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1281  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: I Want To Mine on: February 10, 2016, 10:31:51 AM
But do not have the technical expertise.  Is there anyone or any company that does this sort of thing?  I am from the Chicago area.  Please PM me if interested.  Thanks.

Well, what do you mean by I want to mine?

If you want to have the miner and see what you bought mining, I'm afraid you'll have to get into the technical part.
If you just want to transform $ to btc through mining, then cloud mining is your answer my dear sir! Genesis is a good site, reliable but not really profitable (as much of cloud mining contracts in fact). You can also buy mining time in some site, rent a miner =)
1282  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: February 10, 2016, 10:28:17 AM




Peer review. Tongue

Well. The important thing in all that is that I never heard of Hashcash but I know bitcoin for good!
The main difference is perhaps here, one of the two only is used by an important part of the world's population :p
1283  Economy / Speculation / Re: What will happen if there's no price rise for the halfing? on: February 09, 2016, 09:40:52 AM
Just because there is no price increase during halving one can't say that bitcoin is dying. This time the scenario might be the same, there might be no price increase during halving as the current market situation of china is worse than how was it during the last years halving

Hmm... Yes one can. As it will mean the miners are going to die as they won't earn enough to cover their expenses, which will mean they will stop mining which will mean btc is going to die :p

Am I not getting something?

You are not getting something.

"The miners" are not a homogenous group.  Different miners have different fixed costs, different variable costs. They will not stop mining as one big group. The block reward reduction will not come as a total surprise to them - they will have been aware of it just as long as everyone else - and when they determined their own, individual, ROI they will have taken the reduction into account. The most marginal miners may stop mining - but all that means for the remaining mass of miners is that difficulty will decrease.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!

I was not getting something xD
So it means that difficulty is directly linked to the amount of miners in action?
Does that mean that we absolutely don't need so many miners? Do we know how many miners we actually need to secure the transactions?
1284  Economy / Speculation / Re: The Christmas 2015 Bubble on: February 09, 2016, 09:39:08 AM
The price is quite stable in 2016 apart from one 20% drop due to Mike Hearn's departure from bitcoin.

The bitcoin price has been below $400 for a few weeks now. Why it is so low at the moment?

Low? It was ranging between $200 and $300 for most of 2015. As to why, Hearn's very public departure was a few weeks ago.

Edit: and it's Chinese New Year right now, which is the largest internal migration on the planet - many BTC traders have spent the last few weeks travelling to, or hosting, family.

Yeah gotta add some relativity here thanks for that buddy.

After nearly a year of 250$, 370 doesn't seem low at all xD
1285  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What are you going to do if Donald trump become president? on: February 09, 2016, 09:37:40 AM
Trump is the only one can solve America's problem.
He knows more how to deal with the economy better than any candidates.
He know how make a deal with other Presidents specially the rogue ones like Iran.
Trump will solve the problem of illegal immigrants.
He is a successful man himself and he is not a politician paid by corporations/rusia/jews/muslims.

Trump2016.

Of course he know how to deal with economy! He's a fat ass asshole who spent his whole life taking money from others! He has a perfect understanding of our economy as he's the same selfish asshole as all those bankers!
1286  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Liberals to build refugee camps on Canadian military bases on: February 09, 2016, 09:36:28 AM


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The Canadian military has been ordered by Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to draft plans to house more than 6,000 Muslim migrants on a long-term basis at military bases, according to documents obtained exclusively by The Rebel (see below.)

Included in the Department of National Defence budgets are hundreds of thousands of dollars set aside for “religious support," including the purchase of Muslim Korans, prayer mats and foot-washing towels.

The plans also call for the construction of mosques or “worship centres," using taxpayers dollars.
breaking_liberals_to_build_refugee_camps_on_canadian_military_bases_taxpayers_w ill_fund_mosques_korans

Where is your link/proof/source? (see that below is not a proof you know?)

