I didn't argue against fiat currency. I argued against FUD against China's currency based on stupid ideas. I do think that the difference between a gold-backed and fiat currency is a valid difference, but would never advocate for a gold backed currency because storing gold in vaults is stupid when we can use it for actually useful things instead. Knee-jerk internet-argument STEMlords jumped on the word fiat without actually understanding the context.
US fiat currency has only existed for 45 years, which is less time than your outside range for "proof that its a stable currency."
edit: Apparently, since you are missing my fucking point, asking for 3-5 decades of currency stability before someone would be comfortable using a currency is insane. Communist China isn't fucking going anywhere.
Did you know that one of the schools that I went to disbursed financial aid a week after tuition was due, meaning that many students were dropped from their classes and had to re-register at the last minute with a late registration "fee?" This is one example of a constant parade of such bullshit. You had a pile of money that you earned, but it was predicated on an exceptionally privileged childhood education and a stratospherically privileged after-school-job opportunity, plus whatever else you needed, plus the knowledge that you could take risks because your family had the means to catch you if you stumbled. Did you know that many schools subtract the value of any grants or fellowships from what students receive in Pell grants and Stafford loans? Winning scholarships can be a Pyrrhic victory, but clearly you know all about that, because you are someone who received Pell or Stafford loans and actually understands the policy arena surrounding higher education financial assistance. Oh wait, you don't know what you are talking about and are instead trying to feed the meritocratic delusion upon which your self esteem rests.
You don't understand these arguments because you came from such an extreme place of class privilege that you already had the education in high school to get paid "programming" jobs. People coming from poverty don't have family that can make up the 10% that you didn't cover out of pocket. Even then, you are probably being disingenuous with that 90% figure and if you want it to stand as valid evidence that all of these dirty poors should just suck it up because, "BOOTSTRAPS!!!", you should share your financial records for the years that you were in college rather than throwing out a few general links.
You created something that, at first glance, seems like a reasonable argument, but when exposed to a cursory examination, collapses under the weight of it's own bullshit.
Well, the entire institution of business has an explicit profit motive and academia has an explicit knowledge motive, so while there may be misguided individuals in either pursuit, that doesn't sully the previous poster's point.
Essentially, it doesn't matter what mechanism generates the signals except when it came down to me wanting to play with Linux twenty years ago and a company decided to release a product that was only compatible with a single operating system. My desire to play with Linux did not happen to be worth as much as it would have cost to do so at the time, so I waited.
That is what kept me out of Linux when I was a teenager, but it was MODEM drivers at that time. Lack of driver support for an operating system is not a technical problem, it is a social problem.
I won't do business with Lenovo after running into multiple BIOS soft locks. The first, I was attempting to install a WiMaX card into some random laptop, and the last Thinkpad I had was BIOS locked to only be able to accept the 80GB HDD that it came with. It would have been so snappy with an SSD! It has been three years now that I refuse to purchase any products from the company and six years since I ran into their first BIOS soft lock. I was yelling about it back then, but nobody gave a shit.
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Thanks for the neoliberalism in a nutshell post. Go ahead, bury your head deeper up your own ass instead of dealing with the reality of the economic situation in which we all find ourselves. I got a job as a "temp" once. I was working full time second-shift in a fucking factory, doing RMA services for a major laptop and tablet manufacturer. I was doing advanced troubleshooting and repair, with no benefits or security. Capitalists are, en masse, exploiting this stupid idea that somehow, people should be paid less for the same work because of what they intend to spend their pay on?
If all you send is more like a checksum or a quantum salt, a few bits of entirely-secure-in-transit entropy in the encryption key could be enough to guarantee secure end-to-end communications in the moment.
I don't want everything I read and write online to be analyzed by agents of a government agency who have, along with some other agencies, spent the majority of the past fifty years engaged in unilateral neo-fascist imperialism. I was under the impression that such spying was forbidden by the laws of my land. Apparently, The American Dream is dead and we are all simply feasting on it's corpse.