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2361  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [Dailybitcoins.org] Bitcoin faucet, sponsored by ads on: April 22, 2012, 06:46:50 PM
I once worked around a similar fee issue (caused by receiving large amounts of coins in lots of small payments) by sending small amounts (but gradually working up to progressively larger ones) to myself. Using some trial and error to find the largest amount that doesn't request a fee, then repeatedly sending that should “regroup” the bitcoins until you can start sending larger chunks at a time before triggering the TX fee request. It takes some time and is a hassle, and there's likely a better way, but it worked for me. Smiley
Another way is just to wait. The coins will automatically, with time, increase in priority and stop asking for tx fees.
2362  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Newbie restrictions on: April 11, 2012, 02:04:40 AM
When I become a "Hero Member" and have 5 stars? (what is the trigger?)

You must kill the dragon and save the princess.

It may take up to 10 minutes for the board to notice that the dragon is dead.
Grin

In all seriousness, the trigger is 500 posts.
2363  Economy / Economics / Re: Current Bitcoin inflation rate = 35%. Price = stable on: April 08, 2012, 09:14:51 PM
In the first year the inflation rate was infinity! But the price went up! Economic madddddness.
The price did not go up. There were no bitcoin in existence in the beginning, therefore the price was also nonexistant (or "infinity").
2364  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [ Updated: 03/16] Re: Newbies: Get Bitcoins for Reading Email on: March 27, 2012, 12:58:09 AM
I'd like to update my email address. Is there a way of doing so?
2365  Other / Off-topic / Re: Randomly generated text on: March 20, 2012, 12:11:15 PM
P.S.: I've noticed the code block doesn't scroll, but I don't want it to be a wall of text. Please just copy and paste it into a word processor to read better.
Add manual linebreaks, it will start to scroll eventually. Also, http://www.dominicirving.com/cccbsg/ and http://www.essaygenerator.com/
Manual linebreaks don't work across resolutions.

I've taken a look at the links you all have provided, and give my analysis below:

http://www.essaygenerator.com/:
This generator seems to be tapping words together like my random generator, but replacing one of the words with a topic. IMHO, this gets a little repetitive and can't be considered truly random anymore.

http://www.dominicirving.com/cccbsg/:
This is really awesome. It seems to work by random-generation with a wordlist restricted to a single subject so it can be more bullshit-like. It also sports a lot of sentence structures so the text is never repetitive.

http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/:
Although not a random text generator (in fact, quite the opposite: this is a AI text producer), I find this really advanced for its year. I'd have to test it more.
2366  Other / Off-topic / Randomly generated text on: March 20, 2012, 02:48:12 AM
Recently, I've been playing around with computer-generated text. Not intelligently like cleverbot et al., but rather that of the lowest lifeform possible: randomly. Okay, actually pseudorandomly, but close enough.

Basically, I've got a script processing a couple templates and wordlists and putting them together (in a hopefully coherent manner). Unfortunately, English doesn't always work out so well, creating constructs similar to "very without" and the type.

To demonstrate it's current (very basic) level of "knowledge" (as in; wordlists and templates), here are a few sample paragraphs (not cherry-picked, these are right out of the box):
Code:
Furthermore, diverse, extremely quirky, and bemused pencils to the left of entirely mammoth pencils originally transfer kayaks. Xylophones fond of deer walk inside the very overstated thief; kangaroos indubiously feed the photograph devoid of blue, completely descriptive, and scattered blocks. The group of completely broad, forest-producing buffalo maintains that lice enrich utilities. Certainly, a writer consumes an especially original, rather natural, and bemused outfit. The completely broad, canine, and sign-seeing committee brings a deviation; however, especially circular elephants rarely take a piano on the stone.

However, a human therefore consumes a library-forging, additionally distant pyramid beside unfortunately miniature, orange pencils. Always, crooked, mouse-burning businesses without slowly ancient, originally uninteresting matrices walk far from a microwave. Rabbits fond of zebras claim axis-ingesting, calculator-growing, and noticeably ancient xylophones, and the galley illustrates that women transfer moose. Nevertheless, axes fond of kangaroos require utilities almost devoid of criteria. Rarely, the astonishingly traditional, extremely enormous, and partner-constructing narwhal devoid of arbitration-invading cities evacuates a boundary. Although afterthoughts unfortunately claim groups of octopodes, artificial, rarely broad, and nearly jagged servers very fond of afternoons send feet extremely devoid of actions.

Wren-consuming, astonishingly vague, and orange buffalo near acute servers visibly transfer the mob of servers; moose feed always flat, very descriptive, and taiga-inhaling salmon extremely devoid of small, human-eating, and institution-ingesting platypodes. Although circle-constructing, visibly glacial jungles walk to formulae, axes near branches take glacier-invading phenomena. As appliances certainly send sometimes positive rabbits very fond of slowly autumnal, almost jagged activities, men far from the exotic, extremely remote, and decayed deposition run to the right of a steep, geyser-consuming, and certainly considerable belief.