Well I find it better to get them integrated near a military base. It's rather intelligent. At least you prevent most discipline problems. A good first step I'd say.
1287  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Proof that God exists on: February 09, 2016, 09:34:26 AM
Every soul has to taste the death... Are you not afraid of dying?? Just do good deeds.. Perform prayers...

1) Atheists don't have souls
B) I am not afraid of dying, and I hear that is common among atheists... Perhaps that is why the carrot & stick of heaven & hell doesn't work on us?

Why would or should we be afraid of dying? It's just the end. Nothing to fear, their was nothing before, their will be nothing after. You're just a consequent amount of biological complexity moved by electric exchanges through brain cells. That's cool but as long as it stops well you're not here anymore. So why being afraid of what is just nothing?

Well the "nothingness" can frighten. I understand it. I feel it. This is why God is ONE answer. But it doesn't mean it's THE answer.
1288  Other / Off-topic / Re: Lets play a game of Chess on: February 09, 2016, 09:31:45 AM
I prefer to reduce the number of ways we can be checked. With our king in the corner stalemate tricks may become possible later.

Ka6: 1 vote (GoldTiger69)
Kb7: 2 votes (boolberry, marcus1986)
Ka8: 1 vote (XMRpromotions)

Agreed.

Ka6: 1 vote (GoldTiger69)
Kb7: 2 votes (boolberry, marcus1986)
Ka8: 2 votes (XMRpromotions, Valta4065)
1289  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: February 09, 2016, 09:29:46 AM
Oh, marriedtothesea, you little rascal you...



Ahahah xD
Yeah in the end who is in control of btc doesn't really matter. As soon as they try to go somewhere nobody agrees with, we can switch easily. And btc will still have been the beginning of crypto, which is fucking cool. Cool
1290  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do Atheists hate Religion ? on: February 09, 2016, 09:23:56 AM
Few slides on atheism for all the religious types:

http://www.slideshare.net/ClaytonDanverse/atheism-215-slides

The best one:


Science in the bible:



Ahahah xD

Ok you got me it's funny.

But the Bible isn't sanctified truth, or at least shouldn't be so. It's more a huge guidelines for people having faith, not the absolute truth of the universe Wink
1291  Economy / Speculation / Re: What will happen if there's no price rise for the halfing? on: February 09, 2016, 09:22:40 AM
Just because there is no price increase during halving one can't say that bitcoin is dying. This time the scenario might be the same, there might be no price increase during halving as the current market situation of china is worse than how was it during the last years halving

Hmm... Yes one can. As it will mean the miners are going to die as they won't earn enough to cover their expenses, which will mean they will stop mining which will mean btc is going to die :p

Am I not getting something?
1292  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Iran Mocks Saudi Offer to Send Ground Troops to Syria on: February 09, 2016, 09:21:33 AM
The Saudi claims are laughable. With all the advanced weaponry supplied by the United States, Canada and the other NATO nations, the Saudi Armed Forces are still getting their asses kicked by the Houthis in Yemen. Now remember that the Houthis are armed with just AK-47s and RPGs. Imagine how they will perform against the well trained regime forces in Syria.

Let's be honest, no nation has been able to successfully invade another since ww2 apart from China no?
USA tried many times but always failed and got their debt bigger and bigger and the pockets of weapons manufacturers fuller and fuller ^^
1293  Economy / Marketplace / Re: How can we encourage local businesses to accept BTC? on: February 09, 2016, 09:18:42 AM
I think its pretty difficult to do that, because it has a bad name.
The most stores are not convinced by the bitcoin.

I think it will come but it will take several years before it would happen.

By bad name what do you mean?

You're talking about btc reputation? Well true it's not perfectly shiny... You could always try to explain of course, but yeah not sure it'll work out perfectly well ... Embarrassed

Or do you really talk about the name of btc? Like from a marketing perspective? Cause if that's it... Well I totally disagree ^^
Btc marketing is excellent, good name, good image, good spreading ^^
1294  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What's your opinion of gun control? on: February 09, 2016, 09:16:42 AM
I think the US needs gun control but that must also extend to more rigorous background checks,closing loop holes so that people with issues don't get access to weapons (such as convicted criminals,kids,teenagers,people with mental health issues or anger issues,stalkers,suicidal people,etc).I think the issue of gun control needs to adopt a more comprehensive approach for it to be successful.I live in the UK where people are banned from having guns which I think is good.No approach will eliminate murders completely but I believe it's important to try to address this issue however we can instead of just opposing measure that some people just don't like.

