And that is just one thing to make things worse when the crash comes. The few transactions available per second will not be enough and transactions fees will go through the roof. At the same time Bitcoin will bleed value like crazy, making the transaction fees in BC even higher. This could mean that smaller transactions have no chance at all anymore, because the fee will exceed the transaction value. Larger transactions need somebody that is actually willing to buy. Remember that asking for a certain price does not mean that anybody is willing to pay it.
My take is that at this time it requires only a very small trigger to bring the whole house of cards down.
From what I understand, most exchanges just match buyer to seller. No buyer, no cash out. One exchange that buys BC directly, very obviously put an emergency stop mechanism to it just recently (because even a smaller crash would wipe them out), which probably is just a facade for actually also starting to match buyers to sellers: https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
"Femi"nism is not about equality. It is right there in the name. That is one sexist movement, even if some in it are not and just have been blinded by the propaganda. I am all for equal opportunity. Equal outcome is hugely problematic, because ones gender does influence how one views the world and that does influence outcome. As long as women have the same chances to do a job (and for any engineering profession, including IT and applied CS that _is_ true today), I am quite satisfied with the state of affairs. If it then turns out a only a small number of men want to do it and an even smaller number of women, then that is their choice and it is part of individual freedoms.
SJWs do not understand this. They think the statistic must always be the result of malicious action and then they go looking for it and come up with the most ridiculous "explanations" about where that maliciousness is happening. Of course, an SJW that actually sees reality immediately loses her/his purpose in life, so I can understand why they stick with it as long as possible.
Applied CS is still good, but only if you are at the top of it. Most coding work, for example, is done on "technician level", and that shows in pay and result quality and working conditions. I mean, most coders have less skill than an electrician's apprentice after a year or so and do not really understand what they are doing. However, there are positions for engineers in applied CS and these make for good careers. They are rare though and require significant dedication and talent.
My take is that women in general are just more mature and recognize this and, unless they have that talent and dedication, stay the hell away. Many will stay away even with that talent and dedication, just to be on the safe side. Hence the numbers.
The supply of morons is the only infinite resource the human race has. You even find people in this very discussion thread that are surprised by this and ones that think this can be suppressed by laws.
You seem to have fallen for the illusion. Implies a related kink on your side. How this actually works is by selecting actors from a large database that look similar but are unrelated and then augmenting the illusion with professional theater make-up and acting skills, and in the case of IDs, Photoshop.
Incidentally, the taboo on incest stems from it generating genetic problems if done too long (several generations needed today), no other reason. Of course this assumes adults and informed consent given freely on all parts. And, of course, the taboo is from a time were no effective contraception was available.
We do. Just that some people have not gotten the message yet. But "video evidence" was never very good in the first place. The whole idea that it is "just like being there" is bogus and in addition, eye-witnesses are very unreliable despite actually having been there. Most people see a mix between what actually is and what the expect to see, with a strong preference for the latter. This happens even with recorded video and people that are supposedly experts.
I would expect an arms-race here, i.e. detecting fakes will always be possible, but get very expensive after a while. That means it will only be done when it is really, really important. That also means the assumption will be "fake" by default, same as "presumed innocent". Otherwise it would be way too easy to incriminate innocent people. As usual, with any new tech, this state will need a while to be reached though.
Why would it? After a few stunts everybody will know that you cannot expect this to be real, regardless of quality level. May actually curb "revenge porn" because nobody has reason to believe it is real anymore. And there will be no way to stop this, although the usual vicious morons will sure try.
Stop lying and pretending you do not exactly know what this is about. At that point we can have a civil exchange. At the moment you are simply an _enemy_.
I read email with Mutt, no tracking. If it is HTML-only, it gets converted by Lynx, no includes, again no tracking. The whole problem would not exist without the insanity of misusing web-browsers to display emails.
And that means no stability and basically anything can trigger the inevitable crash, just as before. The hope was that the big players that actually have enough financial clout to ensure stability would do so. That seems to have failed, likely because the big players actually understand what is going on. Might be because they have some experience with bubbles.
