I've been purchasing stuff with them since early 2014. That's actually the only reason I had any. I bought a handful at $500 and have been buying stuff twice a year with them.
I actually just sold off one to break even on my original buy and make everything in my non-MMJ state 'free' for the last 4 years.
#2. People expect the machines to be working. Not carrying around $1k or so in a massive crowd is a good idea and you can cancel the cards and do charge backs on unauthorized purchases.
If someone said "We accept cash only" 2 days ahead of time there would be problem.
I know that it's easy to forget that some of us still live and work out away from the coasts but we do. Sometimes it's for family, sometimes it's for work, sometimes it's because we like the area. However universally I don't know of anyone that lives out here for the internet.
And while the coasts are pissing and moaning about what Comcast might do with NetNeutrality they've given us the "fuck you" long ago. Even going so far as to lobby against us being able to set up our own Internet.
So no. We don't use Netflix. We don't stream Amazon. A station wagon of tapes (or DVDs) is still the best option.
That's one way to garner corporate backlash. When my company's C-suite officers can't check their mail from home it's going to start raising IT tickets that point back to Comcast.
Way back in the early 2000s we figured out that's what our campus IT department was doing.
A friend of mine wrote a simple 'proxy' server that sent a fake HTTP header that the bittorrent trackers ignored. Our school's firewall thought it was a HTTP packet and let it through.
Why is the rest of the state tying itself to NYC? For thousands of years people have decided they were tired of being run by a party in another area and went off to do their own thing.
Lets have a big election where we all vote on our ideals and redraw lines around those? Here are a bunch of maps redrawn by equal size: www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/10/if_every_u_s_state_had_the_same_population_what_would_the_map_of_america.html
Group them by what how they think their area should be run and then you never have to be run by NYC again and they never have to deal with your politics again. Everyone wins.
Then the way to do that is to stop the power they're using to do that, not to decide who to gets that power.
The United States should operate, IMHO, closer to the EU. Then NY and CA can set their agendas and where you live can set your own agenda.
There are some days I wish the Confederacy won. If for no reason than the confederate states would be a separate nation and the rest of us could move on. Maybe we'd have policies and social agendas closer to Canada or the Nordic states than the Middle East.
The craziest interactions are watching people that didn't know the 'old' way. Our son doesn't know that some lights have switches or you can get music from a phone.
It also works out in the shop when my hands are covered in grease.
I could roll my own. Just like I could build my own ECU for my car. It's literally what I do at work. However I have no interest in spending all my free time engineering and debugging a home rolled solution.
I do have a Home-Assistant running locally on a Pi because the store bought solutions really all suck.
The difference this time is the competitor got it right.
The iPod wouldn't have been a success if all the other MP3 players of the day didn't suck. My first 2 iPods were amazing devices. Firewire booting, I could carry a second hard drive to boot from.
Amazon got it 'right' to consumers and Apple is playing catch up. Which is hard to do given Amazon's demographic spread compared to Apple's.
Humans, as a whole, are terrible on snow. Their knowledge isn't collectively cumulative. Every year you have to train a new fleet of drivers at 16. What is the rate of
On the other hand autonomous mini rally cars have taught themselves to power slide. With a software update every vehicle going forward could all know how to do that.
Generally, this is a very computationally intensive approach, but AutoRally can calculate an optimized trajectory from the weighted average of 2,560 different trajectory possibilities, all simulated in parallel on to the monster onboard GPU. Each of these trajectories represents the oncoming 2.5 seconds of vehicle motion, and AutoRally recomputes this entire optimization process 60 times every second.
That's better than any human can currently do and will only continue to get better.
1. What did you chose to do? 2. Why would an autonomous car make a worse decision than a human? 3. It's a strawman because you made the decision based on very limited data and sample rate. It's a scenario that the car would have avoided completely. The car would have seen the deer on FLIR or LIDAR. The car would have had more reaction time to stop completely.
Because as a human you're slow, you think you only had those 2 options.
Hard brake and swerve to the right onto the shoulder and only take out a front quarter panel.
Hard brake and avoid the hit completely since it didn't waste an extra half a second to decide. Brake 3 wheels and accelerate one and have the car whip around the buck. Feather brake & accelerator to time no collision.
Why does every self-driving car denier tout this out as "IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN" evidence?
Humans can drive on snow with 2 EM sensors that are limited to the 'visible spectrum' and an IMU that gets messed up rather easily? Especially when on snow?
With the range of sensors and their sampling rate I expect them to be much, much better on snow.
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You can make BTC wallets that can be recovered with some memorized words.
If you can memorize 'correct horse battery staple' you can flee your burning home with nothing and still have access to your wallets.
Because you cannot purchase anything with them,
I've been purchasing stuff with them since early 2014. That's actually the only reason I had any. I bought a handful at $500 and have been buying stuff twice a year with them.
I actually just sold off one to break even on my original buy and make everything in my non-MMJ state 'free' for the last 4 years.
Have held their value for THOUSANDS of years.
What value? I can't find any gold charts going back to the 1500s but since 1900 it sure looks a lot like Bitcoin's.
#2. People expect the machines to be working. Not carrying around $1k or so in a massive crowd is a good idea and you can cancel the cards and do charge backs on unauthorized purchases.
If someone said "We accept cash only" 2 days ahead of time there would be problem.
I know that it's easy to forget that some of us still live and work out away from the coasts but we do. Sometimes it's for family, sometimes it's for work, sometimes it's because we like the area. However universally I don't know of anyone that lives out here for the internet.
