If you look at the history of price in BTC/USD, the bitcoins are (relatively...) stable until end 2016/start 2017, then it went completely volatile with rising in spike, and having dropds which were higher than the full price it was end of 2016 (e.g. drop higher than 1000$). Yet the number of Tx per month did not rise in parallel to values. So what you have here is an extremly volatile speculative commodity and that's it. Anybody would be insane to use it as a currency.
"However, since 1993 on a rolling decade basis if the same wager had been repeated for subsequent decades, Ehrlich would have won the bet"
There are physical (energetic) and chemical limits to human ingenuity. Between "it runs out" and "it will be there forever" there are multiple shade of grey, e.g. one of them being "the cost of extracting more become unbearable, and thus extracting that resource is a limiting factor to all economies" as an example.
Care to present a scientific article which pretended earth would end up like venus in a run away effect ? There is quite a few fear that there is a potential run effect with methane clathrate and a few fear about permafrost earth melting dumping a lot of carbon in the atmosphere, but none are about a venus end effect, all are more about going back to pre-cambrian or similar climate, which would be hell for all our coast , agricultural area, and various very negative effect on the food supply of a majority of the earth population, not counting that this would be so quick many species would not be able to adapt. Some *dumb* lay people may have told that, end effect venus, but then it is your fault to believe lay source rather than hard science.
Because it would be the interrest of the FSB to get the new malware and signature for two reasons (and I would not be surprised the NSA do the same ) 1) be made aware of new zero day exploit and find counter for the russian's firm/gov security 2) get new exploitable weapons they themselves did not come up with , why otusource when some civilian can build something
...And assuming it cannot be sometimes very sensitive, why do you need to hack back your own machine ? Pull the Lan cord, re-image it, at worst copy essential document, et voila.
If the region is not too deep, I am betting many spy mission went there on many side to try to see if a few military satellite could not be fished out of the bunch...
...As in : your government is batshit crazy, THE batshit crazy they are trying to sell Iran/NK as. The US folk definitively lost any handle they had on their own government.
It suffice that the lower management is complicit and do not carry the information up (which seem to be the case here). After all discipline is often seen as the lower level management job, herd the cats, while the middle management often see themselves as the planner strategist and not responsible for discipline - from my own experience - and the staff has relatively few bar no contact with middle/high level management. If the lower management stops your complaint.... Then the higher echelon never get a word of it if you follow procedure, or you look like a maverick disturbing their peace if you spring an echelon or two.
Same here I used to buy a new PC every 2 or 3 years, when the next generation of much quicker processor and graphic card came.... Now It usually take 5+ years and most of the time I just switch off Anti Aliasing and I am fine (and since I am short sighted I don't care a yota about AA).
It is still the MMO treadmill BS that most of us are escaping - but combined with the micro transaction most of us abhor - even if you are subbed (I was) it was in your face.
The FULL truth is that firm have the short, medium and long term goal of maximizing profit, even at the cost of being horrible to worker if needed. You forget the context in which union were born : as a counter balance to that. The result in the end were labor laws which were not done at the behest of firm , since they could not care less and came to even build horrible stuff like company scripts, child labor, not care about worker protection (what if a few worker are mangled by a machine "he, whatever") etc... Since then it has been a push/pull between firms and union. Sometimes the balance get in favor of union, sometimes not. But even in countries with load of social protection and strong union (think germany) it has NEVER been so out of whack that it destroyed manufacture. And they definitively caused more good than harm in the long run you specify. The reason US steel is dying , is because as a whole it is too expansive to produce, even if you paid worker zero and enslaved them. The reason is that steel production is resource intensive, and the major cost is not worker for a steel mill, it is the matter and the energy by a major factor. That is why even in the US, mini steel mill which use scrap steel and arc furnace produce cheap enough that they are profitable. Furthermore the major problem of the steel worker is that it is VERY easy to automate a lot of steel production. The union have NADA to do with that. Nowadays you can per worker count around 1500 tons of steel produced per year. And then the cost of steel dropped through the basement, the amount rose over capacity etc... NONE of those problem have anything to do with union, unless you are one of those person which pretend that getting paid under the cost of living is an option.
