Further, UBER is just a first shot across the bow. The next one will be automated "city cars" built by Google, that will pickup and drop off people at work and take them shopping and whatnot. The end of the taxi is coming.
Any industry that can be replaced by technology, should be.
Hopefully we start evaluating laws that exist solely to prevent competition (Taxi cab franchise badges).
This premise would be an awesome augmented reality Game like Ingress.
"washing" is a term used to make illicit currency legitimate. In this case, washing BitCoin means sending an amount of BitCoin to a Middle Man, who then exchanges it for a random amount of Coins (minus a transaction charge) with uncertain history. In an overly simplistic scenario Person A gets BitCoins with serial numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for a transaction. He takes all those coins (plus a fee) to a "washer" who then returns BitCoins with serial Numbers (not real) of 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. He now has the same number of coins, but doesn't have coins that are linked to his previous transactions, thus making them less traceable.
The real trick is to have sufficiently large amount of BitCoins to draw from in the "washing machine", so that it is very hard to link users together from these kinds of exchanges.
It is not arrogance if you can do it. Ford was arrogant in the same way that he was successful, he had every right to be. Buggy Whip Makers were arrogant, the people looking for government protections for their failing industries are arrogant. They think they have a RIGHT to entrenched markets when new technology appears.
But rather than learning from history, we are doomed to repeat it.
My guess, Tesla will work with Google, as will companies like Elio. And taxi drivers will be pissed and demand protection
Bitcoin is traceable, but there are plenty of coin washing services out there. There are also transaction exchanges where coins are washed as they are exchanged for goods and services. Bitcoin can be "less traceable" if you also take simple steps to avoid wallet re-use.
If you combine any number of these techniques, your individual transactions while traceable, cannot be traced back to you, which is the goal. And they are working on extensions to the protocol to help make a few of these more "automatic" than before.
I use ChromeOS, iOS, Android, Linux, Windows for my desktop. The things I use are available on most, if not all, of those platforms. Very few of the tools I use are not available on anything other than Windows, but those have more to do with managing Windows platform than actual "work".
Information doesn't want anything. People want to be free.
Aaron made a series of bad choices, and we shouldn't be glamorizing them and turning him into a hero.
I was an Emacs dude for a long time and still use it. Then I tried RubyMine, and eventually upgraded to IDEA. The IDE features are sometimes handy. I also use vi very regularly for quick edits of small scripts.
I would no more stick to one editor than I would stick to one programming language. Right tool for the job is the key.
The Cake is a Lie!
Dear European that has never been to America, let me explain to you how fucking BIG our country is, compared to your entire Continent.
Your Puny countries are easy to build trains for. Ours is as big as most of Europe, and the entire Mediterranean sea (which have no trains, only boats). Extrapolating your small countries problems to a geography the size of the USA doesn't work. Yes, Geography matters.
Or let me put it this way, get on a train in Belgium and go to Israel. Go on, I dare ya. Oh wait, you can't!
So, in conclusion, your ideas about how to scale trains, is so fucking adorable.
I heard it slightly differently, "In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they are not"
Are you saying doing NOTHING is equal to doing SOMETHING?
People like you don't understand, that the fence is supposed to make it much harder (not impossible) to cross the border. As it is now, there is no restriction along most of the border, and it shows in the invasion that is currently happening under Obama's De Facto Amnesty program of "If you can get here, we won't kick you out".
And all the poor Americans wanting a "living wage" are the same people supporting the wage suppression caused by illegal immigrants.
Oh gee golly, illegal immigrants have nothing to do with wage suppression and minimum wages
On cheap watches, the cost of replacing the battery is equal to the value of the cheap watch. So much so, that it is getting really hard to find batteries for watches in stock (at least the last time I looked). I don't buy watches as they are simply for tools trying to impress people with "money".
"Look at my Rolex, such a fine time piece" , Uh no thanks, my less expensive cell phone keeps perfect time, changes time zones automatically for me and does more that your stupid Rolex, which is just a fancy clock bracelet.
Before I start, I am not a coder. Never really wanted to be one, but I do understand the principles.
If "int* ptr;" returns any value that is inconsistent it is a problem IMHO. This command should return the exact same value every time, even if it is (empty or zero or whatever).
But then again, there is probably a valid reason why it is inconsistent, and that is why I hate programming.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
