Please don't laugh, but that is one hope for being able to cut down on transaction fees, lower the barriers to starting escrow services, and get rid of unnecessary middlemen.
Based on the summary, it seems like you could at least partly corroborate the video by checking whether the "American university" mentioned really did have that IP address compromised, and who would have known about this when.
Actually, writings that attempt to recast old religious text as just happy-go-luck "metaphorical guides to a good life" (such as Armstrong's) are the new development.
I just flew in to Detroit on business, so I didn't feel it, but you can see it pretty clearly impacted the area near downtown. It shook a few houses to the ground, it left immense cracks in the streets, and I can already see looting going on.
God, some areas look like a third-world country now! I hope the other places handled it better.
Sure, the GPLv3 would allow sale of Android phones, but providers (assholes though they may be) would not be willing to put Android on their phones (at least on *as many* phones) if it didn't allow them a certain level of control of the device.
The GP's point is like saying that if Microsoft had to GPLv3 their software, they'd stop selling it, at least in its current form.
In the case of Bitcoin, I don't see how you could make the same statement, since they aren't a publicly traded company,
Interesting. So you can't talk about volatility, trends, or 2-year growth in the price of a financial asset unless that financial asset is a publicly traded company?
You're not very good at abstract thought, are you?
Bad example. A better comparison would be to Apple's "ripping off" of the "idea of an mp3 player". Um, yeah, if "copying" something so vague is "ripping off someone's ideas", then I guess you could have a case for Samsung leeching off Apple's *innovative* idea to round the corners on their tablet device.
Ho...ly...shit. You just unwittingly summed up everything that is wrong with economic thinking these days: that it's detached from the premise that:
production = good free stuff = good greater efficiency = good
Yes, if people had to pay more to get software, more money would *sure* be circulating. And you could say the same thing about sunlight: if that evil economic terrorist known as the sun didn't bathe us in solar energy, we'd have to spend more money generating heat and light. WHOO HOO! Money velocity went up!!! That must be good, right! Because money velocity MUST be the secret to economic goodness!
Or better yet: ban home cooking. Make it so people have to pay for prepared food rather than preparing it themselves. HOORAY!!! MONEY VELOCITY WENT UP!!!
Spending is not inherently good. Rather, good spending is good. Spending that exists because of policies intended to prop up ancient economic measures is not good.
Get your fucking head out of the sand, and for once in your life try doing a reality check on your models' output.
Social security is a pension plan where people pay into it their whole lives and get money back when they retire, how is that a pyramid scheme?
It's a pyramid scheme because they don't save the money for you and pay it back to you later; rather, they spend it now on earlier "participants", and require getting more dupes/marks/suckers to join, just to honor the promise they made to you!
For it not to be a pyramid scheme, they would have to take the money you give them, set up an investment fund, make the money grow, and then pay from that fund when you're older.
To give a simplified picture, it would be like this: in your earning years, you give them money which they use to buy cows, sell the milk, and then use the proceeds to buy more cows. Then when you're old you have a herd of producing cows to serve you.
What actually happens, and why it's a pyramid scheme, is this: they take your money and promise they'll get more suckers to join the scheme so they can pay you back. Then they hire a guard to watch a few charismatic dudes' farms (i.e., not yours).
This goes on for a while, and when it's time to retire, you ask for your money, and they stare at you blankly, tremble a bit, and say, "Hey! Johnny-boy over there! Come here! Give this customer some of your milk. Why? Um, will get someone else to give you milk later..."
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Please don't laugh, but that is one hope for being able to cut down on transaction fees, lower the barriers to starting escrow services, and get rid of unnecessary middlemen.
Right, or as the computer science folks would say, there is no polynomial or faster algorithm for sorting accurate Biblical advice from harmful.
"Thursday, Thursday, gotta get down on Thursday..."
Based on the summary, it seems like you could at least partly corroborate the video by checking whether the "American university" mentioned really did have that IP address compromised, and who would have known about this when.
Actually, writings that attempt to recast old religious text as just happy-go-luck "metaphorical guides to a good life" (such as Armstrong's) are the new development.
I just flew in to Detroit on business, so I didn't feel it, but you can see it pretty clearly impacted the area near downtown. It shook a few houses to the ground, it left immense cracks in the streets, and I can already see looting going on.
