It's a make work job for providing political favors, e.g. politician's niece is given an easy job in exchange for future or past favors.
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Seems possible.
Btc isn't just crypto, its the block chain too. So not only can you pay/collect, but it's publicly available and things like smart contracts are easily possible in an open environment.
So we can do things like say: send x btc to y address if weather.com reports it's 50 degrees in Des Moines on May 8th at 9am, or whatever, all sorts of settlement problems are solved with no middleman who can stop it.
There are a lot of places where the government is not strong enough to maintain a reliable currency on its own. The USA was the global currency up till now because it was universally trusted, but that's changing. The people who have profited from the international dollar are maneuvering to keep their monopoly.
Btc is already getting traction in the developing world as a reliable currency and that is likely to grow under de-dollarization.
The entire crypto market is about $1T right now of which btc is about half.
There is so much space for Btc to grow as an option for international settlement, it's already working and trusted as much or more than many sovereign currencies. As it becomes more trusted it will increase in price which will decrease its volatility.
If Btc just takes a little slice of the FX market it's an easy 5-10x. I wouldn't bet everything on it, but it does seem rational to have a corner of your portfolio in it.
The Feds and the bankers hate it because it's a direct threat to their business model. There's no room for a middle man to fugazi in btc.
Tell them there are always problems and we've always solved them. Tell them things are going to be ok. Let them take on the burndens of adulthood when they are psychologically mature.
The dominant climate of the earth is cold. We get relatively brief warm periods, "interglacials", of which we are in one now. Ice ages are theorized to be prompted by shifts in the Earth's orbit[0].
CO2 is measured in hundredths of a percent for impact on the climate. Does it really seem reasonable that our little human technology, an infinitesimal fraction of the energy at work in the Solar System is making a huge difference?
It's a horrific burden, it will crush a child's soul. We can make the environment cleaner with our technology, but changing the weather to prevent climate shifts that occur on a geological time scale and involve a nuclear furnace of a scale beyond our wildest imagination is not within our control.
Teaching your children that all the beauty of the planet is going to die because "people are bad and can't get their shit together" is a completely fucked parenting strategy and a horrible, awful, thing to do to children.
Even if it's true it's much kinder to let them live out this normally happy time of their life in blissful ignorance.
Kindness is what life is about.
What caused this flood?
Scientists theorize there was massive and rapid increase in temperature which quickly melted glaciers from an earlier ice age.
How did that happen? No one knows.
Why are there ice ages and why do they end?
No one knows.
Please do not tell your children their lives are meaningless unless we solve the intractable problem of climate change.
We can make the planet better in terms of clean air. water, and land, but changing weather patterns is orders of magnitude beyond us. We do not and likely never will have the technology to control the behavior of the massive nuclear furnace of the sun.
Going with a lower pressure tank saves money at the cost of reduced range. The problem is booting a hydrogen station network big enough to support a low range FCV (< 200 miles).
But even building expensive carbon fiber high pressure tanks is going to eventually be much cheaper than huge batteries filled with semi-rare minerals that will increase in price as battery market demand increases. We should talk about what peak <Battery Mineral> will mean alongside Peak Oil.
Enforce rules.
Recognize that some people aren't up to the responsibility level of living certain places and deal with them accordingly, i.e. at a certain level of criminal history you're on timeout or banished. Yeah, that isn't "nice", and if you want the job of rehabilitating the repeat offender because "there's good in everyone", go for it!
But a society must be a place where children can be raised safely and successfully, otherwise there is no society left. Public safety is a foundation of this.
Life sometimes brings us trolley problems where hard decisions must be made. Liberalism is a denial of this, which makes it attractive, but it always ends up being paid for with larger breakdowns as hard decisions aren't made.
Petroleum fuels are easy to store and transport in low infrastructure environments. Many areas don't have strong electric grids, they don't have 24hr electricity, and even if they do it's not reliable. They rely on inexpensive two and three wheeled vehicles extensively, much more than developed nations.
Mobility is needed for them to feed themselves and progress. It isn't a "nice-to-have", it's a necessity for life. This isn't going to change anytime soon.
The Gorilla in the Room for fossil fuel emissions is Russia and OPEC. Are Russia and OPEC going to walk away from trillions of dollars of oil wealth?
Are the developing nations, like India, going to walk away from cheap ICE technologies, for more expensive and complex green technologies?
If not, all the aggressive switching by the OECD nations is for naught.
Toyota believes the developing world will still want ICEs for a long time, and the oil nations will still want to sell it.
You get way more zero emission VMT using batteries in the HEV and PHEV role. A lot of BEVs are second or third cars for wealthy people who keep some sort of ICE as well. Those cars don't generate lots of VMT so their batteries are effectively being wasted.
Personally I'd like to see Python continue as the amazing multitool that it is has always been.
Go is the natural concurrency sibling for Python. High performance parts of Python applications should be linked to Go binaries, or simply be written entirely in Go.
Ideally Go linkage would be highly integrated into Python. There is a huge place in the world for GIL constrained Python. Enabling Python to push further into high performance environments is just going to make a problem worse.
Given it's long history and safety, why was this necessary? Much is learned in medicine by practitioners trying things and sharing their results amongst each other.
-Norm McDonald
A politician might kill or harm many more people in the course of pursuing their objectives but they'll always have the story on their side provided they win.
K. had to understand that the achievement of his objective, publishing the manifesto, would likely lead to his capture, but he did it anyway. He sacrificed himself in the end.
If you believed you had information that would save the planet but you had to kill some innocent people to make it known? Utilitarians would say yes because saving billions of innocent lives is more important.
K. probably saw himself as someone taking revenge on an evil system that had harmed him. He's one of the more fascinating characters of modern history in that he was so effective in attaining his goals with violence.
Users would have to operate on the older model of usenet - if you can't handle the heat don't go, or the node operator could simply ban the account.
This would give an incentive to run a node and would serve as a hurdle to the unwashed masses.
You can target supplement something, but it might not be the most critical link at the moment.