I like libertarian ideas as much as the next guy, but this seems to be one of those cases where gov't mandating open access may be needed.
A comparable situation I believe was when then the gov't mandated that phone carriers allow customers to take their phone numbers with them when they switched to a different company. This was because consumers found it extremely difficult to switch while the greedy phone company was holding their phone number hostage. And I think it worked out well, it's one of those instances where a consumer protection law worked in the public interest.
Facebook is evil and greedy and a detriment to the public good, I think most people will agree. It would be a good idea to develop open standards and protocols for social networks so that anyone on one social networking platform can exchange posts and info with people on any other social network. And pass a consumer protection law requiring that all social networks follow this rule. It would not be any more draconian or authoritarian than requiring all automobile manufacturers to comply with current (and arbitrary) crash safety and smog guidelines.
Yeah it amuses me to no end when some wannabe hipster injects a currently popular slang word into a scientific discussion.
It's as if you were reading a Scientific American article from 1968 and the author writes about how groovy and far-out the potential for asteroid mining is. And the Apollo rockets aint no jive!
No, but the willingness to falsify data for whatever reason probably means a willingness to cut corners in order to look good on a quarterly review, i.e. a certain level of dishonesty.
Nissan is generally regarded as inferior to the other more famous Japanese brands (Toyota and Honda) when it comes to reliability. And of course Volkswagen is hardly the poster boy for quality or reliability... at least not in modern times.
That's not really true. It's like saying that because music can be copied it has no intrinsic value.
Depends what you mean by music.
I have a mp3 file of Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5. What is the value of my mp3 file? How much will I get if I were to sell it? What is its liquidity?
Answer is zero. On the other hand if you're talking about the artistic value of the piece or its contribution to human culture, then the answer is priceless.
Crimes don't matter, fraud doesn't matter, lies don't matter. We're living in the post-truth age.
Especially since Holmes was a big Clinton supporter, even going so far as to host a Hillary 2016 fundraiser at her company Theranos headquarters in Silicon Valley.
I don't know that Holmes was particularly liberal or progressive, she probably just figured if she became a well-connected Democrat insider like her buddy Hillary Clinton, she would be safe from prosecution for whatever crimes she committed. And she's probably right.
For the most part yes, Europe is trying to make itself a cashless utopia. Except Germany (which happens to be the biggest country in Europe in terms of population and GDP). Germans love cash and gold, and don't trust online payments very much.
Just guessing here, but it wouldn't surprise me if Germany is the place which has the least amount of Bitcoin usage out of all the major economies of the world (with China of course being the most Bitcoin frenzy bubblelicious)
Your attempt at sarcasm fails because it's obvious that you have zero knowledge on this topic.
China has been the #2 source of illegal immigrants to the US for a long long time, at least two decades. You're probably not an American, or you don't read American newspapers, or simply too young to have known this.... but it used to be very common to see headlines like,
"Cargo container seized at port of Long Beach found with fifty Chinese migrants living inside while being unloaded from cargo ship. Hazmat teams called in by INS authorities due to potential biohazard from the foul odors emanating from the container"
I mean, if we're talking about cars and people dying from a design defect, and the car company making a cold calculation that settling lawsuits from dead customers' relatives would be cheaper than recalling and fixing the entire fleet of cars (see the movie "Fight Club" for example), then yes I can see myself feeling some level of outrage.
But like I said, it's just a damn phone. So Apple calculated that.03 % of iphone 6's will bend, cost of settling would be X, and cost of recalling the entire year's worth of iphone 6 will be Y, and Y turned out to be much greater than X, so they went with option X. Sounds pretty logical to me.
OP (to whom I was responding to) wasn't talking about invasion by US Army. He was talking about "mafia and pirates". For defense against Somali pirates or Tony Soprano's goons, yes a thousand people with some guns is sufficient.
Why would they have no way of defending themselves? Do you think the libertarian anti-government types that will likely inhabit this settlement are somehow afraid of guns and will enact gun control legislation?
It's not an apples to apples comparison, because bitcoin is not needed in this world or any other world, whereas normal currency is.
Suppose a new fad appears where people are burning big piles of coal stacked in the shape of a giant penis. Say it becomes really popular. Critics then point out that it's a waste of energy and emitter of greenhouse gases. Defenders of penis coal justify this by saying,
"But the CO2 emissions from cars is much bigger than CO2 emission from penis coal. So it's not a problem, cars pollute more than penis coal."
In 4 years the bloom will probably be off the AI rose already.
Imagine if some hip college started offering a degree in 3-D printing 5years ago and you invested the time and money to get one. Where would you be now? And don't forget, 3-D printing was just as big back then as AI is now, it was going to fundamentally change the world in ways no one could've even dream of.
