The average (mean) BTC transaction fee isn't a very practical figure to reference without context. If you're doing settlement on a million dollars worth of BTC, such a transaction fee is no problem. The median fee is lower, at $3.58 right now, and you can get it significantly under a dollar depending on your urgency. Anyway, people are completely free to bloat another cryptocurrency's blockchain with their coffee transactions for a cheaper fee, and cheaper network security, if for whatever reason they really need that right now. There are second layer solutions being worked on that should lower the cost of smaller transactions. People just buying coffee shouldn't expect to be using (or need to use) the first layer of a trustless, censorship resistant value transfer system that stores the records of all transactions for all time on its blockchain.
"That number has come down to "only" 22k as a baseline, but that's due to low transaction counts."
If you look at the mempool charts, low transaction counts have been the norm, not the exception. The spikes in unconfirmed transactions are what have been the exception.
"The core devs have no plan to improve that figure."
That's false. There are multiple areas where they are working on scaling.
"The current average fee is $57 USD per transaction."
No it's not. I don't know where you're getting that figure. The current average fee is $4.91. But average fee isn't even the right statistic to look at, as that's skewed higher by transactions of very large dollar amounts, as well as large weighted transactions with many inputs from places like exchanges. The median transaction fee is better, at $2.84. Even the median fee doesn't imply that you have to pay that to have your transaction confirmed in a reasonable period of time, either.
"The current reward for mining a block is 25 bitcoin"
There are many libertarians who believe in a minimal state and real courts of law, but, yeah, if there are individuals in the cryptocurrency space crying for government intervention at the level of the protocol, then they're missing the point. You don't have to be a libertarian to see the usefulness of Bitcoin, though.
No need to create their own blockchain, though -- they could simply build it on top of the Bitcoin blockchain if it offers an efficiency for this purpose. See here for an example of that sort of thing: http://insidebitcoins.com/news...
What illegal proceeds was he taking by selling them his bitcoins for their dollars? Their dollars were illegal proceeds? No, this wasn't a case of individuals with past illegal proceeds trying to cover this up by selling their dollars for bitcoins. IANAL, but money laundering generally refers to the process of making illegally obtained money look as if it was obtained legally. This isn't that. This transaction may well have involved legally earned dollars and legally earned bitcoins, unless proven otherwise.
Regular NTSC DVDs are 480i/p, meaning something like 720x480 when progressive scan, not 720p. 720p refers to something with 720 vertical pixels, e.g. 1280x720.
You may have a brain the size of a planet, but you can't really see from the specimens' point of view, any more than a cow knows what it's like for a bacterium to die.
The difference is that Yog-Sothoth CAN really see from the specimens' points of view. Yog-Sothoth can do anything.
Here's my argument referring to what you said would be acceptable authorities on morality being objective: "One study found that most philosophers today accept or lean towards moral realism, as do most meta-ethicists, and twice as many philosophers accept or lean towards moral realism as accept or lean towards moral anti-realism." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism
I've been wanting to use something that is lighter weight than Ubuntu on a relatively older netbook (the original Lenovo IdeaPad S10 from 2008), but I haven't been able to get the wireless drivers to work on it with either Lubuntu or Xubuntu, originally having tried 11.04, and later 11.10. Ubuntu, on the other hand, had the wireless working right out of the box. Why is it that these Ubuntu variants can break something as standard as wireless drivers? I searched around and tried to follow some directions in various online forums to get the Broadcom BCM4312 to work by running some command line instructions, but simply had no luck. Maybe it will be fixed in the variants of 12.04?
As far as a doctor transcribing the information/diagnosis in front of you, I've actually appreciated having one of my doctors doing this, as it allows me to actually hear the more technical aspects of his description in real time, and it allows him to correct it if he's misheard anything or I hear anything contrary to what I've described to him right then and there. It makes the visit much more personalized. As far as rude and unhelpful office staff and mixing up of records, that's obviously unacceptable.
Is there a reason why you are spelling their site name with a capitalized.Com after it, both here and on your page, when it is neither the common convention to do so, or Download.com's convention? I don't bring it up simply to nitpick, I bring it up because it makes an otherwise excellent statement on your webpage look somewhat unprofessional.
