Yeah, the scrith is folded up at the edges to make the rim wall mountains. You can't really see it because it's so far away. You'll notice though that the horizon always looks a little fuzzy and the sun or moon looks wonky when it's sitting on the horizon: light ways refracting over the rim walls. Plus astronomers never point their telescopes at things near the horizon because of "atmospheric effects."
It is interesting how some of the 2000s spikes look like bitcoin bubbles on a slower timescale though. With the lesson that when gold starts going up fast, it's always come back down just as fast.
And credit cards are among the more expensive ways to move money. My bank charges $0.50 for a transfer up to $100 and $1 for transfers larger than that. Business accounts pay $1.50.
Don't believe what the media tells you. The actual numbers say the world has less violence and is more stable today than it ever has been. It's been getting more so for a thousand years, even if you include the 20th century wars.
When you go country-by-country, the factors that emerge as contributing to stability, peace and prosperity are engagement with the international community and international trade ties. The trends were present well before nukes were invented. Nukes may explain why we haven't had any of the largest kinds of wars recently, but they really don't work as a good explanation on any other level, even limited to post 1945: all the nuclear powers have been involved in wars, and several of them aren't or weren't exactly what you'd call stable or peaceful.
Diplomacy, open trade, and international organizations. It's not as sexy as nukes and special forces, but the current stability of the world (and it is in an unprecedented state of stability) is almost certainly due to those things.
Sure, because the exchanges have proven so secure. And if you're going to just bank through a processor, why not just use VISA or Mastercard?
The OP is correct: bitcoin is an interesting experiment. We might end up using blockchain currencies, but bitcoin has some fundamental problems that are going to have to be resolved.
That's a great claim. Except it's not true. Double digit transaction fees mean it's not frictionless at all (and keep in mind that money doesn't just go into someone's pocket, it literally goes up in coal fired generator smoke somewhere in China).
I think it would be harder to evade detection than you might think. There are lots of people with sniffers who like to look at the traffic from phones in the hopes of catching some big company doing something they shouldn't. They ALSO caught... Sony? doing it with their smart TVs. But the smart speaker things are supposed to be sending all their recordings to a server somewhere. Encrypted for your privacy of course.
It's also important to point out that this is not a binary choice. If you have a bad diet and exercise you will probably be unhealthy. If you have a good diet and don't exercise you will also probably be unhealthy.
There's been a lot of research on this, going back a long time, but what is old is new again.
The Brits did studies in WWII to maximize factory production. It turns out your maximum productivity working an assembly line in a life-or-Nazi-occupation scenario is 40 hours / week.
Productivity yes. Actual studies put that number even lower, around 3-4 hours / day.
But lots of managers have a butts in seats style: if you butt is in your seat you're working, if it isn't, you aren't. Sitting at work reading Slashdot or Facebook isn't contributing to your relaxation and future productivity, it's truly wasted time.
Why would a manual press be slower? I suppose if you can't find something productive to do while the water boils it might be. It's not like pressing the plunger takes a long time though.
Yes, this is basically just a hyperparameter optimization system that uses gradient descent instead of a random or grid search.
What would be much more interesting to see is if you could train a system to design deep learning networks that could choose good hyperparameters for a new task, in one go.
That would certainly be one way of solving the problem. Except that the actual problem isn't to recognize images you've seen before, it's to recognize ones you *haven't*.
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Sure it is. Just wait long enough and Bitcoin will find it's natural value. Just like pogs. And beanie babies. And baseball cards.
Yeah, the scrith is folded up at the edges to make the rim wall mountains. You can't really see it because it's so far away. You'll notice though that the horizon always looks a little fuzzy and the sun or moon looks wonky when it's sitting on the horizon: light ways refracting over the rim walls. Plus astronomers never point their telescopes at things near the horizon because of "atmospheric effects."
Some part of the former Soviet Union I guess. In 1959.
It's cool we Canadians made the legs that the first manned lander used, ten years later.
Use tabs. If some idiot (or their editor) puts spaces in the code, search and replace them with tabs. It's not a problem.