I very much agree. Just as writing text, writing something long, complicated and hard to understand is easy, while writing clear, compact and to the point is hard and most people cannot do it. The same applies to code and all architecture and design in other technical fields.
Incidentally, I kicked out the CUPS printer system because it is a mess. Used pdq for a while, but it became unmaintained,. Now I just use nc and let the printer queue. (Only good for small networks, I know...) I never used sendmail, postfix does an amazing job of being relatively simple and clear despite its complexity. I dropped off emacs with the stupidity of the last versions and are back to simple wordstar compatibility with joe. (Too lazy to learn vi beyond emergency use...)
Nice lie you go there. And yes, I do run Debian with sysv init. It is possible but there are problem areas and some things break. It is not fully supported. Hence systemd is _not_ compatible.
That does work. For now. And it comes with some problems, but nothing large at this time. The problem is that this is not fully supported anymore, otherwise I would not care about systemd at all and simply ignore it.
There is a long history of Poettering and Sivers marking even clear security problems as "will not fix". Look for them yourself, they are not hard to find.
However your stance implies that you are just trying to sabotage the discussion. Your blue-eyed innocence is an obvious lie. Despicable.
And then you could look at why people use Linux and not Windows. And you would not be surprised at the masses willing to run trash and the smaller group that finds it unacceptable.
Seriously, have you thought even one minute about what you just posted?
That is not true, unfortunately. In some environments you need two effective lines of defense and sometimes SELinux is the only thing that can provide the second one.
Also, any proper engineer knows that mistakes do happen and that the proper way to deal with that is redundancy, in software usually called "dense in depth".
Most of the flames about systemd are just irrational and / or trolling.
The typical complaint of a small mind about things it does not understand. Seriously, this is the only thing left to respond to the likes of you, and I apologize for the arrogance.
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And that is just one thing to make things worse when the crash comes. The few transactions available per second will not be enough and transactions fees will go through the roof. At the same time Bitcoin will bleed value like crazy, making the transaction fees in BC even higher. This could mean that smaller transactions have no chance at all anymore, because the fee will exceed the transaction value. Larger transactions need somebody that is actually willing to buy. Remember that asking for a certain price does not mean that anybody is willing to pay it.
My take is that at this time it requires only a very small trigger to bring the whole house of cards down.
From what I understand, most exchanges just match buyer to seller. No buyer, no cash out. One exchange that buys BC directly, very obviously put an emergency stop mechanism to it just recently (because even a smaller crash would wipe them out), which probably is just a facade for actually also starting to match buyers to sellers: https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Indeed. Same here.
"Femi"nism is not about equality. It is right there in the name. That is one sexist movement, even if some in it are not and just have been blinded by the propaganda. I am all for equal opportunity. Equal outcome is hugely problematic, because ones gender does influence how one views the world and that does influence outcome. As long as women have the same chances to do a job (and for any engineering profession, including IT and applied CS that _is_ true today), I am quite satisfied with the state of affairs. If it then turns out a only a small number of men want to do it and an even smaller number of women, then that is their choice and it is part of individual freedoms.
SJWs do not understand this. They think the statistic must always be the result of malicious action and then they go looking for it and come up with the most ridiculous "explanations" about where that maliciousness is happening. Of course, an SJW that actually sees reality immediately loses her/his purpose in life, so I can understand why they stick with it as long as possible.
Applied CS is still good, but only if you are at the top of it. Most coding work, for example, is done on "technician level", and that shows in pay and result quality and working conditions. I mean, most coders have less skill than an electrician's apprentice after a year or so and do not really understand what they are doing. However, there are positions for engineers in applied CS and these make for good careers. They are rare though and require significant dedication and talent.
My take is that women in general are just more mature and recognize this and, unless they have that talent and dedication, stay the hell away. Many will stay away even with that talent and dedication, just to be on the safe side. Hence the numbers.
Aha, truth at last. Thanks for that.
That will not be happening for you, because you have just demonstrated you cannot recognize a "coherent compelling argument".
