It's not so much that o.co takes BTC, it's that o.co takes a 3rd party payment processor that handles BTC.
It's not any fundamentally different than taking Paypal or Mastercard (for that matter), other than that their merchant agreement might have some sort windows for the currency exchange valuation lock-in.
Can anyone explain why this is marked Funny and not Informative?
It was BTC's "dirty little secret" that as long as you could buy drugs with it, it had value. Losing SR caused panic on the BTC market for exactly that reason.
Drivers are going to be alert for about two weeks and then the novelty and thrill will have worn off, and he'll be like the guy who works at the amusement part on the roller-coaster. Yawn...
There's pretty much four types of reviewers on Yelp, in pretty much this order or volume:
1) The semi-professional Yelp reviewer. He's writing yelp reviews for every last thing he does. 2) Shills, inflating their companies and friends, and leaving crap for competitors. 3) Guys who got a toenail in their lunch who made an account to complain. A distant 4) People who had a great meal who felt a need to share.
If you know this, you can still read between the lines and make informed reviews.
...someday we'll have the technology to shotgun baseball sized probes at the hunks of rock and figure it out. [Citation needed.]
That said, the real question is what is the intersection of the availability of asteroid mining technology with the obsolescence of the need to mine these asteroids.
They might not all be fully featured x86 processors, but there's already a dozen computers in my kitchen and living room embedded in all of my major appliances - and some of the minor ones.
While discussing our Leaf with the family of some friends (in town for the holidays), I was shocked to learn that in their part of the world, there were exactly 10 chargers, of which 8 were located in the 8 nearby Nissan dealerships -- so deployment of public chargers is certainly regional. [They were from Alabama, for whatever that's worth.] Detroit appears to have a good collection of public chargers, but I don't know the area well enough to comment more than what http://plugshare.com/ tells me.
We've got 500+ chargers in Phoenix, and it's growing every day, but there's exactly one "real" charger in Flagstaff (150 north of Phoenix, at the Nissan dealer), and no real chargers in Kingman (on the way to Vegas). [There are, however, half a dozen 220 "dryer" plugs at all of the RV parks available for a fee in Kingman.]
If you're into this sort of thing, there's also a network of home chargers who share. Most your granola eating, tree hugging type, I suppose:)
Our leaf was just a car that made sense for the way we do some of our family driving.
My personal number is a little higher than 80, and it includes a lot of freeway driving. I get 3.9 miles per kilowatt hour with a 22 kilowatt battery - which is 85.8.
If I'm driving almost exclusively freeway, 70 is much more realistic.
A side story: One day I drove to work, and then planned on picking up my wife from the airport on the way home. I work 35 miles from home, so this was pretty much the extent of my no-charge mostly-freeway range. My wife's plane was delayed, so I decided to eat dinner next to the office where there was a free charger. Her flight was further and further delayed, so I visited a book store, did some more shopping, etc. By the time my wife's was actually inbound, I had a full charge, but still had 35-40 minutes to make the 20-mile drive to the airport without any traffic. Now bored senseless waiting for my wife, I left the charger with an estimated 88 miles on the car -- a magic estimate which must be based on both recent and overall driving history. By the time I drove 20 miles through town on 35mph streets, I had an estimated 101 remaining before the mileage estimates caught up with my battery usage and I started dropping from 101 back into the 90's.
A little old lady driving to church can easily get 100+ on a charge. Leadfooted freeway maniacs can only get 70 or so.
...and he says to the farmer, I have found a solution to your problem: Imagine spherical cows in a vacuum, uniformly radiating milk in all directions...
For some tasks, there's no substitute for a physical keyboard, if there were, we'd have have switched to them on computers everywhere.
But that's not my point. My point is that on Android, where you can pick and choose between numerous on-screen keyboards, the option of a physical micro-keyboard isn't as big of a deal as it is on Apple, where you have exactly one system keyboard.
And with that resolution you can see the layers of pancake makeup on your favourite actors and actresses, plus all that spitting during sports events in astounding clarity
...in stills.
It's still going to come down to bandwidth. VP9 might be a revolution in codecs, but it won't deliver 4k to me except for very special events until we've all got FIOS.
The TPP will supercede the laws of you nation's legislature:
No, it won't.
I made the mistake of reading a few of those links, and it's all crazy speculation and blatant misinformation to sell ad-space on sites that sell wheat germ and homeopathy in their spare time.
....but the electric charging station is at the movie theater, and it grants you free front row parking, until either (a) too many people have electric cars, or (b) some dick with an F150 parked in it.
While going about your normal driving life, you get chances to top off -- often for free. [It's an incentive for the business, or mall, or company...]
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Correct. They don't so much accept "bitcoins" as they allow Coinbase to be a payment method not unlike Paypal.
It's not so much that o.co takes BTC, it's that o.co takes a 3rd party payment processor that handles BTC.
It's not any fundamentally different than taking Paypal or Mastercard (for that matter), other than that their merchant agreement might have some sort windows for the currency exchange valuation lock-in.
Can anyone explain why this is marked Funny and not Informative?
It was BTC's "dirty little secret" that as long as you could buy drugs with it, it had value. Losing SR caused panic on the BTC market for exactly that reason.
Google should return their money to, uh, their advertising partners?
Drivers are going to be alert for about two weeks and then the novelty and thrill will have worn off, and he'll be like the guy who works at the amusement part on the roller-coaster. Yawn...
Sure, being on a track makes autopiloting and "self-driving" easier, but the question the submitter proposes is already answered.