God, some areas look like a third-world country now! I hope the other places handled it better.
Sure, the GPLv3 would allow sale of Android phones, but providers (assholes though they may be) would not be willing to put Android on their phones (at least on *as many* phones) if it didn't allow them a certain level of control of the device.
The GP's point is like saying that if Microsoft had to GPLv3 their software, they'd stop selling it, at least in its current form.
In the case of Bitcoin, I don't see how you could make the same statement, since they aren't a publicly traded company,
Interesting. So you can't talk about volatility, trends, or 2-year growth in the price of a financial asset unless that financial asset is a publicly traded company?
You're not very good at abstract thought, are you?
Couldn't you say the same about Bitcoin's price? (Not that that would invalidate your point.)
Correct. I "know someone" who is using it as a sleep aid (under doctor's orders). It knocks "him" out in about 90 minutes.
Bad example. A better comparison would be to Apple's "ripping off" of the "idea of an mp3 player". Um, yeah, if "copying" something so vague is "ripping off someone's ideas", then I guess you could have a case for Samsung leeching off Apple's *innovative* idea to round the corners on their tablet device.
If you think "rounded corners on a tablet" is "ripping off Apple's ideas", I know this company called Xerox I'd like to introduce you to.
The 1500 page manifest of terrorist
Wow, that must be a lot of terrorists if it takes a 1500 page manifest to list them all!
It's not looting, it's "finding food".
Fine, then give him 16 years for stealing login information and impersonating users to get around Facebook's anti-spam architecture. Works for me.
Not just that, I assumed that it was always known that semens' code will spawn a child process.
And Bitcoin miners who loot all those transaction fees!!!
Ho...ly...shit. You just unwittingly summed up everything that is wrong with economic thinking these days: that it's detached from the premise that:
production = good
free stuff = good
greater efficiency = good
Yes, if people had to pay more to get software, more money would *sure* be circulating. And you could say the same thing about sunlight: if that evil economic terrorist known as the sun didn't bathe us in solar energy, we'd have to spend more money generating heat and light. WHOO HOO! Money velocity went up!!! That must be good, right! Because money velocity MUST be the secret to economic goodness!
Or better yet: ban home cooking. Make it so people have to pay for prepared food rather than preparing it themselves. HOORAY!!! MONEY VELOCITY WENT UP!!!
Spending is not inherently good. Rather, good spending is good. Spending that exists because of policies intended to prop up ancient economic measures is not good.
Get your fucking head out of the sand, and for once in your life try doing a reality check on your models' output.
Just switch to Google+, and allow students to put teachers into their "academic" or "teachers" circle, but not their "friends" or "hotties" circle.
Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfuckin' aliens on this motherfuckin' train!
Social security is a pension plan where people pay into it their whole lives and get money back when they retire, how is that a pyramid scheme?
It's a pyramid scheme because they don't save the money for you and pay it back to you later; rather, they spend it now on earlier "participants", and require getting more dupes/marks/suckers to join, just to honor the promise they made to you!
For it not to be a pyramid scheme, they would have to take the money you give them, set up an investment fund, make the money grow, and then pay from that fund when you're older.
To give a simplified picture, it would be like this: in your earning years, you give them money which they use to buy cows, sell the milk, and then use the proceeds to buy more cows. Then when you're old you have a herd of producing cows to serve you.
What actually happens, and why it's a pyramid scheme, is this: they take your money and promise they'll get more suckers to join the scheme so they can pay you back. Then they hire a guard to watch a few charismatic dudes' farms (i.e., not yours).
This goes on for a while, and when it's time to retire, you ask for your money, and they stare at you blankly, tremble a bit, and say, "Hey! Johnny-boy over there! Come here! Give this customer some of your milk. Why? Um, will get someone else to give you milk later..."
I respect that principled stand of yours, but that frankly doesn't match the reasoning behind 99+% of people who support SS.
"Say dear chap, I'm not sure that the public debt of the States is entirely valid, given as OW! Stop that! Wait, wiat, where are you taking me?"
Can someone explain my joke? I know reeds are somehow associated with Egypt, but...
Greek is easier to reed than hieroglyphics.