It is hard to say, but keep in mind a lot of regions are going through a 'poor abused white man, any mention or discussion of racism is just libs trying to take down white people!'. There were several attempts to get teachers fired this year because they made 'white male students' uncomfortable.
Well, the burger flippers are subsidizing the wealthy already, it is not that unreasonable for them to want things scaled a little more in their favor.
From the people I have talked to, it is not an issue of not being open, it is an issue of how people approach them. Lots of guys wanting arm candy or quick sex, but the number who talk to them like people and show actual relationship interest really drops off. In other words, people stop considering them.
F150s can be for work, but the majority of people I see buying them never put anything heavier then ikea furniture in the back and would not even know where the hitch is.
Oddly enough, many actually are caught in a dating quagmire. There are certain tiers in the modeling world, if you are above a certain level (too exotic for non-elites) but below the level where you are integrated with the elite culture, they kinda end up in a bit of a dateless limbo that only really ends if their career picks up or fails.
The question will be, will the public have the attention span to push those years. Though a bigger problem is, because of how or voting works, will issues like this even have an impact?
Ah, so kinda like 'I will copyright the word "the" and sue everyone!', except the person is actually trying it in court. Yeah... real law and over the top literal interpretations of the law do not match up all that well...
So the piece describes it as an edgy argument, but what is his actual claim? Does anywhere go over why he believes BTC is not subject to seizure? Or is he just doing another variant of 'theft by government!' rant?
That does raise an interesting question.... seized assets are usually auctioned off, so what will become of this particular one? Are they even in a spendable form or is the wallet encrypted? If it is encrypted, can they force him to turn over they keys?
Unless of course you want to work for a company that agrees with whatever you said. Even if they are not openly racist, after the initial drama dies down there are plenty of companies that have management who buy into the idea that such things are liberal-pc-whatever in nature and thus hiring such a person is a quiet 'screw you' to a culture they don't approve of.
I can't find the link right now, but there has been some interesting work with drugs to do something similar but much more targeted. Something to do with how memory is recalled and then re-remembered, so essentially anything you think about while the drug is taking effect, including recalling old memories, doesn't get stored.
Hopefully that will hit human trials before blunter tools like this get into use.
Sometimes I wonder if unpaid internships are just part of a sinister plot to keep the class divide as large as possible. In college I knew lots of really bright people who had to skip internships because they had to do things like work so they could pay for school and, well, eat.
I know that they are not intended that way, but it is one of the side issues with the 'internship' culture, they tend to be a step based off how much cash you have that can have major effects on your long term career options.
Yeah,.. when I was an undergrad working in a physics department, we had active recruiting from wall street firms and they tended to grab a lot of the best people. And now working in systems engineering we have trouble even getting grad students or staff for research, undergrads usually go strait into finance and staff are hard to keep since they can get twice or more salary doing modeling for investors.
The issue is not one of reason, it is one of time horizon. Over the last few decades both public and private planning has become increasingly short term. Plans for things that will have big payoffs 20 or 30 years down the road are dismissed, while plans with smaller short term payoffs are glorified. Something like a moon colony is a long term economic investment, it would take time to get a return back on it (assuming the tech ever gets to the point that we would), but right now the US just isn't thinking that way.
The will is there. Looking at the US between public and private institutions I see a lot of work being done here. However no one is at the point where we can set up a colony. The tech (and economics) just isn't there yet. Something that has been discovered over the decades is that doing anything in space is a lot harder and a lot more expensive then people hoped it would be.
I am thinking back to one lab I used to work in that had boxes and boxes of old tape spools sitting out in the hallway, it was always sad to wonder what might be on them since the machine used to create the data had already been disassembled to make space.
And then I think about the actual project I was working on, which produced something like 1GB/hour every hour every day. Only a fraction of the raw data really made it through cooking, but if there turned out to be a flaw in that initial processing our ability to go back and reprocess was limited by 'do we happen to have that run still?'.
An interesting question there will be though, how will wealth transfer from one to the other? With state backed currency if there is a major transition there is usually some kind of conversion program. I wonder if whatever this 1.1 will be, will there be any way to move assets from one to the other, or will it simply be 'BTC and associated hardware is now worthless, start over'
I think it is less that people deserve a price on their head, and more their own fault for not being able to outbid the entity that wants them dead. After all it is the individual's fault if they are not rich, well, unless the government or banks or immoral rich people have somehow stopped them, THEN it is all their fault.
One of the weaknesses of BTC though is it was essentially set up with big design up front, all the tuning was done in the initial design with the hope that the market would adjust around it in the future.
To be fair, their original intent was to help with communication, so they looked at patterns people had been using and tried to put them into a simple taxonomy so that programmers could talk to each other about how they structured things. It was less about 'there is a problem, this factory pattern will solve it' and more 'I used a factory pattern, now you have an idea of what to expect from this code'.
Try reading through "The Codeless Code" sometime. Religion from a Java server application development perspective. Spoiler, everyone else dies horrible deaths.
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It is hard to say, but keep in mind a lot of regions are going through a 'poor abused white man, any mention or discussion of racism is just libs trying to take down white people!'. There were several attempts to get teachers fired this year because they made 'white male students' uncomfortable.
