It can help stabilize an exchange to a point and limit the amount of coins they need to hold, smoothing out fluctuations some.
The problem is futures don't work when the market is overwhelmingly one sided. If everyone and their brother thinks bitcoin is going up, monied investors can use hype cycles to game the market with significant leverage.
The only way I see this potentially working is if the exchanges have been building up large bitcoin reserves over the past few months to underwrite the futures. If their average purchase price is $6-7k, and BTC is at >$12k when the product launches, they have a huge first round margin to work with (and have taken pressure off the underlying BTC by no longer buying). When people want to short BTC asymmetrically at launch, they can buy sufficient additional BTC to shift the currency up, and vice versa. If they aren't buying until a few weeks before launch it will be a complete bloodbath though.
Generally when it is an aesthetic issue you have a "repositioning" remodel done-- it might strip the building to the structure or just re-clad things to make it pretty... and hopefully more functional. This type of renovation can even include adding a floor to the building, if you are stripping down to structure anyway.
Tear-down makes sense though when the building siting just doesn't work; it sounds like MS wants more large open-space areas. I think there is also the unsaid reality that they have downsized and have too much building for their current size.
My big gripe is that they fail to acknowledge bugs as such: their miserable implementation of SMB, and eliminating FTP and Telnet clients are my two biggest gripes. They are really burning bridges with this crap.
Do it from a dialog of a logged-in user-- something like the preference pane, lock the "no changes" padlock, unlock it, and use user as root hit unlock...
You first have to be logged in, presumably as an admin user, then try to do anything like change login settings where the user/password authentication pops up. Log in root / no password. It will let you complete the current task... and subsequently log in.
There are things it could be useful for-- added takeoff thrust, taxiing, regenerative drag rather than just using flaps, etc. The added takeoff thrust could reduce engine wear significantly, and by extension near-airport pollution.
Diminishing returns for sure, but a few well selected points could be worthwhile with today's battery technology.
I'll add one to that which is a major factor for us: upward career mobility. It doesn't do us much good to have someone who will only be able to do the same job they were hired on for in 10 or 15 years: their pay will generally increase, but they won't be doing much to "earn" it.
That said, a few hires over the years clearly disprove this as a major factor on both sides. It just becomes so much harder to filter out people for a blind ad, and it wastes a lot of time interviewing every applicant.
Any sufficiently motivated municipal electrical engineering company could have bolted all the pieces together.
Ultimately I think that is the point that they have proven: there system is simple, modular, pad mounted outdoors, and quick to deploy. Presumably economical and useful as well...
Funny thing about the hurricane-hit areas... the have reasonably proximate access to ocean transit. You can buy containerized homes from China-- just check out alibaba. There are people importing converted 20' containers to try to combat homeless encampments.
Generally the units are fully sealed and trim kits are just added to hide the fact that it is a shipping container.
I actually spent time complaining to Verizon (and then had my office manager spend more time) about it, and the fact that they don't do squat now makes me question if they actually want to do anything.
As long as it doesn't need to connect to the internet, security is easy with a firewall drop rule. Streaming content from multi-function devices makes things more complex, but you can still block everything that it doesn't demonstrably need to function. Home video cameras are also easy by forcing a VPN connection rather than allowing a cloud service; most are open protocol, and if they aren't, just return it since it is broken.
Most of this stuff should never (need to) be updated-- isolation is sufficient protection. BS feature creep and UI redesign are the primary updates made anyway.
Generally agree with your points; home automation components likely max out around a 12-year life, and one little component breaking can be quite a pain.
However, vendor lock-in is generally only an issue with the simplest of setups. With a ~$300 controller (plus $50 power line modem) I can manage insteon, zigbee, IR, and any network accessible resource for control at a minimum. Status can be a little more tricky, or require extra components.
A year ago, it took a reasonably tech savvy person to do it. A decade ago, it required a five-figure Crestron controller and integration tomdo the same things. Today, as long as you don't give a shit about privacy it is a breeze.
Lighting control, security, and whole house audio are areas where it clearly is valuable; whole house TV/watch anywhere is likely not as much of a "killer app." My wife and I love having all the disparate lights go on at set schedules and based on it sensing motion. It is nice to have Sonos start up when we turn on the kitchen lights, and unmute the bedroom speakers a few minutes after the lights go on. It is nice having the Christmas lights come on both in the early morning and evening, but shutting off late night so our neighbors don't lose the spirit.
What isn't nice today is programming that. I have a mix of Insteon, Hue, Sonos, and a few other random things pulled together by a Universal Devices ISY-994i and a Beaglebone. For the life of me, I can't figure out why one lighting state changes on the Hue strips at 6:23AM. It sucks needing to get another component (IR Blaster) to be able to fully control some of the fake candles and laser projector.
