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I really don't even understand how people come for conclusions like this, how is the leader of the freeworld a puppet which is controlled by somoene else? Makes no sense to me personally.
The leader of the freeworld? You mean the Western Block? Or do you mean all non-communist countries? Donald Trump is the president of one country, the United States of America. He is not the leader of any "world". You don't believe that the president of the US has ever been a puppet? The idea is that huge companies finance and hugely influence the government leaders. They get the government to implement policies that will be beneficial to them.Re: Hard disk capacity will become a bottleneck in the development of Bitcoin
The size of the blockchain is 178 GB as hugeblack has pointed out. This is not very large by today's standards, even my phone has enough storage space to hold the full Bitcoin blockchain. Yes the blockchain will continue to grow in size, but there is a fixed amount it can grow yearly, it cannot continue to grow exponentially, so there is no reason not to think that this aspect of Bitcoin can't scale.
There are a certain amount of blocks per year, and those blocks can only hold so much space. So with 52,560 blocks per year (avg 144 blocks/day * 365 days/year), and with each of those blocks having 100% segwit tx usage, that would put the block size at about 4 MBs (some say 1.6MB - 2 MB). 4 MB/block * 52,560 blocks/year is a maximum of 205 GBs of data added to the blockchain per year. This is not an exponential number. We aren't even close to the blocks being this full/large, but we already have the storage to meet this demand. Once we are seeing 100% full blocks at 4 MB/block I'm sure 205 GBs of data per year will be nothing in terms of storage space.
Nice phone. Haha! I also got a 200 GB SD card last year, it's very nice. I don't come anywhere close to filling it up though, of course.There are a certain amount of blocks per year, and those blocks can only hold so much space. So with 52,560 blocks per year (avg 144 blocks/day * 365 days/year), and with each of those blocks having 100% segwit tx usage, that would put the block size at about 4 MBs (some say 1.6MB - 2 MB). 4 MB/block * 52,560 blocks/year is a maximum of 205 GBs of data added to the blockchain per year. This is not an exponential number. We aren't even close to the blocks being this full/large, but we already have the storage to meet this demand. Once we are seeing 100% full blocks at 4 MB/block I'm sure 205 GBs of data per year will be nothing in terms of storage space.
I don't understand that much about how the blocks work, so thanks for your explanation. I read on another thread that people were concerned that the blockchain size is doubling every year. It's nice to know that that's not possible. I found a graph of the current blockchain size. (https://www.blockchain.com/charts/blocks-size?timespan=all). It seems a bit alarming, but judging by what you said, I guess it'll become more linear in the near future. I think Bitcoin has a bunch of problems, but storage space shouldn't be one of them. In 2016 Seagate shows off a 60TB SSD. Storage space is growing extremely quickly, much faster than blockchain.
Does Trump even have any real power or is he just another puppet controlled by the illumanati?
What are you opinions?
Honestly, the first time I heard about Trump running for president, I thought it was kinda cool. I thought that it would be good for a billionaire to be president because he won't be so easily influenced by big money. I figured that he shouldn't be so interested in money for big corporations. This was before I realize how much of an idiot he can be sometimes. I still don't know what to think about that. I'm sort of leaning towards the fact that he himself is from the "illuminati". That's probably the most convenient thing for them. Why screw around with puppets if you can just send the puppet master out to get the job done.What are you opinions?
What are your plans for the future, in 5 years, 10 years etc.? What do you intend to do and what interests do you intend to pursue?
I would really love to have some children. I feel like I've spent enough time on myself. I'd like to dedicate myself to raising kids. I think this is one of the best things a person can do for the world, to raise good, smart children. They will do more good than I ever could. I'm also thinking about immigrating. It's not that I don't like where I live, but there are so many different ways to live in the world. I feel like it would be sad to spend my whole like in one place and in one culture. I would also like to get into real estate investing. Hopefully I can get into that sooner than later.Everything in our lives is now in our phones.
Why should we carry a wallet or credit card?
I really do not understand that.
millions of counterfeit money is printed every day
There's a lot of fake money in the world.
Can credit cards prevent this?
Bitcoin will kill them.