This is driven by MBA managers who want to be able to access fancy dashboards from their head offices miles away from the plants.
We used to have a technology that solved this problem with little or no increase in security risk. How it worked was, you have a remote site with its own airgapped internal LAN. A dedicated PC would fetch data from the internal server and use a dial-up modem to connect to a machine at corporate HQ. It would then transmit data to corporate HQ via advanced protocols such as Kermit or XMODEM.
The modem at the remote site would be configured to ignore (not answer) incoming calls for security reasons. It would only dial out, and only to the phone number at the corporate HQ.
This way China hackers can't access the remote site (at least not easily), and corporate HQ still gets their hourly update on their fancy dashboards.
Wrong. You can win or lose. That's why it's called gambling.
If you absolutely know for certain you're gonna lose, nobody would gamble and casinos wouldn't exist. It's the thrill of winning money that keeps people hooked.
Over long term yes the house wins. Law of large numbers and all that. But over a short time period - say one hour or one day - you can easily win. I've done it, I won 5 grand playing blackjack one night when I was 22 years old. It was exhilarating.
As of 2016, only about half of Americans have more than one option for broadband internet. In rural areas, this number drops to just 13%.
As of 2020, SpaceX could be providing high speed satellite internet for competitive pricing. And I sure as hell trust Elon a lot more than Comcast or Facebook.
Please note that SpaceX satellites will be low earth orbit (very close to Earth), so latency will not be a problem. As opposed to current satellite internet, which suffer from high lag due to their satellites being geosynchronous (far far away from earth).
There's no indication that she was a muslim, other than her Iranian origin. That's like assuming a East Asian gangster is a Buddhist kung-fu master without any other supporting fact.
Her website and youtube videos do paint her as a hardcore vegan, liberal, and an animal rights activist. Nothing about Allah or Koran or anything religious. She was probably an atheist.
And yes, unsurprisingly there's little to no mention of her and this Youtube shooting on Democratic Underground. They'd be screaming to high heaven if the shooter was named Billy Joe Bob.
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So faking DSLR shots is like, nothing.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
I like libertarian ideas as much as the next guy, but this seems to be one of those cases where gov't mandating open access may be needed.
A comparable situation I believe was when then the gov't mandated that phone carriers allow customers to take their phone numbers with them when they switched to a different company. This was because consumers found it extremely difficult to switch while the greedy phone company was holding their phone number hostage. And I think it worked out well, it's one of those instances where a consumer protection law worked in the public interest.
Facebook is evil and greedy and a detriment to the public good, I think most people will agree. It would be a good idea to develop open standards and protocols for social networks so that anyone on one social networking platform can exchange posts and info with people on any other social network. And pass a consumer protection law requiring that all social networks follow this rule. It would not be any more draconian or authoritarian than requiring all automobile manufacturers to comply with current (and arbitrary) crash safety and smog guidelines.
IBM is still a believer in Micro Channel bus, even though public interest in this technology has dissipated.
Elon is gonna become the biggest defense contractor on earth
Yeah it amuses me to no end when some wannabe hipster injects a currently popular slang word into a scientific discussion.
It's as if you were reading a Scientific American article from 1968 and the author writes about how groovy and far-out the potential for asteroid mining is. And the Apollo rockets aint no jive!
No, but the willingness to falsify data for whatever reason probably means a willingness to cut corners in order to look good on a quarterly review, i.e. a certain level of dishonesty.
Nissan is generally regarded as inferior to the other more famous Japanese brands (Toyota and Honda) when it comes to reliability. And of course Volkswagen is hardly the poster boy for quality or reliability... at least not in modern times.
That's not really true. It's like saying that because music can be copied it has no intrinsic value.
Depends what you mean by music.
I have a mp3 file of Beethoven's Piano Concerto #5. What is the value of my mp3 file? How much will I get if I were to sell it? What is its liquidity?
Answer is zero. On the other hand if you're talking about the artistic value of the piece or its contribution to human culture, then the answer is priceless.
Crimes don't matter, fraud doesn't matter, lies don't matter. We're living in the post-truth age.
Especially since Holmes was a big Clinton supporter, even going so far as to host a Hillary 2016 fundraiser at her company Theranos headquarters in Silicon Valley.
http://fm.cnbc.com/application...
I don't know that Holmes was particularly liberal or progressive, she probably just figured if she became a well-connected Democrat insider like her buddy Hillary Clinton, she would be safe from prosecution for whatever crimes she committed. And she's probably right.
For the most part yes, Europe is trying to make itself a cashless utopia. Except Germany (which happens to be the biggest country in Europe in terms of population and GDP). Germans love cash and gold, and don't trust online payments very much.
