Yeah, I can't really answer that one for you, I don't own any coins and I don't really have a need to (apart from maybe needing to be rich if I had bought some 2 years ago). We're right back where we started, just because we don't find any value in it, doesn't mean other people also don't. Sure, the market might be inflated at the moment and over valued but there's gotta be some truth somewhere in it otherwise people wouldn't have been using it for the whole time coins were cheap.
Here's one, people want to use bitcoin for transactions, as these blocks of transactions fill up, new hashes are needed for each block. The miners are finding these hashes and facilitating the continued use of the blockchain. I'm hazier on this one, but I believe transaction fees go to the finder of the hash? Anyway, wouldn't the value be is the protocol/platform itself, that's what people are buying in to, they want a usable, distributed ledger.
It makes perfect sense if you don't personally own or use Windows. I don't pay Microsoft again to play TitanFall just because their servers are hosted on Azure.
I understand we all probably use tools everyday that can be attributed to these projects and I don't mean to imply that you shouldn't give them money. Just that the Netflix/WhatsApp comments seem a little disingenuous. That shouldn't be in the "reasons you need BSD", those are just reasons Neflix and WhatsApp need BSD.
Possibly licensing? Not sure though, I run my gaming VM at home with hardware passthrough and basically no issues (except fairly slow disk i/o, maybe that is the issue?). I think KVM is simply stronger when it comes to resource management with its VMs also running the linux kernel, it doesn't get as much freedom to balance load across your windows VMs.
EDIT: The correct answer was posted by blinkingled before I finished typing this up hahah, read their post instead of this one :)
It has sync and backup options, tools for non destructive changes and robust search, a web UI so it can be used like a dropbox. Just because it's not useful to you doesn't mean it's useful to no one. Oh and importers for cloud things, they show off automatic sync pulling down a twitter feed and some foursquares check-ins.
Not an effort to sway your opinion, just pointing out that it's not really as simple as just saving images to a hard disk.
So I do think this is a cool idea, though I have found that my phone usually gorges on battery power when it isn't in range of a tower (I'd love to hear the exact reason it would if anyone knows). An "airplane mode" pocket sounds handy and interesting, but I'd hate for it to drain my battery while the device is desperately trying to phone home.
Aren't all of those things only a tiny fraction of our oil usage though? The entire global plastic industry accounts for < 5% of the oil we dig up IIRC. The vast majority is turned in to fuel.
I know this isn't the whole picture, but doesn't a spike in inflation imply some kind of dilution of value? It's not as though the govt would be creating currency to fund this, it was collected from somewhere. Doesn't the idea that the price of everything will go up because some guy in a suit noticed that everyone has more money to spend, fall apart the second a competitor decides to keep their prices low?
Things like rent and certain utilities I can understand this might happen to but a mass devaluing of a currency just because the flow of money is routed a little different doesn't smell right to me.
which is obvious because a gyro is not rigid and has parts the move relative to each other, but would the entire system feel a force if exerted on it and correct it's orientation? What would it be "pointed" at? If it did, wouldn't that imply an absolute point of reference?
if the DAC only exists between the logic board and the analog jack then there is a good chance it isn't being piped back in to the lightning port. Even then, I really doubt an entire pin on the lightning connector is dedicated to analog signal, so a DAC would have to exist on the other end of your lightning cable anyway; I suspect this is where your difference in quality come from.
It was a piece of plastic... You really believe that much teeth pulling surrounding the removal of a jack was the rational alternative to a less accurate altimeter?
Not familiar with the source from the parent, but the "point" to anything depends on a form of consciousness assigning that definition. There is no point to a water logged ball of rock, orbiting a giant ball of hot gas unless there is someone on that rock to say "the point of this rock is so I may exist.". Ignoring some cosmic creators with some purpose for us to exist (which would just be another form of consciousness), the whole point is decided by us. So without us, there would be no point.
I developed this habit in highschool but no one else I know seems to have picked it up, interesting to see it discussed here :) I get VERY sleepy whenever I'm on a bus now, even 7 years of car commuting later.
In the video two comments up, they explain that a different kind of TBM is used for waterlogged boring. Bentonite is used to keep pressure on the tunnel face instead of the bored material, the slurry is then separated with a centrifuge and piped back to the face/out of the tunnel.
That is a given. Dark matter isn't really that clean either, it breaks what we know about the standard model and known particles, something that the folks at CERN keep confirming as they break in to new and uncharted areas of what we can observe experiment. Your statement is less enlightening as it is simply stating the inaccurate nature of a model.
I've always wondered about the CBM in this instance. Isn't that technically an opaque horizon of light? I understand that it's not stars per se, and that there is technically stuff "beyond" that, but doesn't that count as a "bright" night sky? Just not in the visible spectrum.
There has been work done toward re-working our current laws to fit observation without dark matter, but I think it just breaks way more stuff than it solves. The new model ends up being a worse fit for pretty much everything else but the galaxy rotation thing.
We already have weakly interacting particles like the neutrino, which don't interact with matter outside of the weak force, making them rather difficult to detect, it's not really that far out of the realm of possibility to have other particles that only interact via the gravitational force.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but we aren't talking about immigration policy here, we are talking about whether or not Patreon's content policy was violated.
Ignoring your apparent political motivation to keep these people out of Europe (which is not really what is being discussed), the fact still stands that without these ships, human people are at greater risk of drowning. As I stated in an earlier post, there are better ways to stop people smuggling than letting the people being smuggled, drown at sea.
Does that change the fact without the NGO craft, people aboard the raft are at greater risk of drowning? All of this just sounds like justification for allowing people to drown. I'm sure there are better ways to prevent people smugglers than blockading the part of the operation that prevents human deaths.
Sure, assuming Doctors Without Borders is in the people smuggling business now, it is still a seaworthy vessel instead of a makeshift raft, the kind that is responsible for that drowned toddler washing up on European shores which is specifically used as an example of the possible harm that would be in breach of the company's content policy.