Proponents of bitcoin are expecting regular users to be responsible for their own bitcoin security. Consider for a moment how many botnets are out there. Imagine people losing their their life savings in a "download to papa" moment. Or hell, a hard drive crash. Yes, you could conceivably print out your bitcoin keys. But you need to type them back into your computer to actually spend them. Who is going to enforce security against fraud? What if a merchant doesn't send the goods?
Either you are full of shit (most likely scenario) or you are psychotic. Even if you are psychotic, I doubt you have the necessary techniques to kill a person before they hit the ground without weapons.
Snacks are generally a very cheap source of calories, in my experience. You can get a big bag of Lay's chips for like $4. Don't have the numbers on me, but that's probably like 3000 calories. You probably won't save money by cutting out snacks, unless you eat just rice and beans.
A good story needs some source of conflict; otherwise, there's just nothing to talk about. For hard science fiction, generally, the science and technology is going to be a primary focus of the novel; the author invents a setting and visualizes how real actors would respond in such a setting. Thus, the setting drives the plot. Therefore, it's only natural that the technology is going to be a source of tension. If you look for other sources of tension, like interpersonal problems, then you might just end up with a space opera.
Books are boring. I didn't learn to program from a book. I started from some sample code and just experimented with changing a thing here or there until I more or less got the basic idea. I remember hacking up nibbles.bas by changing a number here or there or a line here or there and seeing what happened. Most of the time it didn't work, but sometimes I got something awesome to happen.
I dunno, the invaded country might find some good use for already enriched uranium. Then again, it would be very advantageous to bring it down electronically than to shoot it down.
And the outcome will be? We will know the precise hour when we die. How do we stop an asteroid anyway? I've heard proposals of nuking the asteroids, but I don't see how we will intercept an asteroid with enough nukes early enough to deflect the asteroid. I don't suppose a nuke would be much better than simply hitting the asteroid with a high momentum slug and hope to change the trajectory sufficiently. How will we accelerate such a slug and set it on an intercept course with the asteroid?
There will be turmoil for a time. (Lawyer's thrive on change.) But eventually, I suppose there will be special insurance policies to cover robot drivers, and car users will be required to get this insurance. The insurance would cover damages caused by the robot driver.
I dunno about you, but I would feel safer running in front of a robot controlled car than a human controlled car. Of course, the first robot car accident will bring happy lawsuit time.
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Proponents of bitcoin are expecting regular users to be responsible for their own bitcoin security. Consider for a moment how many botnets are out there. Imagine people losing their their life savings in a "download to papa" moment. Or hell, a hard drive crash. Yes, you could conceivably print out your bitcoin keys. But you need to type them back into your computer to actually spend them. Who is going to enforce security against fraud? What if a merchant doesn't send the goods?
The money supply needs to increase if the number of people using the money is increasing for prices to say about the same.
Either you are full of shit (most likely scenario) or you are psychotic. Even if you are psychotic, I doubt you have the necessary techniques to kill a person before they hit the ground without weapons.
Parental child abuse is taken seriously, but bullying isn't.
Facebook's uptime has been pretty good, and bugs fairly rare.
Unfortunately, features are not so fairly rare.
While money is fairly unlimited, resources are not. In particular, the fuel used to send a rocketship into space isn't ever coming back.
Evidently, everyone was so much more knowledgeable before the printing press was invented.
To make matters worse, he rides a recumbent bicycle to work. No lie.
What's wrong with that?
Snacks are generally a very cheap source of calories, in my experience. You can get a big bag of Lay's chips for like $4. Don't have the numbers on me, but that's probably like 3000 calories. You probably won't save money by cutting out snacks, unless you eat just rice and beans.
Yeah, but your doctor's bill will trump what you've saved in food costs.
A good story needs some source of conflict; otherwise, there's just nothing to talk about. For hard science fiction, generally, the science and technology is going to be a primary focus of the novel; the author invents a setting and visualizes how real actors would respond in such a setting. Thus, the setting drives the plot. Therefore, it's only natural that the technology is going to be a source of tension. If you look for other sources of tension, like interpersonal problems, then you might just end up with a space opera.
Last sentence: "Education for women was outlawed by the Taliban government from 1996-2001 as un-Islamic."
Books are boring. I didn't learn to program from a book. I started from some sample code and just experimented with changing a thing here or there until I more or less got the basic idea. I remember hacking up nibbles.bas by changing a number here or there or a line here or there and seeing what happened. Most of the time it didn't work, but sometimes I got something awesome to happen.
I dunno, the invaded country might find some good use for already enriched uranium. Then again, it would be very advantageous to bring it down electronically than to shoot it down.
NPEs win about 23% of the time overall, and PEs win about 39%
That's a very sad statistic for the patent office. It means they are rubber stamping far too many invalid patents. But you already knew that.
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And the outcome will be? We will know the precise hour when we die.
How do we stop an asteroid anyway? I've heard proposals of nuking the asteroids, but I don't see how we will intercept an asteroid with enough nukes early enough to deflect the asteroid. I don't suppose a nuke would be much better than simply hitting the asteroid with a high momentum slug and hope to change the trajectory sufficiently. How will we accelerate such a slug and set it on an intercept course with the asteroid?
There are other threatened species on the planet than humans.
Small class size, I presume.
I don't see the problem that you are referring to.
Many of the antidiscrimination laws don't apply to businesses with less than 15 employees.
I wish there was an edit button so I could remove the extraneous apostrophe.
There will be turmoil for a time. (Lawyer's thrive on change.) But eventually, I suppose there will be special insurance policies to cover robot drivers, and car users will be required to get this insurance. The insurance would cover damages caused by the robot driver.
As a sighted person who doesn't like cars, I've walked up to a drive-up ATM more than once.
I dunno about you, but I would feel safer running in front of a robot controlled car than a human controlled car. Of course, the first robot car accident will bring happy lawsuit time.