Anyone who has time to complain about wealth inequality doesn't really deserve moving upwards in the food chain, as they could've invested the same time on figuring out sensible goals for their life as well as some steps towards them.
QFT. +1 What he said. What if they used the time, then figured out the solutions and then realized every one of those solutions would get them killed so decided to just sit back and complain until someone else finds a better solution that doesn't get them killed? I can't even figure out what you are getting at. Working on life will get you killed? I guess in some sense. In the long run, we're all dead. Life is hard. Buck up, bucko - or get lapped by those willing to put in the work. I dated a girl for a number of years. Her father was wealthy and powerful. He owned 25+ houses that he rented out. He was also a drunk and highly abusive. The mother eventually divorced him after a series of domestic violence incidents. The father decided to make the mother's life a living hell. He hired lawyers to sue the mother for everything under the sun, stalked the mother and tried to destroy her friendship networks. This went on for five years. The mother grew deeply depressed and semi suicidal. My girlfriend and her sister at the age of 8 had to get the mother out of bed in the morning, get her dressed so the mother could drive them to school. Some days they couldn't get their mother out of bed so they missed school. My girlfriend was incredibly smart and motivated but she missed a lot of school during that five year period. It affected her grades and she had to work hard to try to catch up. She also had the mental load of trying to parent her own mother through the divorce and aftermath. There is no doubt in my mind if she had had a normal, stable childhood, she would have been a surgeon or rocket scientist. Instead she will likely never achieve her full potential. Let's not kid ourselves that everyone has equality of opportunity. Because they don't. Relevance of anecdote? Sounds to me as if you are claiming that, seeing as we all have access to different opportunities, it isn't even worth trying to improve your circumstance. I call bullshit on that. Everyone has the same opportunity to endeavor to improve their situation. |
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Anyone who has time to complain about wealth inequality doesn't really deserve moving upwards in the food chain, as they could've invested the same time on figuring out sensible goals for their life as well as some steps towards them.
QFT. +1 What he said. What if they used the time, then figured out the solutions and then realized every one of those solutions would get them killed so decided to just sit back and complain until someone else finds a better solution that doesn't get them killed? I can't even figure out what you are getting at. Working on life will get you killed? I guess in some sense. In the long run, we're all dead. Life is hard. Buck up, bucko - or get lapped by those willing to put in the work. |
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Anyone who has time to complain about wealth inequality doesn't really deserve moving upwards in the food chain, as they could've invested the same time on figuring out sensible goals for their life as well as some steps towards them.
QFT. +1 What he said. |
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Hmmm. Was not aware of this connection. Those of you too young to remember this event -- at least those amongst you who are 'merkin -- ought to do some study. Horiuchi's punishment for murdering an innocent woman with sniper fire, while cradling her baby in her arms? Later becoming lead of the sniper team at the Branch Davidian massacre at Waco. Both incidents properly viewed in time as kin to the japanese-american WWII internment or the routing of the Bonus March. I have a personally-signed copy of Randy's book giving his account of the horrific events at Ruby Ridge. |
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those are some good size ... prawns
We call them jumbo shrimp; kind of an oxymoron though. Yeah... Unka George used to have a good riff on jumbo shrimp. And another on the insidious nature of the central banking system, come to think of it. |
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Worth noting that Bitcoin inflation is currently 3.8% dropping to 1.8% in May 2020.
The FED will be jealous. I dunno. I'm pretty sure the FED's 'optimum' or target inflation rate is somewhat higher than 1.8%. |
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The shortened URL is unfortunate. |
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I don't know why I'm replying. But... not. even. close. |
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You know what else has very long distribution (100 years is more appropriate term for "never ending" than 10 years) - Bitcoin.
While this is true, the fact that the distribution of the tail in Bitcoin is not subject to the whims and caprice of a single individual makes this an entirely different thing. Except it is not whims and caprice, it based on what works and what doesn't, it gets adapted to situation when needed. Whatevs. Whatever the intent, we all must put our _trust_ in tony to 'do the right thing'. If he goes rogue, we have no recourse. OTOH, the Bitcoin emission is clearly bound in an algorithmic manner, destined to never change due to the underlying game theory. IOW, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. The attempted equivalence is beyond the pale. |
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A 'pebble' falling from several kilometers (without any acceleration except for gravity) will kill you I think. At least that's what I remember my calculation of over a decade ago.
Did you account for air drag, or did you only consider gravitational acceleration? |
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Some pages may be sticky, but hey you only wanted the cover
I didn't realize it was a 'page three' kind of paper. |
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^ It looks like Zappa.
Derek Smalls. Spinal Tap. Necessary cultural experience. |
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when firing into the air, when it comes down its just at normal falling speed as its expended all its energy on the way up. wont hurt anymore than a pebble of equivalent weight falling on you.
