How does the IRS handle foreign currencies? What about stores and restaurants near the border that accept Canadian currency? Is it the exchange value at the time of sale?
Gains made in foreign currency are also taxable events when you exchange them and yes they are done based on the value at the time of exchange (when dealing in foreign currencies you keep records of your exchange rates). The government doesn't care what currency you accept or trade in, you report based on your profits and losses in the country you are doing business.
unless the actual source is provided that made said promise and it was someone that you would expect to be able to make such a promise then yes the facts pretty much say the story shouldn't be believed as all the verifiable facts contradict it.
No they don't, they are a business, paypal have no say how financial transactions are regulated, nor do they issue or control a currency system. You may as well start comparing bitcoin to a corner store. If you want to do a monetary comparison then you need to compare to an actual financial institution that is responsible for issuing a currency. The reason you are using paypal is that bitcoin compares VERY badly to any real insititution with government backing. You are now going completely against what bitcoin is supposed to be about by directly saying bitcoin is not a currency and that it is merely an unregulated business entity.
paypal is not a bank or exchange, nor do they issue a currency, they are just a business (even so they do operate under MANY regulations). So why are you using them as an example. Use The US Dollar and banks or any other currency and their associated financial institutions. You have basically singled out a business rather than part of the financial system to try to build your strawman.
So as I said, what does bitcoin Add? Not a bloody thing. To be successful it will need to be regulated, once it is regulated it loses its one differentiator. The currency is an interesting experiment, but it certainly has failed pretty badly in its attempts to become a currency.
So in other words, it has no protections from you being screwed over by banks, exchanges, other people etc and hence is a REALLY bad currency for the general population.
Do you really think there's no value in being able to move money around? To make payments to people who aren't in the same room as you?
If so, then I disagree; I believe that's useful. A lot of people use services to make payments online, so I don't think popular opinion is with you either.
and what does bitcoin add that isn't already possible with the existing system? I can do all of that without bitcoins, don't get me wrong I see plenty wrong with the existing monetary systems and the way they are manipulated, but bitcoin adds absolutely nothing while taking away plenty of the benefits and safeguards.
Late adopters, and indeed, society as a whole, benefit from the usefulness of a stable, fast, inexpensive, and widely accepted p2p currency.
It depends on this sentence being true and so far it does not seem stable nor widely accepted.
interestingly it actually fails all its own tests. It isn't stable, certainly isn't fast or inexpensive and it most definitely isn't widely accepted. and assuming the early people will benefit from rise in value sounds dangerously close to being a Ponzi, the only thing saving them from being one is they aren't making a guarantee on the rise.
The PC Market even it is current state sells 70 million+ units a quarter, The PS and Xbox lifetime combined sales won't even come close to even this years reduced PC sales numbers. If AMD are reliant on the cut price console industry to help them then they are in dire trouble, at best the consoles provide a some pocket money as they will be selling in bulk orders with very low margins.
nothing weird here at all, commodity vs reliability. Stable, tested proven chips generally stay one step behind. consumer commodity chips give them a chance to weed out any problems without placing risks on chip lines that simply MUST work.
A PC from 4 years ago at that price would be a top end i7 with a 5870 or better in it hmmmm I don't think a ps4 is going to outperform that. It is going to be similar on graphics but way behind on processor. If you have to resort to comparing to 4 year old tech and still fall short I think that is pretty fair justification to say the ps4 was outdated from the day it was released.
Why is that insightful? allowing ignorance as a valid defence is a terrible idea, especially if it is in the field you are working in. If you are manufacturing items it is not unreasonable that you are familiar with the laws around those items. Ignorance may be something that is taken into account when handing out the sentencing/punishment/fines, but it most definitely shouldn't be a defence. If you are importing an a cheap knockoff why is it unreasonable to expect someone to check they aren't infringing on import or trademark laws in that area.
Okay, I can be pretty dense when it comes to reading between the lines, but even I notice a heavy dose of agenda in this summary. It's a good thing the anti-GMO folks have a crystal ball to see the future clearly.
I guess we need our daily dose of propaganda though.
I'm pro-GMO but I think this is one of the legitimate issues. If you engineer something to resist a pest the pest is going to evolve a response, we've learned that lesson countless times with anti-biotics but the pests evolve faster than human nature.
Perhaps I am missing something but I fail to see the issue? it was completely expected for the pests to overcome it, GE corn was never going to be a solution forever, it doesn't negate all the years of use they got out of not having to use a heap of chemicals to kill the pests. Now they have to go back to chemicals again though, at least until they find the next method to counter them.
that is the point though. their GPU/CPU combination doesn't have the raw horsepower for a single 1080p screen without making sacrifices somewhere. How are they supposed to run 2x1080p screens while also performing the processing required for the VR and for the game. something has to be sacrificed somewhere, either framerate, resolution or what you can actually do computationally within a game or they need more external processing capacity. I will be interesting to see what choices they have made.
