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I think there's some confusion in English between 泡沫紅茶 (literally bubble tea) and 珍珠奶茶 (pearl milk tea or boba), because the words bubble and boba sound quite similar, particularly for someone speaking English as a second language. The tapioca pearls even look a little like bubbles.

Often bubble and boba are used interchangeably now, but I think they originally referred to two different types of tea-based drink, as the Chinese-language names still do. The same shop often sells both types of drink, so this inevitably adds to the confusion.

Google image search 泡沫紅茶 and 珍珠奶茶 to see the difference

If that's true, then the longer they wait, the worse it gets. That's not good.

Adopting an extreme view to illuminate the argument, perhaps there is no such thing as free will.

Yes, it gets really complicated. I also don't know. Maybe there's no nice answer.

Regrettably, people who write company policies and federal laws aren't always so ready to admit their own ignorance.

>insurers should distinguish between controllable and non-controllable factors, and they should not be permitted to discriminate on the basis of non-controllable factors. For instance, if someone chooses to ride a motorcycle instead of drive a car, then there should be a premium for that policy. However, if someone is born with a genome that predisposes them to dying much sooner from a specific disease, they should be charged no more than anyone else, because you can't control your genetics.

Risk-taking behavior, such as choosing to ride a motorcycle, can also be influenced by genetics[1]. How can insurers distinguish 'free will' from genetic disposition?

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0042-6.pdf

That advance investment in infrastructure must be a very important part of this effect. Those sunk costs probably are most important thing here. ASIC lead time is months and not the only advance investment.

But betting on future price, speculation, also is important.

Also there maybe could be influence from changes in energy pricing.

Ordinary users and commenters should ignore trolls, but administrators and moderators should not. They should use every underhand trick in the book, just as trolls do.

Users only add fuel to the fire. Administrators can extinguish it.

Fixed. Thanks. Maybe autocorrect was trying to tell me something.

Perhaps I missed it, but the article does not seem to mention the obvious personal incentive for public officials: an exchange of free vacations. That seems naive.

FWIW, I think that hypecycle graph is almost totally garbage. Nobody knows where Bitcoin and the Blockchain are going. Maybe it's a false dawn, or maybe it's the future. But I think predictions are worth very little. Nobody knows. Predictions are usually just people trying to claim ownership on your brainspace.

That's opinion, so take it with a pinch of salt :)

Though you love using the extremely incendiary term "pump and dump" in your numerous comments, you obviously don't even understand it. Look up a definition.

A pump and dump is type of fraud that cannot, by definition, be "driven" by any true external factor, such as people buying bitcoins to invest in a pyramid scheme, as you've just suggested. Therefore your comment contradicts itself.

Though it's not impossible that the MMM ponzi affected the bitcoin price, your comments are mostly lazy mud-slinging and weakly-founded opinions dressed up as facts. That's better suited to reddit

If it's really a rip of the Gothamist content, without much value added, I hope the link can be changed by admins. Such behavior should not be acceptable.

This contains a link to the full PDF report, which concentrates on the investigation findings and does not directly say who is to blame

That's funny, but from the anecdotal evidence it sounds like single-engine ferry flights are at least a couple of orders of magnitude more risky than any ETOPS scenario. Fewer lives are put at risk, though.

I think this is interesting because Bitpay is a high profile company that is quite well funded with about $30 million. But they lost about $1.8 million to a targeted social engineering and identity theft scam at the start of this year

Do you have some ideas on how to deal with it?

Submitter here. The discussion at the site where I found this may also be interesting - http://www.metafilter.com/153003/Test-Your-Sense-of-Pitch

Like here, the most common comment seems to be that this NIH test is too easy. Maybe the title should be 'Find out if you are REALLY tone deaf'?

Isn't one of the big challenges of hi-speed video how to collect enough photons in such a short time? Super-bright lights are often used to illuminate the subject

'Shooting at a frame rate of 1000fps requires 5.25 times more light than at 24 or 25 fps' [http://www.lovehighspeed.com/lighting-for-high-speed/]

Don't you think that if the business is destroyed, then it becomes more likely that the data will be leaked or sold?

Yes, that article didn't have the explanation promised by the title.

>some transactions cost $280/transaction to put through

The stress 'test', (or was it really an attack?), is interesting, though it may be too recent to be included. But where did you get that $280 from? That figure sounds ridiculous.

Can you give the source?

Seriously, or only joking? That's interesting. How did you measure it?

I also thought so, but the research abstract linked from the article suggests there is a real perceptual effect.

I would be curious to know if they had any estimate of the 'frame rate'

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Maybe some country, or company, could start a profitable business of launching RTGs and selling them to the ESA after they are safely in orbit?

It would be very interesting to compare this to Bitcoin mining, on a dollars per watt chart.

At first, I thought it would be simple, but soon realized there are many, many factors involved

Audio samples of the results would be nice, but I didn't find any links in the pdf

My guess would be that extracting useful audio is possible, but the idea evoked by the paper's title "Deep Karaoke", of flawlessly removing vocals from a finished song, is a lot harder, or maybe impossible. Anyway this has many useful applications

Without more information about iCEO, this reads like a late April Fools joke. Interesting topic, though.

Funny on reddit, but not here. Please stop, thank you

The tendency of poorly-informed people to misunderstand the Dunning-Kruger Effect appears to be a clear example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect

> opium dens

The modern equivalent is spending hours watching reality TV and eating fast food.

Not trying to be snarky. I mean it.