When cryptocoins are lost, the value of the remainder go up. The net loss is zero. If your coin stash was at QuadrigaCX, you lost. If it wasn't, you win.
But when you realize that the entire worth of your bitcoin portfolio can disappear because of someone's stupid behavior and nobody is accountable then everyone who trades in bitcoin loses.
That's the conclusion Canadian journalist John Ibbitson and political scientist Darrel Bricker come to in their newest book
A journalist and a political "scientist"? Are you serious? We're going to pay attention to the population predictions of a journalist and a political "scientist"?
What, they couldn't find a barista and a street mime? Or a tool & die maker and a mall security guard? Have any of you ever met a political scientist? You might as well get population predictions based on your last playthrough of Civ 4.
Two franchises I really dislike held no interest for me. The owner of the Rams is a disgusting shithead who thinks the world owes him money and I'm sick to death of Tom Brady and the entire Patriots Nation If it had been the Texans or the Bears or any one of a dozen other teams, I might have tuned in, but nah.
Instead, I watched 2 episodes of Punisher Season 2 and then THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE, which is a motherfucker of a movie. Highly recommended.
Two movies you gotta watch are MANDY (on the Shudder Network) and THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE.
If you're a Prime Member, you can watch MANDY for free, but you have to subscribe to the Shudder Network via Amazon Prime for a free trial and then you can cancel immediately after the movie if you want. But do try to see MANDY. It's Nicolas Cage's finest role and the most psychedelic horror movie I've seen in ages.
Wholesale prices went up (that's where Enron fits in) and the electric companies took a bath.
Not quite. It's a good deal more complicated than that. Wholesale prices went up because Enron (and others) were taking power plants offline in order to extort customers and drive up prices artificially.
I have not forgotten the lesson. Dont let the government price fix. Dont let politicians claim that its for the peoples own good while they get campaign donations from those ready to take advantage of it.
Wow, you not only have forgotten the lesson, it appears that you never knew the lesson to begin with.
The Enron disaster didn't occur because of "government price fix". It all blew up because Enron was manipulating markets after deregulation.
The disaster came from Enron's illegal goddamn behavior. People went to prison over it.
And while we're trying to deal with the jackoffs killing 39,000, why would we want to add the problem of 2,000 more to the bunch?
The simple answer is that people in the United States illegally commit all crimes at a lower rate than American citizens. So, illegal immigrants actually bring down the crime rate.
Don't you want to bring down the crime rate?
But don't take it from me, take it from the conservative/libertarian Cato Institute:
We geeks can't even agree to a clear definition here
Fortunately, it doesn't matter whether or not we agree on a definition, because a clear and straightforward definition already exists, helpfully posted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
NN was a set of proposed rules that WERE NEVER ENFORCED or even legally passed.
That's what this article is about. Passing a bill in congress to codify net neutrality. And your complaint is that "they didn't pass a bill". Pay attention.
And your premise that net neutrality would ":ban QoS" is false on its face.
If you give all 'users equal and open access to all websites and services.', you've just banned QoS and broken the net.
The internet started in a state of net neutrality. It operated like that for years and years. It was not broken.
"QoS" is just a code word American telecoms and ISPs use in order to break the internet and make it bend to their will. In other words - increase profits.
To any serious developers and tech people here: I'll bet you can each give examples of how "QoS" has been used as a buzzword in order to fuck things up. If American telecoms really cared about "QoS", then their services wouldn't suck so badly.
Are you literally defending abortion being ok at 9 months as the mother is giving birth?
I'm defending the notion that it's the mother's choice. I'm defending the notion that it's none of your goddamn business, or the goddamn business of the government. I'm defending reproduction as being a personal decision and not one that christian busybody jackoffs get to decide because they've invented some biblical justification.
When people kill themselves with a firearm, they may or may not have done it by other means.
Well, we know for sure that rates of suicide go way up when there is easy access to firearms (especially handguns). This is not controversial. More guns = more suicide.
There are NOT 39k people being killed by other people.
Who said there was? Reread the post. And yes, 39,000 Americans were killed by Americans with guns last year (and the year before and before - see CDC statistics above).
Can't you fucking read English? Words don't change magically on the page just to fit your agenda. Americans water the tree of liberty with the blood of 39,000 Americans every year.
Do you consider someone killing themselves with a gun to be "American jackoffs with guns kill over 39,000 Americans per year".
Yes, absolutely. The standard we were discussing was "gun deaths". If you use a gun to kill yourself and you are an American, you are an American jackoff killing an American.
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Well done.
Just a guess here, but I will bet that it's not actually worse than no security at all.
I just can't keep all these new gender pronouns straight.
