You could easily just make the hashing requirements gentle and still verify the chain.
At one point the hashing requirements were gentle, but people put more an more research and investment into doing it efficiently so the difficulty rose, so they put more effort into doing it better, and the cycle perpetuated. The original white paper envisioned mining to be done by individuals, but as it turns out the particular algorithm BTC is based on happens to be possible for dedicated ASICs to process thousands of times faster than a CPU or even GPU can. Frankly even if the algorithms in use were such that only CPU mining was possible, you still need to provide enough incentive for people to mine or you risk a dedicated adversary destabilizing the network with a 51% attack.
Then you'll start getting weird formats and protocols like Uuencode that extend existing protocols in ways that they were never originally designed to do. Like binary files over usenet. The new protocols will introduce additional (and arguably unnecessary) overhead, but allow you to use the whitelisted services to do things they weren't intended for. Heck I remember back in the napster days of the late 90s using steganography to put arbitrary binary files into a valid mp3 container, because napster wouldn't share non mp3 audio files.
You can use a windows 7 key to install Windows 10. Now this is something they may disable after this 'free upgrade' period ends, but I've found it very convenient when reinstalling on client machines.
Pretty much, if you run a full node on your own system the only way to lose your money would be if your system got compromised. Putting money in an exchange is potentially more convenient for a number of reasons, but it's certainly not as secure as actually retaining control of your own Bitcoins
Of note however is that many of the hardest working people are actually paid the least. You can certainly argue that anyone who has put in the effort to rise above minimum wage can do so, and I would probably agree that for certain individuals it's possible. For the average person it's not realistic however. Furthermore the fact is that there is a finite job pool, so while putting in the effort to advance yourself can pay off for the individual, there will still be a need for the people filling minimum wage jobs; so if everyone becomes more educated and skilled; it will still be the people who are the least educated and skilled who take those jobs.
Minimum wage as it is now is modern slave labor; it doesn't pay enough to reasonably support a single person never mind a family. As a society we should find it ethically unconscionable to force the kind of living conditions many minimum wage workers have to deal with. People need to eat though, so if the choice is working a really crappy job or starving, people will put up with a lot.
Our political parties are not a good representation of our populace. Years of gerrymandering, corporate lobbying, and manipulation of the polls with things like voter ID laws have led us to our current political landscape. Less than maybe 35% of population really supports the kind of extreme conservatism that the majority of the republican party leaders espouse, but the republicans still hold majority in both halves of our legislature; as well as our presidency.
So I disagree that our gov is a mirror of our society. The gov is a perverted and twisted result of years of allowing certain government systems to proceed unchecked certainly. But I don't think our congress really mirror our populace.
Practically everything the TSA does is security theater anyways, this is just another one of a long list of not really effective things they do to make a big show and make everyone 'feel' safer.
I'd rather they spend that money on things that work, or on almost literally anything else.
1) Who watches TV shows on their *phone*??? Honestly, I can't even imagine.
Well, anyone who uses a Chromecast, or wants to watch something while waiting for a flight, or laundry or anything else that requires not being home and sitting in one place for a while. Not to mention the throng of parents who use it to shut their kids up when they're in public.
The PC version (at least the early PC version, not sure if the new one on Steam fixes this) used inferior MIDI files for sound and music over the original PSX version.
And the Republicans insist climate change isn't real . . . well maybe when half the red leaning states are under water they'll open their eyes. Probably be way too late by that point though.
I used to do work as an independent contractor for this company 'Syntechs' based in florida. They had the repair contract for Vizio nationwide. TL;DR that company folded into bankruptcy and failed to pay us techs collectively $1.6 million dollars for jobs we did on behalf of Vizio. This isn't exactly Vizio's fault since I'm pretty sure Vizio paid Syntechs for our services, but it still left a bad taste in my mouth. They took me for about $32,000 worth of jobs my company did for them that they never paid.
Frankly I fail to see the issue. We absolutely have the capabilities of providing basic living necessities for ourselves, and even 10 times the current immigrant population in the US. So why should it matter if we have a bunch of immigrants come over and 'leech off the system' so to speak? The people who want to build more for themselves will regardless. I don't see why we need to force people to suffer so that some 1%er can buy an extra jet every couple months.
Presidential elections tend to be ruled by emotions rather than logic, because people as a whole tend to be ruled by emotions rather than logic. If humans generally resorted to logic when it came to electing our leaders, the world would be a much more sane place.
Dying as in not going to be used any more or dying as in not a way I really communicate with friends/relatives? Cause if the former, email will never die. If the later email has been dead a long time.
Even with open borders and a global economy I think UBI is inevitable; the real question is whether we get there through carefully crafted laws and human compassion, or whether we get there kicking and screaming through half-measures and bureaucratic red tape.
Throughout history there was always a way to use additional labor productively (more farmers more factory workers more whatever), so we based our method of divvying up our resources by how much you contributed. Well with robots and drones, and self driving vehicles, and computers taking over jobs that used to need to be done by humans that system won't work. When there's only 50 jobs for every 100 people who need to make a living, something's going to have to give. We've already decided that we're generally not ok with the idea of our populace starving or being homeless, so we need to implement some sort of welfare system, the question really is what form it will ultimately take.