You're equating wealth to bitcoin, a single "currency."
For a fair comparison, figure out how many people hold 50% of the world's US dollars.
It is interesting how some of the 2000s spikes look like bitcoin bubbles on a slower timescale though. With the lesson that when gold starts going up fast, it's always come back down just as fast.
And credit cards are among the more expensive ways to move money. My bank charges $0.50 for a transfer up to $100 and $1 for transfers larger than that. Business accounts pay $1.50.
Don't believe what the media tells you. The actual numbers say the world has less violence and is more stable today than it ever has been. It's been getting more so for a thousand years, even if you include the 20th century wars.
When you go country-by-country, the factors that emerge as contributing to stability, peace and prosperity are engagement with the international community and international trade ties. The trends were present well before nukes were invented. Nukes may explain why we haven't had any of the largest kinds of wars recently, but they really don't work as a good explanation on any other level, even limited to post 1945: all the nuclear powers have been involved in wars, and several of them aren't or weren't exactly what you'd call stable or peaceful.
Diplomacy, open trade, and international organizations. It's not as sexy as nukes and special forces, but the current stability of the world (and it is in an unprecedented state of stability) is almost certainly due to those things.
Sure, because the exchanges have proven so secure. And if you're going to just bank through a processor, why not just use VISA or Mastercard?
The OP is correct: bitcoin is an interesting experiment. We might end up using blockchain currencies, but bitcoin has some fundamental problems that are going to have to be resolved.
That's a great claim. Except it's not true. Double digit transaction fees mean it's not frictionless at all (and keep in mind that money doesn't just go into someone's pocket, it literally goes up in coal fired generator smoke somewhere in China).
Usually if you're using "no one" as a figure of speech, you don't turn around and immediately give at least two examples to the contrary.
No one makes a living off Patreon. This guy makes $88,000 a week.
I think it would be harder to evade detection than you might think. There are lots of people with sniffers who like to look at the traffic from phones in the hopes of catching some big company doing something they shouldn't. They ALSO caught... Sony? doing it with their smart TVs. But the smart speaker things are supposed to be sending all their recordings to a server somewhere. Encrypted for your privacy of course.
The solution to that problem is progressive taxation.
Go ahead and work two jobs if money is that important to you, but don't expect to make twice the money.
The slope of the tax rate changes the set point for how much the average person finds it worthwhile to work.
It's also important to point out that this is not a binary choice. If you have a bad diet and exercise you will probably be unhealthy. If you have a good diet and don't exercise you will also probably be unhealthy.
There's been a lot of research on this, going back a long time, but what is old is new again.
The Brits did studies in WWII to maximize factory production. It turns out your maximum productivity working an assembly line in a life-or-Nazi-occupation scenario is 40 hours / week.
Productivity yes. Actual studies put that number even lower, around 3-4 hours / day.
But lots of managers have a butts in seats style: if you butt is in your seat you're working, if it isn't, you aren't. Sitting at work reading Slashdot or Facebook isn't contributing to your relaxation and future productivity, it's truly wasted time.
The real tell is:
"they did not stop using BitTorrent to pirate movies and TV shows that were not included in the offering."
In O'Leary's case at least there was a certain amount of shadiness to help that bit along.
Why would a manual press be slower? I suppose if you can't find something productive to do while the water boils it might be. It's not like pressing the plunger takes a long time though.
I thought it was the rental fee for the table I use as my mobile office when I want a bit more space than offered by my car.
At $0.50 / hour it's not the absolute cheapest workspace you can find, but it's close to it, and comes with a free coffee.
To be fair, this story is more like Winklevoss twins were crazy enough to dump $11 million into bitcoin back when it was $120/coin.
It's not. And that fact has caused a few problems over the years.
Yes, this is basically just a hyperparameter optimization system that uses gradient descent instead of a random or grid search.
What would be much more interesting to see is if you could train a system to design deep learning networks that could choose good hyperparameters for a new task, in one go.
That would certainly be one way of solving the problem. Except that the actual problem isn't to recognize images you've seen before, it's to recognize ones you *haven't*.