you seem to think about cryptocurrencies like gold as well; an investment.
because that is what it actually is used for.
My question was about the future of them as a normal currency
That is dead and burred.
The one thing a currency needs is a relatively stable value, otherwise it is useless as a medium of exchange…ie: money.
While crypto is as stable as that bear that ate a couple of kg of cocaine.
I think of it as a ponzi scheme because that us what it has become.
They will continue to be a ponzi scam that hopeful idiots will keep losing money on.
Did you read the comment you replied to or did you just spit out this pre-packaed reply that addresses nothing the original comment raised?
Simply put.
We wouldn’t notice anything.
Our perception of the world would be based only on the compute cycles and not on any external time-frame.
The machine could run at a Million Billion hertz or at one clock-cycle per century and your perception of time inside the machine would be the same.
Same with low ram, we would have no indication if we were constantly being paged out to a hard drive and written back to ram as required.
Greg Egan gave a great explanation of this in the opening chapter of his Novel Permutation City
Tiger in India.
She did nothing violent. I was watching from a tour 4wd from about 40m away. She was taking a drink on the other side of a creek for about 30s. Then lifted her head, looked at us and turned and loped up the steep hill behind her.
The effortless power of her acceleration of a body that big.
Yup. Though original is probably the better description.
The police went to apprehend the female suspects at a private house in Yalta but were surprised to find them “well armed” and “well prepared,” the post said.
You are surprised that two resistance fighters who risked their lives to kill the invaders were prepared for shit to get hot?..
It’s a me, Mario Margot.
Is this a kissing book?
My name is James Tiberius Kirk, you killed my friend, prepare to die!
No one really cares about the semantics of royalty.
Question for the questioner:
if some group started operations on the Russian troops
What group are you talking about?
Hint: No one in NATO wants anything in Russia.
This reads like my first troll account
Ship based lasers are also in use as prototypes by the US.
Lasers will always be in the prototype stage as they have been since the days of the Reagan administration
40+ years ago.
2021: How Close Is the Navy to Putting Lasers on Its Warships?
2010: Boeing designs ship-based laser weapon system
2001: The Promise and Problems of Laser Weapons
Their use in SF movies are far, far from reality.
The simple measure measure of covering a drove in mylar reflects 90% of the incoming radiation, meaning your system now needs to be 10 times more powerful to be effective.
About 50 cargo ships pass through the red sea every day. Is there enough naval vessels to escort each one?
IIRC A carrier strike group has about 10 ships…
Are you seriously equating building a tank to building two nuclear powered submarines?
One is an attack sub with an estimated cost of ~500M USD
The other is a nuclear missile sub with an estimated cost of ~700M USD
While a t90SM is ~4,.5M USD
Nukes are a phantom menace. Great to have a few to stop getting invaded but completely useless as offensive force projection.
If all the money and talent spent on this thing had been spent of conventional forces Ukraine would be in a lot more trouble than it is now.
I spent a decade working in insolvency.
When we were going into a business that had failed the question was “Are the idiots, criminals or both?”
One highlight:
A boat sales / marine business goes bust. When we arrive with the paper work and seize the place there are about a dozen new boats on the lot worth several million. We change the locks on the gates.
Arrive the next day, the gates have been busted open and several million in boats are now missing. We look up the addresses of the owners (one of them lives on acreage) and drive to their property…from the road we can see the boats stashed there. Really smart guys.
So we call the police. Someone inside notices use there and decides to flee with one of the boats, it is huge but they think they can get away.
We then have the slowest car chase in history as we calmly follow this guy towing a boat on a trailer down the road while talking to the cops to meet us.
For which party?
None of them seems to have any solution to the issues.
Beijing offered Taiwan pilot US$15 million to steal US-made helicopter: court
The pilot, identified by his surname Hsieh, was approached in June by mainland Chinese intelligence officials through a retired Taiwanese army officer to fly the CH-47 Chinook helicopter onto the aircraft carrier
The ch-47 is a 62 year old design, surely it would have been cheaper for the PLA just to buy one second hand from the many countries that operate them.
I hate to tell your this but his mother lived to 106…