Comment Re:Switching to Linux or MacOS never easier. (Score 1) 121
I've not paid for Windows for well over a decade. Microsoft allowed anyone with a Windows 7 or 8 licence to upgrade to Windows 10 and 11 for free until recently.
Ya, that's not great... but it *does* amount to a large amount of the value anyway, comparatively speaking. It'd be like a FOREX trader moving ~$2.25B USD.
Which is considered a drop in the ocean. The London Stock Exchange alone does over $1tn a day in derivatives trading.
At this point a 5% drop in a day makes it a stablecoin. Go look at the stock market, individual stocks bounce like that all the time. hold.
However currencies don't and BTC is supposed to be a currency, one we're told is supposed to have legitimacy.
The reason many of us prefer a manual gearbox for a petrol engine is because it provides more control. Petrol engines have to operate in a limited RPM range which is why they need a gearbox to cover the range of speeds of a vehicle plus you need the ability to switch to a low gear to act as a retarding mechanism when going down hill. Having an automatic means that the car is making the decision when to switch gears for you hence the lack of control.
Gearboxes have moved on from the hydraulic oil mechanical valve gear shifting of the 1970s. Modern computer controlled automatic gearboxes have more speeds than a manual box so can keep them in the right engine range for longer and can account for that and better than a human can. They'll change gear earlier in eco mode to ensure a higher load on the engine to give you better economy, they'll keep it in the power band range in performance mode to give you the fastest acceleration. My 44 tonne truck has an automatic gearbox, in fact I've not driving one with a manual gearbox for over a decade and manual boxes are an optional extra here in Europe. Going downhill on cruise control it will automatically engage the engine retarder once the speed gets 2MPH above the pre-set speed and drop the gears needed to maintain that speed, on steep hills heavily loaded enough so that the revs of the engine are just below the red line which gives maximum engine braking.
auto 100% cannot slect a gear faster then a skilled standerd river can. thers a reasion drage strip drivers use old school 3 speeds or manuals.
Not possible as this gearbox does gearc hanges with the period with no drive measured in single digit milliseconds, they can open and close in 2ms. It has already pre-selected a gear before you even go to change it. Performance auto boxes in more reasonable road cars can do a gear change in a couple of tenths of a second...whilst you're still moving your arm on a manual box the auto has already done the gearchange.. A human simply can't move fast enough to keep up.
I hear your sentiments, but Assange is in the UK, and they speak English and not German because the US did precisely not fuck off
Hitler had given up plans to invade the UK long before the USA arrived. By the time the USA turned up the Royal Navy had sunk most of the German surface fleet with the remainder stuck in Norwegian Fyords because as soon as they ventured into the North Sea they were sunk, and the RAF destroyed most of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain finally ending Hitler's plans of an invasion. The USA only started to send aid and get involved once the British had won the Battle of Britain and it was obvious an invasion wasn't going to happen. Prior to that the policy of the USA was that it was a war in Europe and not to get involved because Britain was a lost cause.
Under what legal theory can Assange, a non-U.S. citizen, be prosecuted for "crimes" that he didn't commit in the U.S.?
The legal principle is that you cannot direct harm from another state however something has to be an offence in both nations. He isn't being prosecuted in the UK, he's been held as a result of an extradition request. He was prosecuted and served time for jumping bail but continued to be held because of the extradition request and how much of a flight risk he posed.
But don't think for a second that Microsoft will allow you to stop buying their built-to-fail-soon controllers, with their flimsy no-hall-effect-here joysticks they are just too much of a profit center for Microsoft.
So just the same as those in the Playstation controllers and on the Nintendo Switch?
You could actually learn about the economics of mining instead.
You'd be happier on several axes.
Why, does it mean that mining BTC uses less power? Oh wait, no it doesn't. In fact the halving serves to make the power requirements to mint a coin even higher than the insane amount of energy it already needs.
Sorry, but Bitcoin is here to stay. It is well on the way to breaking six digits, and when the halving hits, it only will make the currency more valuable, likely $120,000 by May
After the previous halving BTC dropped in value for a few months and when it recovered it didn't 2x.
Their plan is to make this new money be adopted by the masses, so they start it off with a low price, then gradually increase it, by virtue of them just pulling numbers out of thin air for its value, until it catches the attention of the masses
It got even more shady than that. A lot of BTC was bought using USDT and despite the original claim that it was a stablecoin where every single USDT was backed by $1 USD it turned out that wasn't the case and those running USDT were just minting the shit out of USDT to go on a buying spree of BTC to whack the price up.
You're wrong and I wish people like you were smarter. The worth of mining a coin is directly tied to the reward..
The dumb one is you. The worth of mining a coin is directly tied to the value of BTC which is directly linked to how much hype the whales and influencers can generate around the currency.
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