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Motivation determines if it's illegal. There's plenty of legal precedent for brokers setting assets to liquidation-only when they might not meet their margin requirements.

I have used the app for years and left a 1-star rating. It is still there, but think it's most likely shadow-removed from the visible ratings.

If they had genuine gripes with the product then no.

Found this neat site while looking for snow conditions. Created in 1996 (clearly), yet still updated often!

Found this neat site while looking for snow conditions. Created in 1996 (clearly), yet still updated often!

As of right now yes, but when there are more stakeholders and clear/imminent threats to the chain there will likely be more discussion. All proposed forks thus far have been unnecessary for the short-term success of the chain.

A bit late to this but a few things:

If BTC is not dead by then, it will likely have some sort of active user base, meaning non-zero fees.

If the fees are low, verifiers will stop verifying.

If enough stop verifying, the prize pool grows (more network congestion leads to higher fees). This eventually stabilizes at some equilibrium (likely leading to a weaker chain, if profit is the only motivator).

It's also worth noting that if BTC has seen enough adoption to be sustainable for the next 100 years, there are likely many many stakeholders who could/would mine for "altruistic" reasons. E.g. financial institutions and other large holders have incentives to keep the network stable.

Hell, maybe by then they get enough people on board for a BTC 2 that's some weird Ethereum competitor. It's really hard to theorize on that long of a time horizon.

Yeah really depends on how deep your effect tree is. I made this point in another post but the human-hours/waste required to keep VISA running should be taken into account. Also the power put into BTC is used to secure the network- it isn't exactly "wasted."

It's a pretty standard rebasing token. Essentially tries to manufacture a peg to some asset by aggressively controlling supply.

That just establishes a price floor. Gold's "inherent" value is substantially below the current price. It is, like BTC, a largely speculative asset that holds the majority of its value "because other people also want it."

No no, but in the UI you can see what your friends are listening to (if you're added as friends). Example I found online (the right bar is the friends feed):

https://miro.medium.com/max/3836/1*C_ImLXQdMOGljMRhLcV-Yw.jp...

You can disable sharing altogether if you want. This is specifically for a single "session." Like if you want to listen to a guilty pleasure and don't want your friends bugging you about it

It's a spotify profile- would love to see how someone could weaponize music taste

Not sure how much damage / utility music activity + profile pic + username have.

Stalker + fan specifically

I think this was more a joke about superpositions than "anything can happen"

There is no "transmission." When you measure you learn the state of one of the particles, and you can use that information to deduce the state of the other (which until measurement is indeterminate). You can see that this information is useless unless communicated classically.

If you're looking at USD as the base asset, computers are undergoing inflation, not deflation. Both USD and computers are inflating in supply, but computers are inflating faster (in terms of processing power at least)- hence the continuous drop in price. You could argue USD is deflating in comparison to computers, but computers are not deflating in comparison to USD.

Edit for a bit more clarity: Inflation / Deflation is relative to a "base asset" which is considered unchanged in value. For USD this is normally a standard basket of assets (foreign currencies or a "market basket").

Kinda unintuitive, but if you look at processing power as a currency, it is actually undergoing hyperinflation (number of computers + processing power increases every year). Meaning you buy a computer, assuming its value will drop (due to the inflationary nature).

How much energy do you think the current financial system consumes? Eg paying for a pack of gum with your Mastercard

Edit: This wasn't intended to be a hypothetical- I agree BTC uses significantly more per transaction, but I'm curious how it compares to the entirety of a system like Mastercard divided by number of transactions (including all employee/office space/commute/etc energy consumption). There are clearer/fewer inputs for Bitcoin for sure but that doesn't mean we shouldn't account for the total environmental cost of a behemoth like Mastercard.

Bitcoin can never and should never replace our current payments network as it simply cannot scale in its current form. But, I do think people simply look at the cost to run the technology itself and assume that's the total environmental cost of a system.

Inflation is good for currencies / anything that's meant to be used.

Yes- the OP means to say the issue isn't necessarily the tech but how the energy powering the tech is generated. For example a large amount of miners in China run on the cheapest local electricity source which happens to be hydroelectric.

They're generally unique within a country but not between countries. Eg "Intrepid Mines trades in Canada on the TSX as IAU whereas in the US, IAU is the iShares gold trust ETF" [0]

[0] https://www.quora.com/Can-2-publicly-traded-companies-have-t...

Probably because Dubsmash doesn't have a comparable user base. Fewer eyes -> fewer $$$

Fizz-buzz is a well-defined specific task. It's not a stand-in for a generic easy question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz

Yeah a little misleading with the 7 year gap. Still impressive! Not many creative projects I've spent 400 hours on...

Genuine question: Do they ever not give a nobel prize? Have there been years where no significant progress was made?

He's just saying that to highlight that we shouldn't be attempting to draw any broad conclusions as other commenters are.

https://cloud.google.com/support It's not ANY, but it's all GSuite/GCP products.

Civil cases still revolve around law violations- they just aren't brought by the government.

Edit: I was wrong :)