Comment Re:A projection of what? (Score 1) 433
Show us those formulas, and specifically where they say the Earth is in the center.
It math works, that's enough.
Show us those formulas, and specifically where they say the Earth is in the center.
It math works, that's enough.
It's promising in the first 25 minutes but then he wedges in "remote viewing" as a fact, and then it all falls apart.
Nothing later explains the world better, no predictions from his model where he puts consciousness into single atoms and similar bullshit.
"...water causes fire..."
Those firemen bastards!
"Iran is now 22nd among the top 25 places of origin for international students."
Yes, yes, but how high is it among the top 100?
" It's true that an adult eardrum can't really hear over 20Khz, but that doesn't mean that the ear can't sense over 20Khz."
No, it means exactly that.
100 W processor will always be faster than 10 W processor. So, no, phones will never replace desktops.
"Why all the interest in bitcoin all of a relative sudden after decades of ignoring all the trade in other virtual currencies?"
You are on Slashdot, and you don't understand the resiliency of a P2P network?
Napster - gone.
E-mule - still here.
What, an article about a copier that changes numbers, yet no picture zoomed on the before/after numbers? WTF?
This was before the exchanges existed.
And who said that it was a pyramid scheme?
Thanks for explaining it. For some reason, bitcoiners miss this fact again and again.
During the first year, core duo would mine about $200.000 worth (if sold today) per day.
Godwin's Law is a new Hitler.
Argument that "paying taxes" gives currencies value is bullshit. It only shows that governments are ubiquitous, and nothing about currencies.
Nobody pays taxes with dollars in Europe, yet dollars have value in Europe, and I see no problems if they were used as a currency in Europe, in an emergency or war or something.
And believe me, if it comes to it, governments would start accepting other currencies as taxes as well. They are not magical currency value giving entities as that first argument would say. They are just a group of people, just as anyone else. And they are greedy just as anyone else is.
What gives a currency value is people accepting it, being government or not.
So, you are expecting a business with such a low barrier of entry to be highly profitable? That's absurd.
You just have to understand two simple facts and some basic logic:
-Anybody can mine, very low barrier of entry (In fact, I really can't think of any other business with such a low barrier. Buy some hardware, plug it in. No customers, no marketing).
-Once you have your hardware running, you don't turn it off until it costs you more than one BTC to mine one BTC.
From those two it follows that no miner will be hugely profitable for a long time, and that there will always be some who are borderline profitable.
When the price drops bellow the cost to mine, they do not stop selling, they stop mining.
And the cost of mining creates no such floor in price, because, when you sell your coins, nobody cares how much it costed you to create them.
Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule." -- David Guaspari