Correct, with Chinese products price alone doesn't cut it. You have to do your research and recognize the good from the bad, or have a very good trusted merchant. For large orders is always wise to ask for samples before committing. Often competition is fierce and some either take shortcuts or do more effort to keep their customers. You might be spoiled to a society and State that keeps you "safe", but step out of the borders of your country and you might find yourself in another planet. Even what you considered "junk" in your own country (perhaps at Walmart) is luxury elsewhere. And still. the Chinese Walmart imports expensive foreign products, or top notch Chinese ones. Its the place to get expensive stuff...

So yeah, its pointless to say Chinese products are this or that, its both and neither. You must not pass judgement because company a made product x bad. Heck, often company a can also make a great product y. But you can try and pick companies the same way you do at home; its only harder since they tend to have funny Chinese names, but those do matter to some of their owners (not all). There is also samples of State owned, mixed owned, or simply heavily involved companies. And there is the worldwide known coop called Haier, state based Chery, etc.

Until Trump leaves office, Americans might have to look elsewhere, but for the rest of us there is plenty of choice, including BAD choice, so pay attention.

Interestingly this flood of free streaming sites is surely impacting that industry somehow. Its still lucrative so they don't care; but its not like you need to subscribe to some premium channel, purchase tapes or such like in the past. Indeed free porn is all over the place, whatever that is good or not, only you can tell.

Before the internet there were the magazines. Who bothers with those anymore? And the social stigma of you trying to obtain and keep one? Its a past thing.

Anything spent in Apple can be found elsewhere for a third of the price, or 3 times more capable. Apple products are pure waste. Get a decent PC with a decent OS, such as Linux. Now Apple decided to move their platform to Arm cpus, but ARM is about to be sold to a company that might extinguish it. Talk about bad timing...

In general you should have stayed away from that company for decades, at least since Steve Wozniak left. Nothing worth there, the OS isn't worth the planned obsolescence and the absolute lack of freedom, almost tyrannical rule.

If you want something "Stylish", take a look at Alibaba. Any "style" Apple creates, gets immediately copied by China. I don't particularly like it, and the true styling died with the other Steve anyway. Latest Apple laptops had infamously flawed keyboards so its not like you are getting any quality for more money either.

I could go on but i hope you see the point. Get the best gear that can run Linux (or BSD) and does and looks what you like, forget the rest.

And this is what happens when you take BADecker posts seriously... Proves that McAfee is a secret lurker in this forum. Also, proves that showing pics of people wearing panty hoses instead of a proper face mask can influence others...

See, the whole point is wearing a fabric that does NOT expand. If you use something that stretches, like spandex/lycra as commonly used in underwear, the holes in the fabric enlarge and makes it easier for the virus to escape your mouth and infect others. And that defeats the only purpose of the face mask.

So yes, this is just rebelling against the use of the face mask, and McAfee seeking attention as usual.

Basically exploiting time dilation and quantum entanglement. Its not going to the past, at all. But you get the job done "faster" (from one observer point of view).

It is the same as having two computers do the same task, that would take 10 years to complete. Put one in a ship that accelerates to some fraction of the speed of light, quantum entangle both for "instant" communications. The one on the ship is only just starting but the one on earth finished; because time is flows different in respect to each other.

Who knows, maybe in the future this could be exploited for cracking cryptography

Time dilation is real and is a law of physics, proposed by Einstein and finally confirmed by the space agencies. Quantum entanglement has also been demonstrated, but we are still yet to produce some sort of communications device. Would be great if we ever wanted Bitcoin to become interplanetary. Its needed, actually, can't work otherwise without splitting the blockchain, the speed of light is simply too slow for space communication.

As for the whale, i though it was a Police Box but those things don't exist anymore

Mesh networks have existed before Bitcoin, and even some people tried to monetize them and somehow incentivize people to "share their bandwidth" (ie. Fonera, etc).

Calling it "6g" or "PoW killer" isn't going to make this old idea any more interesting to anyone. And now Elon Musk is covering the world with 20ms latency links with a mesh of low altitude satellites interlinked at the speed of light in a vacuum (as opposed to slower fiber optic trans-oceanic cables).

5g also has a mesh like function, mostly to the benefit of the mobile carriers.

The wardrobe isn't malfunctioning, only that particular garment presumably "failed" to stay put in place (might have been staged for all we care, attention seekers and what not).

As for keeping clothes and not using them, I'd say its your personal moth colony. What, people have ant colonies too!

My country isn't paying pharma a cent so we can't care less for that. If it works and can be replicated, it will. What, is Trump going to invade? He has been threatening during all his administration but did nothing, useless bluffer.

Naturally we are good friends with Russia and China and we expected the first vaccines to come from them. Putin went a bit ahead.

