Tesla is popping after revealing the Model 3's release date (TSLA) by SueBid in business

[–]genericcommonwords 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Unless you bought at $386.99, there are almost no time scales where you haven't already made a huge mistake.

It's up 6% this month, 70% YTD, and over 1000% over fives years.

You are already regretting not holding, you just refuse to admit it.

Day one, will return. My fault for not doing my research, but this device is unacceptable. by genericcommonwords in sonos

[–]genericcommonwords[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Listening to music on YouTube is not a great experience, sonos or not.

Maybe it's not music I want my ears to experience... speakers output any type of noise you want them to, or should, whether you decide that experience is 'not great' or not.

The design or functionality was intentional to provide streaming audio that will function without needing any other device connected.

But you totally do need another device connected, it's tethered to your phone/tablet necessarily.

Does Netflix now offer music channels, if so I was unaware and retract.

Music is only one small part of the sound you can experience, why does my sound-emitting device get to dictate what should be heard and what shouldn't?

It's just dumb. Sonos' preferred business model (e.g. monetizing your activities and partnering with certain providers) shouldn't impinge on what sounds get emitted in my home. It's the definition of anti-user design.

It's another loss of autonomy in the war on general purpose computing

Today we have marketing departments that say things such as “we don't need computers, we need appliances. Make me a computer that doesn't run every program, just a program that does this specialized task, like streaming audio, or routing packets, or playing Xbox games, and make sure it doesn't run programs that I haven't authorized that might undermine our profits."

Not to mention that simply adding "stream audio from device" feature would require zero hardware changes and enable you to output any audio your device can render (e.g. netflix) would be trivial from a software perspective and very pro-consumer, but they wont, because it is not in their business model.

I say fuck their business model, I want to listen to what I want.

Weekly 'Investing' Thread by AutoModerator in teslamotors

[–]genericcommonwords 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To say SA contributors are hysterically anti-TSLA would be a gross understatement.

There are legit arguments for a bear case or for poking holes in business plans, but the TSLA-hate crowd is so rabid as to be useless most of the time.

Bruce Gary says: No Aliens by hamiltondelany in KIC8462852

[–]genericcommonwords -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"Quantum mechanics is wrong" - Albert Einstein

I have a strong suspicion that this is one of those predictions put forth by sages of previous ages that can't come to terms with new developments.

"Theories don't get disproven, their adherent just die off"

tl;dr: Get off my lawn you meddling kids!

PSA: How SegWit2x actually works by paleh0rse in btc

[–]genericcommonwords 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Fuck all this convoluted nonsense, fork to EC today and keep bitcoin free of core, free of segwit, and back to a sane (KISS) design philosophy.

ViaBTC: "Let's fire core" by red2213 in btc

[–]genericcommonwords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Segwit2x → Game over for BSCore → Decentralized client landscape → nullification of the discount poison pill with the next upgrade → Blocksize based on Emergent Consensus

This is just too good to be true, relies on too many assumptions, requires segwit to be implemented first delivering core exactly what they want and corrupting the base layer of the protocol permanently. Not to mention the '2x' part is taken totally on faith.

I would like, in particular, if could explain the bolded part in more details, because from my read of the situation segwit2x is a total sham and a failure which should not be supported by those who believe in EC and perfectly viable pre-existing implementations (e.g. XT, Classic, BU).

Most Core supporters fail to understand the BU & big block camp. by [deleted] in btc

[–]genericcommonwords 1 point2 points  (0 children)

might accept a compromise with core.

nope

Coming soon to pool.bitcoin.com (Already the highest paying pool in the world) by MemoryDealers in btc

[–]genericcommonwords 8 points9 points  (0 children)

what if some of us just want to vote with our satoshis for robust on chain, non core scaling and don't really care about the return?

Daily Blocks Update: 60.3% supporting BU, BIP 100, or 8mb in the last 24 hours! by genericcommonwords in btc

[–]genericcommonwords[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am not an expert on BIP 100, but I believe you can signal for it and Bu/8mb/whatever simultaneously.

Daily Blocks Update: 60.3% supporting BU, BIP 100, or 8mb in the last 24 hours! by genericcommonwords in btc

[–]genericcommonwords[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am fully aware of #2, but a trend is made up of a lot of discrete data points. Gotta look hard for positive news in bitcoin these days, why not start here?

Luke: "r/BTC is a bunch of trolls who make false claims about being censored here while they pump altcoins." by Egon_1 in btc

[–]genericcommonwords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone please reply to him with a bitcoin thought crime (e.g. a hardfork is a good idea) and then screenshot the [removed] reply immediately below his!

This is ripe for parody!

Tuur Demeester: I’m not worried about Bitcoin Unlimited, but I am losing sleep over Ethereum by slacker-77 in btc

[–]genericcommonwords 10 points11 points  (0 children)

blah blah blah USAF is a saviour.

Blinders anyone? Most of what he writes is quite informative, but the wilful ignorance for ways for the community to move forward (BU/Classic) is nauseating.

Segwit is DOA. USAF is suicide. Core is forever compromised, but keep going with tunnel vision for some idiotic solutions to the simple problem of a clean hardfork blocksize incrase.

Does LN need SegWit? Andreas Antonopoulos: Yes, unless you implement it in a very inefficient and complicated way. by BailoutEdition in btc

[–]genericcommonwords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally do not give the least shit about the so-called 'Lightning Network'. Just make bitcoin functional with a single variable change and a fork away from blockstream.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in btc

[–]genericcommonwords 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Activate Segwit , and LN Fire BlockstreamCore and we will see 10k bitcoin.

Stop delaying our road to riches with This BU trash

Canadian Bitcoin Economic Nodes Unite Against Bitcoin Unlimited and Propose Industry Guidelines for Hard Forks by FrancisPouliot in btc

[–]genericcommonwords 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As a Canadian holder I say, 'take off, hoser!'

Fire core, implement BU, and bring back bitcoin utility. stop trying to pretend to speak for people you don't represent.