It's actually not of greatest importance to know whether climate change is anthropogenic in nature or not. Even if rainbow-colored fairies were the root cause of it, we'd still need to come up with a way to stop it. What really matters is whether or not we should trust what the scientists are predicting, and what the risks would be to let it continue unabated.
If climate change continues to move in the same direction, then based on the risks involved I've been convinced that we do need to come up with a way of stopping it. The thing is, it takes political willpower of a majority to call for the right application of funds to develop a solution, so the most solid argument I've seen to convince others of this perspective is contained in the following set of videos by Greg Craven, and it lies in the proper application of risk management to develop the most informed perspective on the chances of bad things actually occurring. If you can, at least watch the first one: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=92EE5DBE2987982F
I'm pretty skeptical, as well, but I will say that in the past I've occasionally dreamed some of the most creative story lines one could come up with; very eventful, in-depth stuff that there's no way I'd have been able to come up with while awake. Similar to this guy's claims that he can't do it while he's awake, in my case I don't read fiction that often, I'm not a very artistically expressive person, and I've never been very good at anything like creative writing or any other sort of narrative writing. So I've often asked myself how have I then had dreams such to the contrary of all of this?
If this guy isn't faking it, then my own experience with occasional dreams involving these creative outbursts (of which I'll then quickly forget when I awaken if I don't write them down) would lead me to think that he's got something similar going on, but combined with not having the immobility that most of us have when in those stages of sleep, which allows him to express these impulses.
Bad human nature is always a risk when massive amounts of money is flowing. I'm not saying it's right what these private contractors have done, but all the massive but decidedly "necessary" government projects that inevitably require tons of private contract work just seem to be a complete joke -- the joke being that our even MORE massive but "necessary" government can't effectively manage the real consequences of the huge projects it proposes!
How did the government think things would go? "Hey, let's give this private company over here a billion dollars to do such and such, with relatively no strings attached. We can't really oversee them that well because the project we're mandating is so massive and because they're a private company, but heck, it's not our livelihoods we're risking if things don't go just so -- it's the American taxpayers!"
The government shouldn't be allowed to propose and outsource such grandiose projects without also taking the proper actions to minimize the risk of something going wrong when the outsourcing they are deciding to not have full control of goes bad. With such large projects, there just isn't any greater power to run crying to and bail us out if something goes wrong. Simply put, the less oversight the government has over these contractors, the bigger the risk they are taking on by moving forward with such massive projects, so they better prepare for the worst.
Other Features: Overlay scroll bars The new overlay scroll bars appear when you need them and fade away when you don’t, resulting in a more streamlined experience.
I don't think that's a step in the right direction. Those little 'fade-away lines' make sense on a mobile phone, where space is at a premium. But on a desktop or laptop, I'd rather see the scroll-bars. It gives you something to mouse towards and grab. More importantly, it gives you constant feedback about where you are within a document, as well as information about the size of the document. This is useful information that you intuitively get when reading a book (you can see the thickness of the book and how far into it you are). Removing these subtle clues from applications reduces context and leads to user errors (e.g. thinking you've reached the end of the document when you hit some whitespace).
Great point. I've tried hiding the scroll bar to view webpages with an add-on in Chrome, and I noticed the same thing. It's a nice thing to have the option of hiding it in certain situations on a desktop or laptop screen, but to have it as your only option is questionable.
It could be that some of you guys have what's called Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, that is, if the "fog finally lifting" in the evening affects your ability to go to bed earlier consistently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome
If you count "our" share of their profits in the form of federal tax revenue, you'd think "we'd" be able to put it to good use and effectively regulate them... right?
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Yep, even the configuration window says it's the default (link to a screenshot from elsewhere): https://msegceporticoprodasset...
