1,918 karma · joined September 4, 2012
We all understand thats not possible, hence the rise of bitcoin (and other hedges). Bitcoin is a response to a failing financial system, not the cause of its collapse. In a sane world with sane money, the project would've never gotten off the ground.
2+2=5.
It's become increasingly common to see the word "ponzi" applied to what is just really a "speculative investment".
Its a shame this is continually being done, because its a real destruction of language meaning. A "ponzi scheme" is an intentional act to defraud...using a portion of investor funds to pay other investors in hopes of attracting more and more investors. The conman then times his exit appropriately once some critical mass of investors rush in.
A risky or speculative investment is just that. There is no intent to defraud. The continual lazy use of "ponzi" does lots of harm since it unfairly implies 'an intentional act to defraud'.
NFT's are their manufactured attempt to build a Crypto V2 market they think they can control. 90% of the stories you read about in the press about NFT's are placed there by these same VC investors. They are desperately trying to viral market fomo response for their useless tokens....sorry their authentic original JPG's....
Its really quite sad.
A glass of water would be priced differently in the middle of the desert as opposed to next to the ocean.
Compare and contrast the average newspaper article written in say 1921 compared to now. The difference in comprehension level is pretty glaring.
UDS can be permissioned using standard unix USER/GROUP which adds more flexible security structure (more so when you combine UDS with SE Linux).
This is opposed to localhost which is much harder to firewall from-localhost->to-localhost
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
Perhaps its just the quality of blackmail the CCP has on them....
Do you have a source for that?
They are one of the few companies actually trying to change the spyware model of the web into something much more in line with its original principals (p2p ethos)
YouTube's collapse is rather spectacular to watch.
If even 10% of the claims here are valid then it calls all the results into question where these machines were used.
It was handled in a very hamfisted way. Permitting entities to rebase from C7 -> C8 and then pulling the plug has caused tremendous ill will.
Hopefully you are not in charge of IT security?
That sounds like someone thats pretty scared and knows they are guilty. Sad.
"the probability of Joe Biden winning the popular vote in the four states independently given President Trump’s early lead in those States as of 3 a.m. on November 4, 2020, is less than one in a quadrillion."
This seems to indicate fraud.
I understand it was an attempt to police spam. However I still think that slashdot perhaps struck the right balance (the old slashdot I mean, I don't know how they do it now). Randomly a small percentage of users get mod ability when they read the threads which enables them to vote / classify / tag spam.
As it happens, a few months after I did that my hard drive failed on my Centos desktop. I was able to install a new drive, install base OS, and run my ansible role(s). Within ~45 mins I was back to my exact desktop with all local files restored from backup.
Since then I've kept up any small changes by keeping my roles in sync with my setup. The result is a self-documenting setup. I started this as an excuse to learn ansible but I now realize I've relieved lots of mental burdens from myself. Its so nice to go thru life now confident that I can go from complete bare-metal to "my setup" over lunch.