But when you realize that the entire worth of your bitcoin portfolio can disappear because of someone's stupid behavior and nobody is accountable then everyone who trades in bitcoin loses.
A journalist and a political "scientist"? Are you serious? We're going to pay attention to the population predictions of a journalist and a political "scientist"?
What, they couldn't find a barista and a street mime? Or a tool & die maker and a mall security guard? Have any of you ever met a political scientist? You might as well get population predictions based on your last playthrough of Civ 4.
Two franchises I really dislike held no interest for me. The owner of the Rams is a disgusting shithead who thinks the world owes him money and I'm sick to death of Tom Brady and the entire Patriots Nation If it had been the Texans or the Bears or any one of a dozen other teams, I might have tuned in, but nah.
Instead, I watched 2 episodes of Punisher Season 2 and then THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE, which is a motherfucker of a movie. Highly recommended.
Two movies you gotta watch are MANDY (on the Shudder Network) and THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE.
If you're a Prime Member, you can watch MANDY for free, but you have to subscribe to the Shudder Network via Amazon Prime for a free trial and then you can cancel immediately after the movie if you want. But do try to see MANDY. It's Nicolas Cage's finest role and the most psychedelic horror movie I've seen in ages.
The difference is whether or not your parents can make a hefty donation to the school's endowment.
Not quite. It's a good deal more complicated than that. Wholesale prices went up because Enron (and others) were taking power plants offline in order to extort customers and drive up prices artificially.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's like saying, "If the government hadn't made murder illegal, then Charlie Manson would never have become a murderer."
Wow, you not only have forgotten the lesson, it appears that you never knew the lesson to begin with.
The Enron disaster didn't occur because of "government price fix". It all blew up because Enron was manipulating markets after deregulation.
The disaster came from Enron's illegal goddamn behavior. People went to prison over it.
https://www.theguardian.com/bu...
There are a lot of microclimates around Mendocino. Maybe the weather report just needs to be more granular?
There's a ten-mile stretch of Hwy 101 down here where you can go from dense fog and cool to blazing blue skies and warm and then back again twice.
Not only do they go way up, but they go way, way, WAY up.
There is a definitive correlation between gun ownership rates and suicide rates.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/n...
Which law was that? Under California law, broadband is currently defined as a minimum 10Mbps down and 1Mbps up.
Because we all agree that would be murder. Once the baby is born, it is an individual, indisputable human being.
Why do the anti-choice people always fantasize so much about murdering newborns? I mean, it's like a thing with you people.
The simple answer is that people in the United States illegally commit all crimes at a lower rate than American citizens. So, illegal immigrants actually bring down the crime rate.
Don't you want to bring down the crime rate?
But don't take it from me, take it from the conservative/libertarian Cato Institute:
https://www.cato.org/blog/whit...
Fortunately, it doesn't matter whether or not we agree on a definition, because a clear and straightforward definition already exists, helpfully posted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
https://www.eff.org/issues/net...
No, they were born. One minute they were inside, part of the mother's body and then they were outside, individual human beings.
That's what this article is about. Passing a bill in congress to codify net neutrality. And your complaint is that "they didn't pass a bill". Pay attention.
And your premise that net neutrality would ":ban QoS" is false on its face.
The internet started in a state of net neutrality. It operated like that for years and years. It was not broken.
"QoS" is just a code word American telecoms and ISPs use in order to break the internet and make it bend to their will. In other words - increase profits.
To any serious developers and tech people here: I'll bet you can each give examples of how "QoS" has been used as a buzzword in order to fuck things up. If American telecoms really cared about "QoS", then their services wouldn't suck so badly.
I'm defending the notion that it's the mother's choice. I'm defending the notion that it's none of your goddamn business, or the goddamn business of the government. I'm defending reproduction as being a personal decision and not one that christian busybody jackoffs get to decide because they've invented some biblical justification.
We call that magic "childbirth" and if you've ever been there for one, you know why it's magic.
Well, we know for sure that rates of suicide go way up when there is easy access to firearms (especially handguns). This is not controversial. More guns = more suicide.
Look again. It's not "injuries". 39,000 was the number of DEATHS by firearm. Mortality means death.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/press...
Who said there was? Reread the post. And yes, 39,000 Americans were killed by Americans with guns last year (and the year before and before - see CDC statistics above).
Can't you fucking read English? Words don't change magically on the page just to fit your agenda. Americans water the tree of liberty with the blood of 39,000 Americans every year.
Yes, absolutely. The standard we were discussing was "gun deaths". If you use a gun to kill yourself and you are an American, you are an American jackoff killing an American.
By definition.