Given that gold and silver were at one point only valued because you had to pay your taxes in them, yeah, the particular backing has always been arbitrary.
The other problem is the fact they made bitcoin deflationary. Increase the workload for a decreased payout and the cost to cover that arms race of un-repurposable hardware has to come from somewhere.
Something I always found amusing... proponents often wax eloquently about gold, how gold is real money, real value, yet the way we got started with gold (and silver) as 'money' was governments demanding people pay their taxes in it rather than grain.
Yeah, I think the original proponents really overestimated people's willingness to pay transaction fees, esp for small transfers. That was the poison pill in the design.
Yeah. The only reason I can think of for why they did not do something iOS specific like that is some degree of technical debt or limitation that makes such a solution a lot more expensive to implement than it should be.
oh yeah, the guy who keeps talking about a simple linear growth model of QC starting from a few months ago proves beyond a doubt that we will have giant systems in a few years.
For the moment, anyone who tries to tell you what will happen for certain is wrong. There is a lot of hype, and there is a lot of criticism, and for the moment the engineering simply is not done yet to see how feasible it actually is.
Eh, I think there is just more public interest lately combined with friendly search tools for bloggers and journalists to mine with. Physics journals are filled with oddball 'here is something to consider' ideas that people want to bounce around and see what others think.
One downside of doing something like that is it shows weakness, and the types of groups that want sex hidden away tend to be REALLY into these kind of dominance games where any compromise means they are winning and they double down to make life worse.
I sometimes wonder if they just have a bunch of word docs open at all times that they cut and paste from, or if they have simply written a bot that latches on to key words in one post and generates a response.
Inversely, this can be read as crackpots trying to claim anyone who was even a little 'outsider' as one of their own, regardless of their claims or methods, even though 'crackpot' is a behavior and an attitude, not a position relative to 'the establishment'.
Looking at the site and its other stories, yeah, it is pretty right wing. They spend a lot of time complaining about how modern students are too fragile and safe spaces and how oppressed men are and how we need to bring god back into schools and get rid of all those evil therapists etc.
So yeah, the author and site seem to have a serious ideological axe to grind with 'liberal education' in general.
Yeah, but the author's idea of 'stolen' is pretty much anything they do not like. The author (and site) single out health services as esp evil and 'destroying the youth'.
I am always a bit skeptical of these 'here is a piece about scientists who found something interesting and are unsure what is going on, but oh wait they failed to mention the genius of this other guy who was drummed out of the field because other scientists were scared of his truthness!' pieces and wonder about their author's motivations.
Let us not forget the fate of the humble horse. Sure their work was automated away, but that did not free up most horses for loftier endeavors. Most of them were put down.
In a world where you don't need poor people for their labor, and the wealthy own the means of production, why bother continuing to have poor people at all? They don't own the robots, they will not make ends meat, they will just starve.
While there is no particular reason these people should be thinking of others, their priorities can have an aggregate effect and thus can be examined for regulation. The entire point of regulation is handling behavior that the involved parties would not otherwise do on their own.
Meh, Iran with nuclear weapons would probably be one of the most stabilizing events that could happen in the region, even if it did hurt the US's feelings that the country which embarrassed them still refuses to do as it is told.
The effect of the app is kinda like a secondary infection, it can only happen when the system is already weak, but that does not mean its own impact is insignificant.
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Given that gold and silver were at one point only valued because you had to pay your taxes in them, yeah, the particular backing has always been arbitrary.
The other problem is the fact they made bitcoin deflationary. Increase the workload for a decreased payout and the cost to cover that arms race of un-repurposable hardware has to come from somewhere.
Something I always found amusing... proponents often wax eloquently about gold, how gold is real money, real value, yet the way we got started with gold (and silver) as 'money' was governments demanding people pay their taxes in it rather than grain.
Yeah, I think the original proponents really overestimated people's willingness to pay transaction fees, esp for small transfers. That was the poison pill in the design.
Yeah. The only reason I can think of for why they did not do something iOS specific like that is some degree of technical debt or limitation that makes such a solution a lot more expensive to implement than it should be.
oh yeah, the guy who keeps talking about a simple linear growth model of QC starting from a few months ago proves beyond a doubt that we will have giant systems in a few years.
For the moment, anyone who tries to tell you what will happen for certain is wrong. There is a lot of hype, and there is a lot of criticism, and for the moment the engineering simply is not done yet to see how feasible it actually is.
Hydrogen fuel cells themselves I agree do not deserve ridicule, but the hype that they were going to take over and replace everything can be mocked.
And fusion! Or thorium? Or any number of free energy devices that the inventors just need a LITTLE more capital to finally get above 1:1.
I guess the big question will be how many people use the iOS app for non-porn browsing of Tumblr, since that is the group they did not want to lose.
I wonder how these numbers compare to the percentage of people who only use Tumblr vs IOS app?
Eh, I think there is just more public interest lately combined with friendly search tools for bloggers and journalists to mine with. Physics journals are filled with oddball 'here is something to consider' ideas that people want to bounce around and see what others think.
We seem to be in a no-win situation when it comes to these tech giants.
One downside of doing something like that is it shows weakness, and the types of groups that want sex hidden away tend to be REALLY into these kind of dominance games where any compromise means they are winning and they double down to make life worse.
I sometimes wonder if they just have a bunch of word docs open at all times that they cut and paste from, or if they have simply written a bot that latches on to key words in one post and generates a response.
Inversely, this can be read as crackpots trying to claim anyone who was even a little 'outsider' as one of their own, regardless of their claims or methods, even though 'crackpot' is a behavior and an attitude, not a position relative to 'the establishment'.
Looking at the site and its other stories, yeah, it is pretty right wing. They spend a lot of time complaining about how modern students are too fragile and safe spaces and how oppressed men are and how we need to bring god back into schools and get rid of all those evil therapists etc.
So yeah, the author and site seem to have a serious ideological axe to grind with 'liberal education' in general.
It varies from school to school, but 'amenities' is the fast growing cost among the expensive schools.
Yeah, but the author's idea of 'stolen' is pretty much anything they do not like. The author (and site) single out health services as esp evil and 'destroying the youth'.
Ah, that makes sense.
I am always a bit skeptical of these 'here is a piece about scientists who found something interesting and are unsure what is going on, but oh wait they failed to mention the genius of this other guy who was drummed out of the field because other scientists were scared of his truthness!' pieces and wonder about their author's motivations.
Let us not forget the fate of the humble horse. Sure their work was automated away, but that did not free up most horses for loftier endeavors. Most of them were put down.
In a world where you don't need poor people for their labor, and the wealthy own the means of production, why bother continuing to have poor people at all? They don't own the robots, they will not make ends meat, they will just starve.
While there is no particular reason these people should be thinking of others, their priorities can have an aggregate effect and thus can be examined for regulation. The entire point of regulation is handling behavior that the involved parties would not otherwise do on their own.
Meh, Iran with nuclear weapons would probably be one of the most stabilizing events that could happen in the region, even if it did hurt the US's feelings that the country which embarrassed them still refuses to do as it is told.
The effect of the app is kinda like a secondary infection, it can only happen when the system is already weak, but that does not mean its own impact is insignificant.
Because it is something that affects consumers, not vendors, and consumers have comparatively little leverage for dealing with problems like this.