I spend more time per month fiddling with my Arch linux install at work, or even my own Ubuntu Install at home, than my windows install (on which I am admin) at work and at home. That time ALSO count the time spend on stack exchange, wiki, and linux forum to understand some dumb stuff not working, training myself etc... Count THAT too and accept that for that lost time tehre is price tag and you will quickly understand why free software can be more expansive than proprietary one.
If you have more fiddling (instalation, maintenance) for free than expansive software, more training, and are forced to use time to bypass idiosynchazie of free software, yes at some point your free software will be more expansive. See, the initial cost is the not the only one. "Of course it is all dressed up with frills and furbelows: maintenance costs, training costs, blah di blah di blah" and that is the plain truth OSS advocate are better off accepting than be in denial of. I love linux and despise windows probably as much as you do, but I do not blind myself to the problem open source software has.
Repealing such rules, making it cheaper to burn oil or coal, push the "when" even further back. And THAT is the problem : it will allows for even more gigatons of CO2 in the atmosphere in the mean time, when such a rule may , at a slight cost, have slowed down the emissions. So unless you are a climate change denier, repealing such a rule is a very obvious "fuck you" to future generations, just for a SHORT TERM benefit, fuck the long term. Thanks the FSM I will be dead and I have no children, when the effects will start to be felt. I will shed a tear for the children of others. But that's about it. After all THEIR parents voted for Trump and will vote for republican in the near future.
I am sorry but, what ? I have built table, beds, shelves, a swivel chair all from Ikea. Heck 5 months ago I unmounted them for a move a rebuilt them. They are not hard to mount and usually the visual instruction shows you all pieces with letter and steps of instructions by number... The few people I know which had a hard time was because they were not following simple steps : 1) have the proper tool 2) identify before even mounting the pieces and screws you have got by their picture/letter 3) read the damn instruction picture first 4) the real killer : be patient and methodical. I have known at least one person pulling an "homer simpson" (the one on the grill where people think he is an artist due to a ruined grill) and going like an idiot on a simple shelf because they thought of doing it the quick way.
If you are slow and methodical usually you can mount it in the time you tell you you would on the instruction.
Human were shifted from low (mostly) skilled job which were automated toward low skilled job which were not automated. the things is, this revolution is to add intelligence and learning to the machines, and make them cheaper, so that ANY low skilled can be pretty much automated. heck even skilled job can job can be automated more and more... And ocne you reach that point, ANY new low skilled job which open CAN be automated. How does mr kurzweil take that into account ? because from what I can see he misses the difference between THIS revolution to the previous ones.
I always thought the ignobel prize as a prize for real research to make people laugh and think - based on real research, but the rheology of cat is obviously not real research, just a joke for the 50th birthday of a guy , written sciency like. It isn't "actual" research with results.
And this is why people see this as a volatile speculative commodity, and not a currency you can rely on for trade or pretty much anything requiring a stable currency.
This is a dictature so they have to have an "enemy" at the moment they are using the USA, with no intention to attack (they are a dictature, they want to rationally stay at the top, attacking would mean their end, contrary to propaganda they are not dumb). But ! Back in 1950 China did not want them to go to war, they attacked the south in spite of that. And got spanked (albeit admitedely the US did a lot of population killing). So even rational people can overestimate their chance at winning.
It was clear from context the gp meant "legally unobtainable". And as such the gp is right, baring scientific research (and even then good luck with the paperwork and security requirement) you cannot obtain LSD legally. Why you were modded insightful when the context is clear is beyond me.
1. I pay with a good plan about 20 euro per month for my smart phone, and 30 euro for my land line... So explain us carefully why smart phone are money thrown out ? Keep in mind that to get a job almost certainly you will need to have some sort of phone connection, so that you get called back.
2. the puritain moral argument... The worst things ever. Program like food stamp make sure people and children get food and do not have to make choice like "phone/rent/food or medicine pick 1". Making it a PITA to get benefits never showed that people get a job quicker (there are some cheater, but they are a crushing minority). It only make people more desperate and more outcast.
Let me guess, you are a republican, and you get your news from fox news or breitbart.
And in case you bring the choomer argument that they are using EBT to get money in cash : http://www.snopes.com/politics... it is false.
