Why does it matter if BTCs get permanently lost in the system?

kittkatt0 · 4 days

Oh they will continue to buy food (preferably the cheapest) and other things that are absolute necessary, but they wont go into an restaurant or travel to some holiday destination. Minimum trade will continue, but nowhere near levels we see as normal.

Also, don't forget investment. If you want to start a company you will have a hard time find someone that will give you a credit when they can just sit on there money and watch it grow in worth without any risk. Today banks have to invest or else they would actually lose wealth.

kittkatt0 · 4 days

How can you acquire more?

They can't. Nobody wants to spend money. That's the problem.

kittkatt0 · 4 days

Deflation gives people an strong incitement to hoard money instead of buying products or even investing it, especially in an recession. Without consumers and investors, a company can not survive. This leads to layoffs, what leads to even less consumption and so on until only the bare minimum of absolute necessary trade is done.

That is the reason why it is bad for the economy. Not everything is a worldwide government conspiracy.

TOGTFO · 4 days

It would rise the amount of energy consumed by the server and maybe additional cooling costs if an AC is used (what is probable). The cost of the additional electricity would probably be higher then the worth of the bitcoin created. There is a reason why miners don't user obsolete computers they would get for free.

MrWeiner · 6 days

I said thermal explosion. If the water in the lower levels of the building would not have been removed, a steam explosion would have destroyed the plant and released all nuclear material. Look here: http://youtu.be/P25W8xISwA4?t=2m58s

MrWeiner · 7 days

No, Chernobyl was not the worst case scenario. It lost maybe 5% of its inventory. Without intervention a thermal explosion would have released all of it.

lowsodiumpolio · 8 days

Farnsworth: Good Lord! I'm getting a reading of over 40 mega-Fonzies

AviusQuovis · 9 days

Meanwhile, the owners of IGR wrote several letters to the National Commission for Nuclear Energy, warning them about the danger of keeping a teletherapy unit at an abandoned site, but they could not remove the equipment by themselves once a court order prevented them from doing so.

CopRock · 15 days

I haven't read this book, but what you are describing makes no sense. What's traveling between the universes exactly when there's already an ship at the desired location in the target universe? It would make more sense, if you could call in a ship from another universe that is at the desired location in some kind of cosmic exchange bazaar. But in that case, from the viewpoint of the crew, it would definitely travel between universes and not locations.

darko1984 · 25 days

There are multiple stories to this. The most likely I think is, that the whole thing was a trap for unlicensed merchandise makers. But because it had to be rather secretive to work, some companies with an actual license also fell for it.

JosephAM · 1 month

As part of our review, we came to the conclusion that feature additions such as aLinux version, Multiplayer PvP, and Cooperative Play are beyond the scope of the project and would cause us to lose focus on the game you reacted to so positively (and the game we really want to make).

So, no linux support

who_whom · 1 month

So nothing

enforceCM · 1 month

Here is the reason why:

HUMAN POWERED - Autonomous Energy Reclamation Systems

By Hugh Darrow

Excerpt from an article first published in The New Cybernetics & Robotics Journal (Feb/March Edition, 2016).

But of course, it’s pointless designing these kinds of desktop wonders if the actual device is incapable of operating in the real world, without recourse to an infinite supply of battery packs or power generation vectors. What powers the human machine? That’s where we must look in order to power the next generation of cybernetic augmentation technologies - until such times as we can create small, light weight energy cells capable of running far beyond the lifetime of our products, we fall short.

An energy conversion device is the answer; on the scale we’re capable of manufacturing now, I’m confident we can create a unit small enough to be implanted, powerful enough to make the best use of chemical energy found in a human body. We do this by mimicking the human digestive process, improving upon the natural method of nutrient conversion from, say, a liquid slurry - perhaps some form of organic protein matrix - directly to chemical potential; the capability also exists to derive neurochemical-specific energy signifiers.

Basically his augmentations are powered by chemical energy like glucose. The converter deliver enough energy for normal use, but to take out an guard in a split-second more is needed. This extra energy is provided by an capacitor that get charged over time by the chemical converter.

Because the capacitor bleeding energy when fully charged, the converter can do only one under normal condition. Only with hi-glucose food, additional capacitors can be quickly charged, before the converter must revert to conservation charging.

haija · 2 months

What bike? Not even soda cans are allowed through the blockade!

trot-trot · 2 months

I think they are referring to the actual cost of the procedure.

mulch17 · 2 months

Mainland Australia is a continent, not an island.

mulch17 · 2 months

NO!

is·land

noun 1. a tract of land completely surrounded by water, *and not large enough to be called a continent. *

mulch17 · 2 months

Island?

Just a little comparison: http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2010/10/true-size-of-africa.jpg

llII · 2 months

Blame Canada!

buswork · 2 months

I guess it is not a 3 law robot then.

HeavenSk8 · 2 months

--directed by M. Night Shyamalan

qpawn · 2 months

Maybe multiple Memorybanks with an MMU to switch, like the C128 and the original PC used.

hgpot · 2 months

Yes, it killed OS/2. Everyone just made Windows programs because they also run on OS/2. Until Win32 came along...

Chachoregard · 2 months

delete their Facebooks

Your naivety is cute.

1337F4P5 · 2 months

From 5 to 8 March 2009, a workshop took place in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, that featured three American evangelical Christians: Scott Lively, an author who has written several books opposing homosexuality; Caleb Lee Brundidge, a self-professed former gay man who conducts sessions to heal homosexuality; and Don Schmierer, a board member of Exodus International, an organisation devoted to promoting "freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ".[13] The theme of the conference, according to The New York Times, was the "gay agenda": "how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how 'the gay movement is an evil institution' whose goal is 'to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity' ".[11] An Anglican priest from Zambia named Kapya Kaoma was in attendance, and reported on the conference. Ugandan Stephen Langa organised it, and was supported by Lively, who asserted in his workshops that homosexuality was akin to child molestation and bestiality, and causes higher rates of divorce and HIV transmission. Lively's emphasis was on the cohesion of the African family, that he said was being threatened by "homosexuals looking to recruit youth into their ranks". According to Kaoma, during the conference, one of the thousands of Ugandans in attendance announced, "[The parliament] feels it is necessary to draft a new law that deals comprehensively with the issue of homosexuality and...takes into account the international gay agenda... Right now there is a proposal that a new law be drafted."[14

Sources from the Footnotes:

11: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html

13: http://web.archive.org/web/20101226032522/http://www.exodusinternational.org/content/category/6/24/57/

14: http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v24n4/us-christian-right-attack-on-gays-in-africa.html

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