The supply of morons is the only infinite resource the human race has. You even find people in this very discussion thread that are surprised by this and ones that think this can be suppressed by laws.
You seem to have fallen for the illusion. Implies a related kink on your side. How this actually works is by selecting actors from a large database that look similar but are unrelated and then augmenting the illusion with professional theater make-up and acting skills, and in the case of IDs, Photoshop.
Incidentally, the taboo on incest stems from it generating genetic problems if done too long (several generations needed today), no other reason. Of course this assumes adults and informed consent given freely on all parts. And, of course, the taboo is from a time were no effective contraception was available.
We do. Just that some people have not gotten the message yet. But "video evidence" was never very good in the first place. The whole idea that it is "just like being there" is bogus and in addition, eye-witnesses are very unreliable despite actually having been there. Most people see a mix between what actually is and what the expect to see, with a strong preference for the latter. This happens even with recorded video and people that are supposedly experts.
I would expect an arms-race here, i.e. detecting fakes will always be possible, but get very expensive after a while. That means it will only be done when it is really, really important. That also means the assumption will be "fake" by default, same as "presumed innocent". Otherwise it would be way too easy to incriminate innocent people. As usual, with any new tech, this state will need a while to be reached though.
Why would it? After a few stunts everybody will know that you cannot expect this to be real, regardless of quality level. May actually curb "revenge porn" because nobody has reason to believe it is real anymore. And there will be no way to stop this, although the usual vicious morons will sure try.
Stop lying and pretending you do not exactly know what this is about. At that point we can have a civil exchange. At the moment you are simply an _enemy_.
I read email with Mutt, no tracking. If it is HTML-only, it gets converted by Lynx, no includes, again no tracking. The whole problem would not exist without the insanity of misusing web-browsers to display emails.
And that means no stability and basically anything can trigger the inevitable crash, just as before. The hope was that the big players that actually have enough financial clout to ensure stability would do so. That seems to have failed, likely because the big players actually understand what is going on. Might be because they have some experience with bubbles.
At this time, anybody that still has BC is just trying to quietly get rid of them before the big crash. Hence they need lots of fools to buy.
I very much agree. Just as writing text, writing something long, complicated and hard to understand is easy, while writing clear, compact and to the point is hard and most people cannot do it. The same applies to code and all architecture and design in other technical fields.
Incidentally, I kicked out the CUPS printer system because it is a mess. Used pdq for a while, but it became unmaintained,. Now I just use nc and let the printer queue. (Only good for small networks, I know...) I never used sendmail, postfix does an amazing job of being relatively simple and clear despite its complexity. I dropped off emacs with the stupidity of the last versions and are back to simple wordstar compatibility with joe. (Too lazy to learn vi beyond emergency use...)
Indeed. Qui bono. It could not be more obvious.
Ad Hominem, the "argumentation technique" of the cretin that does not have any valid argument. Thanks for demonstrating that, again.
Nice lie you go there. And yes, I do run Debian with sysv init. It is possible but there are problem areas and some things break. It is not fully supported. Hence systemd is _not_ compatible.
That does work. For now. And it comes with some problems, but nothing large at this time. The problem is that this is not fully supported anymore, otherwise I would not care about systemd at all and simply ignore it.
There is a long history of Poettering and Sivers marking even clear security problems as "will not fix". Look for them yourself, they are not hard to find.
However your stance implies that you are just trying to sabotage the discussion. Your blue-eyed innocence is an obvious lie. Despicable.
And then you could look at why people use Linux and not Windows. And you would not be surprised at the masses willing to run trash and the smaller group that finds it unacceptable.
Seriously, have you thought even one minute about what you just posted?
That is not true, unfortunately. In some environments you need two effective lines of defense and sometimes SELinux is the only thing that can provide the second one.
Also, any proper engineer knows that mistakes do happen and that the proper way to deal with that is redundancy, in software usually called "dense in depth".
Most of the flames about systemd are just irrational and / or trolling.
The typical complaint of a small mind about things it does not understand. Seriously, this is the only thing left to respond to the likes of you, and I apologize for the arrogance.