1. If they are a group, they needed to communicate to collaborate effectively
Yes. And the most efficient communication still is face-to-face.
2. NSA + GCHQ watches all coms in Europe
Including all face-to-face ones?
3. NSA knows who they are
Maybe. Or maybe not.
4. FED tells CIA to exterminate this dangerous group who aim to topple the US dollar
At that time, even rf the FEDs knew it, they most probably wouldn't have considered it an immediate threat to the dollar. And when it starts to be one, they still have the power to stop it. And maybe they ordered the NSA to mine enough bitcoins to crash the bitcoin market if necessary?
In the mean time the bitcoin network with its perceived anonymity together with a perfect transaction record on the block chain is the ideal tool to find criminals and other people trying to hide from the authorities (case in point: Silk Road).
5. Bitcoin project therefore never gets published
Wrong, see above.
6. Point five collides with reality
That doesn't matter because point 5 is wrong anyway.
7. Point six shows they were not a group from Europe
Actually everything below 10^-6 is called "nano" (because e.g. 10^-7 is 100 nano — and, of course, because that way you can label your stuff "nano" much earlier;-)).
a-z, A-Z, 0-9 ONLY (Note: Although this is a Nordic country, this still excludes our normal day-to-day use letters ä, ö and å.
While the restriction to letters and digits only clearly is too strong (any non-control character in ASCII — that is, character codes 32 to 126 — should be allowed, and such characters increase the security of the password), I can totally understand not supporting letters outside the basic ASCII range. For those, there's a non-negligible chance of them getting incorrectly encoded, which causes mysterious password failures despite you having entered the password correctly. Which is especially bad if it happens when setting your password.
We already have chemicals making decisions. There are chemicals storing the program (DNA), chemicals reading the program (ribosomes), and chemicals executing the program (enzymes). The systems running on such molecular logic are usually called "organisms".
Of course the absolute value of 649,50 EUR is the absolute value of those goods, and therefore the absolute value of those goods is 649,50 EUR. And the absolute value of 1 BTC is also the same.
Otherwise, the concept of absolute value makes no sense at all.
Actually, unless they paid github to add it, there isn't even a contract because there is no consideration given.
By putting your repository there, you agree to their terms and conditions. How is that no consideration? Or do you think it is only a contract if material goods are exchanged?
If the land owner puts forward a set of conditions to allow you to build on that land, and you agree to those conditions, you and the land owner entered a contract. And that contract not only binds you, it also binds the land owner. And if you didn't violate that contract and the contract doesn't specifically allow the land owner to tear down the house even if you didn't violate the contract, the land owner has no right to tear it down.
Well, the point I was trying to make is that your employer is not required to employ you. So if you make unreasonable demands on payment modalities, the employer can simply not employ you.
But thank you for explaining the term "legal tender"; I indeed didn't understand that correctly, although that was not central to my argument.
It's not about "better". But if someone offered me a product for 100 dollars, and someone else offered me the same product for 100 euros, then I'd certainly prefer the 100 dollar offer. And to decide that, I have to know the absolute value of the euro in dollars.
Now it's unlikely that I get a product offered both in euros and dollars, but most probably a product I get offered in bitcoins is also available in euros (I'm in Europe; in the US, you'll likely get it offered in dollars). And if I don't know the absolute value of the bitcoins in euros, I have no idea which of the offers is better. Therefore the absolute value matters for anyone paying in bitcoins.
Why anyone speculating with them needs to know the absolute value should need no explanation.
What could get interesting is the combination of those robot technologies with technologies to interpret the environment developed for Google's self-driving cars.
You mean, those where you first have to move tons of material to get the ore (and in doing so not only consume energy, but also damage the environment), then to consume energy to transport it to the place where the ore can be converted to metal, a process which itself takes a lot of energy, then you have to transport the metal to the mint (consuming energy) where you have to again melt it to get it into the right portions, and finally you coin them, probably using a machine which again uses energy for operation?
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Of course it might also be caused the fact that with a dog you are forced to regularly go outside.
Actually, the babies get their first shot of gut bacteria at birth. Unless it is a caesarean.
Of course the question is: Did he expect BTC to gain that much value, or USD to lose it?
Yes. And the most efficient communication still is face-to-face.
Including all face-to-face ones?
Maybe. Or maybe not.
