Funny thing is that Bitcoin was never designed to be kept in exchanges in the first place.
People being stupid is a risk that can not be mitigated. We can only move between ruining the entire society to back-up the decisions they have, or letting them suffer the consequences of their acts (and hope that they learn something, or just eat popcorn - choose your team).
Yep, personally I prefer that people be backed-up up to some level of stupidity (what means I'm a socialist), but current levels are crazy hight. Bitcoin people are going with it in a much more sane way than the recent US bank failures.
"Where's my badge? Oh it's on my neck", take it out of the neck (because I don't have the standard height those doors assume), badge it, "Sorry, Dave, I can't allow you to go in", "Hey, is anybody here allowed in?", "Wait, who was it reserved for anyway?", "Oh, Joe's reserved it until 4 PM. Where's him?", "Seems to be in a meeting, I'm calling him"...
Why don't you adopt a b-tree? That way you'll be able to delete. Yet, the best is running several sets of horizontal wires, and attaching each receipt on them (with strings, 1 receipt to many wires) based on the data you want to index...
Or maybe you should start organizing the receipts in blocks in a cabinet, with only directions attached to the wires. But then you'll have an extra lookup... And don't forget to write what you'll add to the cabinet before you do so, somebody might call you and you may forget what you were doing.
I can't wait until the entire English vocabulary has a different meaning in subatomic physics. Things were better when the names were made-up.
Well, now on topic, we'd expect that any dark matter candidate is barely there at all, wouldn't we? The only problem (for me, certainly, no the theory) is that I don't understand how something with only 7kEv * c^2 of mass won't be seen already. Even if it shares no property with normal matter, I'd expect it to appear from bare energy + momentum available at accelerators*... Or are people just classifying them as normal neutrinos?
* I mean, would it be 10^-29 times as probable as a normal neutrino? Even if so, wouldn't people have seen a bunch of them?
Returning a known address can not improve the situation in any way, at best things stay the same, at worst you had a working DNS server before, but now you don't.
You know what people will notice even faster than returning localhost? Returning NXDOMAIN. That'll make it obvious for everybody, from the netwrok admin to the end user, that something is wrong. As an added bonus, that'll make completely clear what's wrong, instead of sending people into a useless debuging saga, and hoping they google the value you expect.
Of course, not issuing the new TLDs wouldn't create the problem to start with... But then, somebody alredy answered that "why" up there.
How do you know that there aren't huge concentrations of carbon, oxygen and nitrogen on those words just under the atmosphere? By the GGP reasoning, life is impossible on Earth.
They also deal with it by negotiating in a derivatives market, or by absorbing the fluctuations in a way that they cancel each other.
And some deal with it by making bets and taking risks.
Bitcoin may add yet another option to the mix: getting rid of the currency faster than it can fluctuate. But it's not liquid enough, so currently, this won't work.
There's no reason for private companies to profit off the basic requirements of a functioning society.
There's also no reason for they not. Lots and lots of people profit on food consumption, and that didn't lead to any disaster. The telecom problems have other roots, we'd better focus on those.
This time it's not "netbooks", it's "Chromebooks". While that does not make any difference at all, MS can't use the name "Chromebook", and can't confuse people about what they are buying.
This time, all that MS will get is another "Windows products are the worst available", like they got in phones and tablets.
That's $35 of "components" money, the manufacturer will want to make its usual 5% (or whatever) over it, then the distributor will want to make their usual 10%, but he'll also need insurance, what's paid over the product value, increasing it some extra 1% or 2%, then the store wants its usual 20% over the cumulative value... And lets not forget the government (whatever it is) taking taxes over revenue (they seem to be always there, it does not matter if you think your tax code is modern because you have a VAT), bigger investment, leading to bigger interest, and a huge number of small contributions that none of us will be able to completely understand.
"It'll fail" is the usual prognostic when a company starts a price race with their competitors... But in this case, the competitors are already giving their product away for free. This is much worse than a usual race to the bottom.
To be fair, consoles always worked that way. The manufacturers try to guess what the market will like, build it, and throw it on the public. If they gess right, they are sucessfull, if they guess wrong, they are not.
There are very deep reasons for that way of working, so it won't go away, and is shared by all the manufacturers.
Maybe because both consoles are bought by different people, with different priorities.
If Microsoft keeps showing the ads for a few more years, people'll stop complaining about them too... Because everybody that care about them won't buy one anymore.
Looks like there wasn't enough competition on the market.
Let me guess, the tax was reduced by a complex procedure that applied to some business and not others, and was too expensive for small business to follow anyway. Am I right?
That's how one should work with models. Create lots of them, throw away the ones that didn't work, test the ones that work again and again to confirm that it wasn't just by chance.
We are at the second step here, and have a model to pay attention now.
Let's not forget the RNA -> protein coding transformations, that created organisms able to use new kinds of amino-acids which may have killed everything else on Earth. Several transitions where only a single lineage survived.
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Yep, probably because they are heavy.
If people cared about safety, they wouldn't even touch the current credit cards.
Funny thing is that Bitcoin was never designed to be kept in exchanges in the first place.
People being stupid is a risk that can not be mitigated. We can only move between ruining the entire society to back-up the decisions they have, or letting them suffer the consequences of their acts (and hope that they learn something, or just eat popcorn - choose your team).