Technically the search for a vaccine started in China around Jan (maybe Dec), so its not 3~4 months but 7~8. It might be that Putin rushed it, but the Chinese are going to come with something soon, India will copy it too; one way or the other we are getting a vaccine just hope it has little or no nasty side effects.

Natural immunity is great for the 3/4 of people that survive it. You might want to gamble it, but most people won't. In fact it has been like that nearly all human history (natural selection); people would die from diseases their bodies couldn't fight on their own. A vaccine is a weakened version of the virus so your body can synthesize this "natural immunity" without killing you.

Also the virus has existed before we identified it, mostly because it was in another species (ie. Bats). As with things in the universe, just because we are currently unaware of them, doesn't mean they haven't been there "forever".

Just sell them on ebay or equivalent. There is people who can reuse those chips or repair the boards for spares. I know a person who bought many "damaged" S9 boards for scraps and got at least half of them working again, most came from the US, and yes, they ended in my "third world" country where the electricity is too cheap for our own good...

Ironically we used to be a "rich" country in the 70ies. Leave the money to politicians to ruin your lives...

Yes, i know s9k and s9se are the garbage dump of the last (clearing) s9 chips for Bitmain. Even to this day, S9, S9j and S9i are going strong over here.

Its not going to happen, at least not with people you don't implicitly trust in the first place. The danger of double spending isn't worth it. Indeed LN could be a solution, or simply pay in advance, sort of opening a credit/tab with the merchant/shop whatever.

I don't agree with promoting these as it will encourage scammers and people will blame it on Bitcoin.

Because gold has been traded for thousands of years, while bitcoin has existed only for 11. Like gold, bitcoin production is declining; unlike gold, it is with absolute certainty that no new sources will ever be found.

And, unlike gold, your gov cannot seize it from you, like the USA gov did for most of the 20th century.

You say "lose" but you seem to forgot it just "gained" $2000. On the other hand, there is also the thing you are comparing it against, the USD, is also going up and down as well... And, the politicians can duplicate and triplicate the number of existing USD overnight, while nobody can ever do that to bitcoin or gold.

A covid-19 infected person uses the phone, then you use it. There, you are now infected. Scientifically proven: saliva sticking in surfaces where you put your mouth and then inhaling it transmits this (and other) virus(es).

Granted, you need an infected person to use the phone first. It also works with any phone, including a turned off smartphone...

This is as solid as the flat earthers theories. Or what the perennial deniers and vaccine scare mongers always repeat like parrots.

The "waves" used by 5g are the same as those used by 4g. It does fancier subdivision, and even build ad hoc local networks (meshed possibly?) but other than that its meh. We are surrounded and penetrated by waves unless you live inside a faraday cage. Not only you get radiation from local cell towers, but from space, all over the place, in all frequencies humans transmit, which is pretty much all of them...

It is unhealthy to live and sleep next to the transmitter, duh. Make sure that antenna isn't in your patio or garage (yeah, i know a house not too far from here with an actual cell tower mast in its garage, i guess the money to the owner of that house is indispensable; plus the coverage is an abyss when you are right next to it).

5g can also use higher frequencies, those penetrate easier, but reach much less. Just like wifi 2.4ghz vs 5ghz and the higher harmonics. Ku, Ka, etc, etc.

If you are paranoid about 5g and waves in general, build your own faraday cage and live inside it. Problem solved.

Excellent, it so happens that my country is in good relation with Putin. Should it come from USA or UK, we would not see a pint of it until next year, if ever. And Trump wouldn't allow export of it anyway.

China also has 3 vaccines in testing, but i guess Russia rushed it (first post lol), Putin went so far as to place his own daughter at risk...

Did you know that, if you wait for a dam to fill up to the top, it will destroy it and anything downstream?

When they open the floodgates is because the water level is getting too high. Dam 101 i guess. i can understand if you place doesn't have one of those you might ignore their operation details.

Nothing they would love more than to keep as much water as possible, for the dry season. But in the rainy season there is no helping it, you just cannot let the water destroy everything, so you release it before it becomes an even worse problem.

This has nothing to do with an "evil scheme" to intentionally destroy the poor villages downstream. It is how dams operate.

And yes, a dam, especially a large one, does irreversibly intervene the land. The artificial lake created for this, submerged countless villages and fields, permanently. While the ones downstream have to live similarly to a river that sometimes grows and sometimes doesn't, not too different to how it was before the dam was erected in place.

And 3 gorges isn't the only large dam China operates...

Just like Bitcoin, Bittorrent has some sort of reputation. But what you say isn't all there is, just like Bitcoin isn't used solely for "dark web" deals. I has been widely used for Free and Open Source distribution, several Linux distros release using this protocol. Also has been used in high profile cases such as game updates (World of Warcraft among others, IIRC).

