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2001  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Online quiz to see if you are more "left, right, Authoritarian or Libertarian" on: October 21, 2013, 01:24:03 AM
I'm quite happy to be in the purple quadrant.  It's the only one where no other politicians are

My guess is that even the green one, or pretty much anything to the left, still requires authoritative types to"enforce" the social ideas.

Perhaps anything to the right requires authoritative types to enforce property rights.

That's not authoritative. Me telling you not to destroy or take my stuff is not me telling you how to live. You telling me what I am and am not allowed to do with my stuff is.
2002  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Butterfly Labs CEO 25 Million USD Mail Fraud — A Concise Summary of Evidence on: October 21, 2013, 01:17:41 AM
It's time to e-mail them and let them know their "check bounced." You may not get a reply right away, but from what I've seen, they do have the money. Maybe they got tired of their account diminishing at random times.

Also, I'm pretty sure everyone who ordered in June 2012 has received their orders a very long time ago.
2003  Bitcoin / Mycelium / Re: Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet on: October 21, 2013, 01:12:58 AM
You can amended this by doing a complete scan once in a while. This however is where it gets really expensive. If you have your own dedicated powerful host running Armory this is not a problem, but I don't think it scales to thousands of wallets.

Anyone know how long it would take an SPV client to do a query on 1000 Bitcoin addresses? I don't expect it to take more than a minute, but I may be way off. Also, I guess it would require Mycelium to at least partially do SPV mode.
2004  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Online quiz to see if you are more "left, right, Authoritarian or Libertarian" on: October 20, 2013, 04:33:43 PM
I'm quite happy to be in the purple quadrant.  It's the only one where no other politicians are

My guess is that even the green one, or pretty much anything to the left, still requires authoritative types to"enforce" the social ideas.
2005  Bitcoin / Mycelium / Re: Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet on: October 19, 2013, 10:34:00 PM
If HD wallets just use an incrementing integer added to the seed to generate keys, I figure it would be easy. Just always send all change to a new address, increment the counter, and disgard the old address. That way all you have to keep a record of is the seed and the current counter. The last option to add would be to scan all addresses, from first to the counter, to see if they have any coins, and sweep the coins to the most recent address, in case one of your old addressees get paid.

As for restoring backups, just have it scan addresses one by one until it finds one with a balance.
2006  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Yale Professor Surprise: Tea Party Supporters More Scientifically Literate than on: October 18, 2013, 09:48:55 PM
On the contrary, it's all rather meta, the interesting thing is how people are trumpeting this study that really DOESN'T say anything useful at all.

Here's why I say that:

Quote from: The Study
r=0.05

That's practically noise, and the p=0.05 doesn't really mitigate that. (Actually I dismiss p=0.05 for completely different reasons - it's a long story, but the TLDR version is I'm a Bayesian).

Actually, even the noise says something, which is that the idea that "All Tea Party types are morans who need to get a brain" is false, as the survey does not show that, and at best shows that they're just scattered all over like everyone else.
2007  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 18, 2013, 09:30:21 PM
If you would take the time to really understand Jesus and what he was, you would see he is someone who loved everyone unconditionally.


Just need to interject to point out that unconditional love is not actually love, and is meaningless. When you love someone regardless, that's not really love, that's just you not caring about what they do.
2008  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Online quiz to see if you are more "left, right, Authoritarian or Libertarian" on: October 18, 2013, 09:11:16 PM
I don't think many people here are gonna get positive numbers...

I suspect FirstAscent may be positive...


Woah, holy crap!



Last time I took this, I was right down the center line, just above libertarian. Now it's right? I still answered all the sex, gays, and religion questions the same way. I guess this relfects me being a tad more pro-business/free market? I didn't think my views changed all that much in the last 6 months.

I notice that, in the example of famous people on that chart, there is no one in the purple section. Likewise, I don't see Ayn Rand on there, or pretty much any business or economist types Tongue
2009  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Yale Professor Surprise: Tea Party Supporters More Scientifically Literate than on: October 18, 2013, 08:36:04 PM
I wonder when the actual survey was taken. I live near DC, and saw some of their protests. They also get reported on the local news. When the thing started, a whole lot of their members were atheists, agorists, objectivists, libertarians, etc. Though that whole lot maybe accounted for half of all of them? I don't know. I know a lot of members quit the party in disgust, and don't want to be associated with it (they're still libertarians, agorists, objectivists, etc), but the party has moved extremely to the right into bible-thumping, "Obama is a secret muslim nazi" territory.

I would say that maybe it's a lesson for the next party of people like agorists, objectivists, and libertarians to take into account, in case they want to set up an actual grassroots movement (instead of astroturfed one) to fight for economic freedom and liberty...
But then I remembered that most of those types aren't for the silly government things anyway. Let them steep and brew and fight. We'll just step back and opt-out with bitcoin and other tech  Smiley
2010  Other / Politics & Society / Re: US health care mandate (Obamacare) on: October 18, 2013, 08:20:51 PM
Does it really say that it will provide for free abortions? Cause that would be awesome!
2011  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 18, 2013, 06:42:14 PM
Why is everyone trippin on Dank. In a world of Gods he should be taken seriously as it is perfectly possible that he is God. He should not have to provide anyone with any proof. Gods do not have to do such things, you should believe even though everything you know contradicts it. That is faith.


I know most of you hate it when I quote scriptures on here but I could not resist on this one:

Luke 21:8
He replied: "Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not follow them.

Jesus predicted that there would be people like Dank. 

