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Comment Level playing field. (Score 2, Funny) 96

Good. That's what I expect from the EU. They should make sure that the playing field is even and that everyone has the same opportunity. And they should probably do more. Why isn't there a european Facebook? Or a european Google? Or Amazon? Apple? Microsoft?

Why isn't there a single european tech company on the top 10?
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment Yammer? (Score 1) 30

What's the use? I mean, really?
This looks like a limited social media app, much like yammer. I don't use yammer and I probably won't use this. An email seems easier to use, and it gets pushed directly to the recipients inbox.

I really hate the "Someone said something on some network that we'll have you visit just to find out that it didn't interest you anyway" emalis that I get. Which is probably why I stopped using social media.

Yeah. Good luck with G++ google. I think is has the life expectancy of an antivaxxers kid.

Comment Netfix+ (Score 1) 205

I'd actually pay a little extra, say 1-2EUR on my Netflix account if it allowed me to view shows from some other network. Pay a little extra to Netflix and get 3h of viewing of another providers content, delivered through the same account/subscription I already have.
I'm sure they could work out a deal if they only wanted to.

But alas, Popcorntime is still a better experience. Or so I'm told.

Submission + - London facial recognition test fails to arrest anyone (independent.co.uk)

Bruce66423 writes: After all the concern about the trial, it appears to have been a bust. "Police have admitted that no one was arrested during a trial of controversial facial recognition technology, which sparked privacy and human rights concerns." OTOH this may lead us to get to get complacent about the threat that is out there, which this Washington Post article about the Chinese system reveals https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com...

Comment Information warfare (Score 1, Interesting) 125

It's a bit scary how easy it is to knock peoples main source of information offline. This time I don't think there was anything more to it, but in case a real attack is happening, cutting people off from what's happening is one of the first things that you do.
Could we use p2p in some form here, making sure that information can be distributed as long as there are people connected?

.haeger

Comment Re:They're bums, why keep them around (Score 2) 743

Greece shouldn't have been allowed into the Eurozone in the first place. The government at the time falsified and hacked [wikipedia.org] balance sheets, economic and financial data to be allowed into the Eurozone.
And now the people, who had very little to do with that, will have to pay the price.

Comment The new 0.01%? (Score 1) 583

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbitcointalk.org%2Findex.php%3Ftopic%3D48521.0
From 2011.

As best I can tell 35.5% of all bitcoins have already been minted. These 7,473,950 coins are all property of existing bitcoin users. There seem to be about 41,280 registered members of this site. I'll be generous and say there are ten times as many bitcoin users as there are members. That means about 410,280 bitcoin owners with on average 18 BTC each. Clearly BTC ownership is more concentrated than this, but lets be egalitarian for the moment.

If we pretended all bitcoin owners were all Americans that is about 0.13% of the population. It's not of course. Bitcoin is intended to be a world currency. So 0.0068% of the world population own 100% of all current and at least 35.5% of all possible bitcoins.

The view on this forum is that the world will come to their senses, throw out fiat currencies and move to something rational like Bitcoin. This of course means 6,000,000,000 people basically begging to use a resource owned by a relative handful of people. Say we just minted up the remaining 13,526,050 BTC and scattered them to late adopters purely out of the kindness in our hearts. That means about 0.00225 BTC for each of them to use in rebuilding their economy. Sure 18 BTC on average doesn't make us feel very rich. But it is 8,000 times what everyone else would have if we stopped competitive minting today.

But we won't stop competing of course. Sometime around Pearl Harbor Day of next year Bitcoin will hit the 50% distributed mark.

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By that day, how many active Bitcoin users and daily goods trades do there need to be to make a sustainable Bitcoin economy viable?
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Because to potential new adopters, after that point Bitcoin is going to look like a new a 21,000,000 coin currency with a 10,500,000 coin pre-generation that went to the creator and his "friends". Certainly people will stop caring about Bitcoin long before they show up on our doorsteps with signs saying,

"We are the 99.9932%!"

Comment Nutritionfacts (Score 1) 470

A page about nutrition and what science has to say about it. All videos have links to the original research so that you can check that the good Dr isn't making shit up.
There are a few videos about endotoxins and their effect. Feel free to have a look.
http://nutritionfacts.org/index.php?s=endotoxins

The guys solution is probably not what most people have in mind.
So far I haven't seen anyone well researched refute the guy.
This was the video lecture that got me interested in what he had to say: http://nutritionfacts.org/video/uprooting-the-leading-causes-of-death/

Businesses

Submission + - Tech Manufacturing is a Disaster Waiting to Happen 2

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Peter Cochrane writes that since globalization took hold, geographic diversity has become distorted along with the resilience of supply so we now have a concentration of limited sourcing and manufacture in the supply chain in just one geographic region, south-east Asia, amounting to a major disaster just waiting to happen. "Examples of a growing supply-chain brittleness include manufacturers temporarily denuded of LCD screens, memory chips and batteries by fires, a tsunami, and industrial problems," writes Cochrane. "With only a few plants located in south-east Asia, we are running the gauntlet of man-made and natural disasters." Today, PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones are produced by just 10 dominant contract manufacturers spearheaded by Foxconn of Taiwan, which manufactures for Apple, Dell, HP, Acer, Sony, Nokia, Intel, Cisco, Nintendo and Amazon among others and the bad news is many of the 10 big players in the IT field are not making good profits so economic pressure could result in the 10 becoming seven. The problem is that economic theory and practice isn’t working and "making judgment calls using simplistic models of supply, demand, price and profit is far too crude a starting point," concludes Cochrane. "We need to include resilience, survivability, sustainability (PDF), people and ecological impact in the equation.""

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