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Don't get me wrong - when hovering over hyperlinks started displaying at the bottom of browsers, it was a great, useful innovation, but I don't think it's really up to snuff for today's Internet.
I'm looking for a Chrome or Firefox plugin which will scan links on the page and check if they match the hyperlink text. It really only needs to scan the domain. Especially if it's just one to three letters off from the link which appears on the page, I'd like the plugin to visually notify me - maybe by just changing the hyperlink text color to red, thus preventing me from clicking a link which appears to be bitcointalk.org but which would actually send me to [phishing]org. (ETA: Looks like theymos took care of that one, already, heh.)
I'm in the habit of hovering over every link I'm about to click to manually verify it, but I'm not perfect. I've looked for a plugin which does this, but I guess I'm not using the right keyword -- I have a hard time believing it doesn't already exist.
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7 dead, 88 injured from shopping in US on Black Friday.
70,000 workplace deaths per year (~192/day) in China making what we buy.
Who's the real loser?
I doubt that those workers died because of other workers were running over them. No, but it's an abysmal reflection on society either way, and they both relate to amassing the most wealth possible no matter the risk of death. A factory I worked at last year had ~1,000 employees. There were basically two sections; die-casting and non-die-casting. In non-die-casting, you work ~70 hours per week. There were around 40 OSHA-filed injuries per year in this area and ~80% of people worked in non-die-casting. In die-casting, you work ~80-90 hours per week. There were around 200 OSHA-filed injuries per year in this area. $/hr rate was the same, and it was truly the shittiest place in the factory to work, by any measure (particularly because they had a problem with wet aluminum dross, which is probably in my top 5 list of worst smells ever smelled). People were willing to take a 2000% increased risk of injury for an extra 10-20 hours per week in work (granted, the extra hours are all overtime pay). Oddly enough, die-casting had the lowest employee turnover rate. The way I see it, going to a Black Friday sale at a B&M is a lot like choosing to work in die-casting. |
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7 dead, 88 injured from shopping in US on Black Friday.
70,000 workplace deaths per year (~192/day) in China making what we buy.
Who's the real loser?
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For whatever reason, that wiki is very outdated in many sections, has many stubs, etc. - which is very unfortunate, because it's probably the first place a lot of people will go for info.
The max block size was increased to 1MB aeons ago. It will probably increase significantly by the time QT 1.0 is released.
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Because "market cap" is meaningless. I can sell my left testicle for $14,000. There are ~7.12B people on Earth. ~50.25% are male. Therefor, the "market cap" on left testicles is >$50T.
Of course, everyone knows the left testicle market is where it's at. All the commodities traders have ditched VCs and PMs to jump into this new testicle market, and you see it all the time in the news. MtGox said they'll be opening trade in left testicles very soon to test their new leveraged trading platform.
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^why the suggestion has been repeatedly shot down in the past. I agree with BadBear.
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22, though I've been told I'm "old-at-heart." (in older age, this seems to've replace the more euphemistic "mature for my age.") I'd guess the final euphemism, "old-at-heart," will be replaced by "bitter old bastard" once/if I hit 40. At 60, I'd guess the only question left would be "why aren't you dead, yet, you emotionally-crippled piece of shit?" Anyway, I feel I should follow the "haha, I'm serious" joke with a lighter one. Q: Why do old people claim young people think they're immortal but then go on to say "'whatever-age-you-implied-was-old' isn't old"? A: Because everyone's full of shit. We're all already dead and just waiting to realize it.  |
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Articles submitted beyond this line will be rejected without pay (until it's resubmitted with proper modifications) if they [...] do not properly format name identifiers (correct-> ABL: You are a potato.)
Is it compulsory to use "ABL:" instead of "A.L.:" as I've been using? I guess it's not a big change to make. No. If it can be changed with the "Find & Replace" function, it's no problem. All the listed problems are those which take the most time to correct. Other issues which take the most time to correct would include either always or never capitalizing "bitcoin," starting new sentences when there's no need, and omitting "significant quips," which'd be something like if Stephanie interrupts Adam if he were struggling to remember so-and-so's name. |
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its pronounced 'thermos'
This is correct. It's actually a bit more like "theyrmos," but the "y" is semi-silent. If you're British, you've probably been pronouncing it correctly without even trying. |
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Articles submitted beyond this line will be rejected without pay (until it's resubmitted with proper modifications) if they regularly start sentences with conjunctions, omit more than one sentence in total (including advertisements), regularly misspell proper nouns, do not properly format name identifiers (correct-> ABL: You are a potato.), do not give a full list of participants, regularly paraphrase beyond permissions given, transcribe in speech quirks ("Um, so like, I had this like conference at the ummm..."), or have a hairy penis watermark on all of the pages.
