Exactly. The narrative about prostitution not being essentially a regular job is utter bullshit. And those that maintain this narrative are not above using the most outrageous lies to keep their deranged fantasy alive.
Actual numbers from places were prostitution is legal says basically all prostitutes are doing it of their own choices with exceptions so rare that they do not really matter. Of course, were it is illegal, the politicos and the police use any kind of lie to justify this illegality (which cannot really be justified) and there the myth that a large parts of prostitutes are forced into it comes from. It is not true, unless you count economic incentives, like, you know, people working jobs for the same reason.
And how do you know that? And why would that not also be subject to change? You can be sure that any smart person would not tell you about deviations between their memories and history. Dumb persons often do not even know history and for the few ones that do and notice a difference, there is the loony-bin.
I say "cursive" is sadistic torture and has no actual use today unless you are an art student. I dropped it in the first week of university, because it just did not work for note-taking at all and was damaging my hand at the speeds required and I have never looked back. Same for the today horribly broken idea of a fountain-pen. I just regret that I did not ritually destroy this torture implement, but fortunately we were allowed to use modern tools (ink-roller for me) several years before finishing school. However, being able to bring notes and text and also drawings to paper is something else. That is a cornerstone of civilization and will remain so for quite some time.
Cursive basically evolved from writing implements that made it hard to remove the pen from the paper often (classical ink-quill) and also in a time when paper was very expensive and you spend time on writing to make it work and to make it beautiful in a way adequate to the worth of the paper. That time is past and cursive has no place anymore as a tool. It has a place as an art-form, but that is it.
Well, I do that too. Sure, it is not a "pencil", but one black and one red high-quality ink-roller, but it works on the same principle. I find that making notes on paper not only works much better in a meeting, I do remember more of the meeting and have better prioritization, even if I never look at the notes again. And you can make drawings and diagrams much more easily and precisely.
So I fully agree with you. I do not think the paperless office is going to happen though. (Not sure about IPv6 on mass-scale.) What is going to happen is that we will have a high-literacy class of people, i.e. people that can use paper to take notes competently and a low-literacy class were they can only use electronic gadgets. In the more distant future, with reliable voice-recognition, we may also get a large class in the west that needs a voice interface as they are basically illiterate. The thing that is going to change is that the second and third class basically can do everything an ordinary citizen needs. But forget about them getting into some jobs, like science or engineering.
Pencils are going the way of the Dodo. Not saying that is good (I don't actually think it is, there are a lot of other instruments that are basically similar to hold like a pencil), but that seems to be what is happening.
Math does not apply to reality. It always only applies to an abstraction of reality and that loses accuracy, sometimes catastrophically as almost certainly happened in this case.
And that is untrue in most countries. You have to pay property-taxes for the value it represents and for that you have to report where you store it and how much it is and possibly have to prove that as well.
Indeed. The definition of "trusted" is "can break my security". A decentralized exchange will not do it, however. You need a cryptocurrency that has strong anonymity built in (Bitcoin, for example, has none) and you need to only use your own wallet and never give it away.
No. That is regular data-transfer from financial institutions to the IRS (or equivalent). All banks already do this and Coinbase and the like are increasingly regarded banks. What, you though your bank-statement was _private_? Dream on.
Banks already have to do this to fight "money laundering" and "financing terrorism" (in actual reality, this is purely about tax evasion...) and companies like Coinbase are in some sense banks. They have no chance to deny such a request and, unless the cryptocurrency in question has strong anonymity (like Monero) and you are always strongly anonymized when accessing it or use your own wallet exclusively, there is no way the feds will not identify you eventually.
I am beginning to think that all this hype could have been about (really stupid, but rich) people trying to evade taxes and that the speculation angle actually is kind of a side-show.
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I can think of a few more, but these two are an absolute must.
They obviously prefer to go deeply into Fascism instead. What an utterly deranged decision.
Exactly. The narrative about prostitution not being essentially a regular job is utter bullshit. And those that maintain this narrative are not above using the most outrageous lies to keep their deranged fantasy alive.
So a CEO that rakes in millions but hates his job is a case of poverty? This makes absolutely no sense.
Obviously I cannot tell you before you sign that NDA. Do you know nothing?