Just guessing here, but it wouldn't surprise me if Germany is the place which has the least amount of Bitcoin usage out of all the major economies of the world (with China of course being the most Bitcoin frenzy bubblelicious)
Your attempt at sarcasm fails because it's obvious that you have zero knowledge on this topic.
China has been the #2 source of illegal immigrants to the US for a long long time, at least two decades. You're probably not an American, or you don't read American newspapers, or simply too young to have known this.... but it used to be very common to see headlines like,
"Cargo container seized at port of Long Beach found with fifty Chinese migrants living inside while being unloaded from cargo ship. Hazmat teams called in by INS authorities due to potential biohazard from the foul odors emanating from the container"
It's just a phone, I don't feel much outrage.
I mean, if we're talking about cars and people dying from a design defect, and the car company making a cold calculation that settling lawsuits from dead customers' relatives would be cheaper than recalling and fixing the entire fleet of cars (see the movie "Fight Club" for example), then yes I can see myself feeling some level of outrage.
But like I said, it's just a damn phone. So Apple calculated that .03 % of iphone 6's will bend, cost of settling would be X, and cost of recalling the entire year's worth of iphone 6 will be Y, and Y turned out to be much greater than X, so they went with option X. Sounds pretty logical to me.
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OP (to whom I was responding to) wasn't talking about invasion by US Army. He was talking about "mafia and pirates". For defense against Somali pirates or Tony Soprano's goons, yes a thousand people with some guns is sufficient.
Why would they have no way of defending themselves? Do you think the libertarian anti-government types that will likely inhabit this settlement are somehow afraid of guns and will enact gun control legislation?
It's not an apples to apples comparison, because bitcoin is not needed in this world or any other world, whereas normal currency is.
Suppose a new fad appears where people are burning big piles of coal stacked in the shape of a giant penis. Say it becomes really popular. Critics then point out that it's a waste of energy and emitter of greenhouse gases. Defenders of penis coal justify this by saying,
"But the CO2 emissions from cars is much bigger than CO2 emission from penis coal. So it's not a problem, cars pollute more than penis coal."
In 4 years the bloom will probably be off the AI rose already.
Imagine if some hip college started offering a degree in 3-D printing 5years ago and you invested the time and money to get one. Where would you be now? And don't forget, 3-D printing was just as big back then as AI is now, it was going to fundamentally change the world in ways no one could've even dream of.
and the idiot who went around claiming that T-Rex was a scavenger and could not hunt anything. He was a professor of something or another.
This is driven by MBA managers who want to be able to access fancy dashboards from their head offices miles away from the plants.
We used to have a technology that solved this problem with little or no increase in security risk. How it worked was, you have a remote site with its own airgapped internal LAN. A dedicated PC would fetch data from the internal server and use a dial-up modem to connect to a machine at corporate HQ. It would then transmit data to corporate HQ via advanced protocols such as Kermit or XMODEM.
The modem at the remote site would be configured to ignore (not answer) incoming calls for security reasons. It would only dial out, and only to the phone number at the corporate HQ.
This way China hackers can't access the remote site (at least not easily), and corporate HQ still gets their hourly update on their fancy dashboards.
you know you're going to lose
Wrong. You can win or lose. That's why it's called gambling.
If you absolutely know for certain you're gonna lose, nobody would gamble and casinos wouldn't exist. It's the thrill of winning money that keeps people hooked.
Over long term yes the house wins. Law of large numbers and all that. But over a short time period - say one hour or one day - you can easily win. I've done it, I won 5 grand playing blackjack one night when I was 22 years old. It was exhilarating.
make Apple great again?
Or will Cook help Trump think different?
Google Maps use her as landmark!
As of 2016, only about half of Americans have more than one option for broadband internet. In rural areas, this number drops to just 13%.
As of 2020, SpaceX could be providing high speed satellite internet for competitive pricing. And I sure as hell trust Elon a lot more than Comcast or Facebook.
Please note that SpaceX satellites will be low earth orbit (very close to Earth), so latency will not be a problem. As opposed to current satellite internet, which suffer from high lag due to their satellites being geosynchronous (far far away from earth).
There's no indication that she was a muslim, other than her Iranian origin. That's like assuming a East Asian gangster is a Buddhist kung-fu master without any other supporting fact.
Her website and youtube videos do paint her as a hardcore vegan, liberal, and an animal rights activist. Nothing about Allah or Koran or anything religious. She was probably an atheist.
And yes, unsurprisingly there's little to no mention of her and this Youtube shooting on Democratic Underground. They'd be screaming to high heaven if the shooter was named Billy Joe Bob.
for real
*crash sound*
Blyat
BLYAT!