Since the goal here is so segregate people along the price elastic demand curve to maximize the profit area perhaps we could include more categories. Like people willing to cut themselves. Perhaps they could do it on video. Maybe they could also clean the cars.
thanks. though I don't understand what's no robust about 1 wire line levels. I agree that having having a separate network address has potential resiliency advantages. but 1-wire chips already have that too.
Doesn't the 1-wire bus or the SPI bus already do all this already? Arduino and Raspi have these libraries. So is this just adding a convenient molex connector?
He's just retaining his own data because he didn't sign the PooLA agreement. If he had known the latin word "Camera" origin he might have expected what happens you put something private, where the sun don't shine. But he should have known that face book never lets you excrete your data.
While Ikea furniture is designed with assembly in mind other things are not. Say for example, an airplane. So the assembly process might not be optimal. Letting the computer look for a more optimal process might be useful.
Or more practically, packing items into a shipping box. the famous knapsack problem.
I hate these slashdot summaries of algorithms. you end up thinking gosh that's stupid. When it's not. just the description is stupid. like a car analogy
if facebook becomes the internet, such as it's facebook essentials in India, then doesn't it also violate net neutrality when it picks winners and losers?
another way to look at this would be to suppose most people have a PC chugging along at 100 watts. so 11 giga-watt years would be 100 million PCs running full time for 1 year. I'd assume that these PCs can't possibly be running full time. they probably go to sleep. So if they are used only 6 hours per day then multiple that by 4.
I note that all along here i've assumed a 10 fold inefficiency in the covert miners. but even if you dropped that factor it's still a lot. Moreover this is only 5% of the Monero. to get all of it multiply the total by 20, so were back to about the same values (give or take factors of 2).
The loop hole here is that some of this was mined when the mining was cheap but were evaluating the total value at the current price. You can't actually sell all that currency at once and not have the price drop. So the pirates were probably selling it off all along not hording it. Which means they did not actually make the currently captitalized value of $100 million
If one uses the rule of thumb that the cost to hash for a cryptocurrency ought to be just below break-even with the reward then this is remarkable. I would assume these illegal miners are done without regard to such efficiency. If they are ten times less than an efficient miner then the cost in electricity would be $1 billion!!!. It's hard to beleive that much activity would go unnoticed. It's a bigger annual power bill than many countries.
I prefer the Objective-C standard which is syntactic sugar on the USB-C which allows the device to interpret the message from the computer to the device however it wants to. It can proudly be a USB-1 if it wants to even if the computer is shouting USB-C messages at it.
The story is about an issue that is completely irrelevant.
It doesn't matter whether the "RND" function is ideally random in a mathematical sense. It only matters whether the "random" number generated is independent of the identities of the people applying to be admitted.
It isn't even that. Just because the distribution of random numbers isn't random it doesn't mean the sort order based on that isn't random. For example, suppose my random number generator only put out numbers divisible by 1/(2^16) which is what a finite precision binary based system is going to do. This distribution isn't random because it's zero density at many possible floating point values. Yet the sort order might be perfectly random.
If you could figure that out then you would be in the 60% of people who also got the question right. If you can't then the idea of no-load is a meta concept.
Additionally, have you ever thought about what happens if every one in the world is invested in an index fund? Strange markets. And then when everyone heads for the exit doors, what happens?
Finally on a more esoteric level, did you know that when cap gains occur because some one else sells their shares, you pay a share of the cap gains they triggered? That doesn't happen with a single stock. And usually it's not a big effect except when every one is exiting at the peak and you are still holding shares of the mutual fund. You can easily have a cap gains even on almost you entire portfolios value even though you didn't sell anyhting.
Considering you can buy bitcoin and gold and real estate mutual funds, the embedded risk is much higher than buying almost any fortune 500 company stock.
When you toss in the broker fees and backend fees many mutual funds charge, espcially the shady actively managed ones.
Well there's room to say the question is ambiguous.
However, I suspect that most people being polled are not doing this sort of reflective analysis on the question itself. They just are not sure how one picks a safe mutual fund.
