Cell phone -- even inexpensive ones -- are quite a bit more expensive than anything a responsible parent would trust with a child. Not to mention all of the confidential information on them (no, I actually don't want my kids' school enemies -- or random strangers -- to know all of our family phone numbers).
Why would you give small children cell phones or cash?
You don't have kids, do you? And your parents didn't (try to) teach you responsibility when you were young by giving you small amounts of money which was yours to do with as you wish?
Parents can just buy things for their kids.
Which, as a parent, I do all of the time. But I also give them cash.
The people pushing cryptocurrency must not have children (who can handle small amount cash loooong before they're responsible enough to be given a cell phone -- especially an expensive smartphone).
In a world of 7.2Bn people, a total currency of 21M is... 1/343th coin per person. Even restricted to the USA, that's 200 people for every coin. Use, you say, fractions of coins! The fractions would be so tiny as to be impractical.
And another huge reason why bitcoins won't become popular: computers. Bitcoins require them, and most people don't have them. But everyone (including young children) can use cash.
* Inflation. Not doing ANYTHING with my money makes it disappear a little bit for each day. WTF?
That's not the bank.
* Fees. When I want to do stuff with it, I have to pay the bank to do so. WTF!
Like what?
* Delays. When I want to transfer money to someone else, I have to wait several DAYS. WTF? Aren't computers around?
That I agree with. But your money is still there.
* Privacy. When I transfer money somewhere, the transfer gets logged and kept for I-don't-know-how-long and by I-don't-know-which agencies.
That's not the bank, it's the government.
* Access. To access my money I am locked into some mostly useless web-interface which sometimes (if I'm lucky) works in my browser.
Vote with your feet, and get a better bank.
Worst case, I need to physically walk somewhere to do so.
Wow, you're young. *Really* young. I guess you're not moving to a new bank, though.
* Security. How do I know if my money is securely stored? Sure, the bank might refund me but they are simply charging me as a customer for their own security flaws anyway.
Securely stored? Huh? Do lots of bank robberies happen where you live?
Bitcoins must be "mined", and there are an effective 21M of them. That's stupid.
Fiat money like the USD is trusted because there's a history of trusting the nation that issues those fiats. In fact, since most dollars are virtual, stored as bit on computers, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't all work on one mass halucination.
"Horrors", you say! But humans have been living one hallucinations since they became cognizant, even before the rise of h. sapiens, so I have no problem with a worldwide hallucination.
It's the same distinction used ever since English grammarians started saying that the vowels are "A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y" (which has been at least 40 years, and probably back to the Victorian era).
Note also the difference in sound between the words "you" (long "u", homophone of "ewe") and "your" (which is not a homophone of "ewer").
From the fact that you don't seem to have been taught "and sometime Y", I have to ask, "Are you a native speaker of English?"
The leading sound in the word "your" is neither a long or short form of A, E, I, O or U, and is not the long form of Y (seen in words like "why").
"Shy", "sky", "why", "hymn" & "gym" have vowel forms of Y. "Your", "yell", "yuck" & "yacht" have consonant forms of Y.
Note how in the vowel forms, "y" is in or trails the word and has an "i" sound (long or short), whereas in the consonant form, the "y" is the first letter of the word. (An exception is the Belgian/Froggy word "Ypres", pronounced "eepreh".)
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
It's called the Idiot Light, and has been around for decades.
If you think that it's even possible that a womon (it's actually a word...) be stupid, then you must be a racist, sexist homophobic religionist who voted (TWICE!!) for The Stupidest Man In The Word, Evar!
Women are the saviors of the World. Long live Gaia, long live the Matriarchy!!
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Cell phone -- even inexpensive ones -- are quite a bit more expensive than anything a responsible parent would trust with a child. Not to mention all of the confidential information on them (no, I actually don't want my kids' school enemies -- or random strangers -- to know all of our family phone numbers).
Why are you -- metaphorically -- comparing bananas and trucks?
Why would you give small children cell phones or cash?
You don't have kids, do you? And your parents didn't (try to) teach you responsibility when you were young by giving you small amounts of money which was yours to do with as you wish?
Parents can just buy things for their kids.
Which, as a parent, I do all of the time. But I also give them cash.
most ppl on the planet will have a cellphone.
The people pushing cryptocurrency must not have children (who can handle small amount cash loooong before they're responsible enough to be given a cell phone -- especially an expensive smartphone).
Are fractions still too hard to understand?
Of course not. But they can be inconvenient at high negative exponents.
The smallest unit is called a satoshi and it represents 1/100000000 of a bitcoin.
