As a Canadian, does the lack of a college degree significantly act as a disadvantage for visa programs such as TN/H1-B ?
In the case of a pressing move to the US, what would be some options for someone with no degree?
That's correct, you can still qualify for an L-1 (as a transferee after 1 year of employment outside the US) even if you don't have a degree and there are TN occupations that don't require a degree. Further, you can get an O-1 without a degree as well as an H-1B as long as (in the H-1B context) you have the equivalent of a bachelor's degree (essentially 12 years of professional experience).
There’s also the fact that Ethereum has an almost completely different architecture including block times which affect the frequency of mining, different reward structures, etc.
As far as I know its not necessarily the difference between Bitcoin’s SHA-256 vs Ethereum’s Ethash as much as it is about the architecture itself.
There's so many inputs that it's difficult to casually come up with an intuition-guided estimate. So it makes some sense to have faith in the empirically guided value. We hope that they took the time to validate their algorithm for extrapolating the energy consumption.
The trinsicoin algorithm is really just a minimum bound based on the most efficient rigs known for a given algorithm and the cheapest industrial rates for electricity. The Litecoin Foundation actually helped out with some of the math and data resources.
A public blockchain (one where consensus is derived from the masses, or rather an abstraction of the masses like PoW) would have “virtue”, but obviously this has yet to be executed perfectly.
One could say it’s PoA (Proof of Authority) which is basically saying there are specific authorities that choose to validate it. In github, for example, it would be whoever controls the master branch. Of course, this is needlessly complicating things since 99% of software today is this authority model except its implicit.
Although many can see Bitcoin as a scam, I think the South Sea bubble is in a different league altogether. Financial schemes such as introducing crazy loans, coupled with the (essentially) full backing of the government at the time lured in even people like Isaac Newton. Bitcoin in comparison does not even match the hype the South Sea had at the time (nor will it have the power to carry a nation in debt for more than 100 years)
Older models of either Google or Oneplus phones seem fine, I have been using a Nexus 6p with no problems other than some battery life but that's expected given how long it's been used.
Replace it sooner than later... my 6p's battery lost a lot of life, charging became irratic, then it literally caught fire when the tech was replacing the screen and battery. Now on a Pixel 2 XL (since I couldn't wait for the 6p replacement at the time).
It would be nice if grocery stores had a more descriptive/accessible way of searching for and buying items online.
Choosing a recipe, then getting a list of required ingredients - perhaps even delivered automatically to your door - seems like a much more environmentally friendly and practical solution compared to these meal kits.
There are a number of curated recipe apps that put together a weekly shopping list, some even integrate with amazon fresh or instacart for delivery. Your weekly recipe choices are not infinite, but I really like the suggestion of novelty and not being overwhelmed by too many choices.
While not directly comparable, text messages do often see some lag (especially when also considering something like MMS) so it could be said that there is some tolerance for latency.
A more distinctive difference could be the lack of rich media functionalities (sharing GIFs, stickers, etc) that have seen popularity in most messenger apps. This seems to be a middle ground between traditional email (professional) and mobile chat (casual) which could see some use but I can't imagine how user adoption would follow
What about the case of China? Their debt management demands attention even with the arguably greater monetary control that the government holds. If they didn't care for too much debt, wouldn't they have taken less conservative actions by now?
>What about the case of China? Their debt management demands attention even with the arguably greater monetary control that the government holds. If they didn't care for too much debt, wouldn't they have taken less conservative actions by now?
It's all about bonds. Nobody wants Chinese bonds yet. So no matter how big they are, they still have to play the same global financial game like everyone else and use foreign debt to raise cash. Depending on the current value of their currency against the international reserve (USD), that may or may not be financially viable. When the US needs money, we just say "Hey everyone, buy our bonds. Here's the price."
People buy US bonds because our workers are the most productive, and our political system is the most transparent and stable. A US bond is essentially just a promise from the government that an American worker will produce $X amount of value in the future, and as long as we have the most productive economy per worker hour, our bonds will always be the most valuable. The Eurozone is catching up on that front, and it's why the Euro has exploded as a reserve currency in the last 10 years. But the Yuan has a long, long way to go.
Sounds sort of similar to 0xbitcoin in that it's possible for anyone to mine tokens, but that project currently raises the difficulty (like Bitcoin). I'm assuming that a few changes to the difficulty scaling could make a proof-of-concept of sorts as a mineable ERC20 token. In this case, the security of the system relies on the security of the Ethereum network though, which shifts the concerns but also means that people still need gas to send transactions - which might be difficult for user adoption.
Yeah! We've actually talked about something similar on the 0xBitcoin discord! I'm @mikers on there if you'd like some help getting your "stable coin" off the ground.
