Are you suggesting cuisine is a major British export heavily consumed by the rest of the world, the way cultural artifacts (like various media) are to America?
Pretty much yes. "Mining" bitcoin means doing the cryptographic work necessary to verify transactions, and that work is automatically rewarded by the system by the generation of new bitcoins for those who do the work.
That was just from memory, but the the WIkipedia article has a well-sourced description of it as well, though apparently that is only a portion of the whole story, and several different contractions (including that one) all independently converged to "ain't" over time.
"Ain't" is a phonetic spelling of a mispronunciation of a contraction of "am not". From "amn't", the m and n merge (somewhat like "damn it" -> "dammit"), yielding "an't". Mispronouncing the vowel as a long "a" yields something that sounds like "ain't", and writing that down phonetically yields "ain't" itself.
Well that and also to slowly peel every inch of flesh off of the worthless inconsiderate ash-holes that make it impossible to walk a single fucking block down any city street without being literally nauseated by their goddamn drugs.
Thank god a voice of reason in this thread. The rest of the place is infested with self-righteous ash-holes. You've already said all the reasonable things that need being said and gotten nothing but an undeserved "troll" mod for it, so I'll take the low road and just tell them all to shove their fucking drugs up their butts. Or switch to a harder drug that kills them faster, so long as I'm not forced to partake of it with them.
Thank you, the one voice of sanity in this thread so far.
All the assholes arguing about private property rights can shove their hypocrisy up their asses. My body is my principal piece of property and if your fucking drugs trespass upon it I will defend it with violence if necessary. Put whatever the fuck you want into your own lungs, but keep it the fuck out of mine or suffer the consequences you worthless ash-holes.
As a fat person myself, how is it offensive to be informed that you are burning calories by doing something? It's not like someone's telling you that you should go for a walk to burn calories because you really need it. They're telling you "hey, I noticed you're out on a walk, did you know that that's burning calories? good for you!"
That's why employers like that service and provide data to it. Same reason lenders like the basic credit reporting service and provide data to it. So the people in power have numbers to justify keeping you in your place.
To all the nay-sayers (correctly) pointing out that there could be absolutely any universe whatsoever outside of our universe (if ours is simulated) and so this proof of what's possible in our universe doesn't disprove anything about whether we're in in a simulated universe or not, there is still something important that this disproves, or rather an argument that it undermines, which someone between the researchers and Slashdot have failed to communicate well.
There's a popular argument going around lately that goes like this: If (1) it is theoretically possible for us to simulate our universe, and (2) nothing tends to happen to halt the march of technological progress, and (3) our descendants or some other future technologically-advanced civilization have the inclination to simulate the past of their universe, then (4) we are probably in a simulation, because in that case there would tend to be simulations within simulations within simulations and the odds of being at the top layer are smaller than being in a lower (simulated) layer.
This research claims to disprove premise (1). If it is not theoretically possible for us to simulate our universe, then no matter the march of civilization and the inclinations of our technologically-advanced descendants, there's never going to be nested simulations within simulations within simulations of our universe in our universe, so we have no reason to think we're most likely in one of those simulations.
We could still be in a simulation within some other, wholly alien and unknowable larger universe, but we have no reason to think so.
We skipped the Year of Linux on the Desktop and went straight to the Year of Linux In Everyone's Pockets. Android is Linux, and has the largest market share of mobile devices, which now greatly outnumber desktops.
As a Californian myself, taxes and regulatory controls are an absolutely inconsequential non-problem to me. The only real problem I see out here is the ridiculous cost of housing. Compared to that, state taxes are comparable to a rounding error.
Deploying a state-wide network of self-driving electric cars would be one thing. You wouldn't even need to ban ICEs; people would just stop using them if the new system was better, which it very well could be. But just banning ICEs outright, without yet implementing a replacement for the many people who rely on 20 year old old beater cars to get to the shit jobs to pay their exorbitant rents, just ruins a bunch of people's lives.
I wish I had mod points because I was going to say exactly the same thing.
Also, with the California cost of living, the vast majority of people here are house poor, and having to buy any new vehicle at all, never mind a fancy high tech new vehicle, is a burden that would force them to choose between carlessness = joblessness = homelessness, or else not paying their rent = homelessness anyway.
Also known in Oceanic mythology by names like Kavai, Havai, Kavaiki, Havaiki, Kavaiki, or Hawaiki, after which Hawai'i was named (its discoverers believing they had found the mythical lost land where all their peoples descend from).
A key component of the Prisoner's Dilemma is that the "prisoners" can't communicate with each other. If they can, then it's easy to agree to collude and beat the "cops", as you describe here.
The obvious solution is to exterminate the fungi that figured out how to metabolize lignin, and return us to a new Carboniferous era. Giant dragonflies are cool, plus we get free coal out of it in just a few hundred million years!
The people who build and operate the CO2-removal technology, duh. The money is explicitly going to pay them. Whatever they cost, that's how much to charge.
We don't call them Nazis just because of their repugnant political opinions, we call them Nazis because they wear swastikas, give Nazi salutes, and chant Nazi slogans. You know, like Nazis.
There are Call Boxes along the highways out here in California, but they are basically dedicated call-911 phones. You can't call anyone else with them, you can't even dial them, you just pick up and get put through to emergency services dispatch.
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Are you suggesting cuisine is a major British export heavily consumed by the rest of the world, the way cultural artifacts (like various media) are to America?
It's bad enough when it happens without people even conspiring to make it happen, but now people are actively (and openly enough to be caught?) conspiring to make it happen, too?