Bittorrent is a highly efficient decentralized transfer protocol, it excels in delivering popular content to infinite people at the same time, compared to centralized methods with finite bandwidth capacity. If you need to distribute something many people would want that your servers simply can't ever cope with, use Bittorrent.

Yes, of course media content would be an obvious case use, as long as its popular. It isn't so well suited for rare content almost nobody wants.

Of course, a key factor is that the content delivered is identical for everyone, so drmed content isn't well suited for it (since they make it different to each customer to track it). So that model isn't going to work.

Donations can already be made using Bitcoin. In fact, an anonymous donation will always net far more money to the content creator, than using a typical commercial channel. Ie: a small tip to your favorite singer, gives him/her far more than you buying their CD (often the labels don't give them anything, so they only get money from touring or selling t-shirts etc). It is part of the disease of the old system. Something similar happens with movies.

I think the best thing artists and producers can do, it put a donation address. In the long run, they are probably getting far more that way than spending money in system destined to be defeated anyway, or chasing people in countries their lawyers can't reach.

Crowdsourcing has also been a very interesting model for content creation, why depend on views/seats/sales when the whole thing could be paid in advance?

It might be interesting to do "something" regarding a torrent, but i guess simply adding a donation address in the torrent info would do. However they could do the same thing in the main page where you are getting to torrent from in the first place, and its not like people couldn't just undo the official torrent and make a new one with THEIR address instead, which is even worse.

Some corporate guys don't like Bitcoin, but they love the buzzword blockchain, because its "cool", while Bitcoin is scary...

But as others have said, a blockchain alone is "a solution in search of a problem". It could be fitted to some use cases, here and there, but its no universal database replacement. Without the rest of its elements, its nearly pointless.

This is why i don't buy this "blockchain" parlance to those guys who won't mention Bitcoin to not scare their bosses.

What if you have a blockchain running in a single node? You are losing nearly all the advantages of Bitcoin, might as well use a traditional database.

Es que la legislación sencillamente no se acopla con la realidad técnica, y es cuesta arriba que los políticos lo entiendan. Es cierto, las carteras en realidad son solo "juegos de llaves", los bitcoin no están en ninguna parte pero están en todos lados (donde existen nodos). No es que se lleven encima, literalmente, pues no hace falta. Cuando se porta una tarjeta de crédito, ¿se lleva encima el dinero? No es la analogía ideal, pero supongo que podría acercarnos. O hacer un cheque, que sin llenar, son solo papeles en blanco sin valor alguno.

¿Será una permuta? ¿Será como dar algo de valor a cambio de la propiedad? Viéndose no como dinero, ¿sino como algo distinto? ¿Y podrá demostrar el origen de como se adquirió ese valor? Aparte de los impuestos, a los Estados les interesa evitar la legitimación de capital; que para mi criterio puede hacerse a través de la minería aunque con el pasar del tiempo cada ves menos (junto al declive de la minería como negocio rentable).

Pongo un ejemplo: Compro S9s usadas en el mercado, las pongo a minar el mes (en mi país) que lleva recuperar la inversión, y las vendo además de salir con los bitcoin producidos para comprar la propiedad en España... Espero que no estén los políticos de siempre tomando notas

O diversificar y tener mitad y mitad. Pero no es igual tener algún papel o documento digital que certifica que posees oro, a poseer el oro directamente...

El oro tiene muchas desventajas, y varias ventajas. Su naturaleza física es tanto útil para cuando no hay energía pero peligrosa pues te hace blanco del crimen, además de que pesa y se puede decomisar, etc.

Bitcoin está en "la nube" (blockchain), y siempre estará ahí. Te puedes mover a cualquier parte sin declarar nada y siempre podrás moverlos.

Dado que Bitcoin nació en 2009 podría considerarse algo de milenials, pero realmente hay personas que esperaron por algo así por mucho tiempo, y finalmente salió algo lo suficientemente robusto como para poder decir, al fin.

El oro es oro, pero oye, que hasta para comprar y vender arriesgas la vida. No es que no hay peligro con Bitcoin, pero es en otra escala completamente distinta.

Fascinante. pero suicida. Atacar servidores de compañías estadounidenses, estando dentro de Estados Unidos, ya de por si es suicida. Por supuesto hay adolescentes que sencillamente no aguantan la emoción, supongo. Pero mas que una broma pasaron al tema de estafar y eso de meterse con personas con tanto dinero es que no iban a terminar nada bien.

Tal vez pensaron que no podrían ser descubiertos, que las agencias de espionaje de su propio país no tenían la capacidad de encontrarlos...

No se si harán un "ejemplo" con ellos, o cuantos años de sus vidas pasaran tras las rejas.

Cualquiera pensaría que eran perpetradores Rusos, o Chinos o de Corea del Norte, Irán, algo así, un país de esos sin tratado de extradición o cooperación con los americanos. Pero es que ha sido desde dentro del propio territorio.