Unless of course one feels there is more value in knowledge, in which case it is industrial growth and hard currency that need to not loose touch with research, lest they fail to justify their existence and the resources they consume.
Sadly, so many people believe to their core that the world is black and white that it is kinda news. News they will discount and then ignore,....
Simple ethics are REALLY important to many people, they build their whole framework on the basic idea and interpret not only the actions of others but their own behavior through it. Adding in complexity opens up the possibility that they have in the past acted unethically, which makes them uncomfortable.
well, if it is important to your manhood to punch out someone threatening you with a weapon, go right ahead. But don't pretend it is for hypothetical other people.
*nods* and when one is first starting a company, designing tables like that is generally simpler, so a lot of places do so and then are stuck with them.
To be fair, humans were able to migrate to the Americas because of a shift in the climate, so it is plausible that both effects had the same cause rather then one causing the other.
'nobody' is a pretty big space. Anyone can propose anything, just look at any slashdot thread. The question really is, is someone with any significant chance of being taken seriously or who has actual political power proposing it?
Though it sounds like the elephant one is not all that crazy since the idea would be to take a particular species of elephant that is currently endangered and start a colony of it in the southwest where it would fill a niche by eating types of plants that are threatening other types of plants that people want. Others are saying the ecological estimates are flaws, so looks like there is legitimate debate over if it would be a project that would help rebalance things or throw them further out of whack.
With art this tends to be true because law enforcement has a very good network of international agreements and cooperation for tracking such things down and are willing to expend the energy to do so.
With something like this, not so much. It could easily go to some anonymous buyer who covers their identity well enough and then uses it for spam or marketing or whatever. It could even go to some private organization that use it among themselves.
On the other hand, if this was the case, it would be a truly epic example of social engineering (right up there with using the human flesh search community to carry out personal vendettas).. good enough that the person could probably write a book about it and probably get community forgiveness simply for being so ballsy.
Paypal has secured themselves a nice little niche where a lot of the laws other companies live by do not apply to them. In return they do a wonderful job of kicking companies out of the economy that the DoJ could not otherwise legally go after.
A while back I was reading a piece written by someone who was mugged and yeah, the person got lots of victim blaming including that he should not have been carrying valuable things in the first place.
Go back to any decade and one will find comments like this one, go back a century and one finds comments like this one. Things only seem better in the past because problems in the present are fresher in our memories.
Mass market is a fairly relative term, but while 80k is expensive it is still within the range of the upper middle class, so a potential market of millions of families as opposed to tens of thousands. In cars the non-mass market ones would be the custom 'we build your car from scratch when you order' sports cars and such.
Tesla is kinda at the vanguard of mass market general purpose electric vehicles and people are watching them closely to see how it goes. Are they going to be another failure, or a model of future development? Many are curious and wish to see how it pans out as various highs and lows occur.
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Yeah, esp since what the researchers actually did was still pretty expletive cool.
Unless of course one feels there is more value in knowledge, in which case it is industrial growth and hard currency that need to not loose touch with research, lest they fail to justify their existence and the resources they consume.
I was wondering if someone was going to point out that bit of irony ^_^
Sadly, so many people believe to their core that the world is black and white that it is kinda news. News they will discount and then ignore,....
Simple ethics are REALLY important to many people, they build their whole framework on the basic idea and interpret not only the actions of others but their own behavior through it. Adding in complexity opens up the possibility that they have in the past acted unethically, which makes them uncomfortable.
This is type of situation is actually covered in any good course on game theory.
well, if it is important to your manhood to punch out someone threatening you with a weapon, go right ahead. But don't pretend it is for hypothetical other people.
*nods* and when one is first starting a company, designing tables like that is generally simpler, so a lot of places do so and then are stuck with them.
To be fair, humans were able to migrate to the Americas because of a shift in the climate, so it is plausible that both effects had the same cause rather then one causing the other.
Well, most of human existence is fighting one thing or another. Artificiality is pretty much by definition anything we do.
'nobody' is a pretty big space. Anyone can propose anything, just look at any slashdot thread. The question really is, is someone with any significant chance of being taken seriously or who has actual political power proposing it?
Though it sounds like the elephant one is not all that crazy since the idea would be to take a particular species of elephant that is currently endangered and start a colony of it in the southwest where it would fill a niche by eating types of plants that are threatening other types of plants that people want. Others are saying the ecological estimates are flaws, so looks like there is legitimate debate over if it would be a project that would help rebalance things or throw them further out of whack.
With art this tends to be true because law enforcement has a very good network of international agreements and cooperation for tracking such things down and are willing to expend the energy to do so.
With something like this, not so much. It could easily go to some anonymous buyer who covers their identity well enough and then uses it for spam or marketing or whatever. It could even go to some private organization that use it among themselves.
*nods* the vast majority of real muggings, the person just wants the money. Give them that and they generally go away, quickly.
Kidnappings are a little more varied and vary by culture.
On the other hand, if this was the case, it would be a truly epic example of social engineering (right up there with using the human flesh search community to carry out personal vendettas).. good enough that the person could probably write a book about it and probably get community forgiveness simply for being so ballsy.
Even if bitcoin itself falls out of favor, the tech behind it could indeed provide a good template for solving a number of problems credit cards have.
You would be surprised at how often services design their database to only have the most recent information, with no way to store historical version.
Paypal has secured themselves a nice little niche where a lot of the laws other companies live by do not apply to them. In return they do a wonderful job of kicking companies out of the economy that the DoJ could not otherwise legally go after.
A while back I was reading a piece written by someone who was mugged and yeah, the person got lots of victim blaming including that he should not have been carrying valuable things in the first place.
It is not a flaw, it is a feature!
I guess tape just isn't sexy anymore.
For cold storage it is still pretty hard to beat, but I have noticed a lot of tech companies have blinders regarding 'stodgy' technology.
"These days?"
Go back to any decade and one will find comments like this one, go back a century and one finds comments like this one. Things only seem better in the past because problems in the present are fresher in our memories.
Mass market is a fairly relative term, but while 80k is expensive it is still within the range of the upper middle class, so a potential market of millions of families as opposed to tens of thousands. In cars the non-mass market ones would be the custom 'we build your car from scratch when you order' sports cars and such.
Tesla is kinda at the vanguard of mass market general purpose electric vehicles and people are watching them closely to see how it goes. Are they going to be another failure, or a model of future development? Many are curious and wish to see how it pans out as various highs and lows occur.
Easily solved by a pair of warm mittens.
*nods* perhaps a better description would be that they provided them with more unstructured play then rather then being put in terms of rules.
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