Well, the burger flippers are subsidizing the wealthy already, it is not that unreasonable for them to want things scaled a little more in their favor.
From the people I have talked to, it is not an issue of not being open, it is an issue of how people approach them. Lots of guys wanting arm candy or quick sex, but the number who talk to them like people and show actual relationship interest really drops off. In other words, people stop considering them.
F150s can be for work, but the majority of people I see buying them never put anything heavier then ikea furniture in the back and would not even know where the hitch is.
Oddly enough, many actually are caught in a dating quagmire. There are certain tiers in the modeling world, if you are above a certain level (too exotic for non-elites) but below the level where you are integrated with the elite culture, they kinda end up in a bit of a dateless limbo that only really ends if their career picks up or fails.
The question will be, will the public have the attention span to push those years. Though a bigger problem is, because of how or voting works, will issues like this even have an impact?
Ah, so kinda like 'I will copyright the word "the" and sue everyone!', except the person is actually trying it in court. Yeah... real law and over the top literal interpretations of the law do not match up all that well...
That was why I was curious if there was more to his argument. Simply saying 'they are intangible' is not even a longshot.
So the piece describes it as an edgy argument, but what is his actual claim? Does anywhere go over why he believes BTC is not subject to seizure? Or is he just doing another variant of 'theft by government!' rant?
That does raise an interesting question.... seized assets are usually auctioned off, so what will become of this particular one? Are they even in a spendable form or is the wallet encrypted? If it is encrypted, can they force him to turn over they keys?
Unless of course you want to work for a company that agrees with whatever you said. Even if they are not openly racist, after the initial drama dies down there are plenty of companies that have management who buy into the idea that such things are liberal-pc-whatever in nature and thus hiring such a person is a quiet 'screw you' to a culture they don't approve of.
Sadly, doubling down on the crazy is generally the best political move. Apologizing or admitting you were wrong almost never works.
I can't find the link right now, but there has been some interesting work with drugs to do something similar but much more targeted. Something to do with how memory is recalled and then re-remembered, so essentially anything you think about while the drug is taking effect, including recalling old memories, doesn't get stored.
Hopefully that will hit human trials before blunter tools like this get into use.
Sometimes I wonder if unpaid internships are just part of a sinister plot to keep the class divide as large as possible. In college I knew lots of really bright people who had to skip internships because they had to do things like work so they could pay for school and, well, eat.
I know that they are not intended that way, but it is one of the side issues with the 'internship' culture, they tend to be a step based off how much cash you have that can have major effects on your long term career options.
Yeah,.. when I was an undergrad working in a physics department, we had active recruiting from wall street firms and they tended to grab a lot of the best people. And now working in systems engineering we have trouble even getting grad students or staff for research, undergrads usually go strait into finance and staff are hard to keep since they can get twice or more salary doing modeling for investors.
The issue is not one of reason, it is one of time horizon. Over the last few decades both public and private planning has become increasingly short term. Plans for things that will have big payoffs 20 or 30 years down the road are dismissed, while plans with smaller short term payoffs are glorified. Something like a moon colony is a long term economic investment, it would take time to get a return back on it (assuming the tech ever gets to the point that we would), but right now the US just isn't thinking that way.
The will is there. Looking at the US between public and private institutions I see a lot of work being done here. However no one is at the point where we can set up a colony. The tech (and economics) just isn't there yet. Something that has been discovered over the decades is that doing anything in space is a lot harder and a lot more expensive then people hoped it would be.
I am thinking back to one lab I used to work in that had boxes and boxes of old tape spools sitting out in the hallway, it was always sad to wonder what might be on them since the machine used to create the data had already been disassembled to make space.
And then I think about the actual project I was working on, which produced something like 1GB/hour every hour every day. Only a fraction of the raw data really made it through cooking, but if there turned out to be a flaw in that initial processing our ability to go back and reprocess was limited by 'do we happen to have that run still?'.
An interesting question there will be though, how will wealth transfer from one to the other? With state backed currency if there is a major transition there is usually some kind of conversion program. I wonder if whatever this 1.1 will be, will there be any way to move assets from one to the other, or will it simply be 'BTC and associated hardware is now worthless, start over'
I think it is less that people deserve a price on their head, and more their own fault for not being able to outbid the entity that wants them dead. After all it is the individual's fault if they are not rich, well, unless the government or banks or immoral rich people have somehow stopped them, THEN it is all their fault.
One of the weaknesses of BTC though is it was essentially set up with big design up front, all the tuning was done in the initial design with the hope that the market would adjust around it in the future.
To be fair, their original intent was to help with communication, so they looked at patterns people had been using and tried to put them into a simple taxonomy so that programmers could talk to each other about how they structured things. It was less about 'there is a problem, this factory pattern will solve it' and more 'I used a factory pattern, now you have an idea of what to expect from this code'.
Or for the people who failed to realize that the design patterns were originally about communication, not solutions.
Try reading through "The Codeless Code" sometime. Religion from a Java server application development perspective. Spoiler, everyone else dies horrible deaths.
This question deserves many mod points. Even if one was ok with the idea of this kind of pressured research, this piece doesn't really fit.