Pretty much yes. "Mining" bitcoin means doing the cryptographic work necessary to verify transactions, and that work is automatically rewarded by the system by the generation of new bitcoins for those who do the work.
That was just from memory, but the the WIkipedia article has a well-sourced description of it as well, though apparently that is only a portion of the whole story, and several different contractions (including that one) all independently converged to "ain't" over time.
"Ain't" is a phonetic spelling of a mispronunciation of a contraction of "am not". From "amn't", the m and n merge (somewhat like "damn it" -> "dammit"), yielding "an't". Mispronouncing the vowel as a long "a" yields something that sounds like "ain't", and writing that down phonetically yields "ain't" itself.
Atman is Brahman. Advaita ftw.
I just want the same thing.
Well that and also to slowly peel every inch of flesh off of the worthless inconsiderate ash-holes that make it impossible to walk a single fucking block down any city street without being literally nauseated by their goddamn drugs.
Thank god a voice of reason in this thread. The rest of the place is infested with self-righteous ash-holes. You've already said all the reasonable things that need being said and gotten nothing but an undeserved "troll" mod for it, so I'll take the low road and just tell them all to shove their fucking drugs up their butts. Or switch to a harder drug that kills them faster, so long as I'm not forced to partake of it with them.
Thank you, the one voice of sanity in this thread so far.
All the assholes arguing about private property rights can shove their hypocrisy up their asses. My body is my principal piece of property and if your fucking drugs trespass upon it I will defend it with violence if necessary. Put whatever the fuck you want into your own lungs, but keep it the fuck out of mine or suffer the consequences you worthless ash-holes.
As a fat person myself, how is it offensive to be informed that you are burning calories by doing something? It's not like someone's telling you that you should go for a walk to burn calories because you really need it. They're telling you "hey, I noticed you're out on a walk, did you know that that's burning calories? good for you!"
1. The whipped cream in the bathroom is not whipped cream.
2. We cannot escape ourselves.
3. And sometimes, the cat door... is closed.
That's why employers like that service and provide data to it. Same reason lenders like the basic credit reporting service and provide data to it. So the people in power have numbers to justify keeping you in your place.
To all the nay-sayers (correctly) pointing out that there could be absolutely any universe whatsoever outside of our universe (if ours is simulated) and so this proof of what's possible in our universe doesn't disprove anything about whether we're in in a simulated universe or not, there is still something important that this disproves, or rather an argument that it undermines, which someone between the researchers and Slashdot have failed to communicate well.
There's a popular argument going around lately that goes like this: If (1) it is theoretically possible for us to simulate our universe, and (2) nothing tends to happen to halt the march of technological progress, and (3) our descendants or some other future technologically-advanced civilization have the inclination to simulate the past of their universe, then (4) we are probably in a simulation, because in that case there would tend to be simulations within simulations within simulations and the odds of being at the top layer are smaller than being in a lower (simulated) layer.
This research claims to disprove premise (1). If it is not theoretically possible for us to simulate our universe, then no matter the march of civilization and the inclinations of our technologically-advanced descendants, there's never going to be nested simulations within simulations within simulations of our universe in our universe, so we have no reason to think we're most likely in one of those simulations.
We could still be in a simulation within some other, wholly alien and unknowable larger universe, but we have no reason to think so.
Don't you mean "Posted from your Android"?
We skipped the Year of Linux on the Desktop and went straight to the Year of Linux In Everyone's Pockets. Android is Linux, and has the largest market share of mobile devices, which now greatly outnumber desktops.
As a Californian myself, taxes and regulatory controls are an absolutely inconsequential non-problem to me. The only real problem I see out here is the ridiculous cost of housing. Compared to that, state taxes are comparable to a rounding error.
Deploying a state-wide network of self-driving electric cars would be one thing. You wouldn't even need to ban ICEs; people would just stop using them if the new system was better, which it very well could be. But just banning ICEs outright, without yet implementing a replacement for the many people who rely on 20 year old old beater cars to get to the shit jobs to pay their exorbitant rents, just ruins a bunch of people's lives.
I wish I had mod points because I was going to say exactly the same thing.
Also, with the California cost of living, the vast majority of people here are house poor, and having to buy any new vehicle at all, never mind a fancy high tech new vehicle, is a burden that would force them to choose between carlessness = joblessness = homelessness, or else not paying their rent = homelessness anyway.
Also known in Oceanic mythology by names like Kavai, Havai, Kavaiki, Havaiki, Kavaiki, or Hawaiki, after which Hawai'i was named (its discoverers believing they had found the mythical lost land where all their peoples descend from).
Or as I like to call it, Auei.
A key component of the Prisoner's Dilemma is that the "prisoners" can't communicate with each other. If they can, then it's easy to agree to collude and beat the "cops", as you describe here.
Sorry, I can't vote for anyone with an "R." in front of their name.
The obvious solution is to exterminate the fungi that figured out how to metabolize lignin, and return us to a new Carboniferous era. Giant dragonflies are cool, plus we get free coal out of it in just a few hundred million years!
The people who build and operate the CO2-removal technology, duh. The money is explicitly going to pay them. Whatever they cost, that's how much to charge.
We don't call them Nazis just because of their repugnant political opinions, we call them Nazis because they wear swastikas, give Nazi salutes, and chant Nazi slogans. You know, like Nazis.
There are Call Boxes along the highways out here in California, but they are basically dedicated call-911 phones. You can't call anyone else with them, you can't even dial them, you just pick up and get put through to emergency services dispatch.
Will rentiers be among them?