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Yes, yes, and yes. Since we can't really determine the number of inaccessible bitcoins, our "market cap" metrics are further made useless, and we won't really be able to tell when bitcoins are deflationary rather than inflationary.
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Guess I have a busy few days ahead. The proofreading queue's been switched up a bit, but I'll try to get through two a day. |
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Kind of surprised that isn't in here. It's very useful for keeping threads with a lot of information relatively clean and manageable (though the other issue in that would be the 50k character limit, which I admit to having legitimately run into before).
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No, because the problem is with fiat, not the coins. All exchanges, as they grow, are not going to be able to fly under the radar, evading government regulators and skittish bankers who don't want to be within a hundred feet of a company exchanging decentralized currencies.
You have buying and selling with individuals through LocalBitcoins (or just finding someone by yourself), buying gift cards at or near face value with your coins, buying items directly with your coins, or taking your chances with an exchange.
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The internet is going to be broken up... What a stupid thing to say. I would like to give you a high five... in the face... with a chair!
It's happened before (for limited amounts of time) in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, among others, where they simply disconnected from the Internet as we know it and only served/received content nationally. There's really no reason for the USG to control the Internet like it does, so I don't think there will only be one USG-controlled Internet dominating the world when I die. That's not to say they won't connect to each other, though, but maybe it'll be a much more fragmented, decentralized place (not to be confused with a more free place, however). I guess it'd be called a multi-net? |
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I know it's a little extra work, but is there a chance Kluge could privately let us know how many "fail points" our transcripts receive? I'd just be interested to know.  Just PM me the episode number. I keep everything all neat in a folder. Most episodes have notes pointing out repeat problems. |
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Worst first post ever.
Casascius has been around since just about the dawn of Bitcoin. AFAIK, there have been exactly 0 accusations of him keeping and using coin privkeys (keeping in mind Goat, one of the most temperamental Bitcoin users of significant public awareness, has had thousands of bitcoins in Cas coins).
I like Casascius and everything but I don't really agree with this assessment. He could have kept all the keys, waiting for the coins to be valuable enough to steal everything. Right now there are tens of millions of dollars worth of his coins; few people have the integrity to walk away from such amounts, and past performance (in this case, Casascius' good form so far) is not an indication of future results. If he kept the keys, he has much more to gain by stealing everything than to lose. Of course, this threat model is still much better than if he could make the decision to keep keys retroactively. I don't disagree with the principles of what you're saying. It's just... I don't see Mike running off with $100M in stolen bitcoins (but as you know, I've been wrong before, though I've never had the level of confidence like with Cas). I'm pretty sure he's rational. It's not something where he can just say "oh, it was uhhh... a relic hunter who was spying on the manufacture of the coins." He's a criminal from the moment someone discovers coins are missing, and the amount he'd have access to would almost definitely draw international cooperation from law enforcement. Beyond that, he's been a long-time supporter of Bitcoin, and I'd be very surprised if he didn't have a good few heavily-loaded, legitimately-obtained coins for himself. I guess I don't know, though. Maybe he does a hundred lines of cocaine a day and is really motivated to get coins by whatever means necessary. (can't wait to see his response to this thread) (in looking up info for response, it turns out Mike suspended operations a couple days ago. https://www.casascius.com/ ) |
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Worst first post ever.
Casascius has been around since just about the dawn of Bitcoin. AFAIK, there have been exactly 0 accusations of him keeping and using coin privkeys (keeping in mind Goat, one of the most temperamental Bitcoin users of significant public awareness, has had thousands of bitcoins in Cas coins). There have been no cases I'm aware of where the seal's been successfully bypassed and sold as legitimate. Unlike self-printed paper wallets, Cas coins can be traded in a relatively secure manner offline because Casascius is a trusted third-party.
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