I don't know why you carry a wallet and a credit card, haha. I just have literally everything on my phone. All of my loyalty cards are on my phone. I use Google Pay. I have all my debit and credit cards from different countries on one phone. I easily pay for everything in all store by just tapping my phone. I'm sure this will be possible with crypto in the future too, but an obvious solution to counterfeit money is already here. Just don't use physical money. It also helps in the stores, so I don't need to count my change to make sure I'm not getting ripped off.Why should we carry a wallet or credit card?
I really do not understand that.
millions of counterfeit money is printed every day
There's a lot of fake money in the world.
Can credit cards prevent this?
Bitcoin will kill them.
If I would check their military capabilities based on "quantity over quality", neglecting their huge resources, I would say that China will win the war with the United States since it has large population to conscript their soldiers. As the history proves that the finest tactics in infantry is through mass human charge. If the basis is "quality over quantity", neglecting their huge resources, I would say that the United States will win the war since they have the modern and complex military programs, equipments, and troops. If we neglect all of the basis, I think that the United States will win the war since they have the air and naval superiority while the Chinese are land superiority.
I think the days when you win a war on foot at long gone. I imagine one nuclear bomb could take out millions of soldiers. The Chinese can have 200 millions soldiers. That still won't help them that much if they don't have the equipment. Rifles aren't going to be able to take on bomber planes or rocket launchers. You have to be able to move them all around very quickly and it would be good if they all had some heavy equipment to work with. In terms of technology, I agree, it seems that the US is ahead. They'd better be, considering how many trillions of dollars they poor into it!China have factories, which work with equipment from former USSR, which is also very old. So you can understand, that China is very, very outdated. China can may be manufacture bicycles, but as far as I know even medium level quality bicycle manufacturing for China factories was very large problem for many years. 
Why are you talking about bicycles!? China makes just about anything you can think about in the world! China is the 3rd largest arms exported in the world after the US and Russia. They have plenty of weapons and they keep making more. I don't see how it's relevant, but I'm sure they have very modern bicycle factories. Does this look like it's from the former USSR? http://image5.sixthtone.com/image/0/17/300.jpg
There are so many things that were just theories in that we thought we could not attain, and now here we are,curing diseases, flying in the skies, now I hear there is a cure for cancer and AIDS. That which has been proven difficult to attain, humans have in times without numbers has beaten all odds.
So would not be surprise to hear that 100% human immortality is possible. By the curing of disease is kind of prolonging human life which I can term as partial human immortality.
Although it will take decades to attain this, but once this is discovered, it will be very expensive for many.
I guess I wrongly imagine that human immortality means that all humans with live forever. I suppose that for human immortality to be a reality, it would just take one person to live forever. I still don't think it's very likely any time soon. On one hand, people are resilient, but on the other hand we are quite fragile. People die just from tripping on the sidewalk and hitting their head. People will always die. I think that we'll continue to keep living longer, on average, but we'll still be dying.So would not be surprise to hear that 100% human immortality is possible. By the curing of disease is kind of prolonging human life which I can term as partial human immortality.
Although it will take decades to attain this, but once this is discovered, it will be very expensive for many.
So, after Venezuela did it, I guess it's becoming the trend now for countries to turn to crypto in attempt to avoid international sanctions and be able to move money abroad and bypass the restrictions. Doesn't that go hand in hand with the claim that Crypto is the choice for criminals? Or is it that when Governments do it it's not a crime? Haha
Criminals love traditional cash. This doesn't stop us from using cash. It doesn't make cash inherently bad. It's similar with crypto. Criminals may us it, but that doesn't mean it's bad. As far I understand, crypto can actually be more transparent than cash is. If there are no restrictions on transfering Bitcoin, you can't very well break them, can you? You can't violate a law that doesn't exist.It's pretty hard to compare. If you just compare their budgets, then the US should win. In 2016, the US $521.7 billion on their military. China "only" spent $146 billion. The fact that the government isn't spending as much on the military doesn't necessarily mean they are that much weaker. "According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, China became the world's third largest exporter of major arms in 2010-14" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_China). This means that they are creating a mass amount of weapons for other countries. In the case of a war, the government could probably just seize many more weapons that are being produced there.
I think human's immortality life is impossible.There is no medicine in the world which will make us immortality.To achieve immortality many pursuits and theories are needed.Many have achieved immortality in history,but there is no explanation for this.
