundled it.
Sorry, but that's an incredibly naive point of view.
I don't think that's how it works. If Comcast wants to call something unlawful, then it will be unlawful on their network until a multi-million dollar court case tells them otherwise.
I predict a nearly-impossible certification process that is stacked against everyone except the largest companies. Only those will be certified lawful and allowed on their safe, filtered, Internet.
Well done America, you've just voted yourselves a Great Firewall of China, but in America.
Somehow I don't think Mexico is going to pay for this one.
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In his 1989 book Dave Barry Slept Here, the author predicts Mars will be renamed Planet Trump some time in the future.
I'm sure it was meant to be satire at the time, but it's looking much less absurd today.
You forgot to post the link. Or is it in TFA?
Should I be happy because they'll almost certainly go after people burning energy on useless crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, or angry because patents on software methods should never be granted in the first place?
Please tell me you're joking.
Mansplaining - one of the more idiotic terms entering common usage in 2017, even for the usually low standard of feminist circles.
So both can drive a 4k display at 60Hz and RGB colourspace?
You sure like things in black and white, don't you?
The point is, unless you have a disease like diabetes, those foods aren't *actually* going to do your body any harm if you take them in reasonable quantities.
Yes, I'm aware that "reasonable" is a non-specific term, but hopefully you can cope with that.
Yeah, their advice resembles the "don't drink and drive" sign hanging in a bar. You may want to consider the fact that advice is often given for no other reason other than to check a box in the legal liability category.
Well, that and not wanting their patrons to die or kill someone else. Not all business owners are soulless psychopaths.
Nice false dichotomy there.
Highly refined carbohydrates are poison only to people who can't properly process them (diabetics).
Excessive consumption of those highly refined carbohydrates often leads to diabetes. Presumably that's the Behaviour A you mentioned.
The desired outcome (a "cure") would be for people who go through the horribly restrictive and unpleasant diet in Behaviour B can return to a normal life and adopt Behaviour C (consuming highly refined carbohydrates in sane amounts) like the rest of us.
Bitcoin was designed so that individuals and their computers did the mining. Instead we have mining performed by exotic and expensive ASIC hardware that it under the control of only a few.
If this site is still News For Nerds (and not Echo Chamber For Morons), then there won't be a single person here who didn't see that logical conclusion coming from the very start.
If we're taking "hand" literally then yes, the cost of producing the cash must come into it.
Not entirely without electricity, but these days it's easy to just "hand" over money at home with your online banking and a couple of milliwatt-hours of electricity.
Really? How old is your heat pump?
All the ones I've seen in the past ten years briefly run the compressor in the reverse direction to prevent icing up, or have a small resistive coil in around the outdoor unit. Not sure if that's exactly what you're taking about though, since you mention the refrigerant in the compressor rather than external ice. How cold does it get there?
As another poster points out, there are better ways to heat your home than resistive heat. By doing to, you have a heat transfer system with a COP of 1.0.
Most homes where I live use electric heat pumps (think Air Conditioners that can work in either direction for you Americans), and their COP typically exceeds 4 (less if the temperature differential is extreme, making the compressor transfer energy up as steeper hill, so to speak).
I don't like saying "I told you so". So I won't. I'll just sit back and quietly shake my head.
This is *exactly* the future us tech-savvy people saw for bitcoin from the moment of its launch.
No.
Never, NEVER, read comments on YouTube videos.
Ever.
For some reason it seems to attract the worst kind of troll and lowlife. Sure you get the harassment you mentioned, but also pretty much every other kind imaginable so much that the former is lost in the noise. Wear a bright shirt in a video? You're screwed.
And as for Hack a Day, perhaps you and I have been visiting different versions of that website for the past ten years. Did that actually happen or are you again claiming persecution where none exists?
They don't understand cause and effect, and don't have object permanence
This is the second time I've seen you make this claim here. Do you have a citation to back it up?
Petrol. You use petrol.
Not content with making "solder" rhyme with "fodder", you Americans have to go and call a liquid "gas".
Interesting.
Not sure that applies in this case though, as I do not live in the US, let alone California, and there are no subsidies here.
If you want to use your CPU cycles for good, I suggest Folding@Home instead.
I have yet to see a Tesla in my town, but I have seen Nissan Leafs ("Leaves"?) literally every day for the past fortnight when travelling across town. If I had to guess, perhaps 1 in 50 cars I see at the moment is a Leaf.
That blows my mind.
Many have been of different colours and some had signwriting for small businesses. Either we've had a massive rise in their popularity or it's a very persistent and dedicated marketing campaign.
So why did Obama appoint him?
Honest question.
99% of nerds, man, nerds.
We don't check the valve clearances on our petrol cars because, as you say, the auto manufacturer has likely built a car as functionally and perfectly as possible, and with your interests in mind. Until you find out which parts are designed to break in which order, of course.
PC manufacturers have demonstrated time and again that they clearly do not have your interests in mind, otherwise we would not be having this discussion.
Most of those crapwares HP actually thinks serves a purpose for the consumer. Otherwise they wouldn't have bundled it.
Sorry, but that's an incredibly naive point of view.
I don't think that's how it works. If Comcast wants to call something unlawful, then it will be unlawful on their network until a multi-million dollar court case tells them otherwise.
I predict a nearly-impossible certification process that is stacked against everyone except the largest companies. Only those will be certified lawful and allowed on their safe, filtered, Internet.
Well done America, you've just voted yourselves a Great Firewall of China, but in America.
Somehow I don't think Mexico is going to pay for this one.
HP has been selling PCs with Windows 10 for years now.
They don't even bother to hide this fact.
Sounds like scope for a very small white-list of very large companies to me.