But, I sure as hell don't want Alexa/Google to be listening (or watching) all the time to try to figure out what I am wanting to do. I'll program and hard wire crap to avoid that.
Victim files written complaint with HR. HR Reviews the complaint, meets with all parties, requires the "aggressor" to take sensitivity training, and reiterates a policy of non-discrimination to all employees.
Repeat offenses lead to termination.
Check all boxes, and the company has done what it needs to do.
There is no "information" glut; there is a glut of slightly editorialized versions of "information." Oh, and fscking videos.
Information is actually more limited than I would have predicted 15 years ago; I expected us to see more people contributing original information to expand the knowledge base of humanity. Instead we got a carrot.
Granola bars (especially a box of them) have been flagged for over a year, presumably due to the glycerin. They seem to be trying to do more to prevent secondary screening of bags, but they need huge input and output conveyors to let people unpack and strip.
The system is stupid, ineffective, and inefficient; it is especially bad at certain airports (LAX is on my list), but an effective alternative strategy isn't obvious.
Sure, you could rig up a Raspberry Pi to network each iPod, then make one of them the "master" with a database and web interface, control it with the well documented serial protocol, run line out to an amplifier and external speakers...
But why the fuck would you?!
We have half a dozen or so iPods lying around the house... they used to get heavy use. And one is actually used in a useful way for home audio: it is hooked up to a Sonos dock, and along with 5 speakers of various models, we have whole-house audio (small home...). Oh, and we almost never use the iPod for music-- it is mainly TuneIn on various commercial-free stations. Does come in handy when the internet is down though.
Not sure if it is quite there yet for home entertainment, but check out Universal-Devices.com and their Polygot. You end up needing an ISY994 and a Raspberry Pi, along with a IR Blaster... but it can be a much more flexible solution.
I had a Sharp Wizard in 1991 or so, and since then rarely delete contacts, which to this day live in my address book. These were slurped up by LinedIn way back when, and every so often someone I emailed once 20 years ago comes in as a contact suggestion.
That is likely how your flight instructor came in; they do it with phone numbers too.
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It can help stabilize an exchange to a point and limit the amount of coins they need to hold, smoothing out fluctuations some.
The problem is futures don't work when the market is overwhelmingly one sided. If everyone and their brother thinks bitcoin is going up, monied investors can use hype cycles to game the market with significant leverage.
The only way I see this potentially working is if the exchanges have been building up large bitcoin reserves over the past few months to underwrite the futures. If their average purchase price is $6-7k, and BTC is at >$12k when the product launches, they have a huge first round margin to work with (and have taken pressure off the underlying BTC by no longer buying). When people want to short BTC asymmetrically at launch, they can buy sufficient additional BTC to shift the currency up, and vice versa. If they aren't buying until a few weeks before launch it will be a complete bloodbath though.
Generally when it is an aesthetic issue you have a "repositioning" remodel done-- it might strip the building to the structure or just re-clad things to make it pretty... and hopefully more functional. This type of renovation can even include adding a floor to the building, if you are stripping down to structure anyway.
Tear-down makes sense though when the building siting just doesn't work; it sounds like MS wants more large open-space areas. I think there is also the unsaid reality that they have downsized and have too much building for their current size.
My big gripe is that they fail to acknowledge bugs as such: their miserable implementation of SMB, and eliminating FTP and Telnet clients are my two biggest gripes. They are really burning bridges with this crap.
Do it from a dialog of a logged-in user-- something like the preference pane, lock the "no changes" padlock, unlock it, and use user as root hit unlock...
...but make sure you write down that 32 character password since you won't be able to sudo without it!
Just curious what this will break...
You first have to be logged in, presumably as an admin user, then try to do anything like change login settings where the user/password authentication pops up. Log in root / no password. It will let you complete the current task... and subsequently log in.
Someone needs to be fired at Apple.
There are things it could be useful for-- added takeoff thrust, taxiing, regenerative drag rather than just using flaps, etc. The added takeoff thrust could reduce engine wear significantly, and by extension near-airport pollution.
Diminishing returns for sure, but a few well selected points could be worthwhile with today's battery technology.
I'll add one to that which is a major factor for us: upward career mobility. It doesn't do us much good to have someone who will only be able to do the same job they were hired on for in 10 or 15 years: their pay will generally increase, but they won't be doing much to "earn" it.
That said, a few hires over the years clearly disprove this as a major factor on both sides. It just becomes so much harder to filter out people for a blind ad, and it wastes a lot of time interviewing every applicant.
Ultimately I think that is the point that they have proven: there system is simple, modular, pad mounted outdoors, and quick to deploy. Presumably economical and useful as well...
Prefab has price parity to stick-build, primary benefits are time and quality.
