Sure you can. You can write whatever you want in a block chain. The only restriction is that to make everything line up, you have to recompute the hashes for all the subsequent blocks. Thatâ(TM)s not hard either.
Now, if you publicize the data, someone might catch you doing it. Just like they would if you published a blog entry or tweet you regretted and deleted it.
There are two possibilities in your scenario: 1) inflation is as great as the interest, so the interest is essentially imaginary and 2) the borrower makes the irrational decision to give some of his wealth to the lender, for no reason.
Investment with a (real) percentage return means that wealth is growing exponentially, or somebody's getting a raw deal.
If you prefer game theory, investment is a positive sum game, and positive sum means there's more when you're done than when you start. In other words, growth.
The cloud solution is more secure when you trust the provider. When their business model is spying on you, not so much.
You could use a third party access server too. Emphasis on third party. Someone who gets audited regularly, and whose job is purely to create a secure connection between you and your home, over the internet.
Most animals reproduce as much as possible. Their population is limited (for them) by the available food supply. Humans are animals, and were no exception. Just like various animals will abandon or eat their weaker offspring if food gets scarce, there's evidence humans will do the same thing.
Lots of animals also waste food when it's plentiful. A good example are Kodiak bears. They catch as many fish as they can and only eat the bits they like, discarding the rest.
Humans DO seem to have a unique oddity. With particular social and economic factors, which are quickly becoming the norm in the world, they seem to voluntarily limit their birth rate.
There's good evidence that female education is the dominant factor affecting fertility rate. A stable government is generally necessary, but not sufficient, for high female education rates.
There are lots of examples of stable governments that had big population growth problems though. Bangladesh is the usual case study. The government tried all kids of programs aimed at reducing the birth rate and nothing much worked. Then the education department, completely independently, decided it would be a good idea for girls to go to school, and the fertility rate fell from one of the highest in the world to close to replacement.
The article isn't great, but it looks like they're arguing for a population max of 9 or 10 billion instead of 11. The UN makes all kinds of population projections under various scenarios. This is just one: https://population.un.org/wpp/... [un.org] and includes what the article says the book claims.
This just sounds like more modern marketing. Hype, with a good dose of strawman maverick underdog fiction.
I guess by -50 you meant with windchill? Silly made up numbers. In places where it actually gets cold they give the figure in "minutes until exposed flesh freezes".
Have you ever invigilated an exam? You don't see kids fiddling with bits of paper. You see them suspiciously staring at something other than the middle distance, usually in the region of their crotches. The watch is even more suspicious.
Capitalism not only requires growth, it requires exponential growth.
Investors, i.e. capitalists, expect a return on their investment, and they expect that return to be some percentage of that investment. A percentage return on investment implies exponential growth. Would you invest in something where you expected to get your principle back and nothing else?
You can maybe imagine some form of "capitalism" where a group of leaders, chosen by some other means than how much money they have, decide how to allocate resources.
Curious... maybe the newer versions of TextMate don't work properly? I certainly had to provide sudo credentials to install the TextMate command line tools in/usr/local/bin.
If they mean installing the app package itself, Homebrew could also choose to store it's stuff in a user writable location.
What's the difference between pulling up a cheat sheet on your watch and having one stuck in your sock? I suppose you could keep more material on your watch, but as everyone who's ever written an open book test knows, more material is a curse, not a blessing.
If you see a kid fiddling with their smart watch during a test, fail them. Can't do that? THAT's your problem, not the watch.
You didn't say "a few species of mosquitoes that carry particular diseases". There are lots of people who would like to remove all mosquitoes, and the possibility has been studied. Also, you have to specify what you mean by "spread disease." Malaria, sure. Zika? West Nile?
In everything from immigrants to genetically modified crops, people fail to state their positions precisely and that just invites others to argue past them.
At least with eliminating mosquitoes there's the possibility that it might have some horrible ecological effect that would be worse than leaving them alone.
Curing genetic diseases is unlikely to have widespread negative consequences.
Yes, that seems like a potential issue. I get the feeling that these guys did something cool with quantum optics and then added "and yeah, it could be useful for, um, encryption!"
I get the feeling quantum encryption generally is a way optics geeks have figured out how to get governments to give them money without having to build laser weapons though.
The summary made my head hurt. The article made me dumber.
As far as I can tell, they bounced a few (up to four) photons off a specially prepared rubidium atom and demonstrated that those photons were in a state of superposition... maybe the same state? They speculate that this might be useful for quantum networking because if you can send four photons instead of one, you've got a better chance of receiving some on the other end.
They make a big deal about the four photons being like Schrödinger's cat, a macroscopic object in a state of quantum superposition. At the end of the article they admit that four photons aren't really a macroscopic object anything like a cat.
Your community probably already has fibre to it. My home town is hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest city, and there's fibre to it, laid more than a decade ago.
No, you can't get real high speed internet there either.
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Donâ(TM)t be silly. Only half the things are symbols of prosperity. The other half are symbols of death.
Sure you can. You can write whatever you want in a block chain. The only restriction is that to make everything line up, you have to recompute the hashes for all the subsequent blocks. Thatâ(TM)s not hard either.
Now, if you publicize the data, someone might catch you doing it. Just like they would if you published a blog entry or tweet you regretted and deleted it.
