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Maybe I was in school too long ago, but I remember being taught about the Bosphorus strait, with Europe on the left, and Asia on the right. Well, I've just checked the news and I read an article about Formula 1 racing. The European Grand Prix is tomorrow and that will be in Baku. In Azerbaijan. That's in Asia to my eyes.
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I would write 10 bitcoins without any hesitation. Just like 10 Swiss francs or 10 Mexican pesos. The example of the US dollar is a twisted one. We should not follow it.
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Freedom of speech is all around us. So is freedom to fight off your antagonists who you spoke against, when they decide your speech harmed them.
I've never been in a country where there was freedom of speech. It doesn't exist in Europe, nor in the US, nor in Russia, just nowhere, because hate speech is part of that freedom, and very few people actually accept it. Is there a single place anywhere, where you can say that the guy who killed 50 gays in Florida was right, and that you're happy about it? |
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Hope the UK will leave Europe. We don't want any muslim country in the EU.
To leave will also enable the UK to sign a free trade agreement with Saudi Arabia. Cultural exchanges with Iran would also be nice.
UK is already one of the countries where muslins are at home, EU won't change anything. And don't you see the hypocrisy ? You don't want anything with muslims except their money... Cultural and economic agreements are often linked, you won't be able to do any business without any concession. What? Do I want money from muslims? No. I don't need, and I don't think there's much money to take. Millions of muslims living in Europe are on welfare, and the new ones we've seen coming from Syria are broke. |
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What a question!
I don't think you're a head of state looking for ideas, but you may look at the example of Singapore. That place was a jungle barely half a century ago. Now it's one of the most sophisticated place on the planet, with very high salaries.
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I expect BTC price growth to last indefinitely. That's part of the plan. The market rules and it makes no sense saying BTC is undervalued or overvaled, but the rise we've seen this past 3 weeks is grossly overdone. Change should not be so fast.
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I'll believe we live in a simulation if someone can proves me it was invented by alien lizards. Humans aren't smart enough to create something so complex as today's world.
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Hope the UK will leave Europe. We don't want any muslim country in the EU.
To leave will also enable the UK to sign a free trade agreement with Saudi Arabia. Cultural exchanges with Iran would also be nice.
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So, you failed to qualify to launch a regular IPO?
As the company manager, I like the idea of selling only 10% of capital, but as an investor, I fear it.
Sorry, but the world already has way too many altcoins, and it would be stupid in a new one which would be retricted to a single project.
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For the sake of non-UK residents, Transport for London is a company owned by elected authority. Its advertising slots are private property. There are no free speech issues when the owners of private property make an editorial decision as to which ads he does and does not want to run on their property.
Thanks for info, but besides free speech, the should be an issue about terminating a ad campaign. The advertising company didn't get what it should have, so it may have legal right to ask for financial compensation for breach of contract, or something like that. They may also be very happy with this, as it creates extra media exposure. |
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Thought he was British. It happened already, some Brit has been jailed for offensive tweets. This is the UK, 140 characters can send you in jail. I think it's the same in France.
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Cool! So anyone can get a machine gun, go out in a night club and kill dozens of people. Hey, if everything's simulated, who cares?
Could someone hack the software to replace my car with a Ferrari?
Wonder if I will rape a blonde or a brunette tomorrow...
No, wait, is the police part of the simulation?
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Well, this was expected. My email software is protected but my BTC client is more important.
I wonder how long it will take for all security software to include some kind of protection dedicated to cryptocurrencies.
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I see nothing wrong with banning this kind of ads. there is no relation between the veil and the bikini so why the ads company put this photoshoped photo that has nothing to do with reality !
There are many, many advertisements which have nothing to do with reality. Actually, that was the plan. Many ads are conceived with the express purpose of shocking the public, or at least to create emotion. I'm surprised the mayor has the power to cancel an advertising campaign. Wil the advertising company be refunded? Who will pay for that? Can it get damages? From a judicial point of view, and .Khan shall know it the case would be difficult to handle in a court. And do you define "unhealthy or unrealistic body images"? But the biggest question shall be: What's next? |
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You have a strong argument. What I didn't like about the solutions proposed is how temporary and disruptive they were. For example at each halving block size x10 would be more realistic if the road of increase transactions must be taken.
10x scaling per halving? ok we are at 1mb for last few years, this is your maths for 10x scaling 2016 10mb 2020 100mb 2024 1gb 2028 10gb 2032 100gb have you not read my post that had realistic numbers of about a maximum of 500mb in 16 years far far far less then your 100gb or 1tb predictions. the lower number i quoted is both achievable and non impacting on users usage or costs of use. and like i said maximum. meaning as long as the $ bitcoin price rises the requirement for even 500mb scaling becomes less needed to cover costs, which you ellude to as being the big thing you care about but dont understand This isn't the first time I see a plan, with a timetable, and I think it doesn't make sense as no one can predict BTC's future growth. I would like it better if there could be some automatic adjustment, or a single rule that no block shall be more than half full. |
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Four alternatives to holding your savings in a bank “Global yields lowest in 500 years of recorded history. $10 trillion of neg. rate bonds. This is a supernova that will explode one day.”