One the other hand there's a reasonable rule of thumb one can follow. Assuming you are satisfied with your present lifestyle then take your present salary and divide it by two and multiply that by 25. That's the baseline you need to retire. I say baseline because if you still have a mortgage or are going to need a medical policy to bridge from retirement to medicare eligibility or have an anticipatable major expense early on (e.g. 250,000 vacation cabin). Then your baseline needs to be higher. Then to this start figuring in your travel budget, or whatever your vices are. But if you are undershooting your baseline then you have a problem. It would not hurt you to have more! but make sure you are on that trajectory.
At the moment you are right, with the exception of it extreme uses in international money laundering, evasion of laws odious to Libertarians, and a refuge for people with domineering central banks (zimbawe and china for instance).
on the otherhand the internet was pretty useless when there were only two connections. And why would you want to text people before there was a blackberry when you could just call them.
It would be nice if the hash calculation were also solving some other problem of lasting value. As an example, let people submit NP hard problems they actually need solved. Like say planning an airline's schedule of matching pilots and planes under varied weather scenarios. I think ethereium might have this in mind. You could also use the heat to heat something you were going to heat anyhow, like your house or for drying water out of biofuels. The latter is one of the big energy costs for ethanol based fuels.
indeed that is a question isn't it. It seems to me that if the expansion were done right then it should stay at exactly the same cost and only grow in proportion to the transaction's value. That is as computers make computation cheaper, raise the cost to the same constant cost. However, that doesn't solve the problem until the the cost is about 1/2 the transaction size.
That being said the amount of energy spent on bitcoin is orders of magnitude less than the cost spent on Mastercard when you include all the costs. By all the costs I mean, mastercard is full of people (customer service... point of sale terminal installers, mail processing and mail delivery all are people neccessary to mastercard.) All those people have to eat and buy clothing. So there's a measurable slice of people needed for master card to exist. If you didnt need those people at all and could replace them all with "just" a low manpower nuclear power plant, the level of human labor freed up for other productive uses would be staggering.
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You could be a rider or an obstacle to test obstacle avoidance in return for a discount ride.
Since the goal here is so segregate people along the price elastic demand curve to maximize the profit area perhaps we could include more categories. Like people willing to cut themselves. Perhaps they could do it on video.
Maybe they could also clean the cars.
thanks. though I don't understand what's no robust about 1 wire line levels. I agree that having having a separate network address has potential resiliency advantages. but 1-wire chips already have that too.
Doesn't the 1-wire bus or the SPI bus already do all this already? Arduino and Raspi have these libraries. So is this just adding a convenient molex connector?
No Dr. McCoy beat google to it. The trick is not to wear a red shirt when the google AI comes around
Monty Python saw this coming
He'd make the perfect mascot.
He's just retaining his own data because he didn't sign the PooLA agreement. If he had known the latin word "Camera" origin he might have expected what happens you put something private, where the sun don't shine. But he should have known that face book never lets you excrete your data.
While Ikea furniture is designed with assembly in mind other things are not. Say for example, an airplane. So the assembly process might not be optimal. Letting the computer look for a more optimal process might be useful.
Or more practically, packing items into a shipping box. the famous knapsack problem.
I hate these slashdot summaries of algorithms. you end up thinking gosh that's stupid. When it's not. just the description is stupid. like a car analogy
You probably have been wondering about why every third post is some Microsoft trivia announce late adoption of some tired standard.
I am Spartacus. I am batman. But my secret identity is Santoshi
was it included as part of the git deal?
if facebook becomes the internet, such as it's facebook essentials in India, then doesn't it also violate net neutrality when it picks winners and losers?
another way to look at this would be to suppose most people have a PC chugging along at 100 watts. so 11 giga-watt years would be 100 million PCs running full time for 1 year. I'd assume that these PCs can't possibly be running full time. they probably go to sleep. So if they are used only 6 hours per day then multiple that by 4.
I note that all along here i've assumed a 10 fold inefficiency in the covert miners. but even if you dropped that factor it's still a lot. Moreover this is only 5% of the Monero. to get all of it multiply the total by 20, so were back to about the same values (give or take factors of 2).
The loop hole here is that some of this was mined when the mining was cheap but were evaluating the total value at the current price. You can't actually sell all that currency at once and not have the price drop. So the pirates were probably selling it off all along not hording it. Which means they did not actually make the currently captitalized value of $100 million
If I divide that by 10 cents/KW-hour then: 1 Billion dollars/ 0.1 = 1E10 killowatt hours = 1E14 Watt-hours = 11 gigawatt-years
that's the entire output of 11 gigawatt class power plants.
