That only works if every member of the chain is guaranteed to obey the stop command. Since introduction of driverless vehicles will be gradual, this will never be the case, so autonomous operation is the sensible approach.
You must disentangle currencies and commodities. A commodity is something that can be bought and sold and is interchangeable - gold, oil, wheat. A currency is a means of exchange which persists through time, and thus also functions as a store of value. Sometimes currency is a label for a quantity of a commodity, in which case its value is the price of the underlying commodity, usually gold. Woe betide you if the price of the commodity varies from the face value of the currency.
Most currency is fiat currency, and the value arises due to the fact it is the only form the government will accept in payment for taxes. Hence, you need to get your hands on some, and that's the value.
I would agree there's some unknowable aspect that will always apply to the people who are pushing the boundaries of knowledge. But that's almost by definition - anyoen out at the edge is pushing the limits of the possible. In the meantime, bright highschoolers can learn General Relativity and the basics of quantum mechanics, so either intelligence is increasing massively through time (unlikely) or that it has more to do with teaching than innate talent.
Actually, randomised trials show that for poor teachers requiring direct instruction (ie reading off a script) is a far more effective classroom intervention than trying to raise teacher standards. Not that I can comment on this particular scheme.
Except you bring zero evidence that cogitation has anything to do with your genetic inheritance in humans. Maybe it does. I'd be surprised if there isn't some effect. But your opinion is just that, an opinion. My belief as a teacher is that learning has far more to do with confidence and self-belief than any innate talent.
Past performance, blah, blah, blah. Gold does nothing, produces nothing, and is only worth what you can sell it for. Anyone discovers a few hundred tons of it lying around the Outback - not impossible - and you're done. But there are plenty of fools in the developing world.
Sure. But there's no alternative to doing that, if you're sufficiently turtle-paranoid. The reality is if the NSA is sufficiently interested in you they will find out everything they want to, one way or another.
Ardour is not lacking, rather the issue is the rest of the stack is more trouble than it's worth. For a serious studio a Protools licence is not a big deal. And very few people build from scratch on a GNU platform - mostly because most people are starting out as teenagers with no interest or exposure to FOSS.
Dig through Clive Robinson's comments on Schneier's blog. He's actually bootstrapped the entire toolchain from handbuilt airgapped electronics and been able to actually show that the result is what was expected.
Insurers won't have a problem, really. Overall, claims will decrease. There will be some interesting liability issues, but those are par for the course in insurance anyway.
That's too long for things like dynamic hedging, etc. But the gold market, for example, gets by by perfectly well on one second ticks.
The key point to remember, though, is there is nothing special about an exchange - it's just a place to buy and sell property. You can do it anywhere buyers and sellers can meet and if the exchange doesn't allow this trading people will increasingly migrate to dark pools.
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That only works if every member of the chain is guaranteed to obey the stop command. Since introduction of driverless vehicles will be gradual, this will never be the case, so autonomous operation is the sensible approach.
True, in a sense, but they are *very* interested in reducing cost of claims. If they can do that, then rates get competed down reasonably quickly.
Most currency is fiat currency, and the value arises due to the fact it is the only form the government will accept in payment for taxes. Hence, you need to get your hands on some, and that's the value.
I would agree there's some unknowable aspect that will always apply to the people who are pushing the boundaries of knowledge. But that's almost by definition - anyoen out at the edge is pushing the limits of the possible. In the meantime, bright highschoolers can learn General Relativity and the basics of quantum mechanics, so either intelligence is increasing massively through time (unlikely) or that it has more to do with teaching than innate talent.
Actually, randomised trials show that for poor teachers requiring direct instruction (ie reading off a script) is a far more effective classroom intervention than trying to raise teacher standards. Not that I can comment on this particular scheme.
American my arse. And bonfire night is nothing to do with harvest or Hallowe'en. It's about celebrating the execution of Catholics. Enjoy.
Except you bring zero evidence that cogitation has anything to do with your genetic inheritance in humans. Maybe it does. I'd be surprised if there isn't some effect. But your opinion is just that, an opinion. My belief as a teacher is that learning has far more to do with confidence and self-belief than any innate talent.
A random /. poster, ShanghaiBill vs. a fucking MIT research group - who should we take more seriously?
Woz wasn't fired. He left of his own volition, and is still an Apple employee and still draws a salary.
Past performance, blah, blah, blah. Gold does nothing, produces nothing, and is only worth what you can sell it for. Anyone discovers a few hundred tons of it lying around the Outback - not impossible - and you're done. But there are plenty of fools in the developing world.
More like ~140%, if you include 2.0.
You're not alone in thinking that.
Sure. But there's no alternative to doing that, if you're sufficiently turtle-paranoid. The reality is if the NSA is sufficiently interested in you they will find out everything they want to, one way or another.
People are still dumb enough to invest in gold. Happily, with increased population growth the supply of other fools is continually renewed.
Ardour is not lacking, rather the issue is the rest of the stack is more trouble than it's worth. For a serious studio a Protools licence is not a big deal. And very few people build from scratch on a GNU platform - mostly because most people are starting out as teenagers with no interest or exposure to FOSS.
Dig through Clive Robinson's comments on Schneier's blog. He's actually bootstrapped the entire toolchain from handbuilt airgapped electronics and been able to actually show that the result is what was expected.
Insurers won't have a problem, really. Overall, claims will decrease. There will be some interesting liability issues, but those are par for the course in insurance anyway.
Go through Schneier posts and read Clive Robinson's responses. Job's a good 'un.
Legal in the UK, though only by individuals.
The key point to remember, though, is there is nothing special about an exchange - it's just a place to buy and sell property. You can do it anywhere buyers and sellers can meet and if the exchange doesn't allow this trading people will increasingly migrate to dark pools.
Not without reference to the overall budget, no.
If it's good enough for Chaucer and Shakespeare, I say...
Erm, all organisations do that. It's how you know you're not going bust. May have something to do with the US's current problems...
Umm. No it doesn't. I've fired both. It doesn't.
The paperless office is here. You just have to have management with enough balls to really unplug all the printers.