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If you look at the history of price in BTC/USD, the bitcoins are (relatively...) stable until end 2016/start 2017, then it went completely volatile with rising in spike, and having dropds which were higher than the full price it was end of 2016 (e.g. drop higher than 1000$). Yet the number of Tx per month did not rise in parallel to values. So what you have here is an extremly volatile speculative commodity and that's it. Anybody would be insane to use it as a currency.
"However, since 1993 on a rolling decade basis if the same wager had been repeated for subsequent decades, Ehrlich would have won the bet"
There are physical (energetic) and chemical limits to human ingenuity. Between "it runs out" and "it will be there forever" there are multiple shade of grey, e.g. one of them being "the cost of extracting more become unbearable, and thus extracting that resource is a limiting factor to all economies" as an example.
Care to present a scientific article which pretended earth would end up like venus in a run away effect ? There is quite a few fear that there is a potential run effect with methane clathrate and a few fear about permafrost earth melting dumping a lot of carbon in the atmosphere, but none are about a venus end effect, all are more about going back to pre-cambrian or similar climate, which would be hell for all our coast , agricultural area, and various very negative effect on the food supply of a majority of the earth population, not counting that this would be so quick many species would not be able to adapt. Some *dumb* lay people may have told that, end effect venus, but then it is your fault to believe lay source rather than hard science.
Likely the sqrt is different and does not use exp(x.log y). Try it in your prefred language implementation possibly .net.
Because it would be the interrest of the FSB to get the new malware and signature for two reasons (and I would not be surprised the NSA do the same ) 1) be made aware of new zero day exploit and find counter for the russian's firm/gov security 2) get new exploitable weapons they themselves did not come up with , why otusource when some civilian can build something
And this is illegal is nigh all places to hack outside. The story is about hacking and gathering information INSIDE your own network.
...And assuming it cannot be sometimes very sensitive, why do you need to hack back your own machine ? Pull the Lan cord, re-image it, at worst copy essential document, et voila.
If the region is not too deep, I am betting many spy mission went there on many side to try to see if a few military satellite could not be fished out of the bunch...
...As in : your government is batshit crazy, THE batshit crazy they are trying to sell Iran/NK as. The US folk definitively lost any handle they had on their own government.
...Trying to outdo each other at finding browser vulnerabilities. Outcome : both browser become more secure.
It suffice that the lower management is complicit and do not carry the information up (which seem to be the case here). After all discipline is often seen as the lower level management job, herd the cats, while the middle management often see themselves as the planner strategist and not responsible for discipline - from my own experience - and the staff has relatively few bar no contact with middle/high level management. If the lower management stops your complaint.... Then the higher echelon never get a word of it if you follow procedure, or you look like a maverick disturbing their peace if you spring an echelon or two.
Same here I used to buy a new PC every 2 or 3 years, when the next generation of much quicker processor and graphic card came.... Now It usually take 5+ years and most of the time I just switch off Anti Aliasing and I am fine (and since I am short sighted I don't care a yota about AA).
It is still the MMO treadmill BS that most of us are escaping - but combined with the micro transaction most of us abhor - even if you are subbed (I was) it was in your face.
The FULL truth is that firm have the short, medium and long term goal of maximizing profit, even at the cost of being horrible to worker if needed. You forget the context in which union were born : as a counter balance to that. The result in the end were labor laws which were not done at the behest of firm , since they could not care less and came to even build horrible stuff like company scripts, child labor, not care about worker protection (what if a few worker are mangled by a machine "he, whatever") etc... Since then it has been a push/pull between firms and union. Sometimes the balance get in favor of union, sometimes not. But even in countries with load of social protection and strong union (think germany) it has NEVER been so out of whack that it destroyed manufacture. And they definitively caused more good than harm in the long run you specify. The reason US steel is dying , is because as a whole it is too expansive to produce, even if you paid worker zero and enslaved them. The reason is that steel production is resource intensive, and the major cost is not worker for a steel mill, it is the matter and the energy by a major factor. That is why even in the US, mini steel mill which use scrap steel and arc furnace produce cheap enough that they are profitable. Furthermore the major problem of the steel worker is that it is VERY easy to automate a lot of steel production. The union have NADA to do with that. Nowadays you can per worker count around 1500 tons of steel produced per year. And then the cost of steel dropped through the basement, the amount rose over capacity etc... NONE of those problem have anything to do with union, unless you are one of those person which pretend that getting paid under the cost of living is an option.
