"It would be easier for the US to get him extradited from the UK than from Sweden." -- except he isn't in the UK. He's in Ecuador. And when Whitehall floated the idea that they could violate the integrity of the Ecuadorian embassy to arrested him, it blew up in their faces. Doing so would effectively open up their embassies to similar retaliation by every other country in the world.
>Though it sounds like the current bubble is being driven by
>Chinese evading their government's currency controls, which I
>gather could be stopped at any moment by the Chinese
>government. Presumably when that happens it will be the first big >crash of bitcoin.
This is a very intersting point of view. Living in a country with a non convertible money, and where it's somehow difficult to buy officially convertible currency (Dollar, Euro etc.) while not so difficult in the black market. I have always thought that Bitcoin is a very intersting and convenient way to transfer money abroad in an electronic and anonymous way and at a very low rates. So maybe Bitcoin will be tight in the future, to a certain degree, to mony transfer regulations in countries with non convertible or with special regulations money like China, India, Brasil etc. and most thirld word countries.
>A likely cause of this drug resistance is use of antibiotics to increase growth rate in livestock
>To follow your profit motive, most of the antibiotics in the US, 80%, are sold for agriculture.
Yes and this a real catastrophe, the US are still one of the rare countries allowing the use of antiobiotics in agriculture while other major countries have disallowed them.
Here is one http://www.gekgasifier.com/ an open source gasifier and electric generator of 20Kw
Open source everything and crowdsource manufacturing and distribution of goods
"Because the effect of that would be to push even more transactions into unregulated "dark pools". Why do you believe that HFT is harmful? Do you have any evidence, other than fear of something you don't understand?"
Yes - (1) HFT has the potential to cause extreme volatility swings. (2) HFT essentially introduces a tax on every other buyer and seller in the market (because it actually widens the difference between the post and the offer).
On point #2, I'll just leave this here: http://qz.com/95088/high-frequency-trading-is-bad-for-normal-investors-researchers-say/
Marriage is not a "human right".
Wrong. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 16, section 1:
"Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family."
whose idea was it to use metal detectors as gun detectors? Time & technology change... and detection methods must change with them.
If non-metallic guns were truly viable, they would have been used 20 years ago to sneak past metal detectors and kill judges and politicians and airplane pilots. Plastic manufacturing has been around for a long time, the only thing 3D printers do is reduce the cost. There are well-funded spy agencies and a few individuals who would have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single gun. And yet none has materialized: [1] [2] [3]
I can only speak to how my local hackerspace handles it, I don't know how others do.
At this one, most power tools are owned by individual members. If someone gets hurt and wants to sue someone, the only person they can sue is the individual owner. On one hand, this sucks because it puts all the burden on individuals' shoulders. On the other hand, it decreases the chance that someone tries to pay legal fees from prospective damage awards, because damages are likely to be very small, so it reduces the chance someone will lawyer up.
Our hackerspace hasn't had any incidents yet, so I don't know how well this plays out in practice.
"We'll have +100 exaFLOP systems in five years" - that's totally untrue. There's an active debate going on in the field whether or not we'll be at 1 exaflop by 2020. We absolutely will not get to 100 before then.
It would be fairly easy to have DHS come up with a list of things (physical locations, services, etc) to designate as critical to national infrastructure. In fact, I'd be shocked if they don't already have such a list already.
The organization that runs these these locations/services would have to build into all of their software contracts a liability clause.
Problem solved.
That's just not true. The internet and world wide web both existed in the early 90s, and neither was critical to national infrastructure at the time.
Correction: I meant to said medicaid (which is for poor people), not medicare (which is for the elderly).
It seems that more and more mathematicians are using a new, high level language named "research student".