At that time, even rf the FEDs knew it, they most probably wouldn't have considered it an immediate threat to the dollar. And when it starts to be one, they still have the power to stop it. And maybe they ordered the NSA to mine enough bitcoins to crash the bitcoin market if necessary?
In the mean time the bitcoin network with its perceived anonymity together with a perfect transaction record on the block chain is the ideal tool to find criminals and other people trying to hide from the authorities (case in point: Silk Road).
Wrong, see above.
That doesn't matter because point 5 is wrong anyway.
Due to the flaws mentioned above, it doesn't.
Of course. To anyone paying me more money than the machine can make. ;-)
So the Golden Girls are Satoshi Nakamoto?
Well, if pot and kettle get WiFi enabled, then finally the pot can really call the kettle black. ;-)
This fool has never studied SI prefixes which the GP is obviously referring to.
I know SI prefixes very well.
10^-3 = milli
10^-6 = micro
10^-9 = nano.
10^-7 = 10^(2-9) = 10^2 * 10^-9 = 100 nano
Advice to AC: Learn your power laws.
Nano is 10^-9. Nanoscale means just that.
Actually everything below 10^-6 is called "nano" (because e.g. 10^-7 is 100 nano — and, of course, because that way you can label your stuff "nano" much earlier ;-)).
While the restriction to letters and digits only clearly is too strong (any non-control character in ASCII — that is, character codes 32 to 126 — should be allowed, and such characters increase the security of the password), I can totally understand not supporting letters outside the basic ASCII range. For those, there's a non-negligible chance of them getting incorrectly encoded, which causes mysterious password failures despite you having entered the password correctly. Which is especially bad if it happens when setting your password.
Sorry, I can't find the bullet in ASCII.
We already have chemicals making decisions. There are chemicals storing the program (DNA), chemicals reading the program (ribosomes), and chemicals executing the program (enzymes). The systems running on such molecular logic are usually called "organisms".
Of course the absolute value of 649,50 EUR is the absolute value of those goods, and therefore the absolute value of those goods is 649,50 EUR. And the absolute value of 1 BTC is also the same.
Otherwise, the concept of absolute value makes no sense at all.
By putting your repository there, you agree to their terms and conditions. How is that no consideration? Or do you think it is only a contract if material goods are exchanged?
Not really. It just means that you cannot name your functions.
If he previously offered me to paint on that wall whatever I want and promised me to keep it there, I would be annoyed if afterwards he cleaned it up.
If the land owner puts forward a set of conditions to allow you to build on that land, and you agree to those conditions, you and the land owner entered a contract. And that contract not only binds you, it also binds the land owner. And if you didn't violate that contract and the contract doesn't specifically allow the land owner to tear down the house even if you didn't violate the contract, the land owner has no right to tear it down.
As far as I understand, the deleted project did not break laws or Github's rules.
It looks to me that the Github's deletion act is a violation of free speech.
Since github is a private organization, they are not required to offer a platform for free speech. However it might be a breach of contract.
Well, the point I was trying to make is that your employer is not required to employ you. So if you make unreasonable demands on payment modalities, the employer can simply not employ you.
But thank you for explaining the term "legal tender"; I indeed didn't understand that correctly, although that was not central to my argument.
It's not about "better". But if someone offered me a product for 100 dollars, and someone else offered me the same product for 100 euros, then I'd certainly prefer the 100 dollar offer. And to decide that, I have to know the absolute value of the euro in dollars.
Now it's unlikely that I get a product offered both in euros and dollars, but most probably a product I get offered in bitcoins is also available in euros (I'm in Europe; in the US, you'll likely get it offered in dollars). And if I don't know the absolute value of the bitcoins in euros, I have no idea which of the offers is better. Therefore the absolute value matters for anyone paying in bitcoins.
Why anyone speculating with them needs to know the absolute value should need no explanation.
Too late, name already taken.
What could get interesting is the combination of those robot technologies with technologies to interpret the environment developed for Google's self-driving cars.
No, they'll develop it into a real-world search engine.
For sexcoin, your proof of work is in form of a sperm probe?
You mean, those where you first have to move tons of material to get the ore (and in doing so not only consume energy, but also damage the environment), then to consume energy to transport it to the place where the ore can be converted to metal, a process which itself takes a lot of energy, then you have to transport the metal to the mint (consuming energy) where you have to again melt it to get it into the right portions, and finally you coin them, probably using a machine which again uses energy for operation?