Lots of people say "A little inflation is good" without knowing why. They repeat it like it's wisdom handed down from the Gods or something. Here's why: inflation encourages investment. If money decreases in value when hoarded then there is an incentive to use that money to do work, thereby increasing the GDP and boosting the overall economy while making the person with money richer. Deflation does the opposite, and so tends to damage the economy.
Since bitcoin is inherently deflationary there's an incentive to hold onto the currency in the long term, instead of using it. That's bad if you want bitcoin to be used.
Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. If you don't tow the line you'll never hone in on the truth. Gorilla warfare will be used against you if you don't agree!
As an example, Staph has a spectrum. You can have mild, easily treatable forms on small areas of the skin, or antibiotic resistant forms like any of the MRSA strains on large areas of the skin.
Size matters. Pretty much all animal cells (except eggs) are about the same size. Most light-detection systems in animals are arrays of single cells, each detecting a frequency. To detect 2.4ghz radio (wavelength 12.5 cm) you optimally need a 6.25cm long detector. That's larger than any single cell can easily support, and an array of cells to detect it would be unlike any previously evolved light sensor.
Which isn't to say it's impossible, just that you need really big cockroaches. Madagascar hissing cockroaches might fit...
The impossibility of some of those would seem to depend on the axiom of choice being false. If you let Banach and Tarski make your sphere and hammer you might get some very strange results.
I live in California. Newegg is in California, and CA residents must pay tax there.
They STILL have better prices, service, and selection than any of the local electronics retailers (Fry's, and Best Buy mostly.) I buy from them, and the taxes are identical.
In statistics you want a large sample so that outliers will be obscured and the overall trends can be discovered. In security it's the outliers you care about, and the trends of what the general population is doing don't really matter. Thus a large sample will be counterproductive.
Totally wrong. There are plenty of complexity classes "harder" than NP. And most current encryption systems don't depend on their underlying problems being in NP but not in P.
Actually, it IS storable. Pumping water between a high and low reservoir can easily store enough energy. Keeping the pumps reliable and high-volume enough is the challenge.
"V" and "U" look the same in carving, but not in other forms of roman writing. It's very hard to carve curves, and Latin is pretty unambiguous as to which letter is which, so the confusion caused by using the easier "v" symbol was minimal. Since we're not carving in stone here the use of the "u" is appropriate.
A good example of a Latin word with both "v" and "u" is "vacuus", meaning void.
They form in slightly different locations, and sometimes one will be just closer and just get over the event horizon while the other doesn't. They're both affected by gravity in the same way.
Not even close to true. The LHC has shown that certain variants of supersymmetry can't exist, and shown nothing at all about other variants. Just because I didn't find my keys on my desk doesn't mean they haven't fallen between the couch cushions.
I have a raven feather here. Good condition, dropped by a molting bird in my yard. It's a nice pretty black feather. It's also illegal to own. Possession of any native wild bird or bird parts without appropriate permits is illegal in the US.
Small scale fusion isn't that hard. Farnsworth-Hirsch fusors have been built as high-school science fair projects. The hard part is getting the things to output more energy than it takes to run them.
Well, the argument is that the isolated genes are a product of a human-developed process, not products of nature, and are different from the non-isolated genes. So that makes the products of the (patents expired) process patentable.
Really, it's a matter of where you put the separators, or if you have them at all. 1.3.7 vs 137 vs 1.37 etc. A version number is just a way to determine if two copies of the software are the same, and if they're different it can be used to look in the changelog and find what the differences are. Distinguishing major and minor features isn't always very useful, as even minor changes can break things.
Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master. -Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations", Book V, Chapter II, Part II, pg.927
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Lots of people say "A little inflation is good" without knowing why. They repeat it like it's wisdom handed down from the Gods or something. Here's why: inflation encourages investment. If money decreases in value when hoarded then there is an incentive to use that money to do work, thereby increasing the GDP and boosting the overall economy while making the person with money richer. Deflation does the opposite, and so tends to damage the economy.
