I've also seen speculation that it's an engineering experiment to see if they can squeeze all the essential components of a high-powered computer into a space the size of the camera plateau. Which may eventually lead to viable AR Glasses (or a cheaper Vision).
I don't think that's the point. Sure you can vote with your wallet, but it is still pretty annoying to have an insurance salesperson or a telemarketer make an irrelevant sales pitch to you every few minutes.
While targetted ads should technically alleviate this annoyance, in reality it doesn't really work as well as advertised (pardon the pun).
Agreed. Similar reason why Starbucks has a Venti size and no longer lists their Short size on the menu – so that it makes it more reasonable (from a consumer standpoint) to purchase the medium-range option (Grande), thus pushing up the average price point.
Not saying that iPhones are priced the same way as lattes, but that's a known pricing consideration.
I've got a team exploring the idea of executing a smart contract that transfers assets (be it crypto-asset or real world assets) upon a specific real-world trigger event (via oracles).
But you're right, the legal issues are a dime and a dozen. It'll take some time for the law to catch up (eg. digital wills). The technology is ready for this, we just need to right confluence of factors to make this a reality.
> But Satoshi also recognized that having more computing power on the network made the network stronger as long as the people with the power, like Laszlo, wanted to see Bitcoin succeed.
Not sure if I entirely agree with/understand this. Even if they do want Bitcoin to succeed, how different is it from the current capitalist system if 40% of the bitcoins are owned by 1% of the population?
Doesn't the (economic) power that Bitcoin takes away from governments end up in the hands of a select few? We are then back to square one.
Depending on whether you used their internal wallet (which they heavily incentivised), sellers might have lost their earnings in BTC from selling their hashpower.
I'll be damned if Uber isn't a required case study for business school students in the (near) future. They are fast becoming the Enron of this generation.
That's really surprising considering that we've seen beta releases of iOS for quite a number of years now.
Isn't the point of a beta release to make sure that the OS is battle-tested with users who would use it like they do in real life?
Would have thought it might have covered most of the typical real-world use cases. Especially since it probably has one of the highest number of users/testers of any beta software programs.
Don't mean to be a downer, but it feels like we'll get to self-driving cars before we can automate/autopilot drones.
Having to consider additional degrees of freedom (z-axis, correction for wind/weather conditions) makes autopiloting drones additional degrees of magnitude harder.
How does Bitcoin make the transition from a gold-like store-of-value to a medium-of-exchange then?
If the general consensus is that Bitcoin's value will continue to appreciate, it makes more sense for one to hoard it rather than to use it as digital currency.
I've also seen speculation that it's an engineering experiment to see if they can squeeze all the essential components of a high-powered computer into a space the size of the camera plateau. Which may eventually lead to viable AR Glasses (or a cheaper Vision).