It is very questionable though whether the ps4 has the horsepower to run such a device. The choices to use such low end CPU and mid range graphics card make me highly doubtful they could produce such a headset without it being incredibly expensive due to the requirements to add processing capabilities to the device. ps4 struggles with 1080p to a TV, some games like Killzone don't even run at 1080p due to it not being powerful enough to handle it and that is supposedly one of their premium flagship games.
Where did I ever suggest it will never happen? I was merely responding to the ridiculous claims that we are just around the corner of true AI that mimics the human brain. I am sure we will get there eventually, it just won't be this decade or the next and quite possibly not for a few more after that.
The weighted model is most definitely NOT how the human brain works, It is as close as we have come to modelling "some" cognitive patterns, but that is only a small part of the human thought process.. the human brain breaks apart connections and establishes new ones all the time and links memories and thoughts that have no simple mathematical equation that we have yet been able to fathom. The weighted model is atrociously bad at replicating this behaviour as hardware is simply not currently capable of the complex connection behaviour we see in the human brain and we are no where near having the hardware or software capabilities to fully replicate it.
I think the point is, Siri is NOT able to understand your speech. It is able to do voice to text translation and then perform a search. That is not understanding speech, Siri has no more understanding of what you said than a toaster understands what people are putting in it. The problem is we have gotten so good at tech and have so much processing power and data mining capabilities nowadays that we can dress up technology that is little more than basic computer operations to appear intelligent. That is not to make light of the work done by google, Microsoft or Apple in processing search, it is pretty impressive what they have done, but it aint AI.
working expert systems have been around for many many decades. I used to program in an expert system dev tool called AionDS back in the 80's. Decision and Expert systems were commonly worked on in the AI community but I don't know anyone that considered them AI even back then.
No it isn't, we currently have no AI, nor are we close to having it. What we have is increasingly complex expert systems. We aren't even close to having systems that can adequately understand the nuances of spoken language let alone true AI.
such systems have been just around the corner for 40 years now. What has changed recently to solve the problems inherent in such systems that they haven't been overcome in the preceding 40 years? interested to know as I left the AI research space about a decade back and even then our estimates were we would be lucky if we achieved true AI this century.
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How does the IRS handle foreign currencies? What about stores and restaurants near the border that accept Canadian currency? Is it the exchange value at the time of sale?
Gains made in foreign currency are also taxable events when you exchange them and yes they are done based on the value at the time of exchange (when dealing in foreign currencies you keep records of your exchange rates). The government doesn't care what currency you accept or trade in, you report based on your profits and losses in the country you are doing business.
Barter transactions are taxable in most countries of the world.
unless the actual source is provided that made said promise and it was someone that you would expect to be able to make such a promise then yes the facts pretty much say the story shouldn't be believed as all the verifiable facts contradict it.
No they don't, they are a business, paypal have no say how financial transactions are regulated, nor do they issue or control a currency system. You may as well start comparing bitcoin to a corner store. If you want to do a monetary comparison then you need to compare to an actual financial institution that is responsible for issuing a currency. The reason you are using paypal is that bitcoin compares VERY badly to any real insititution with government backing. You are now going completely against what bitcoin is supposed to be about by directly saying bitcoin is not a currency and that it is merely an unregulated business entity.
paypal is not a bank or exchange, nor do they issue a currency, they are just a business (even so they do operate under MANY regulations). So why are you using them as an example. Use The US Dollar and banks or any other currency and their associated financial institutions. You have basically singled out a business rather than part of the financial system to try to build your strawman.
So as I said, what does bitcoin Add? Not a bloody thing. To be successful it will need to be regulated, once it is regulated it loses its one differentiator. The currency is an interesting experiment, but it certainly has failed pretty badly in its attempts to become a currency.
So in other words, it has no protections from you being screwed over by banks, exchanges, other people etc and hence is a REALLY bad currency for the general population.
Do you really think there's no value in being able to move money around? To make payments to people who aren't in the same room as you?
If so, then I disagree; I believe that's useful. A lot of people use services to make payments online, so I don't think popular opinion is with you either.
and what does bitcoin add that isn't already possible with the existing system? I can do all of that without bitcoins, don't get me wrong I see plenty wrong with the existing monetary systems and the way they are manipulated, but bitcoin adds absolutely nothing while taking away plenty of the benefits and safeguards.
Late adopters, and indeed, society as a whole, benefit from the usefulness of a stable, fast, inexpensive, and widely accepted p2p currency.
It depends on this sentence being true and so far it does not seem stable nor widely accepted.
interestingly it actually fails all its own tests. It isn't stable, certainly isn't fast or inexpensive and it most definitely isn't widely accepted. and assuming the early people will benefit from rise in value sounds dangerously close to being a Ponzi, the only thing saving them from being one is they aren't making a guarantee on the rise.
