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So Bitcoin is ending in Dec. 2012?
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Shipping is for the pack of 6. They aren't hardened off, but I'll go ahead and set them out so they will be a bit sturdier by next week.
In my opinion, hardening off isn't necessary as long as you are planting a few weeks after your last frost date and temperatures are relatively mild. I would just plant as deep as possible to prevent stem damage and encourage extra root development.
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For grins, try and figure out how this conversation led me to research carnivorous plants that eat their pollinators.
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Bitcoins obviously have uses. But, unlike gold or aluminum, those uses are dependent upon collective action. And currently, with such a small economy, that collective action must be global in scope. Or, at the very least, international. So there is risk in assuming that global, collective usage of Bitcoins will continue unabated.
Regardless, someone should ask Yahoo what they spend to maintain their Bayesian spam filters and whether Bitcoins would be a viable substitute. Somehow I suspect the answer would be "no".
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It's amazing to me how awful the PSU market has become. I had good luck with Antecs for several years, but I have one here (SP-450) that crapped out, because apparently it had defective capacitors. "Japanese capacitors" is now a feature that is used as a selling point. Wattage ratings are completely useless. Oh well, I'll try my luck with Corsair.
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There is at least one Bitcoin laundering service. I think you could convince them to add the feature to forward to multiple accounts. Or, for a small fee, I'm sure you could find a web hosting provider willing to maintain an application to act as the front-end for such an arrangement.
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I like this but it would be much better with some kind of distance setting.
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Computer hardware retailers already operate in a deflationary economy. The price of their products deflates by about 30-50% every year, yet they seem to be doing fine, even in jurisdictions where a 30 day return policy is mandatory.
If you buy an Intel processor or external HD it's very likely that 30 days later it has alread dropped in price.
So what is their solution? I guess they already factor in the losses from returns into their prices. Simple as that.
Their solution is to charge a re-stock fee. |
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I just want to tell you, good luck. We're all counting on you.
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Yeah, notice how the police officer lies straight to the guy's face and tells him he can keep his basketball goal. And then 30 seconds later the city workers come in and steal it.
Cops lie of course, but this one is actually brazen enough to lie in front of a television news crew.
Actually now that I watch it, this isn't the original video. This douchebag has pieced it together in all the wrong order and is incorrectly claiming that the blonde woman (who is a cop) works for the Dept. of Transportation. And apparently he thinks random state workers can arrest people.
tl;dr; - Americans are stupid.
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Is there anybody that can answer my two simple questions?
From where do you derive the right to intellectual property, and why does it supercede my right to liberty?
The right to IP comes from my ability to keep it secret. |
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I can tell you the reason I haven't even considered trading on Bitcoinmarket is that it has a horrible UI that is written in Javascript or something. I'm not sure I could tell you what the exchange rate even is or how to join.
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Well I guess I'm going to be eating a lot of salsa this year.
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I think he wants to keep his identity a secret.
If so he hasn't done a very good job. |
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There is a positive externality to Bitcoin mining.
It drives up energy costs, hastening the end of fossil fuels and the adoption of renewable energy.
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What does one exit into? Already overvalued precious metals? Inflationary fiat currencies?
Hookers and blow. |
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Setting aside his proposed solutions, can anyone refute any specific observation that Prof. Wolff makes?
Well for starters he has a dubious take on the causality between real wages and workers around the 10 minute mark: It could better be explained by, there is an increase in workers (women, global labour etc) which drives down wages. This makes more sense than real wages reductions driving employment choices. If you look at wage rates for the world as a whole, rather than specifically the US, real wages will have increased. I see what you're saying. He implies that women were forced into the workforce. Many are. But I think you're right that most would have joined regardless, and this would have affected wages. But he doesn't really make an assertion as to the causality. He just notes that American wages stopped rising (for some reason, probably globalism was the largest factor), and that the response of the American worker was to work 20% more hours. And this is unarguably true. The US is the only large industrialized nation that embraced global free trade without a viable social safety net. It makes sense that Americans would choose to work more while Europeans, for instance, would be able to work less. The US has never shown signs of wanting to evolve beyond the "work or die" culture brought here by settlers. You see it in the healthcare debate, for instance. |
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Hmm this gives me an idea. Let's see if I agree with you.
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