Since bitcoin is inherently deflationary there's an incentive to hold onto the currency in the long term, instead of using it. That's bad if you want bitcoin to be used.
Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong.
In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. If you don't tow the line you'll never hone in on the truth. Gorilla warfare will be used against you if you don't agree!
Unsure of the original author of that.
As an example, Staph has a spectrum. You can have mild, easily treatable forms on small areas of the skin, or antibiotic resistant forms like any of the MRSA strains on large areas of the skin.
Security audits cost money. They can be cut from the budget, they're just useless cruft.
I'd rather go to war in a PAK-Fa or an SU-34.
Size matters. Pretty much all animal cells (except eggs) are about the same size. Most light-detection systems in animals are arrays of single cells, each detecting a frequency. To detect 2.4ghz radio (wavelength 12.5 cm) you optimally need a 6.25cm long detector. That's larger than any single cell can easily support, and an array of cells to detect it would be unlike any previously evolved light sensor.
Which isn't to say it's impossible, just that you need really big cockroaches. Madagascar hissing cockroaches might fit...
The impossibility of some of those would seem to depend on the axiom of choice being false. If you let Banach and Tarski make your sphere and hammer you might get some very strange results.
I live in California. Newegg is in California, and CA residents must pay tax there.
They STILL have better prices, service, and selection than any of the local electronics retailers (Fry's, and Best Buy mostly.) I buy from them, and the taxes are identical.
In statistics you want a large sample so that outliers will be obscured and the overall trends can be discovered. In security it's the outliers you care about, and the trends of what the general population is doing don't really matter. Thus a large sample will be counterproductive.
Totally wrong. There are plenty of complexity classes "harder" than NP. And most current encryption systems don't depend on their underlying problems being in NP but not in P.
Ships have been "she" for hundreds of years. Siri has a female voice, so people consider it a female AI.
Actually, it IS storable. Pumping water between a high and low reservoir can easily store enough energy. Keeping the pumps reliable and high-volume enough is the challenge.
Or try Discordianism. No fear (unless you want some,) just fast cracker inside windward!
Hey! Not every human is a politician!
RequestPolicy and NoScript for Firefox are quite handy for blocking trackers abilities to collect data. Also disallowing 3rd party cookies.
"V" and "U" look the same in carving, but not in other forms of roman writing. It's very hard to carve curves, and Latin is pretty unambiguous as to which letter is which, so the confusion caused by using the easier "v" symbol was minimal. Since we're not carving in stone here the use of the "u" is appropriate.
A good example of a Latin word with both "v" and "u" is "vacuus", meaning void.
They form in slightly different locations, and sometimes one will be just closer and just get over the event horizon while the other doesn't. They're both affected by gravity in the same way.
Not even close to true. The LHC has shown that certain variants of supersymmetry can't exist, and shown nothing at all about other variants. Just because I didn't find my keys on my desk doesn't mean they haven't fallen between the couch cushions.
And a lot less than one F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. They're $107-238 million dollars each, depending on the variant.
I have a raven feather here. Good condition, dropped by a molting bird in my yard. It's a nice pretty black feather. It's also illegal to own. Possession of any native wild bird or bird parts without appropriate permits is illegal in the US.
Small scale fusion isn't that hard. Farnsworth-Hirsch fusors have been built as high-school science fair projects. The hard part is getting the things to output more energy than it takes to run them.
Of course it's bullshit. That's never stopped a lawyer before, why should it stop them now?
Well, the argument is that the isolated genes are a product of a human-developed process, not products of nature, and are different from the non-isolated genes. So that makes the products of the (patents expired) process patentable.
Really, it's a matter of where you put the separators, or if you have them at all.
1.3.7 vs 137 vs 1.37 etc. A version number is just a way to determine if two copies of the software are the same, and if they're different it can be used to look in the changelog and find what the differences are. Distinguishing major and minor features isn't always very useful, as even minor changes can break things.
Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master.
-Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations", Book V, Chapter II, Part II, pg.927