The PC Market even it is current state sells 70 million+ units a quarter, The PS and Xbox lifetime combined sales won't even come close to even this years reduced PC sales numbers. If AMD are reliant on the cut price console industry to help them then they are in dire trouble, at best the consoles provide a some pocket money as they will be selling in bulk orders with very low margins.
nothing weird here at all, commodity vs reliability. Stable, tested proven chips generally stay one step behind. consumer commodity chips give them a chance to weed out any problems without placing risks on chip lines that simply MUST work.
nothing new here, Apple have always put profits before security
A PC from 4 years ago at that price would be a top end i7 with a 5870 or better in it hmmmm I don't think a ps4 is going to outperform that. It is going to be similar on graphics but way behind on processor. If you have to resort to comparing to 4 year old tech and still fall short I think that is pretty fair justification to say the ps4 was outdated from the day it was released.
refuges would NOT have prevented resistance, it may have slowed the development of the resistances but only by a few years at most.
Why is that insightful? allowing ignorance as a valid defence is a terrible idea, especially if it is in the field you are working in. If you are manufacturing items it is not unreasonable that you are familiar with the laws around those items. Ignorance may be something that is taken into account when handing out the sentencing/punishment/fines, but it most definitely shouldn't be a defence. If you are importing an a cheap knockoff why is it unreasonable to expect someone to check they aren't infringing on import or trademark laws in that area.
Okay, I can be pretty dense when it comes to reading between the lines, but even I notice a heavy dose of agenda in this summary. It's a good thing the anti-GMO folks have a crystal ball to see the future clearly.
I guess we need our daily dose of propaganda though.
I'm pro-GMO but I think this is one of the legitimate issues. If you engineer something to resist a pest the pest is going to evolve a response, we've learned that lesson countless times with anti-biotics but the pests evolve faster than human nature.
Perhaps I am missing something but I fail to see the issue? it was completely expected for the pests to overcome it, GE corn was never going to be a solution forever, it doesn't negate all the years of use they got out of not having to use a heap of chemicals to kill the pests. Now they have to go back to chemicals again though, at least until they find the next method to counter them.
that is the point though. their GPU/CPU combination doesn't have the raw horsepower for a single 1080p screen without making sacrifices somewhere. How are they supposed to run 2x1080p screens while also performing the processing required for the VR and for the game. something has to be sacrificed somewhere, either framerate, resolution or what you can actually do computationally within a game or they need more external processing capacity. I will be interesting to see what choices they have made.
It is very questionable though whether the ps4 has the horsepower to run such a device. The choices to use such low end CPU and mid range graphics card make me highly doubtful they could produce such a headset without it being incredibly expensive due to the requirements to add processing capabilities to the device. ps4 struggles with 1080p to a TV, some games like Killzone don't even run at 1080p due to it not being powerful enough to handle it and that is supposedly one of their premium flagship games.
Where did I ever suggest it will never happen? I was merely responding to the ridiculous claims that we are just around the corner of true AI that mimics the human brain. I am sure we will get there eventually, it just won't be this decade or the next and quite possibly not for a few more after that.
The weighted model is most definitely NOT how the human brain works, It is as close as we have come to modelling "some" cognitive patterns, but that is only a small part of the human thought process.. the human brain breaks apart connections and establishes new ones all the time and links memories and thoughts that have no simple mathematical equation that we have yet been able to fathom. The weighted model is atrociously bad at replicating this behaviour as hardware is simply not currently capable of the complex connection behaviour we see in the human brain and we are no where near having the hardware or software capabilities to fully replicate it.
many things were fantasy 50 years ago that we have today. that qualifies it as science fiction back then, not AI.
I think the point is, Siri is NOT able to understand your speech. It is able to do voice to text translation and then perform a search. That is not understanding speech, Siri has no more understanding of what you said than a toaster understands what people are putting in it. The problem is we have gotten so good at tech and have so much processing power and data mining capabilities nowadays that we can dress up technology that is little more than basic computer operations to appear intelligent. That is not to make light of the work done by google, Microsoft or Apple in processing search, it is pretty impressive what they have done, but it aint AI.
working expert systems have been around for many many decades. I used to program in an expert system dev tool called AionDS back in the 80's. Decision and Expert systems were commonly worked on in the AI community but I don't know anyone that considered them AI even back then.
No it isn't, we currently have no AI, nor are we close to having it. What we have is increasingly complex expert systems. We aren't even close to having systems that can adequately understand the nuances of spoken language let alone true AI.
such systems have been just around the corner for 40 years now. What has changed recently to solve the problems inherent in such systems that they haven't been overcome in the preceding 40 years? interested to know as I left the AI research space about a decade back and even then our estimates were we would be lucky if we achieved true AI this century.