Actual numbers from places were prostitution is legal says basically all prostitutes are doing it of their own choices with exceptions so rare that they do not really matter. Of course, were it is illegal, the politicos and the police use any kind of lie to justify this illegality (which cannot really be justified) and there the myth that a large parts of prostitutes are forced into it comes from. It is not true, unless you count economic incentives, like, you know, people working jobs for the same reason.
I mean cursive. And being a bit more advanced on my way, correcting student exams (regarding readability) is worst when they are using cursive.
And how do you know that? And why would that not also be subject to change? You can be sure that any smart person would not tell you about deviations between their memories and history. Dumb persons often do not even know history and for the few ones that do and notice a difference, there is the loony-bin.
If you sign an NDA and prove need-to-know, I can tell you.
I say "cursive" is sadistic torture and has no actual use today unless you are an art student. I dropped it in the first week of university, because it just did not work for note-taking at all and was damaging my hand at the speeds required and I have never looked back. Same for the today horribly broken idea of a fountain-pen. I just regret that I did not ritually destroy this torture implement, but fortunately we were allowed to use modern tools (ink-roller for me) several years before finishing school. However, being able to bring notes and text and also drawings to paper is something else. That is a cornerstone of civilization and will remain so for quite some time.
Cursive basically evolved from writing implements that made it hard to remove the pen from the paper often (classical ink-quill) and also in a time when paper was very expensive and you spend time on writing to make it work and to make it beautiful in a way adequate to the worth of the paper. That time is past and cursive has no place anymore as a tool. It has a place as an art-form, but that is it.
Well, I do that too. Sure, it is not a "pencil", but one black and one red high-quality ink-roller, but it works on the same principle. I find that making notes on paper not only works much better in a meeting, I do remember more of the meeting and have better prioritization, even if I never look at the notes again. And you can make drawings and diagrams much more easily and precisely.
So I fully agree with you. I do not think the paperless office is going to happen though. (Not sure about IPv6 on mass-scale.) What is going to happen is that we will have a high-literacy class of people, i.e. people that can use paper to take notes competently and a low-literacy class were they can only use electronic gadgets. In the more distant future, with reliable voice-recognition, we may also get a large class in the west that needs a voice interface as they are basically illiterate. The thing that is going to change is that the second and third class basically can do everything an ordinary citizen needs. But forget about them getting into some jobs, like science or engineering.
Indeed.
Well, at least if it can, then that would be dramatically unexpected ;-)
Pencils are going the way of the Dodo. Not saying that is good (I don't actually think it is, there are a lot of other instruments that are basically similar to hold like a pencil), but that seems to be what is happening.
Math does not apply to reality. It always only applies to an abstraction of reality and that loses accuracy, sometimes catastrophically as almost certainly happened in this case.
"Two years of updates" is far too low.
And that is untrue in most countries. You have to pay property-taxes for the value it represents and for that you have to report where you store it and how much it is and possibly have to prove that as well.
Indeed. The definition of "trusted" is "can break my security". A decentralized exchange will not do it, however. You need a cryptocurrency that has strong anonymity built in (Bitcoin, for example, has none) and you need to only use your own wallet and never give it away.
No. That is regular data-transfer from financial institutions to the IRS (or equivalent). All banks already do this and Coinbase and the like are increasingly regarded banks. What, you though your bank-statement was _private_? Dream on.
Banks already have to do this to fight "money laundering" and "financing terrorism" (in actual reality, this is purely about tax evasion...) and companies like Coinbase are in some sense banks. They have no chance to deny such a request and, unless the cryptocurrency in question has strong anonymity (like Monero) and you are always strongly anonymized when accessing it or use your own wallet exclusively, there is no way the feds will not identify you eventually.
I am beginning to think that all this hype could have been about (really stupid, but rich) people trying to evade taxes and that the speculation angle actually is kind of a side-show.
And corrupts it. Indeed.
500 pages is only just short of half as long as the Bible. Obviously, this needs to grow before this cult becomes a proper religion.
Indeed. And when I took a course on "authentication systems" about 3 decades ago, this potential problem was already well-known.
Found the "moron of the day". Think of me when you realize (very late, doubtlessly) what you voted for.
Some say this has already happened.