I think if people want to own a gun,stop complaining about gun control and pass a background check like everyone else and leave the rest of us to get on with our lives.Just my opinion.

Bah.

http://www.guns.com/2014/01/15/uk-criminals-using-antique-homemade-guns/

Ooooooh. The good old one "I don't have real counter argument so let me put out the one exception to the rule completly strange and exceptional enough to make the headlines and which is also 2 years old just to prove my point" ^^
1295  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. on: February 09, 2016, 09:15:03 AM
I personally think looking at the upper stratosphere temperature is more logical, since radiative balance as the net sum of in flows and outflows occurs...at the upper stratosphere.  So if you would like to argue for the use of another temperature measure, then you will have some trouble substantiating "the more CO2 we have the more energy is being absorbed."
I'm not sure if I understand you.
You think CO2 is not absorbing infrared radiation?

Good question.  Sorry I was not clear.

CO2 absorbs certain specific spectra due to it's dipole movements and vibrations, etc.

That is one of a great many things that absorb, emit and so forth.  The net of all of these is outgoing radiation from the planet.  The essential question of "global warming" is whether net outgoing is decreasing relative to net incoming energy, by how much, and whether man is affecting that balance.

Satellite temperature measurements of the upper atmosphere obviously closely measure these issues.  Ground based temperatures measure such things loosely, if at all...

This is why I mentioned that if one wishes to consider/argue the effect of man on "global warming," he MUST use satellite measurements.  It then happens that satellite measurements show no warming in 20 years (maybe it's still 19, I don't recall).  This indicates that net radiative planetary energy balance is unchanged for 19-20 years.  And what does THAT imply?

For one thing it defeats the "central CO2 hypothesis," which teaches that the climate has a high sensitivity to CO2.  Increase CO2, and temperatures increase. 

It's wrong to look for simple explanations, though.

But here is something I don't understand. The graphs show an increase. I mean they DO!
Unless we don't have the same definition of increase of course but... Well as an engineer with a good formation in statistics I feel like I do ^^
1296  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. on: February 09, 2016, 09:13:25 AM
You have three errors in your lecturing. We take them one by one.

No, the surface temperature is not primarily due to the temperatures at the Earth's core.  Study the "radiation budget", here is a link.  This is very well established science.

Here is the answer from a prime "warmer resource,"

http://www.skepticalscience.com/heatflow.html

Common sense might suggest that all that heat must have a big effect on climate. But the science says no: the amount of heat energy coming out of the Earth is actually very small and the rate of flow of that heat is very steady over long time periods. The effect on the climate is in fact too small to be worth considering.

Here is a brief discussion of the energy budget.

http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/13_radiationbudget.html

Next, interglacials caused by ocean currents?  No, they are not.  It is well established that they are the product of periodic variation in the Earth's orbit.

The interglacials and glacials coincide with cyclic changes in the Earth's orbit. Three orbital variations contribute to interglacials. The first is a change in the Earth's orbit around the sun, or eccentricity. The second is a shift in the tilt of the Earth's axis, the obliquity. The third is precession, or wobbling motion of Earth's axis.[1] Warm summers in the northern hemisphere occur when that hemisphere is tilted toward the sun and the Earth is nearest the sun in its elliptical orbit. Cool summers occur when the Earth is farthest from the sun during that season. These effects are more pronounced when the eccentricity of the orbit is large. When the obliquity is large, seasonal changes are more extreme.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interglacial

Finally, you have a rather interesting statement.

... making it hotter will change salinity which will change ocean currents which will influence the beginning of the Ice Age.