This is the 'best' ISP where my mom lives: http://www.m33access.com/
And while the coasts are pissing and moaning about what Comcast might do with NetNeutrality they've given us the "fuck you" long ago. Even going so far as to lobby against us being able to set up our own Internet.
So no. We don't use Netflix. We don't stream Amazon. A station wagon of tapes (or DVDs) is still the best option.
That's one way to garner corporate backlash. When my company's C-suite officers can't check their mail from home it's going to start raising IT tickets that point back to Comcast.
Way back in the early 2000s we figured out that's what our campus IT department was doing.
A friend of mine wrote a simple 'proxy' server that sent a fake HTTP header that the bittorrent trackers ignored. Our school's firewall thought it was a HTTP packet and let it through.
You mean like back when ISPs were throttling Netflix unless they paid?
Why is the rest of the state tying itself to NYC? For thousands of years people have decided they were tired of being run by a party in another area and went off to do their own thing.
Lets have a big election where we all vote on our ideals and redraw lines around those? Here are a bunch of maps redrawn by equal size: www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/10/if_every_u_s_state_had_the_same_population_what_would_the_map_of_america.html
Group them by what how they think their area should be run and then you never have to be run by NYC again and they never have to deal with your politics again. Everyone wins.
don't get to set the agenda for the rest of us.
Then the way to do that is to stop the power they're using to do that, not to decide who to gets that power.
The United States should operate, IMHO, closer to the EU. Then NY and CA can set their agendas and where you live can set your own agenda.
There are some days I wish the Confederacy won. If for no reason than the confederate states would be a separate nation and the rest of us could move on. Maybe we'd have policies and social agendas closer to Canada or the Nordic states than the Middle East.
Where are the Apple stores in rural Appalachia?
Where are the Apple stores in the trailer parks?
Excel is the case in point use of Law of the instrument.
In engineering I've seen Excel used to share images, a database, run a production line with some VBA/oracle black magic integration.
Eh. I'd rather have something the size of a Mini with a load more cores. Something with 4x A10X chips. 16GB of RAM and an SSD.
The one person at their company with a strong vision died. Now it's design by committee.
The craziest interactions are watching people that didn't know the 'old' way. Our son doesn't know that some lights have switches or you can get music from a phone.
It also works out in the shop when my hands are covered in grease.
Because I value my time.
I could roll my own. Just like I could build my own ECU for my car. It's literally what I do at work. However I have no interest in spending all my free time engineering and debugging a home rolled solution.
I do have a Home-Assistant running locally on a Pi because the store bought solutions really all suck.
The difference this time is the competitor got it right.
The iPod wouldn't have been a success if all the other MP3 players of the day didn't suck. My first 2 iPods were amazing devices. Firewire booting, I could carry a second hard drive to boot from.
Amazon got it 'right' to consumers and Apple is playing catch up. Which is hard to do given Amazon's demographic spread compared to Apple's.
You're right. We have reached the pinnacle of human technological achievement. Pack it up. New stuff takes too long.
But I repeat myself: I wonder where we would be technology wise if everyone listened to your type.
Humans, as a whole, are terrible on snow. Their knowledge isn't collectively cumulative. Every year you have to train a new fleet of drivers at 16. What is the rate of
On the other hand autonomous mini rally cars have taught themselves to power slide. With a software update every vehicle going forward could all know how to do that.
Generally, this is a very computationally intensive approach, but AutoRally can calculate an optimized trajectory from the weighted average of 2,560 different trajectory possibilities, all simulated in parallel on to the monster onboard GPU. Each of these trajectories represents the oncoming 2.5 seconds of vehicle motion, and AutoRally recomputes this entire optimization process 60 times every second.
That's better than any human can currently do and will only continue to get better.
1. What did you chose to do?
2. Why would an autonomous car make a worse decision than a human?
3. It's a strawman because you made the decision based on very limited data and sample rate. It's a scenario that the car would have avoided completely. The car would have seen the deer on FLIR or LIDAR. The car would have had more reaction time to stop completely.
Driving in anything but perfect conditions isn't simple.
Running a steam engine in anything but perfect conditions isn't simple: 1600s.
Running an internal combustion engine in anything but perfect conditions isn't simple: Late 1800s.
Flying an airplane in anything but perfect conditions isn't simple: Early 1900s.
Driving a horseless carriage in anything but perfect conditions isn't simple: Early 1900s.
Communicating over wireless in anything but perfect conditions isn't simple: Early 1900s.
Running a computer in anything but perfect conditions isn't simple: Mid 1900s.
I wonder where we would be technology wise if everyone listened to your type.
So what did you do?
Because as a human you're slow, you think you only had those 2 options.
Hard brake and swerve to the right onto the shoulder and only take out a front quarter panel.
Hard brake and avoid the hit completely since it didn't waste an extra half a second to decide. Brake 3 wheels and accelerate one and have the car whip around the buck. Feather brake & accelerator to time no collision.
Quick, count the last times you have ever run into a child crossing the street while an ambulance was bearing down on you with a school bus?
Whom to hit in a pinch? A celebrity, an asteroid, a school bus full of nuns or a tumble weed in downtown NYC?
(1) How to get them to deal with snow
Why does every self-driving car denier tout this out as "IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN" evidence?
Humans can drive on snow with 2 EM sensors that are limited to the 'visible spectrum' and an IMU that gets messed up rather easily? Especially when on snow?
With the range of sensors and their sampling rate I expect them to be much, much better on snow.
When Apple did: Airport (802.11b), Gigabit Ethernet, USB only, UEFI it cost an arm an a leg too.
The thing is the rest of industry followed (eventually) and now we have it much cheaper.