I remember seeing the first Amiga in the mid-80s, and it was obvious that it was superior to the x86-PC. But I didn't buy one, and neither did most other people because it didn't run the software we needed... and software companies didn't port to it because the market was too small.
A more useful question might be why after 33 years are computer manufacturers and software publishers still not fully learning the lesson.
Please excuse what is probably a dumb question, but I don't know biology. When they say this protein could be "spread", is it like a bacteria or virus?
I read another article about Alzheimers that I didn't really understand that talked about researchers following the possibility that it is bacteria-based. Is this related to that? If I wasn't halfway into my third beer, watching the football game, I might try to figure it out, but I doubt I'd get very far unless one of you kind Slashdot souls helps me.
Hell, we had a really bad hepatitis outbreak in SD because of our homeless problems. This stuff is actually happening.
Yeah, about that "San Diego Hepatitis Outbreak". It's a nationwide outbreak occurring in rural areas of Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana at a higher rate than in any California city. Also, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.
The only reason Texas is considered a "red" state is because of gerrymandering. It's changing, and fast. Soon, Texas will go back to being a Democratic state.
He's saying bitcoin will be gone because process bitcoin transactions because mining will not be profitable. Bitcoin will never hit zero because if it did, nobody would be around to process the transaction that puts it there.
Ah, but as long as there is someone who thinks it's going to rebound, there will be someone who will pay more to mine it than the coin is worth. And someone who will pay more in processing fees than the coin is worth. It's called the "Greater Fool Theory".
You don't sell your product -- be it corn, or boats, or steaks, or crypto coins for less than they cost to make.
You do if the corn, boats or steaks or crypto are on their way to being worth zero.
Better to get something than lose everything. And it is absolutely possible for crypto to go to zero. We've seen it happen to assets that have actual items of value backing them up. Cryptocoins have nothing backing them up. No firebreak. They could fall through the floor.
You've never managed a spam filter have you? The first few spams (texts) get through.. But when the system detects that a huge number of texts are identical (or nearly identical) and are originating from a single location.. You block them.. Heck, the texts could be filled with nearly random text, but they'll have to have a common element.. Someone to call or a URL to visit.. Something that tells people where to go for "more information".
I have a question about this since you sound like you might know. Whichever technology the carrier will use to block spam, can it be made small enough so that it can be done on the client's device, maybe giving the user more granular control over what gets through and what doesn't?
I like having spam filtered out (doesn't everyone?) but I'm not fully comfortable letting the carrier make these decisions for me.
Too bad next time the lobbyists will tell them to do something else that isn't quite in your favor.
There are some legislators in Congress who do not take PAC, corporate or lobbyist money.
Go see which party they're all from. Look it up. I'll wait right here.
You have to be careful when claiming a moral equivalence when the article itself is evidence that there is no moral equivalence. Things change in two weeks. Maybe reserve judgement for a little while.
I see. So socialism is a superior economic system because some non-socialist countries are doing better than other non-socialist countries on things other than economics. Got it.
Distributism is the solution to a lot of our problems from net neutrality to healthcare.
Unlike Capitalism or Socialism, it offers a third way on such areas where the profit motive can damage the public good and where Socialism creates a sclerotic business environment.
It's funny the words people invent just to avoid having to admit that socialism would improve things for the most people.
I'm old enough to remember when we used to make fun of "European socialism", but now that those countries are kicking our asses, we're supposed to say that they're not "real socialism".
I'm extremely upset about this. I've been training my entire adult life for the eSports at the Paris Olympics. And I was really looking forward to appearing on the Wheaties box.
It's not confidence, it's risk aversion. Confidence means you expect the outcome will be success. Risk acknowledges the fact the outcome may end poorly, and proceeding anyway.
Maybe that's true for later generations, but I was an adolescent a long time ago, and in other aspects of my life, I'd taken crazy risks. So much so that I'm a little bit surprised to have survived to age 30 (and beyond).
Risk-aversion is really just the choices you make. If you jump out of an airplane with a parachute for fun, you are deciding whether the adrenaline rush is worth the risk. I'm trying to decide if overcoming risk aversion is the same thing as courage. It's a complicated question.
As a former A student, the biggest thing I got wrong was never asking Peggy Blair out. She was smoking hot and she looked like she would have been a lot of fun, but I didn't think I had a shot with her. All these years later she becomes my friend on Facebook and asks me why I never asked her out, and that she liked me back then.