Yeah. Common misconception that a bullet travels just as fast on the way down as on the way up. Then again, 230 grains with a BC of about 1/4 at terminal velocity would still be unpleasant. |
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Surprised that jbreher bought in, respected the guy.
Aww, now my feewings are hurt. Oh well, I gotta do me. Welcome the the thread, D. Lurk.  |
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How are exchanges still being hacked these days? Have lessons not been learnt?
I reckon most 'hacks' are inside jobs. |
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You know what else has very long distribution (100 years is more appropriate term for "never ending" than 10 years) - Bitcoin.
While this is true, the fact that the distribution of the tail in Bitcoin is not subject to the whims and caprice of a single individual makes this an entirely different thing. |
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and thats on land. the ocean is less forgiving.
Can we all move in with you? It sound very reassuring there. In return for food, power and guns I can offer toast making, as long as it's your bread and you're not too fussy, and I'll keep my room tidy. depends. youll have to meet our cats standards, which are much higher than ours. you would also have to be ok with extremely loud music at all times of the day and night, mostly pink floyd, rush, lynyrd skynyrd and other southern rock, and punk. and the music the wife and i play on our instuments; hers played well and mine that sucks. plus random weapons fire at any time. any negatives? LOL right? When the guy next door to me moved in (the dude with the 69 Camaro drag car I have posted before) the first words he said to me were "hi, were your loud new neighbors". Well, my band is in the front room, half stack, 400W of bass, drummer is a hitter, PA...we get along swimmingly. I have always preferred to have noisy neighbours so that they don't complain if/when I want to be really noisy too. Would hate to have a "full silence lover maniac" as neighbour... especially one that wouldn't understand that the problem is theirs and should better isolate their home or buy some fucking earplugs if they are so maniac about it. I would end up punching you in the face. Probably repeatedly. And worse if eventually getting out of prison for it was on the table. I have this theory that humans fundamentally do not like other humans. We simply need one another to survive. You are one of the last people I would have said was one of those full silence maniacs. Contrary to you I DO indeed like other humans. I just ask they mind their own business as I do with mine. In a culture where physical violence is illegal, you never really can tell who is a warrior. It's my main source of stress. Buying a boat just so I could sail into a storm was one of the healthiest things I have ever done, but unfortunately, there are no bears out on the sea. It got boring. Storms are loud. And hard to punch. |
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and thats on land. the ocean is less forgiving.
Can we all move in with you? It sound very reassuring there. In return for food, power and guns I can offer toast making, as long as it's your bread and you're not too fussy, and I'll keep my room tidy. depends. youll have to meet our cats standards, which are much higher than ours. you would also have to be ok with extremely loud music at all times of the day and night, mostly pink floyd, rush, lynyrd skynyrd and other southern rock, and punk. and the music the wife and i play on our instuments; hers played well and mine that sucks. plus random weapons fire at any time. Sounds like my kinda people. As long as the random weapons fire was responsibly directed, that is. |
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All I've been asking for is that the principles of logic, reason, and mathematics are adhered to. Which is fully consistent with 'the negative has not been proven'.
You really don't though. Yes. I do. You force feed your opinion down peoples' throats by insinuating that if they don't agree with them they must be intellectually inferior.
Bullshit. If my posts make you feel intellectually inferior, then that's on you. I may have demeaned you personally once or twice, but that would only have been replying in kind to insult you were hurling. And incredibly, you're wrong far more often than right. Do you use the same principles when making your spectacularly wrong predictions about BCH and SV price movement?
I can admit those were bad calls. Financially. So far. But from a technical perspective.... I anticipate the market will come around to the superior solution. Admittedly, becoming less sure of this as time goes on. What's the saying? Oh yeah. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. |
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Jbear
In your opinion, what are the odds that CSW is Satoshi?
I would be interested in you stating in clear terms what probability you consider this to be true? I appreciate that certain things may be unknowable with present knowledge, but that is why we assign probabilities.
So please tell us what is your probability that CSW is Satoshi.
I dunno. Maybe one in twenty? In fifty? Hard to place odds on something in which most of the variables are not available to be seen. It is nice to see that you are placing low odds on CSW being satoshi, and even conceding that a decent amount of information remains unknown. On the other hand, I find it a bit ironic that you were cluttering this thread with ideas that the negative had not been adequately proven or that there is really any kind of need to spend WO brain power on such question regarding that fucktwat who is most-likely a fraudster. All I've been asking for is that the principles of logic, reason, and mathematics are adhered to. Which is fully consistent with 'the negative has not been proven'. If someone is going to explicitly bludgeon me with some specious claim about my impressions of CSW -- no matter how tenuous -- I am going to insert some rationality into the discourse. As is so often the case, I was not the one who opened the topic. So get the fuck out of here with your 'you're cluttering up the thread', wordyman. |
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