The first thing I thought of when seeing that is the late and unlamented Italian Lira, which ended at around 2,000L/USD.
Currently, one bitcoin is US$585. That means that 300,000 satoshi is worth... US$1.75.
Cell phones are computers.
But most people don't have smart phones. (That's what Project Ara is for, but it's not a product yet.)
In a world of 7.2Bn people, a total currency of 21M is... 1/343th coin per person. Even restricted to the USA, that's 200 people for every coin. Use, you say, fractions of coins! The fractions would be so tiny as to be impractical.
And another huge reason why bitcoins won't become popular: computers. Bitcoins require them, and most people don't have them. But everyone (including young children) can use cash.
* Inflation. Not doing ANYTHING with my money makes it disappear a little bit for each day. WTF?
That's not the bank.
* Fees. When I want to do stuff with it, I have to pay the bank to do so. WTF!
Like what?
* Delays. When I want to transfer money to someone else, I have to wait several DAYS. WTF? Aren't computers around?
That I agree with. But your money is still there.
* Privacy. When I transfer money somewhere, the transfer gets logged and kept for I-don't-know-how-long and by I-don't-know-which agencies.
That's not the bank, it's the government.
* Access. To access my money I am locked into some mostly useless web-interface which sometimes (if I'm lucky) works in my browser.
Vote with your feet, and get a better bank.
Worst case, I need to physically walk somewhere to do so.
Wow, you're young. *Really* young. I guess you're not moving to a new bank, though.
* Security. How do I know if my money is securely stored? Sure, the bank might refund me but they are simply charging me as a customer for their own security flaws anyway.
Securely stored? Huh? Do lots of bank robberies happen where you live?
You want me to list all of them?
Bitcoins must be "mined", and there are an effective 21M of them. That's stupid.
Fiat money like the USD is trusted because there's a history of trusting the nation that issues those fiats. In fact, since most dollars are virtual, stored as bit on computers, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't all work on one mass halucination.
"Horrors", you say! But humans have been living one hallucinations since they became cognizant, even before the rise of h. sapiens, so I have no problem with a worldwide hallucination.
but would prefer to live without the banks who have already shown to not be trustworthy.
When was the last time a bank did something squirrelly with your checking or savings account?
It's the same distinction used ever since English grammarians started saying that the vowels are "A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y" (which has been at least 40 years, and probably back to the Victorian era).
Note also the difference in sound between the words "you" (long "u", homophone of "ewe") and "your" (which is not a homophone of "ewer").
From the fact that you don't seem to have been taught "and sometime Y", I have to ask, "Are you a native speaker of English?"
The leading sound in the word "your" is neither a long or short form of A, E, I, O or U, and is not the long form of Y (seen in words like "why").
"Shy", "sky", "why", "hymn" & "gym" have vowel forms of Y.
"Your", "yell", "yuck" & "yacht" have consonant forms of Y.
Note how in the vowel forms, "y" is in or trails the word and has an "i" sound (long or short), whereas in the consonant form, the "y" is the first letter of the word. (An exception is the Belgian/Froggy word "Ypres", pronounced "eepreh".)
In which words does y work as a consonant? Just curious.
Your.
wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i"
Sam Clemens is wrong about the "y".
The vowel form of "y" could be replaced by an "i", but it makes no sense to replace the consonant sound with a vowel sound.
Close-up HD photos of the innards of your "real thing", from multiple angles, would probably be of great help to the DICE team.
I would like to see something like GNU/Hurd finally come to fruition and become the one true operating system
The OS that's been in alpha status for almost 25 years, and still only supports i386?
That GNU/Hurd?
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
It's called the Idiot Light, and has been around for decades.
All I can say is, what I reported is not just my own personal experience, but that of every vet I know who uses the VA.
Did you all use the same VA hospital?
I know that the quality of the Principal heavily dictates the quality of the school. Maybe the same goes for hospital administrators.
It has to be deterministic; the same input will always result in the same output.
Correct. OP is conflating "random" with "one-way".
If you think that it's even possible that a womon (it's actually a word...) be stupid, then you must be a racist, sexist homophobic religionist who voted (TWICE!!) for The Stupidest Man In The Word, Evar!
Women are the saviors of the World. Long live Gaia, long live the Matriarchy!!
are, if he (women can't be this stupid) thinks that a hierarchical naming scheme is anything like a hash function.
which is why almost 95% of the time those instances define me as a female
Well, 5% of men like what women like, so that shouldn't be terribly surprising.
considers manners and politeness to be passe', and where bureaucratic rules and regulations are the norms.
You're right: it doesn't count.