But, the issue is that in a mobile home park the homes need to be theoretically mobile, which does add costs.
Funny thing about the hurricane-hit areas... the have reasonably proximate access to ocean transit. You can buy containerized homes from China-- just check out alibaba. There are people importing converted 20' containers to try to combat homeless encampments.
Generally the units are fully sealed and trim kits are just added to hide the fact that it is a shipping container.
Laziness and Usability.
Usability really comes back to laziness most of the time.
The other obvious issue is that the chaining of independent "design compromises" is often what leads to full blown compromises.
AKA, the carrier's are complicit in the problem.
I actually spent time complaining to Verizon (and then had my office manager spend more time) about it, and the fact that they don't do squat now makes me question if they actually want to do anything.
It makes a cell phone useless.
As long as it doesn't need to connect to the internet, security is easy with a firewall drop rule. Streaming content from multi-function devices makes things more complex, but you can still block everything that it doesn't demonstrably need to function. Home video cameras are also easy by forcing a VPN connection rather than allowing a cloud service; most are open protocol, and if they aren't, just return it since it is broken.
Most of this stuff should never (need to) be updated-- isolation is sufficient protection. BS feature creep and UI redesign are the primary updates made anyway.
Generally agree with your points; home automation components likely max out around a 12-year life, and one little component breaking can be quite a pain.
However, vendor lock-in is generally only an issue with the simplest of setups. With a ~$300 controller (plus $50 power line modem) I can manage insteon, zigbee, IR, and any network accessible resource for control at a minimum. Status can be a little more tricky, or require extra components.
A year ago, it took a reasonably tech savvy person to do it. A decade ago, it required a five-figure Crestron controller and integration tomdo the same things. Today, as long as you don't give a shit about privacy it is a breeze.
Lighting control, security, and whole house audio are areas where it clearly is valuable; whole house TV/watch anywhere is likely not as much of a "killer app." My wife and I love having all the disparate lights go on at set schedules and based on it sensing motion. It is nice to have Sonos start up when we turn on the kitchen lights, and unmute the bedroom speakers a few minutes after the lights go on. It is nice having the Christmas lights come on both in the early morning and evening, but shutting off late night so our neighbors don't lose the spirit.
What isn't nice today is programming that. I have a mix of Insteon, Hue, Sonos, and a few other random things pulled together by a Universal Devices ISY-994i and a Beaglebone. For the life of me, I can't figure out why one lighting state changes on the Hue strips at 6:23AM. It sucks needing to get another component (IR Blaster) to be able to fully control some of the fake candles and laser projector.
But, I sure as hell don't want Alexa/Google to be listening (or watching) all the time to try to figure out what I am wanting to do. I'll program and hard wire crap to avoid that.
Victim files written complaint with HR. HR Reviews the complaint, meets with all parties, requires the "aggressor" to take sensitivity training, and reiterates a policy of non-discrimination to all employees.
Repeat offenses lead to termination.
Check all boxes, and the company has done what it needs to do.
Reprocessing spent fuel results in more hazardous waste; it isn't a panacea.
There is no "information" glut; there is a glut of slightly editorialized versions of "information." Oh, and fscking videos.
Information is actually more limited than I would have predicted 15 years ago; I expected us to see more people contributing original information to expand the knowledge base of humanity. Instead we got a carrot.
Granola bars (especially a box of them) have been flagged for over a year, presumably due to the glycerin. They seem to be trying to do more to prevent secondary screening of bags, but they need huge input and output conveyors to let people unpack and strip.
The system is stupid, ineffective, and inefficient; it is especially bad at certain airports (LAX is on my list), but an effective alternative strategy isn't obvious.
Sure, you could rig up a Raspberry Pi to network each iPod, then make one of them the "master" with a database and web interface, control it with the well documented serial protocol, run line out to an amplifier and external speakers...
But why the fuck would you?!
We have half a dozen or so iPods lying around the house... they used to get heavy use. And one is actually used in a useful way for home audio: it is hooked up to a Sonos dock, and along with 5 speakers of various models, we have whole-house audio (small home...). Oh, and we almost never use the iPod for music-- it is mainly TuneIn on various commercial-free stations. Does come in handy when the internet is down though.
Not sure if it is quite there yet for home entertainment, but check out Universal-Devices.com and their Polygot. You end up needing an ISY994 and a Raspberry Pi, along with a IR Blaster... but it can be a much more flexible solution.
It is impossible at this point. The data exists and there is value in linking it... so someone will.
I had a Sharp Wizard in 1991 or so, and since then rarely delete contacts, which to this day live in my address book. These were slurped up by LinedIn way back when, and every so often someone I emailed once 20 years ago comes in as a contact suggestion.
That is likely how your flight instructor came in; they do it with phone numbers too.