The average (mean) BTC transaction fee isn't a very practical figure to reference without context. If you're doing settlement on a million dollars worth of BTC, such a transaction fee is no problem. The median fee is lower, at $3.58 right now, and you can get it significantly under a dollar depending on your urgency. Anyway, people are completely free to bloat another cryptocurrency's blockchain with their coffee transactions for a cheaper fee, and cheaper network security, if for whatever reason they really need that right now. There are second layer solutions being worked on that should lower the cost of smaller transactions. People just buying coffee shouldn't expect to be using (or need to use) the first layer of a trustless, censorship resistant value transfer system that stores the records of all transactions for all time on its blockchain.
"That number has come down to "only" 22k as a baseline, but that's due to low transaction counts."
If you look at the mempool charts, low transaction counts have been the norm, not the exception. The spikes in unconfirmed transactions are what have been the exception.
"The core devs have no plan to improve that figure."
That's false. There are multiple areas where they are working on scaling.
"The current average fee is $57 USD per transaction."
No it's not. I don't know where you're getting that figure. The current average fee is $4.91. But average fee isn't even the right statistic to look at, as that's skewed higher by transactions of very large dollar amounts, as well as large weighted transactions with many inputs from places like exchanges. The median transaction fee is better, at $2.84. Even the median fee doesn't imply that you have to pay that to have your transaction confirmed in a reasonable period of time, either.
"The current reward for mining a block is 25 bitcoin"
No it's not. It's been 12.5 since 2016.
Well, actually anything that requires censorship resistance, so not just ransomware, but more like sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
There are many libertarians who believe in a minimal state and real courts of law, but, yeah, if there are individuals in the cryptocurrency space crying for government intervention at the level of the protocol, then they're missing the point. You don't have to be a libertarian to see the usefulness of Bitcoin, though.
No need to create their own blockchain, though -- they could simply build it on top of the Bitcoin blockchain if it offers an efficiency for this purpose. See here for an example of that sort of thing: http://insidebitcoins.com/news...
There's also Tether USD: https://tether.to/why-use-teth...
Immutability and censorship resistance come to mind.
Your first question reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
What illegal proceeds was he taking by selling them his bitcoins for their dollars? Their dollars were illegal proceeds? No, this wasn't a case of individuals with past illegal proceeds trying to cover this up by selling their dollars for bitcoins. IANAL, but money laundering generally refers to the process of making illegally obtained money look as if it was obtained legally. This isn't that. This transaction may well have involved legally earned dollars and legally earned bitcoins, unless proven otherwise.
Regular NTSC DVDs are 480i/p, meaning something like 720x480 when progressive scan, not 720p. 720p refers to something with 720 vertical pixels, e.g. 1280x720.
The More You Know
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You may have a brain the size of a planet, but you can't really see from the specimens' point of view, any more than a cow knows what it's like for a bacterium to die.
The difference is that Yog-Sothoth CAN really see from the specimens' points of view. Yog-Sothoth can do anything.
Here's my argument referring to what you said would be acceptable authorities on morality being objective: "One study found that most philosophers today accept or lean towards moral realism, as do most meta-ethicists, and twice as many philosophers accept or lean towards moral realism as accept or lean towards moral anti-realism." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism
I've been wanting to use something that is lighter weight than Ubuntu on a relatively older netbook (the original Lenovo IdeaPad S10 from 2008), but I haven't been able to get the wireless drivers to work on it with either Lubuntu or Xubuntu, originally having tried 11.04, and later 11.10. Ubuntu, on the other hand, had the wireless working right out of the box. Why is it that these Ubuntu variants can break something as standard as wireless drivers? I searched around and tried to follow some directions in various online forums to get the Broadcom BCM4312 to work by running some command line instructions, but simply had no luck. Maybe it will be fixed in the variants of 12.04?
Yeah, I might have to get a PS3 and HDTV for this...
As far as a doctor transcribing the information/diagnosis in front of you, I've actually appreciated having one of my doctors doing this, as it allows me to actually hear the more technical aspects of his description in real time, and it allows him to correct it if he's misheard anything or I hear anything contrary to what I've described to him right then and there. It makes the visit much more personalized. As far as rude and unhelpful office staff and mixing up of records, that's obviously unacceptable.
