Weblog and Essays. Let's Clear Up One Confusion About Bitcoin November 3, 2017 If bitcoin can be converted into fiat currencies at a lower transaction cost than the fiat-to-fiat conversions made by banks and credit card companies, it's a superior means of exchange.
One of the most common comments I hear from bitcoin skeptics goes something like this:Bitcoin isn't real money until I can buy a cup of coffee with it. In other words, bitcoin fails the first of the two core tests of "money": that it is a means of exchange and a store of value. If we can't buy a cup of coffee with bitcoin, it obviously doesn't qualify as a means of exchange. The confusion here is the same one that plagues the conventional understanding of the foreign exchange markets: people confuse exchange and convertibility, which are both flows, i.e. transactions. Here's an illustration of the difference. Let's say Hipster Coffee Bar accepts payment in bitcoin (BTC) for a cup of coffee. Consider a credit card. What is privilege? J. Krishnamurti Online. The official repository of the authentic teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti. Introduction to Philosophy.
Know Your Neurons: How to Classify Different Types of Neurons in the Brain’s Forest. Previously, on Know Your Neurons:Chapter 1: The Discovery and Naming of the Neuron Chapter 2: How to Classify Different Types of Neurons, or The Dendrology of the Neuron Forest Scientists have organized the cells that make up the nervous system into two broad groups: neurons, which are the primary signaling cells, and glia, which support neurons in various ways.
The human brain contains around 100 billion neurons and, by most estimates, somewhere between 10 to 50 times as many glial cells. All these cells are packed into a three-pound organ about the size of both your fists stuck together. You can think of your brain as a dense forest—the neuron forest—in which different kinds of trees grow near, around and on top of one another, their branches and roots intertwining. Different Types of Neurons (click to enlarge). A model neuron. Before exploring the brain’s cellular diversity, let’s look at a model neuron. Neurons classified by structure. Neurons classified by function. References. Is There Security at All, Psychologically? If one may, let us think over together this question. That is, if you are willing, put aside your particular vanity, your particular prejudice, your own conclusions and let's think over this problem together.
Which means you are not accepting what the speaker is saying, nor are you accepting your own conclusions because you have none, you have put them aside. So let us think this over very carefully, and this may be one of the factors, that human beings are so frightened. Why does the mind cling to a particular memory, to a particular experience, hold on to a belief which has lost all meaning, why? Let's talk it over together. Save as favorite J. Third Public Talk in Saanen July 1979 I've got a bad cold. Shall we go on with what we were talking about the day before yesterday? Either he is incapable of seeing the facts, or he likes to live in an illusion, in a make-belief which has nothing whatsoever to do with actuality: the actuality being what is taking place now. All right. Vijay Prashad on commodification, suburban bureaucratisation and the anti-racist struggle.
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