This is retail in general, the upper management wants sales on high margin crap, so they spin it like the employees are doing a disservice to their customers when they don't push it. For a responsible consumer extended warranties are the worst offender. Most of the time it's just free money for the seller because the product lasts longer than the warranty anyways, but if it does happen to break down while covered they make you jump through hoops to actually take advantage of the damn thing.
With automation becoming common place we're soon going to enter a world where there simply won't be jobs for 'non-rocket scientists'. globalization or no. It's why we need to seriously consider UBI.
Frankly, if you ultimately can't make due on a serious UBI program because you're 'bad with money' there should be some programs to get you to be better with money. Or perhaps a new business model will arise of people offering to 'manage' someone's UBI and in exchange provide them with food and shelter. But when all of that inevitably fails maybe those sorts of people are just the ones who need to be committed and made wards of the state. If you are not capable of surviving on your own when you are literally being given the means to do so, then there is something fundamentally wrong with you, and you should probably be getting mental health treatment. (Darwin would say you should die but I'm not quite that cruel)
I think the point is to scrap all welfare, SNAP included, and frankly even $700 a month is far from a livable wage in most of America. That wouldn't even cover rent on a 1 bedroom apartment in central MA. I can't even imagine trying to stretch that out in Boston or any of the bigger cities. I think $1500 a month (especially if it was untaxed) would be enough to support a modest lifestyle without stressing about meals or shelter. There would be some money left over for a person to save up, or to put towards things like schooling. It wouldn't give you the kind of money you need to take a trip to Paris whenever you feel like it, but it's enough that your basic needs are met, and if an emergency comes up (like sudden medical expenses) you don't need to beg or go into bankruptcy just to cover it.
If it weren't for the fact I'd be put on a government watchlist for the rest of my life, I might even suggest that perhaps the issue is more complex than we think.
Like almost everything, the issue IS more complex than we think. Drugs, for profit prisons, whether or not 'hitting your kids' is acceptable. You name a topic and I'm sure I can come up with a half dozen different sides to it. As for the government watch lists, I'm sure we're both on a couple dozen already. There's just the matter of 'is this an issue people care about right now'.
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You could easily just make the hashing requirements gentle and still verify the chain.
At one point the hashing requirements were gentle, but people put more an more research and investment into doing it efficiently so the difficulty rose, so they put more effort into doing it better, and the cycle perpetuated. The original white paper envisioned mining to be done by individuals, but as it turns out the particular algorithm BTC is based on happens to be possible for dedicated ASICs to process thousands of times faster than a CPU or even GPU can. Frankly even if the algorithms in use were such that only CPU mining was possible, you still need to provide enough incentive for people to mine or you risk a dedicated adversary destabilizing the network with a 51% attack.
Then you'll start getting weird formats and protocols like Uuencode that extend existing protocols in ways that they were never originally designed to do. Like binary files over usenet. The new protocols will introduce additional (and arguably unnecessary) overhead, but allow you to use the whitelisted services to do things they weren't intended for. Heck I remember back in the napster days of the late 90s using steganography to put arbitrary binary files into a valid mp3 container, because napster wouldn't share non mp3 audio files.
You can use a windows 7 key to install Windows 10. Now this is something they may disable after this 'free upgrade' period ends, but I've found it very convenient when reinstalling on client machines.
Pretty much, if you run a full node on your own system the only way to lose your money would be if your system got compromised. Putting money in an exchange is potentially more convenient for a number of reasons, but it's certainly not as secure as actually retaining control of your own Bitcoins
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Of note however is that many of the hardest working people are actually paid the least. You can certainly argue that anyone who has put in the effort to rise above minimum wage can do so, and I would probably agree that for certain individuals it's possible. For the average person it's not realistic however. Furthermore the fact is that there is a finite job pool, so while putting in the effort to advance yourself can pay off for the individual, there will still be a need for the people filling minimum wage jobs; so if everyone becomes more educated and skilled; it will still be the people who are the least educated and skilled who take those jobs.
Minimum wage as it is now is modern slave labor; it doesn't pay enough to reasonably support a single person never mind a family. As a society we should find it ethically unconscionable to force the kind of living conditions many minimum wage workers have to deal with. People need to eat though, so if the choice is working a really crappy job or starving, people will put up with a lot.
Our political parties are not a good representation of our populace. Years of gerrymandering, corporate lobbying, and manipulation of the polls with things like voter ID laws have led us to our current political landscape. Less than maybe 35% of population really supports the kind of extreme conservatism that the majority of the republican party leaders espouse, but the republicans still hold majority in both halves of our legislature; as well as our presidency.
So I disagree that our gov is a mirror of our society. The gov is a perverted and twisted result of years of allowing certain government systems to proceed unchecked certainly. But I don't think our congress really mirror our populace.
Practically everything the TSA does is security theater anyways, this is just another one of a long list of not really effective things they do to make a big show and make everyone 'feel' safer.