If one uses the rule of thumb that the cost to hash for a cryptocurrency ought to be just below break-even with the reward then this is remarkable. I would assume these illegal miners are done without regard to such efficiency. If they are ten times less than an efficient miner then the cost in electricity would be $1 billion!!!. It's hard to beleive that much activity would go unnoticed. It's a bigger annual power bill than many countries.
Yes ha ha. But still Why would it do this? I can actually think of some ways but I wouldn't neccessarily expect cancer.
I prefer the Objective-C standard which is syntactic sugar on the USB-C which allows the device to interpret the message from the computer to the device however it wants to. It can proudly be a USB-1 if it wants to even if the computer is shouting USB-C messages at it.
The story is about an issue that is completely irrelevant.
It doesn't matter whether the "RND" function is ideally random in a mathematical sense. It only matters whether the "random" number generated is independent of the identities of the people applying to be admitted.
It isn't even that. Just because the distribution of random numbers isn't random it doesn't mean the sort order based on that isn't random. For example, suppose my random number generator only put out numbers divisible by 1/(2^16) which is what a finite precision binary based system is going to do. This distribution isn't random because it's zero density at many possible floating point values. Yet the sort order might be perfectly random.
If you could figure that out then you would be in the 60% of people who also got the question right. If you can't then the idea of no-load is a meta concept.
Additionally, have you ever thought about what happens if every one in the world is invested in an index fund? Strange markets. And then when everyone heads for the exit doors, what happens?
Finally on a more esoteric level, did you know that when cap gains occur because some one else sells their shares, you pay a share of the cap gains they triggered? That doesn't happen with a single stock. And usually it's not a big effect except when every one is exiting at the peak and you are still holding shares of the mutual fund. You can easily have a cap gains even on almost you entire portfolios value even though you didn't sell anyhting.
Considering you can buy bitcoin and gold and real estate mutual funds, the embedded risk is much higher than buying almost any fortune 500 company stock.
When you toss in the broker fees and backend fees many mutual funds charge, espcially the shady actively managed ones.
Well there's room to say the question is ambiguous.
However, I suspect that most people being polled are not doing this sort of reflective analysis on the question itself. They just are not sure how one picks a safe mutual fund.
One the other hand there's a reasonable rule of thumb one can follow. Assuming you are satisfied with your present lifestyle then take your present salary and divide it by two and multiply that by 25. That's the baseline you need to retire. I say baseline because if you still have a mortgage or are going to need a medical policy to bridge from retirement to medicare eligibility or have an anticipatable major expense early on (e.g. 250,000 vacation cabin). Then your baseline needs to be higher. Then to this start figuring in your travel budget, or whatever your vices are. But if you are undershooting your baseline then you have a problem. It would not hurt you to have more! but make sure you are on that trajectory.
That's a "colossally" funny joke because it's flying over the heads of all the high ID number slashdotters.
At the moment you are right, with the exception of it extreme uses in international money laundering, evasion of laws odious to Libertarians, and a refuge for people with domineering central banks (zimbawe and china for instance).
on the otherhand the internet was pretty useless when there were only two connections. And why would you want to text people before there was a blackberry when you could just call them.
It would be nice if the hash calculation were also solving some other problem of lasting value. As an example, let people submit NP hard problems they actually need solved. Like say planning an airline's schedule of matching pilots and planes under varied weather scenarios. I think ethereium might have this in mind. You could also use the heat to heat something you were going to heat anyhow, like your house or for drying water out of biofuels. The latter is one of the big energy costs for ethanol based fuels.
indeed that is a question isn't it.
It seems to me that if the expansion were done right then it should stay at exactly the same cost and only grow in proportion to the transaction's value. That is as computers make computation cheaper, raise the cost to the same constant cost. However, that doesn't solve the problem until the the cost is about 1/2 the transaction size.
That being said the amount of energy spent on bitcoin is orders of magnitude less than the cost spent on Mastercard when you include all the costs. By all the costs I mean, mastercard is full of people (customer service... point of sale terminal installers, mail processing and mail delivery all are people neccessary to mastercard.) All those people have to eat and buy clothing. So there's a measurable slice of people needed for master card to exist. If you didnt need those people at all and could replace them all with "just" a low manpower nuclear power plant, the level of human labor freed up for other productive uses would be staggering.