Pretty sure Jesus just made it so that he can never come back again, without people claiming he's fake.
2012  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [22 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool on: October 18, 2013, 06:33:39 PM
Should I even bother on here with my measely 1.7Gh/s ASIC, or should I stick to larget pools? (used to mine here with GPUs back when difficulty was 60-something, and not paying for mining electricity, so 100% profit)
2013  Bitcoin / Mycelium / Re: Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet on: October 18, 2013, 06:19:16 PM
Will Mycelium be implementing HD wallets, or the new payment protocol, any time soon?
2014  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: will the bitcoin reach $1000 one day...? on: October 18, 2013, 05:56:37 PM
The bubble, which never fully deflated, could easily get inflated again.

What would qualify as the bubble fully deflating?
2015  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists on: October 17, 2013, 08:17:46 PM
Haven't you heard?  It will take "Urgent Action Now" to save the planet.  We don't have time for those studies studies and ridiculous research and you can bet that if Evil Exxon says don't do it, we gotta do it.  Just because we're a bunch of knuckle dragging lowbrow greenies doesn't mean we're not on a babbling brook to somewhere.

You forgot to say "ecosystem services" and "tropic cascades." It's not environmentalism unless you say it.
2016  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists on: October 17, 2013, 07:46:20 PM
Which part of "i won't repeat this again" don't you get?  And if you can't stop it with them ugly furball sounds, please do it at the litter box, or go outside.  I respect your furry needs, but if this unpleasantness doesn't stop i'm bringing you to the pound Angry

I won't stop until your shit-brown ignore button turns to blood--red  Grin
2017  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists on: October 17, 2013, 07:44:29 PM
Apparently you didn't comprehend it. Not by a long shot. For starters, I fully explained how your subset of scientific knowledge is not adequate, and why. Additionally, you obviously don't understand ecosystem services. All that's fine, except you come on here and make a fool of yourself. The world isn't as simple as your little mind thinks it is.

And I completely and fully explained how those ecosystem services can be bypassed, and why, and why your centrally controlled ecosystem management is inadequate and flawed.

Ummm, no you didn't.

Yes I did. In this and many other discussions. You're either too lazy to go back and read them, were too stupid to understand them, or too hardheaded and brainwashed to consider them.

When I hear a hot gasbag constantly complain about control (as in environmental controls), I want to see him actually address the controls and state why they are bad or not needed.

As I keep pointing out, explaining, and repeating, the problem is not that they are bad or not needed. We're all perfectly happy to concede that enviromnental controlls are good, and are badly needed (Yay! You win!!!). The problem is the controller. Who they are, how they control, and what their incentives are. And ALL those things are totally fucked up. The ONLY way to get the level of environmental control that you want it for the entire planet to have a dictator with absolute control. Otherwise you'll have the oil loby in coontrol of drilling regulations, mining lobby in control of forests and rivers, chemical and coal lobby in control or air polution regulations, and so on. You know, how we have things now.

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Although we wish that were so, we all know it's not.
2018  Other / Politics & Society / Re: why bitcoin isnt illegal and will not be made illegal on: October 17, 2013, 07:25:16 PM
It will never be made illegal because it's a governments dream come true. It will be a step by step process until every move u make is fully traceable, forever. The full extent cant be implemented limitedly as there would be revolt.
Cash on the other hand is always 100% anonymous and will be made illegal as soon as practical possible. If i pay someone without tax i dont have to worry much using cash, but with bitcoin it could come back and bite my years later.
Also its Government compromised anyway as DPR found out the hard way.
Alt coins dont have this problem as everything is 100 % transparent, including who made it.

Can't tell is seriously unaware of how bitcoin works, or just trying to be funny...
2019  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 17, 2013, 07:20:33 PM
Miind = blown!!!


no, not really.

Dank, better than Jesus. But is he still better than The Beatles?
2020  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists on: October 17, 2013, 05:20:30 PM
When you can bring back any of the endangered species the tree-huggers try to protect, give me a buzz.

You want a heads-up for when we can communicate over long distances, have fancy video communications, or space-aged technologies like orange flavored powdered drinks and self-sticking fabrics called "velcro?"

No.  Just "when you can bring back any of the endangered species the tree-huggers try to protect."  Pay attention, i won't repeat this again. Angry

So... you mean when we have such fancy-pants technologies as DNA sequencers, DNA assemblers, cloning, and artificial insemination? Or when the assemblers improve from being able to print thousands of DNA strand genes to tens of thousands? I wonder how awesomelysuperduperexcited you were when we went from black&white television to color, or when you upgraded your 14.4k modem to a 56k model. Surely you thought 56k was unpossibru, since we only had 14.4k at the time!!!  Shocked
I'm sure the idea that Public/Private key cryptography and distributed P2P networks can be put together into something like Bitcoin STILL seems completely impossible to you  Grin

Or, wait a sec, what do you mean "bring back endangered species?" If they are endangered, they aren't gone yet. Did you mean extinct?

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I'm sorry, did you have a point?

I want you to stop giving credibility to so-called "research" done with the money stolen from me by government thugs!  They're worse than Nazis, let them keep their "science,"  i'll keep mah gun! Angry

You must think I have a problem with "stolen" money being put towards scientific research. Or that much of that research is even done with "stolen" money  Roll Eyes

I think you have problems with context -- the discussion you chose to cut in on & cough up your furballs all over, in particular.  I had enough of your unpleasantness, now shoo!   Angry

Do you have a problem with spechifying? Because I don't underestimastand you.
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