I'd rather they spend that money on things that work, or on almost literally anything else.
1) Who watches TV shows on their *phone*??? Honestly, I can't even imagine.
Well, anyone who uses a Chromecast, or wants to watch something while waiting for a flight, or laundry or anything else that requires not being home and sitting in one place for a while. Not to mention the throng of parents who use it to shut their kids up when they're in public.
FF7 came out for PC, why the need to emulate?
The PC version (at least the early PC version, not sure if the new one on Steam fixes this) used inferior MIDI files for sound and music over the original PSX version.
And the Republicans insist climate change isn't real . . . well maybe when half the red leaning states are under water they'll open their eyes. Probably be way too late by that point though.
I used to do work as an independent contractor for this company 'Syntechs' based in florida. They had the repair contract for Vizio nationwide. TL;DR that company folded into bankruptcy and failed to pay us techs collectively $1.6 million dollars for jobs we did on behalf of Vizio. This isn't exactly Vizio's fault since I'm pretty sure Vizio paid Syntechs for our services, but it still left a bad taste in my mouth. They took me for about $32,000 worth of jobs my company did for them that they never paid.
Frankly I fail to see the issue. We absolutely have the capabilities of providing basic living necessities for ourselves, and even 10 times the current immigrant population in the US. So why should it matter if we have a bunch of immigrants come over and 'leech off the system' so to speak? The people who want to build more for themselves will regardless. I don't see why we need to force people to suffer so that some 1%er can buy an extra jet every couple months.
Presidential elections tend to be ruled by emotions rather than logic, because people as a whole tend to be ruled by emotions rather than logic. If humans generally resorted to logic when it came to electing our leaders, the world would be a much more sane place.
Dying as in not going to be used any more or dying as in not a way I really communicate with friends/relatives? Cause if the former, email will never die. If the later email has been dead a long time.
Isn't that Mr. Burn's catch phrase? Smithers is his assistant.
Signal is there, take another look. Wire and Threema do seem to be missing though.
Even with open borders and a global economy I think UBI is inevitable; the real question is whether we get there through carefully crafted laws and human compassion, or whether we get there kicking and screaming through half-measures and bureaucratic red tape.
Throughout history there was always a way to use additional labor productively (more farmers more factory workers more whatever), so we based our method of divvying up our resources by how much you contributed. Well with robots and drones, and self driving vehicles, and computers taking over jobs that used to need to be done by humans that system won't work. When there's only 50 jobs for every 100 people who need to make a living, something's going to have to give. We've already decided that we're generally not ok with the idea of our populace starving or being homeless, so we need to implement some sort of welfare system, the question really is what form it will ultimately take.
Your local teen can likely perform basic PC repair service in exchange for a couple of bucks, or a day off of chores. If not, he knows a guy that can.
Shhhhhh, let me keep my niche of the market a little bit longer.
This is retail in general, the upper management wants sales on high margin crap, so they spin it like the employees are doing a disservice to their customers when they don't push it. For a responsible consumer extended warranties are the worst offender. Most of the time it's just free money for the seller because the product lasts longer than the warranty anyways, but if it does happen to break down while covered they make you jump through hoops to actually take advantage of the damn thing.
With automation becoming common place we're soon going to enter a world where there simply won't be jobs for 'non-rocket scientists'. globalization or no. It's why we need to seriously consider UBI.
I presume there's some detail I'm missing here since we did not have 8 TB hard drives 120 years ago.
Frankly, if you ultimately can't make due on a serious UBI program because you're 'bad with money' there should be some programs to get you to be better with money. Or perhaps a new business model will arise of people offering to 'manage' someone's UBI and in exchange provide them with food and shelter. But when all of that inevitably fails maybe those sorts of people are just the ones who need to be committed and made wards of the state. If you are not capable of surviving on your own when you are literally being given the means to do so, then there is something fundamentally wrong with you, and you should probably be getting mental health treatment. (Darwin would say you should die but I'm not quite that cruel)
I think the point is to scrap all welfare, SNAP included, and frankly even $700 a month is far from a livable wage in most of America. That wouldn't even cover rent on a 1 bedroom apartment in central MA. I can't even imagine trying to stretch that out in Boston or any of the bigger cities. I think $1500 a month (especially if it was untaxed) would be enough to support a modest lifestyle without stressing about meals or shelter. There would be some money left over for a person to save up, or to put towards things like schooling. It wouldn't give you the kind of money you need to take a trip to Paris whenever you feel like it, but it's enough that your basic needs are met, and if an emergency comes up (like sudden medical expenses) you don't need to beg or go into bankruptcy just to cover it.
If it weren't for the fact I'd be put on a government watchlist for the rest of my life, I might even suggest that perhaps the issue is more complex than we think.
Like almost everything, the issue IS more complex than we think. Drugs, for profit prisons, whether or not 'hitting your kids' is acceptable. You name a topic and I'm sure I can come up with a half dozen different sides to it. As for the government watch lists, I'm sure we're both on a couple dozen already. There's just the matter of 'is this an issue people care about right now'.