We have self driving vehicles already, and amazingly, we know what to do when there's a crash.
Hell, escalators break, and hurt people FFS. This isn't any different.
Going to hell for this, but +1 Funny.
There's pretty much four types of reviewers on Yelp, in pretty much this order or volume:
1) The semi-professional Yelp reviewer. He's writing yelp reviews for every last thing he does.
2) Shills, inflating their companies and friends, and leaving crap for competitors.
3) Guys who got a toenail in their lunch who made an account to complain.
A distant 4) People who had a great meal who felt a need to share.
If you know this, you can still read between the lines and make informed reviews.
...someday we'll have the technology to shotgun baseball sized probes at the hunks of rock and figure it out. [Citation needed.]
That said, the real question is what is the intersection of the availability of asteroid mining technology with the obsolescence of the need to mine these asteroids.
Look harder...
http://njtoaz.smugmug.com/Police/Maricopa-County-Sheriff/12272935_VDtZH9/1743890101_DDTvpXz#!i=1743890101&k=DDTvpXz
The main gun is now just a battering ram, but, well...
You already have computers in everything...
They might not all be fully featured x86 processors, but there's already a dozen computers in my kitchen and living room embedded in all of my major appliances - and some of the minor ones.
Arizona.
While discussing our Leaf with the family of some friends (in town for the holidays), I was shocked to learn that in their part of the world, there were exactly 10 chargers, of which 8 were located in the 8 nearby Nissan dealerships -- so deployment of public chargers is certainly regional. [They were from Alabama, for whatever that's worth.] Detroit appears to have a good collection of public chargers, but I don't know the area well enough to comment more than what http://plugshare.com/ tells me.
We've got 500+ chargers in Phoenix, and it's growing every day, but there's exactly one "real" charger in Flagstaff (150 north of Phoenix, at the Nissan dealer), and no real chargers in Kingman (on the way to Vegas). [There are, however, half a dozen 220 "dryer" plugs at all of the RV parks available for a fee in Kingman.]
If you're into this sort of thing, there's also a network of home chargers who share. Most your granola eating, tree hugging type, I suppose :)
Our leaf was just a car that made sense for the way we do some of our family driving.
My personal number is a little higher than 80, and it includes a lot of freeway driving. I get 3.9 miles per kilowatt hour with a 22 kilowatt battery - which is 85.8.
If I'm driving almost exclusively freeway, 70 is much more realistic.
Here's a pretty good pair of charts of a leaf's potential mileage at different speeds with 100% battery, and another with "worn" 93% battery:
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35284720/postfiles/leafcharts/LEAFrangeChartVersion7G100.pdf
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35284720/postfiles/leafcharts/LEAFrangeChartVersion7G93.pdf
A side story: One day I drove to work, and then planned on picking up my wife from the airport on the way home. I work 35 miles from home, so this was pretty much the extent of my no-charge mostly-freeway range. My wife's plane was delayed, so I decided to eat dinner next to the office where there was a free charger. Her flight was further and further delayed, so I visited a book store, did some more shopping, etc. By the time my wife's was actually inbound, I had a full charge, but still had 35-40 minutes to make the 20-mile drive to the airport without any traffic. Now bored senseless waiting for my wife, I left the charger with an estimated 88 miles on the car -- a magic estimate which must be based on both recent and overall driving history. By the time I drove 20 miles through town on 35mph streets, I had an estimated 101 remaining before the mileage estimates caught up with my battery usage and I started dropping from 101 back into the 90's.
A little old lady driving to church can easily get 100+ on a charge.
Leadfooted freeway maniacs can only get 70 or so.
Obviously it'd be dumping the mass of the earth out the other end of the black hole.
If television has taught me anything, it's that black holes are portals to other places - mostly bad places, but other places nonetheless.
Either A) the model is correct and there is something out there that has mass that we cannot presently see...
Like, I dunno, maybe dark matter?
...and he says to the farmer, I have found a solution to your problem: Imagine spherical cows in a vacuum, uniformly radiating milk in all directions...
For some tasks, there's no substitute for a physical keyboard, if there were, we'd have have switched to them on computers everywhere.
But that's not my point. My point is that on Android, where you can pick and choose between numerous on-screen keyboards, the option of a physical micro-keyboard isn't as big of a deal as it is on Apple, where you have exactly one system keyboard.
The issue with Apple is that you don't have the choice of software keyboard.
A physical keyboard isn't as interesting in Android, where you can Swype or Swift, or whatever.
And with that resolution you can see the layers of pancake makeup on your favourite actors and actresses, plus all that spitting during sports events in astounding clarity
...in stills.
It's still going to come down to bandwidth. VP9 might be a revolution in codecs, but it won't deliver 4k to me except for very special events until we've all got FIOS.
But I understand why you are confused. The TPP is so secret that the only document we have is what was leaked on Wikileaks.
In other words, it's complete and utter fear-mongering bullshit.
Take your pick. Low harvest yields or risk herbageddon.
Clear and obvious logic isn't going to win any contests around here.
Obviously there's a gun to the head of all farmers, worldwide.
The TPP will supercede the laws of you nation's legislature:
No, it won't.
I made the mistake of reading a few of those links, and it's all crazy speculation and blatant misinformation to sell ad-space on sites that sell wheat germ and homeopathy in their spare time.
Currently using double-ROT13. Working pretty well.
Sure, electric cars can run out of juice.
While going about your normal driving life, you get chances to top off -- often for free. [It's an incentive for the business, or mall, or company...]