That's irrelevant.
Did you actually read my response?
You were/are claiming - deaths per population is irrelevant, and I need to look into deaths per num cases.
To that I responded - deaths per num cases is necessarily bigger (in fact - much bigger) than deaths per population;
For GB (according to ourworldindata) deaths per num cases is 1.5% which is 75 times more than the number you claim - 0.02%
Looked into (cumulative) Cases per 1M population for GB on ourworldindata;
I see these numbers:
130K cases per 1M pop
2056~=2K deaths per 1M pop
gives me fatality rate per case:
2/130 = 1.5%
If you tried to soothe us with 0.02% number instead of parent's 0.2%, the 1.5% looks even more scary
Those numbers are for deaths per million. That's a different stat than percent of deaths / total cases. Just divide deaths by cases and you should see that covid-19's death rate is unaffected by vaccination or countries much.
That still does not add up for GB case.
The number of cases can not be greater than population (presumably). Therefore:
From Population > NumCases
Implies Deaths/NumCases > Deaths/Population
Implies Deaths/NumCases > 0.2% >> 0.02% (your stated number)
It's
Hmmm, ourworldindata does not confirm your statements.
https://ourworldindata.org/exp...
According to this, the percentage is highly variable (orders of magnitude) between countries. And 0.02% is the rate of few countries only.
For GB: 2056 deaths per 1M population => 0.2%
For Finland: 207 deaths per 1M population => 0.02%
EU average - 1700/1M => 0.17%
What's next? A background check to buy a CNC machine? Needing to show your passport to buy aluminum bar stock? A permit needed for router or drill bits?
Yes. Yes. Yes.
That's the direction it is going.
Alphabet delendus est
Bill Gates - $30 Billion / American population 300 Million = $10,000 per person
Division fail. 2 orders of magnitude.
I believe its called 'too big to fail'
No, it is called "too big to jail".
Mod points! mod points! Half of my karma for mod points.....
A really great physics lecturer would then go on.....
Dude, where can I find this lecturer? Or is there by chance some good stuff on the internet for me to read?
I feel like my understanding of entropy is a bit limited, and I'd like to brush it up a bit
Sigh.... there is no -1/Wrong moderation....
Dude, you have serious reading comprehension problems.
The original parent wrote (reemphasizing different word in quote):
some of us are pulling in 20-30% profits per day *TRADING* these "silly" Bitcoins
He was talking about trading bitcoints, not mining for them. Trading is not energy-intensive process (mining is).
And in trading, you can have profits during the crash as well as during the rise.
That said however, doubt the OP is profiting that much each day - average profit margin i probably less (and speculating on the wrong side can make nasty cuts in this volatile market)
You are thinking in terms of current epoch..... employees shmemployees.
Yes they were not employees, but they were subjects of the crown, and that is stronger binding that some eeezy peeezy work agreement.
No no no. You are doing it wrong. Bleach is for the brain! Eyes have nothing to do with it.
And besides, if you use bleach on your eyes, you'll get some serious irritation....
Criminal laws do no not require an injured party to claim damages. You are confusing them with civil laws and contracts.
True. However if the law is unjust - punishes people who did not do any reasonable harm - it is a moral imperative to struggle against such law.
But you are a "libertarian": a corporate anarchist. You don't understand government; you want to eliminate it and take your chances with corporate powers. But we have a government, because we've seen how those autocratic orgs abuse the rights and property of the people.
Baseless ad-hominem attack; also prescribing qualities and wantings for the person from thin air - he has not said anything about eliminating government in his post.
You also don't understand the most basic economics: the ounce of silver in those "dollars" was worth $10-19, averaging about $14, through 1999, but was sold for $20 (legitimate dollars). If the fake dollar's silver were worth "quite a bit more than the face value of US coin", this crook would have been losing money on every sale. Which qualifies him to be a "libertarian".
It's you who does not understand the (economics of the) situation. Those (liberty) dollars were not stamped with face value of 20 Dollar, they were stamped with face value of 1 Dollar (if I am not mistaken here; if I am - see the end of the argument) - and your argument above unravels because of this simple fact.
Think about it. The basic premise of grand-grand-parent (metlin) was that the man tried to deceive the users by making his liberty dollars (LD henceforth) very similar by design to the fed dollars (USD henceforth). So the supposed issue here is that somebody will be confused and accept LD instead of USD.
There are two cases:
EITHER the confusion/deception occurs during the original maker X-->initial buyer Y transaction.
OR the confusion/deception occurs during the intermediate holder Y -->another person Z transaction.
In the first case there can be no confusion: Y pays X a sum of 20USD (form you post - I am not sure for what price LDs were sold) and receives a coin of 1LD. He can not be confused to believe 1USD == 1LD because he would then demand 20LDs for his 20USD.
In the second case confusion may occur - the receiver Z may confuse 1LD for 1USD, but in this case Z obtains 1LD coin, silver content of which is valued "10-19 USD, averaging about 14 USD" (according to your post) instead of 1USD.
The fact that 1LD was sold above the spot silver price is normal. Coins always command some seigniorage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage) above spot bullion prices - to cover expenses of the minter.
PS In the unlikely case that LDs were stamped with the face value of 20 Dollar, there again can be no deception. AFAIK there are no official, government issued coins of 20USD denomination .
It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. -- Phil White