Block chains arenâ(TM)t magic.
The bacon craze was created to sell undesireable cuts of pork. So very astute.
Runways are named by magnetic heading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There are two possibilities in your scenario: 1) inflation is as great as the interest, so the interest is essentially imaginary and 2) the borrower makes the irrational decision to give some of his wealth to the lender, for no reason.
Investment with a (real) percentage return means that wealth is growing exponentially, or somebody's getting a raw deal.
If you prefer game theory, investment is a positive sum game, and positive sum means there's more when you're done than when you start. In other words, growth.
The cloud solution is more secure when you trust the provider. When their business model is spying on you, not so much.
You could use a third party access server too. Emphasis on third party. Someone who gets audited regularly, and whose job is purely to create a secure connection between you and your home, over the internet.
Ah, the nineties were a glorious time. Sadly this hasn't been true for at least a decade.
They care. They're just really good at ignoring potential problems and only reacting when something happens.
Wifi works fine. There are smart thermostats that use it, just not ad supported ones.
For outside access the company could offer a dynamic DNS service instead of a bunch of cloud stuff.
Most animals reproduce as much as possible. Their population is limited (for them) by the available food supply. Humans are animals, and were no exception. Just like various animals will abandon or eat their weaker offspring if food gets scarce, there's evidence humans will do the same thing.
Lots of animals also waste food when it's plentiful. A good example are Kodiak bears. They catch as many fish as they can and only eat the bits they like, discarding the rest.
Humans DO seem to have a unique oddity. With particular social and economic factors, which are quickly becoming the norm in the world, they seem to voluntarily limit their birth rate.
There's good evidence that female education is the dominant factor affecting fertility rate. A stable government is generally necessary, but not sufficient, for high female education rates.
There are lots of examples of stable governments that had big population growth problems though. Bangladesh is the usual case study. The government tried all kids of programs aimed at reducing the birth rate and nothing much worked. Then the education department, completely independently, decided it would be a good idea for girls to go to school, and the fertility rate fell from one of the highest in the world to close to replacement.
The article isn't great, but it looks like they're arguing for a population max of 9 or 10 billion instead of 11. The UN makes all kinds of population projections under various scenarios. This is just one: https://population.un.org/wpp/... [un.org]
and includes what the article says the book claims.
This just sounds like more modern marketing. Hype, with a good dose of strawman maverick underdog fiction.
-23 apparently, the record is -27.
I guess by -50 you meant with windchill? Silly made up numbers. In places where it actually gets cold they give the figure in "minutes until exposed flesh freezes".
Have you ever invigilated an exam? You don't see kids fiddling with bits of paper. You see them suspiciously staring at something other than the middle distance, usually in the region of their crotches. The watch is even more suspicious.
Capitalism not only requires growth, it requires exponential growth.
Investors, i.e. capitalists, expect a return on their investment, and they expect that return to be some percentage of that investment. A percentage return on investment implies exponential growth. Would you invest in something where you expected to get your principle back and nothing else?
You can maybe imagine some form of "capitalism" where a group of leaders, chosen by some other means than how much money they have, decide how to allocate resources.
Curious... maybe the newer versions of TextMate don't work properly? I certainly had to provide sudo credentials to install the TextMate command line tools in /usr/local/bin.
If they mean installing the app package itself, Homebrew could also choose to store it's stuff in a user writable location.
I'll bet you Netflix doesn't pay tariffs for importing content into Canada.
What's the difference between pulling up a cheat sheet on your watch and having one stuck in your sock? I suppose you could keep more material on your watch, but as everyone who's ever written an open book test knows, more material is a curse, not a blessing.
If you see a kid fiddling with their smart watch during a test, fail them. Can't do that? THAT's your problem, not the watch.
OMG, you're right! Musk and all his rocket engineers are idiots!
Oh wait, they're going to cool the skin on reentry.
You didn't say "a few species of mosquitoes that carry particular diseases". There are lots of people who would like to remove all mosquitoes, and the possibility has been studied. Also, you have to specify what you mean by "spread disease." Malaria, sure. Zika? West Nile?
In everything from immigrants to genetically modified crops, people fail to state their positions precisely and that just invites others to argue past them.
At least with eliminating mosquitoes there's the possibility that it might have some horrible ecological effect that would be worse than leaving them alone.
Curing genetic diseases is unlikely to have widespread negative consequences.
Yes, that seems like a potential issue. I get the feeling that these guys did something cool with quantum optics and then added "and yeah, it could be useful for, um, encryption!"
I get the feeling quantum encryption generally is a way optics geeks have figured out how to get governments to give them money without having to build laser weapons though.
The summary made my head hurt. The article made me dumber.
As far as I can tell, they bounced a few (up to four) photons off a specially prepared rubidium atom and demonstrated that those photons were in a state of superposition... maybe the same state? They speculate that this might be useful for quantum networking because if you can send four photons instead of one, you've got a better chance of receiving some on the other end.
They make a big deal about the four photons being like Schrödinger's cat, a macroscopic object in a state of quantum superposition. At the end of the article they admit that four photons aren't really a macroscopic object anything like a cat.
Por que telco Bell.
Your community probably already has fibre to it. My home town is hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest city, and there's fibre to it, laid more than a decade ago.
No, you can't get real high speed internet there either.