Is there a reason why you are spelling their site name with a capitalized .Com after it, both here and on your page, when it is neither the common convention to do so, or Download.com's convention? I don't bring it up simply to nitpick, I bring it up because it makes an otherwise excellent statement on your webpage look somewhat unprofessional.
smpoole7, you really need to watch Greg Craven's videos (at least the first one). He covers all of the issues you bring up over the course of his series: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=92EE5DBE2987982F
It's actually not of greatest importance to know whether climate change is anthropogenic in nature or not. Even if rainbow-colored fairies were the root cause of it, we'd still need to come up with a way to stop it. What really matters is whether or not we should trust what the scientists are predicting, and what the risks would be to let it continue unabated.
If climate change continues to move in the same direction, then based on the risks involved I've been convinced that we do need to come up with a way of stopping it. The thing is, it takes political willpower of a majority to call for the right application of funds to develop a solution, so the most solid argument I've seen to convince others of this perspective is contained in the following set of videos by Greg Craven, and it lies in the proper application of risk management to develop the most informed perspective on the chances of bad things actually occurring. If you can, at least watch the first one: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=92EE5DBE2987982F
The following are required reading for anyone claiming that finding new sources of energy aren't just as important as improved energy efficiency:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazzoom-Brookes_postulate
I'm pretty skeptical, as well, but I will say that in the past I've occasionally dreamed some of the most creative story lines one could come up with; very eventful, in-depth stuff that there's no way I'd have been able to come up with while awake. Similar to this guy's claims that he can't do it while he's awake, in my case I don't read fiction that often, I'm not a very artistically expressive person, and I've never been very good at anything like creative writing or any other sort of narrative writing. So I've often asked myself how have I then had dreams such to the contrary of all of this?
If this guy isn't faking it, then my own experience with occasional dreams involving these creative outbursts (of which I'll then quickly forget when I awaken if I don't write them down) would lead me to think that he's got something similar going on, but combined with not having the immobility that most of us have when in those stages of sleep, which allows him to express these impulses.
Bad human nature is always a risk when massive amounts of money is flowing. I'm not saying it's right what these private contractors have done, but all the massive but decidedly "necessary" government projects that inevitably require tons of private contract work just seem to be a complete joke -- the joke being that our even MORE massive but "necessary" government can't effectively manage the real consequences of the huge projects it proposes!
How did the government think things would go? "Hey, let's give this private company over here a billion dollars to do such and such, with relatively no strings attached. We can't really oversee them that well because the project we're mandating is so massive and because they're a private company, but heck, it's not our livelihoods we're risking if things don't go just so -- it's the American taxpayers!"
The government shouldn't be allowed to propose and outsource such grandiose projects without also taking the proper actions to minimize the risk of something going wrong when the outsourcing they are deciding to not have full control of goes bad. With such large projects, there just isn't any greater power to run crying to and bail us out if something goes wrong. Simply put, the less oversight the government has over these contractors, the bigger the risk they are taking on by moving forward with such massive projects, so they better prepare for the worst.
Other Features: Overlay scroll bars The new overlay scroll bars appear when you need them and fade away when you don’t, resulting in a more streamlined experience.
I don't think that's a step in the right direction. Those little 'fade-away lines' make sense on a mobile phone, where space is at a premium. But on a desktop or laptop, I'd rather see the scroll-bars. It gives you something to mouse towards and grab. More importantly, it gives you constant feedback about where you are within a document, as well as information about the size of the document. This is useful information that you intuitively get when reading a book (you can see the thickness of the book and how far into it you are). Removing these subtle clues from applications reduces context and leads to user errors (e.g. thinking you've reached the end of the document when you hit some whitespace).
Great point. I've tried hiding the scroll bar to view webpages with an add-on in Chrome, and I noticed the same thing. It's a nice thing to have the option of hiding it in certain situations on a desktop or laptop screen, but to have it as your only option is questionable.
It could be that some of you guys have what's called Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, that is, if the "fog finally lifting" in the evening affects your ability to go to bed earlier consistently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome
If you count "our" share of their profits in the form of federal tax revenue, you'd think "we'd" be able to put it to good use and effectively regulate them... right?