I realize that there were so many times I didn't take a shot because I was a little shy and caught up in my own head and I could have been fucking like crazy if I'd only had the confidence of a guy like Kenny Jaworski, who was a jerkoff and had nothing going on but was always macking on the girls.
That, and I wish I'd spent less time studying and more time getting high.
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That's-a what you get when have one too many braciole, you finocchio. Next time, you oughta read-a the sanity clause.
A more useful question might be why after 33 years are computer manufacturers and software publishers still not fully learning the lesson.
Thank you, friend.
Please excuse what is probably a dumb question, but I don't know biology. When they say this protein could be "spread", is it like a bacteria or virus?
I read another article about Alzheimers that I didn't really understand that talked about researchers following the possibility that it is bacteria-based. Is this related to that? If I wasn't halfway into my third beer, watching the football game, I might try to figure it out, but I doubt I'd get very far unless one of you kind Slashdot souls helps me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There really is no honest measure of "freedoms" by which Texas could be said to be better off than California.
Yeah, about that "San Diego Hepatitis Outbreak". It's a nationwide outbreak occurring in rural areas of Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana at a higher rate than in any California city. Also, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/...
It's amusing how people in red states view California.
We try not to disabuse them of those notions because we don't want them coming here.
Houston is also a very liberal city.
The only reason Texas is considered a "red" state is because of gerrymandering. It's changing, and fast. Soon, Texas will go back to being a Democratic state.
We are now living in an Andy Kaufman sketch.
Ah, but as long as there is someone who thinks it's going to rebound, there will be someone who will pay more to mine it than the coin is worth. And someone who will pay more in processing fees than the coin is worth. It's called the "Greater Fool Theory".
True believers do weird things.
You do if the corn, boats or steaks or crypto are on their way to being worth zero.
Better to get something than lose everything. And it is absolutely possible for crypto to go to zero. We've seen it happen to assets that have actual items of value backing them up. Cryptocoins have nothing backing them up. No firebreak. They could fall through the floor.
I'm old enough to remember when cryptocurrencies were going to replace fiat currency.
Now, they're lottery tickets. Do the coinbros know that almost everyone loses money on lottery tickets?
My dinghy runs on BeOS.
I have a question about this since you sound like you might know. Whichever technology the carrier will use to block spam, can it be made small enough so that it can be done on the client's device, maybe giving the user more granular control over what gets through and what doesn't?
I like having spam filtered out (doesn't everyone?) but I'm not fully comfortable letting the carrier make these decisions for me.
There are some legislators in Congress who do not take PAC, corporate or lobbyist money.
Go see which party they're all from. Look it up. I'll wait right here.
You have to be careful when claiming a moral equivalence when the article itself is evidence that there is no moral equivalence. Things change in two weeks. Maybe reserve judgement for a little while.
Imagined moral equivalence is a far worse trap.
No True Socialism.
It's funny the words people invent just to avoid having to admit that socialism would improve things for the most people.
I'm old enough to remember when we used to make fun of "European socialism", but now that those countries are kicking our asses, we're supposed to say that they're not "real socialism".
I had no idea Walmart had a deli. I only go there for ammo, bump stocks and 5-gallon jars of pickles, and only when I'm stoned as fuck.
I'll have to sample their victuals next time I'm there. Earthlings are so interesting.
The greatest economy in history. You're welcome.
I'm extremely upset about this. I've been training my entire adult life for the eSports at the Paris Olympics. And I was really looking forward to appearing on the Wheaties box.
Here's a photo of me training:
https://goo.gl/images/77oZs4
Maybe that's true for later generations, but I was an adolescent a long time ago, and in other aspects of my life, I'd taken crazy risks. So much so that I'm a little bit surprised to have survived to age 30 (and beyond).
Risk-aversion is really just the choices you make. If you jump out of an airplane with a parachute for fun, you are deciding whether the adrenaline rush is worth the risk. I'm trying to decide if overcoming risk aversion is the same thing as courage. It's a complicated question.
I believe you may have wooshed yourself. I can see the stain from here.
It's a common Irish Catholic name.
As a former A student, the biggest thing I got wrong was never asking Peggy Blair out. She was smoking hot and she looked like she would have been a lot of fun, but I didn't think I had a shot with her. All these years later she becomes my friend on Facebook and asks me why I never asked her out, and that she liked me back then.
I realize that there were so many times I didn't take a shot because I was a little shy and caught up in my own head and I could have been fucking like crazy if I'd only had the confidence of a guy like Kenny Jaworski, who was a jerkoff and had nothing going on but was always macking on the girls.
That, and I wish I'd spent less time studying and more time getting high.