The biggest reason for me to use an OTA is the free cancellation policy, I've never found any hotel site that has the kind of flexibility I'm looking for.
> Maybe a simple set of questions would help: You don’t feel some art is better or special? Or you don’t feel a person can discern between art that is better or worse, even in the most extreme cases? Or is it something else?
Yes, but that is the point I think, subjectivity. You also feel that way for different reasons, and who's to judge which of us is objectively right?
“who's to judge which of us is objectively right?”
History, hiring committees, the general public, artists assessment of their own work, artists assessments of other peoples work, common sense, to name a few. Obviously I have come to my own conclusion on the matter. My interest is in why others can’t see what to me seems self evident. I too used to not understand, to think it’s all subjective, that there is no there there. But I hadn’t thought about it deeply enough. It seems some are confused because of books they’ve read or ideas put forth by thinkers they’ve found persuasive. I guess I would need to read all of those the same books to understand their position, but what’s the point if I know they are wrong? When alchemy was a thing I might need to read enormously to understand the full scope of the beliefs of those practitioners. A waste of time frankly.
I like to engage who have less invested in their own mistaken conclusion about art, because many people are like me or Paul, ready to be turned around if prompted to really think about it more deeply. Those people may find, as I have, that art becomes much more meaningful and enriching when you believe there’s something to it. To believe it’s all subjective is a great insult to the professionals and artists who devote themselves to it. It robs the person who possessed those beliefs of the opportunity to fully appreciate art. I know this from personal experience. I’ll leave it at that. A long way of saying I agreed with the essay.
I've been using it with a couple of other people and testing transfers between private wallets, chivo wallets, conversion between USD and BTC in small amounts, it hasn't failed on me yet.
I've also bought in a supermarket with it, again small amounts 8.00 USD to be precise (avocados and some other stuff), a lot of businesses take BTC now, some of these businesses are:
- Super Selectos (biggest supermarket chain here in ES)
- Walmart (second biggest supermarket chain here in ES)
- Siman (electronics, furniture, clothes)
- ZARA (clothing)
- Starbucks
- Mcdonald's
- Pollo Campero
these are just some examples, a bunch more are taking BTC payments from chivo wallet and really any LN compatible wallet.
you can take your money out of the government wallet by:
1. linking your existing bank account and transferring USD to your bank
2. cashing out in one of the 200 ATMs
3. transferring your BTC to a private wallet
for me personally, superficially it works, the inner workings are opaque tho, I don't expect every BTC in government wallets to actually be backed by an actual BTC for example, the government does not have enough BTC to cover the $30 USD in BTC bonus they've been giving out, and not every BTC you get in the chivo wallet is reflected somehow in the blockchain.
again my use has been pretty limited, I've day-traded with really small amounts, I've read people complaining about bank transfers taking a few days or not working at all (balance disappears from app, does not appear on bank), or ATMs being out of cash, or ATMs subtracting amounts from wallet and not giving money, I have not tried to do any of these yet though
other issue is security, the facial verification seems to be a facade so anyone with your DUI (similar to SSN, but it is public knowledge) and your birth date can claim your account and your $30 bonus if you haven't, and also potentially make financial transactions with your ID tied to them.
sounds like a beefed up unix philosophy, I think command pipes in the shell gave us something very similar to this idea way back, except that it doesn't really lend itself to complex programs like I think you're suggesting
Personally I think there's possibly an intersection of people who want a "dumb" tv and people who would do something similar to this, I for example, would love to have a "dumb" tv and just hook up one of those firestick/chromecast/other-product dongles into one of the available HDMI ports.
I really see no point in having an integrated computer in my TV that's just gonna be stop being supported a couple of years down the road, might as well have that part be detachable for when it becomes obsolete, I'd just buy a new one, the display would still be good.
I do this with a PC monitor and some powered bookshelf speakers. Works pretty well since I live in a tiny place and have no room for a TV and PC setup. You can even get 40" ones these days. They do lack some TV features like I wish it had an optical out. Mine has a headphone out but the DAC makes everything sound like turds. A cheap HDMI switch solved that issue though.
Is it a distribution problem? They can't build enough power cables, or they've already built them over as far an extent as is manageable? I can see how it's easier to just put a big data center on site, but it seems like it would be better to invest differently.
To invest in a data center requires things like reliable property rights, a functioning judicial system, peace and security, network connectivity and other supply chain issues. You want rule of law, peace, security and infrastructure.
The advantage of bitcoin is that once you mine the coins, it is a lot harder for someone to come and take them from you, whether that someone is a rebel group or a corrupt government official or just a local crime syndicate. Moreover you are not dependent on available network backbones or any of the other required infrastructure that a data center depends upon.
I think you misunderstood my question. My guess is that the plan to use the volcano for mining bitcoin is to put a big bitcoin mining data center close to it and powered by it. My question is why this is better than expanding distribution of the power generated to be used for more useful things across the country and region.
My guess would be that those other useful things also require rule of law, taxation capacity, property rights, social organization, etc, in order to be feasible long term investments.
I wonder if that is the ideal path though, I was an instructor for a few subjects in my university and sometimes the biggest detractor for students was the lack of familiarity with the tool set used by the language,
for example, people sometimes did not know how to freeze their dependencies and use python virtual environments when working with python projects, that lead to problems in collaboration, handing students "magic" prefabricated environments could lead them to believe that that's all there is to it, and explaining that it is not to the student in an edge case might end up being less productive than understanding this process from the get go
you could say that the _effort_ to set up a development machine should be part of the learning experience, at least that's what I think.
I remember seeing my classmates having their first freelance jobs and editing minified css/javascript directly because they did not know anything about the transpiling that goes on or the toolset surrounding javascript and web development
It’s even funnier when those same devs who struggle with packaging and distribution in their best language go on to work at Fortune 500 companies and require constant devops assistance to actually make what they wrote work in even a test env. “But it works on my laptop!”