Yep, personally I prefer that people be backed-up up to some level of stupidity (what means I'm a socialist), but current levels are crazy hight. Bitcoin people are going with it in a much more sane way than the recent US bank failures.
Half a second is a bit too little time for:
"Where's my badge? Oh it's on my neck", take it out of the neck (because I don't have the standard height those doors assume), badge it, "Sorry, Dave, I can't allow you to go in", "Hey, is anybody here allowed in?", "Wait, who was it reserved for anyway?", "Oh, Joe's reserved it until 4 PM. Where's him?", "Seems to be in a meeting, I'm calling him"...
Your office must be interesting.
Why don't you adopt a b-tree? That way you'll be able to delete. Yet, the best is running several sets of horizontal wires, and attaching each receipt on them (with strings, 1 receipt to many wires) based on the data you want to index...
Or maybe you should start organizing the receipts in blocks in a cabinet, with only directions attached to the wires. But then you'll have an extra lookup... And don't forget to write what you'll add to the cabinet before you do so, somebody might call you and you may forget what you were doing.
I can't wait until the entire English vocabulary has a different meaning in subatomic physics. Things were better when the names were made-up.
Well, now on topic, we'd expect that any dark matter candidate is barely there at all, wouldn't we? The only problem (for me, certainly, no the theory) is that I don't understand how something with only 7kEv * c^2 of mass won't be seen already. Even if it shares no property with normal matter, I'd expect it to appear from bare energy + momentum available at accelerators*... Or are people just classifying them as normal neutrinos?
* I mean, would it be 10^-29 times as probable as a normal neutrino? Even if so, wouldn't people have seen a bunch of them?
Returning a known address can not improve the situation in any way, at best things stay the same, at worst you had a working DNS server before, but now you don't.
You know what people will notice even faster than returning localhost? Returning NXDOMAIN. That'll make it obvious for everybody, from the netwrok admin to the end user, that something is wrong. As an added bonus, that'll make completely clear what's wrong, instead of sending people into a useless debuging saga, and hoping they google the value you expect.
Of course, not issuing the new TLDs wouldn't create the problem to start with... But then, somebody alredy answered that "why" up there.
Yep, because those DNS servers that refused to reply NXDOMAIN will totally send you that IP code for the domains they don't know.
I mean, now it's a secret code, not some boring documented answer type. Nobody will hijack it.
The atmosphere is still hydrogen poor.
How do you know that there aren't huge concentrations of carbon, oxygen and nitrogen on those words just under the atmosphere? By the GGP reasoning, life is impossible on Earth.
We live in a very hydrogen poor atmosphere, but we manage to use lots and lots of it without a problem.
They also deal with it by negotiating in a derivatives market, or by absorbing the fluctuations in a way that they cancel each other.
And some deal with it by making bets and taking risks.
Bitcoin may add yet another option to the mix: getting rid of the currency faster than it can fluctuate. But it's not liquid enough, so currently, this won't work.
And since then you simply assume that everybody is just like the one worst experience you had on life?
Looks like fun.
There's also no reason for they not. Lots and lots of people profit on food consumption, and that didn't lead to any disaster. The telecom problems have other roots, we'd better focus on those.
This time it's not "netbooks", it's "Chromebooks". While that does not make any difference at all, MS can't use the name "Chromebook", and can't confuse people about what they are buying.
This time, all that MS will get is another "Windows products are the worst available", like they got in phones and tablets.
That's $35 of "components" money, the manufacturer will want to make its usual 5% (or whatever) over it, then the distributor will want to make their usual 10%, but he'll also need insurance, what's paid over the product value, increasing it some extra 1% or 2%, then the store wants its usual 20% over the cumulative value... And lets not forget the government (whatever it is) taking taxes over revenue (they seem to be always there, it does not matter if you think your tax code is modern because you have a VAT), bigger investment, leading to bigger interest, and a huge number of small contributions that none of us will be able to completely understand.
"It'll fail" is the usual prognostic when a company starts a price race with their competitors... But in this case, the competitors are already giving their product away for free. This is much worse than a usual race to the bottom.
To be fair, consoles always worked that way. The manufacturers try to guess what the market will like, build it, and throw it on the public. If they gess right, they are sucessfull, if they guess wrong, they are not.
There are very deep reasons for that way of working, so it won't go away, and is shared by all the manufacturers.
Maybe because both consoles are bought by different people, with different priorities.
If Microsoft keeps showing the ads for a few more years, people'll stop complaining about them too... Because everybody that care about them won't buy one anymore.
Only if you put giant radiators on space, but then, it is easier to just put photovoltaic pannels there.
Looks like for astronomers, the correct name is "x-rays". At least, you said so. And that being an article about astronomy...
Looks like there wasn't enough competition on the market.
Let me guess, the tax was reduced by a complex procedure that applied to some business and not others, and was too expensive for small business to follow anyway. Am I right?
That's how one should work with models. Create lots of them, throw away the ones that didn't work, test the ones that work again and again to confirm that it wasn't just by chance.
We are at the second step here, and have a model to pay attention now.
When we create it, of course.
Let's not forget the RNA -> protein coding transformations, that created organisms able to use new kinds of amino-acids which may have killed everything else on Earth. Several transitions where only a single lineage survived.
Thus, obviously, no, they don't.
Otherwise the summary would be wrong, and this is Slashdot...