Yes, it certainly seems like humans are far too fragile to be immortal. I definitely think that life expectancy will continue to increase, but there must be some limit. Technology is improving very quickly. Modern medicine has allowed us to eliminate many of the diseases that used to kill millions. Even now, there are many cases when people die "of old age". Doctors and coroners are literally unable to determine the cause of death. I'm sure this will still happen, even when we eliminate diseases like cancer.This is a hilarious picture. I'm sure that if Russia had more friend in strategic positions, they'd have bases all around the US too.
Actually international relations are not a game. Countries respect each other and play their roles. The USA and Russia are 2 super powers. For that reason, their relationship influences other countries. For sure, they are not good friends. But in any case, they cannot be enemies as well. It is very important for the balance of our world. Both countries are super powerful. They can destroy our world in case of war. We do not need this. They provoke each other. Leaders of both countries are not angel. In that case, it is hard to say who is good and who is bad. I believe they are just teasing each other. In a way, it is a kind of concurrence. It is also good for the development of military and army technology.
I don't think that you can really talk about countries showing respect. That would imply that all or at least a majority of the people show respect. The only thing we see in terms of international relations is the opinion of one person or one small group of people. Specific leaders can show respect, but they don't tend to ask the people's opinions much. Can you think of one time when a government polled its people about what it should do in its relations with another specific country? There doesn't have to be one good president and one bad. You need to judge them by their actions.I'm not sure if aggressor would be the right word to describe either country in terms of their relationship with one another. They can both be aggressors, when it comes to how they treat other countries, but not with each other. Neither is really attacking the other. If it is true that Russia influenced the US election, then that is not a good thing, but it shouldn't be considered aggression, I don't think. The US has introduced a lot of sanctions against Russia, but these are mostly based on Russia violating international laws by occupying Crimea. Even if Crimeans really want to be a part of Russia, Russia went about the annexation wrong. A lot of the "conflict" between Russia and the US is just a show to distract us from the bad things each government is doing within its own country.
Haha, I think it's a fine idea to have an emoji for earthquakes, but would it actually help? The article talks about how it could save precious seconds. What, is everybody supposed to memorize some combination of symbols that would make the earthquake emoji? That doesn't sounds very practical of even any faster than typing earthquake. Typically, when you want to use an less common emoji, you need to open all of them and search through them to find the one you want. This would 100% take more time that just typing the word "earthquake". Another one of the arguments in the article is that it would make it easier for scientists to track earthquakes all over the world, as emojis are a universal language. Right... Like it would be very difficult to just make a list of all the translations for the word "earthquake" and monitor those. Pretty lame article, BBC, if you ask me.
I agree that it is impossible to imagine what will happen with technology in the next 20 years. I'm sure we'll see a continuation of a lot of trends that are happening now. We'll be talking to a lot more computer. I mean literally with voice recognition and a little AI. There are so many instances when you have to talk to a person, but a computer could easily to the job. Think drive-thrus and call centers. I think that Amazon's idea of having a store without cashiers will catch on. Self driving cars with be the only cars on the roads in some places. The craziest thing is to think about what solutions will come out to replace all the jobs that technology is making obsolete.
It seems to me that the danger from North Korea and its capabilities are overblown. I think Trump just wants as PR to win over a country that has nuclear weapons. He knows that North Korea can strike at America. Therefore, he hoped that victory will be easy.
That's the impression that I get too. Any reports that come out of North Korea seem to show that not a lot of things are going that well in their country. They don't seem to be that good at producing much of anything. It's hard to believe that they are great at building missiles. That being said, there definitely seem to be some ridiculous things going on over there. I don't think it's wrong that we discuss North Korea to some extent. If the reports we hear from refugees who have gotten out of North Korea are true, there a lot of human rights violations happening there that deserve attention. I wonder, if North Koreans never knew anything else, can they be happy with the state of affairs in their country? Or do they feel that their freedom is infringed upon?I guess you are referring to ethnic self-hatred. I was confused at first because I couldn't figure how a person hating himself has anything to do with black people. I have seen this happen in some cultures. I know know if it is exactly the same thing, but I find that some people always want to be together and others don't. For example, it seems like Mexicans in other countries always group together. They seem to be supportive of one another. I have noticed the same thing about Kazakh people too. It seems like wherever they are they are always together. On the other hand, I have seen some Russians that don't seem to want anything to do with other Russian when they are living abroad. They even seem to have some resentment for other Russians who are having some success.