Those were the words of famed bond fund manager Bill Gross.
(Gross was actually the first portfolio manager inducted into the Fixed Income Analyst Society's "Hall of Fame". And yes, there really is a hall of fame for that.)
Gross wrote that more than $10 trillion in government bonds actually have NEGATIVE yields, and that interest rates are at the lowest levels in financial history.
For example, the British government just issued its lowest-yielding bonds since 1694.
This has very dangerous implications.
Goldman Sachs recently calculated that a mere 1% rise in US Treasury yields would trigger over $1 trillion in losses, exceeding all the losses from the last crisis.
(Bear in mind that interest rates need to rise by at least 3x that amount just to reach their historic averages… so this is entirely plausible.)
Most of those losses would be suffered by Western banks, the majority of which have insufficient capital to withstand such a major hit.
Read more at https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/four-alternatives-to-holding-your-savings-in-a-bank-19885/. Nothing new here. He should have talked about BTC. And I don't think that storing a lot of cash in your home is a safe thing to do (you may be robbed). Same thing for gold. |
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Nice work, congratulations!
But, what's the use of this? You made something different from what already exists, and that's great, but I don't understand towards what end.
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What fucking Chinese? Would it be any better if today's rise would come from fucking Wall street traders? Some people may be trying to save their savings, and no one can blame them for doing that.
Maybe in a few days, we will have plenty of fucking Brits escaping their sinking pound because of brexit.
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An apology? Why? The problem is still there. The network can handle 10,000 transactions each hour, but who should be impressed?
If BTC wants to be the world's currency, it will need bigger blocks sooner or later, and sooner will be better.
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There can never be a stateless society. The smallest state might be the family. But if there was no state, there would be no society.
For 99.8% of human history people lived exclusively in autonomous bands and villages. What were they? They were states, societies, families, friends, and religious activists. I guess we have to define state and society. I believe there could be a society without a state, I may even believe that I believe in one. I hate the state in the sense that I hate bureaucracy, being told what to do and how to do it, or the fact that if I pick a phone, my conservation may be listened to by the CIA. But society is OK because it's informal. I have friends, we're going out for dinner, and that's it. I talked to the cashier at the grocery store earlier today, the state wasn't there. I have escaped all kind of government control, and there are thousands others like me. I hope our number will keep on growing. What you don't seem to realize is that it's precisely the things you hate that make the things you love about modern society possible. All of the perks of the modern world are only possible with the current configuration. You can't separate the things you love from the things you hate, they go hand in hand. If you're being honest and really feel strongly about how the world is evolving then the impeccable thing for you to do would be to detach from it and make your own way, for better or worse. It's just pure hypocrisy if you take all of the things you enjoy but shun the burden that go hand in hand with them and blame it all on "the man" or "them". You are "the man", everyone is "the man" for as long as you accept the benefits of the modern world. I find it amazing that someone I've never met is able to tell what I like and what I dislike. You have a lot of imagination ObscureBean. I'll tell you something I like. I like starvation. I say people dying from hunger is good. There should be more of them, especially in Europe. If you've never experienced starvation, I wish you'll experience it soon. The example of people dying from hunger is good for others, and suffering from starvation is helpful to make good life's decisions. to many people, I guess it's also needed. All over Europe, I see people making mistakes because the state, the country, governments and all that, prevent them from starving. The world would be better with the risk of starvation above anyone's head. I thought you mentioned that you hated the State  In any case I don't need to know the specifics of what you like or dislike, my comment is somewhat more fundamental than that with hate/like/dislike itself being the simplest common denominator. It doesn't matter what you actually like or dislike. What I've been trying to say is that a counterpart is automatically created when you like something. Whether you want to or are aware of it or not it automatically causes you to dislike something else. You start with neutrality (or perfect balance). From there any use of force or will automatically causes neutrality to break up into positive negative, love hate, etc. Humans are conceited, they deny the counterpart created by their use/abuse of power/force/will. Their much lauded "human love" has got a nasty side to it that everyone is happy to brush under the rug. And when it gets too big to be contained, the only recourse is to find a scapegoat imbue it with the malignance and then it stone to death to purge the tension  The more you love the more you hate. The more you chase happiness the harder it is to avoid unhappiness. Hey, we're not talking about electricity! I like ice-cream, what do I dislike? I didn't like the state, I didn't like my country, so there was only thing to do, and I did it: I broke up. I don't fill monthly tax forms anymore (yes, for business). No more grumbling about it, more free time and more money. I'm happy now. It was when I was a good participating sheep citizen that I was not. That's what I wish to everyone here, but to many people, the state has become some kind of a religion, and they praise it for enslaving them, even with many not happy about the situation, but they're too afraid to change it. |
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