No scientific findings support the certainty in your statement (bolded.)  They cannot, because this is outright speculation.  Here is the statement corrected to a reasonable level.

... IF CO2 produced by man makes the Earth hotter this MIGHT CHANGE salinity which MIGHT AFFECT ocean currents which MIGHT influence the beginning of the Ice Age.

That's obvious speculation, why not just state it as such?  Obviously it isn't factual or supported by scientific findings.  It's totally reasonable to discuss as speculation, but it's unacceptable to consider or promote as fact.



At least you're trying to discuss.

1/ This point was to make you understand that the most important is not the total heat but how it's distributed. Earth core heat is reponsible for the most part of energy dissipated on our ground BUT has low impact on climate because it's very equally distributed. It just provides a "base temperature" everywhere of something like 200°.

2/"Next, interglacials caused by ocean currents?  No, they are not.  It is well established that they are the product of periodic variation in the Earth's orbit."
That would be true if we were sure that only that cause Ice Age. But we're absolutely not. Variations of Sun activity, Earth's orbit and salinity of oceans. All of them have an impact. Of course Earth's orbit is a FUCKING IMPORTANT one that's for sure. But not the only one to consider, and at similar Earth's orbit, you might have or not an ice age depending on other factors such as salinity.

3/ Ok fair point. You're perfectly right as it is speculation. But not based on nothing, it's based on simulation. Of course simulations are by themselves outrageous speculations as you try to create a model of reality, which will never be complex enough to be sure of yourself.
1297  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do Christians hate Atheists? on: February 09, 2016, 08:47:10 AM
Christians hate nobody...at least real Christians. This is non violent religion and he will talk with atheist about his point of view but don't hate him for sure

Lol at "real Christians"... Look up the "no true Scotsman" fallacy

Non-violent? Have you read the bible?!? The bible commands you to murder non-believers (where do you think the Muslims got the idea?)...

Do you have any idea how much murder and genocide the Israelites committed in the bible?  Upwards of 100 cities razed... People were slaughtered by the millions... All by God's command/authority...

What Christians don't understand (and that's really sad) is that the two religions (Islam and Christianity) have a different starting point.

It's difficult to consider this point but that's the most important!
Islam is 1300 years old. Christianity 2000 years old.
Let's them grow and mature. When Christianity was 1300 years old you know what they were doing? They were killing people on their last crusade! At that time Christianity was responsible for dozens of thousands of deaths!!!

Same shit different cult indeed.
1298  Other / Politics & Society / Re: "Refugees" attempt to molest women in Russia. Gets beaten up by the locals on: February 09, 2016, 08:38:25 AM
Local people will attack them sure. Yes problem is that they will attack also refugees who didn't do such things. Now they are educated in Russia, would be great that more people will be educated as well so this horror stops

Wtf are you talking about?

They're not "educated"! A group of men has been beaten that's all! Maybe those men won't do any trouble (and I wouldn't bet it honestly) but that's all. It doesn't mean the whole refugee population in Russia won't do anything. And they have absolutely not been "educated". To be "educated" means you gotta explain and make them integrate your culture. Nothing else.
1299  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Woman may face jail time for refusing to do housework on: February 09, 2016, 08:36:09 AM
couple should agree and divide house tasks so everything will be complete and than can enjoy other activities together. Everything works perfect with agreement, people need to talk

Who you really revolutionized the world buddy ^^

What you say is obvious for everyone, and thus a bit useless. The main part is "people should talk" well yeah they should, doesn't mean they will!
1300  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Racism is a real thing (this thread is extremely racist) on: February 09, 2016, 08:35:03 AM
None of the above posted apes are beautiful

Some people just want all the world to be beautiful...




Fortunately, it isn't.

Who the fuck are those people? And why are they linked to the word "beautiful"? They're ugly as fuck! They seem so faaaake!!!
Beauty must be at least some king of natural. I've got nothing against make up but those persons are closer to dolls than to humans! It's really burning my eyes! And they seem so full of contempt!!!
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