I spend more time per month fiddling with my Arch linux install at work, or even my own Ubuntu Install at home, than my windows install (on which I am admin) at work and at home. That time ALSO count the time spend on stack exchange, wiki, and linux forum to understand some dumb stuff not working, training myself etc... Count THAT too and accept that for that lost time tehre is price tag and you will quickly understand why free software can be more expansive than proprietary one.
If you have more fiddling (instalation, maintenance) for free than expansive software, more training, and are forced to use time to bypass idiosynchazie of free software, yes at some point your free software will be more expansive. See, the initial cost is the not the only one. "Of course it is all dressed up with frills and furbelows: maintenance costs, training costs, blah di blah di blah" and that is the plain truth OSS advocate are better off accepting than be in denial of. I love linux and despise windows probably as much as you do, but I do not blind myself to the problem open source software has.
Repealing such rules, making it cheaper to burn oil or coal, push the "when" even further back. And THAT is the problem : it will allows for even more gigatons of CO2 in the atmosphere in the mean time, when such a rule may , at a slight cost, have slowed down the emissions. So unless you are a climate change denier, repealing such a rule is a very obvious "fuck you" to future generations, just for a SHORT TERM benefit, fuck the long term. Thanks the FSM I will be dead and I have no children, when the effects will start to be felt. I will shed a tear for the children of others. But that's about it. After all THEIR parents voted for Trump and will vote for republican in the near future.
I am sorry but, what ? I have built table, beds, shelves, a swivel chair all from Ikea. Heck 5 months ago I unmounted them for a move a rebuilt them. They are not hard to mount and usually the visual instruction shows you all pieces with letter and steps of instructions by number... The few people I know which had a hard time was because they were not following simple steps : 1) have the proper tool 2) identify before even mounting the pieces and screws you have got by their picture/letter 3) read the damn instruction picture first 4) the real killer : be patient and methodical. I have known at least one person pulling an "homer simpson" (the one on the grill where people think he is an artist due to a ruined grill) and going like an idiot on a simple shelf because they thought of doing it the quick way.
If you are slow and methodical usually you can mount it in the time you tell you you would on the instruction.
Human were shifted from low (mostly) skilled job which were automated toward low skilled job which were not automated. the things is, this revolution is to add intelligence and learning to the machines, and make them cheaper, so that ANY low skilled can be pretty much automated. heck even skilled job can job can be automated more and more... And ocne you reach that point, ANY new low skilled job which open CAN be automated. How does mr kurzweil take that into account ? because from what I can see he misses the difference between THIS revolution to the previous ones.
I always thought the ignobel prize as a prize for real research to make people laugh and think - based on real research, but the rheology of cat is obviously not real research, just a joke for the 50th birthday of a guy , written sciency like. It isn't "actual" research with results.
And this is why people see this as a volatile speculative commodity, and not a currency you can rely on for trade or pretty much anything requiring a stable currency.
This is a dictature so they have to have an "enemy" at the moment they are using the USA, with no intention to attack (they are a dictature, they want to rationally stay at the top, attacking would mean their end, contrary to propaganda they are not dumb). But ! Back in 1950 China did not want them to go to war, they attacked the south in spite of that. And got spanked (albeit admitedely the US did a lot of population killing). So even rational people can overestimate their chance at winning.
It was clear from context the gp meant "legally unobtainable". And as such the gp is right, baring scientific research (and even then good luck with the paperwork and security requirement) you cannot obtain LSD legally. Why you were modded insightful when the context is clear is beyond me.
1. I pay with a good plan about 20 euro per month for my smart phone, and 30 euro for my land line... So explain us carefully why smart phone are money thrown out ? Keep in mind that to get a job almost certainly you will need to have some sort of phone connection, so that you get called back.
2. the puritain moral argument... The worst things ever. Program like food stamp make sure people and children get food and do not have to make choice like "phone/rent/food or medicine pick 1". Making it a PITA to get benefits never showed that people get a job quicker (there are some cheater, but they are a crushing minority). It only make people more desperate and more outcast.
Let me guess, you are a republican, and you get your news from fox news or breitbart.
And in case you bring the choomer argument that they are using EBT to get money in cash : http://www.snopes.com/politics... it is false.
Great. I am now on android for the rest of my life.