Arbitrators over actions listen to a swarms of afterthoughts; however, couples of certainly square, small, and zebra-consuming cats calculate that boundaries enrich formulae. The glacier almost devoid of appliances deduces that mice distribute beliefs; therefore, collections of bartenders walk on arbitrations. Furthermore, the very miniature, completely limited, and rather useless volcano writes a very uninteresting, always artificial, and steep newspaper. Visibly, the outfit devoid of cats forges women. A vivid, large, and especially autumnal notification hears reluctantly round platypodes; servers point out that businesses transfer xylophones. As Rel Benea said, "the rather gigantic, afterthought-eating, and crystal-eating belief especially fond of cats constructs a store".

Moreover, a kangaroo inhales white teeth. Salmon inside the person walk to the left of colossal, repeatedly colossal, and especially detailed cats, but the theft goes to alpaca. Furthermore, an astonishingly artificial mouse devises a zebra. Series of branches react to the left of a galley, and the swarms of repeatedly frosty, especially crooked cabbages talks under weapons. The book therefore moves the somewhat proximate, especially organized kangaroo.

This is where I want to experiment more in-depth with language; after exausting the basic concepts I've realized that I'm not a linguist. Wikipedia's many in-depth articles on language are coherent but not immediately obviously templatified. As such, I've decided to expose this mini-project to the Bitcointalk community (or at least the subset that reads Off-Topic). Any comments would do.

P.S.: I've noticed the code block doesn't scroll, but I don't want it to be a wall of text. Please just copy and paste it into a word processor to read better.
2367  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: A Development Thread for a Game funded With Bitcoin on: March 15, 2012, 02:20:25 PM
I noticed a file about the base unit system is 145 LOC long. That trigger a MANDATORY rewrite.
Is 145 LOC too long for a base unit system? Considering this is JS, that seems awfully short.
2368  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kony 2012: Is this ethical, morally just but questionable, or just plain wrong? on: March 13, 2012, 06:48:32 PM
So Kony is a good guy  Cheesy
I don't think anyone agreed that Kony is a good guy. The point I was making is that no matter what, a single viral video should not persuade the populace to stupidly charge into a developing country. This isn't the foreign policy that will get humanity anywhere.
2369  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kony 2012: Is this ethical, morally just but questionable, or just plain wrong? on: March 12, 2012, 01:49:36 PM
Sorry- I don't YouTube. Is that many self-proclaimed views legit? Are there really that many followers who will flock to whatever the latest trend their celebrity gods tell them to adopt.

Excuse me while I take a moment to weep for the lost soul of humanity.
I'm fairly sure it's legit; I see no reason for Google to lie about that (though personally, I'd rather it be counterfeit). Such sheeple-ness is certainly indicative that "humanity has lost its soul", but it is an inevitable consequence of the connected world we are in.

I would like to point out that anti-anti-Kony has become more popular recently, as more truth is exposed. It's rather disturbing how so many people believed the deception thrown out in the video.
(edit: this indicator certainly indicates how perception has changed on this subject, but the page is still rather biased)
2370  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kony 2012: Is this ethical, morally just but questionable, or just plain wrong? on: March 11, 2012, 08:26:41 PM

The resources of Uganda are rare earth elements currently. Since China controls most of the rare earth industry, is this an attempt to gain control of a part of that?


Rare earth elements are really rare.  They are everywhere.  It is just dirty to produce them.  China has very relaxed environmental laws and put a lot of investment in getting the industry, thus now they control 90% of the market.  America could do it in their backyard but the Californians and Floridans would cry.
AFAIK most rare earth elements are fairly common, but not very useful. Since none of them (excluding Promethium, which is rare) are radioactive, it shouldn't be too dirty to produce them.
2371  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kony 2012: Is this ethical, morally just but questionable, or just plain wrong? on: March 09, 2012, 11:39:51 PM
If Obama does do something about this, it may be in the "lame duck" phase of governence. This viral campaign is speading like spanish flu right now, and right now I believe Obama will not be going to war with Uganda because of Kony, but rather another valuable resource (oil?).

*tin foil hat*
In fact, it is quite possible the US gov't is simply looking for an excuse to go to war with Uganda. I find this disgusting and completely injust to the general public in not only the US and Uganda, but everywhere in the world.
2372  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kony 2012: Is this ethical, morally just but questionable, or just plain wrong? on: March 09, 2012, 01:28:07 AM
My stance on this is that this is injustice to the Ugandans, of which many have already spoken out against Kony 2012. It's always scary when a foreign megapower has stationed thousands of soldiers in your country, and the US has no right to do this unless the Ugandans agree. Although Kony is a killer, does it make it right to inevitably kill many civilians just to capture Kony?
2373  Other / Politics & Society / Kony 2012: Is this ethical, morally just but questionable, or just plain wrong? on: March 07, 2012, 09:05:41 PM
The recent Internet viral video "Kony 2012" aims to portray Joseph Kony in a negative manner, and calls for US military intervention. Although the crimes Kony has committed are unforgivable, I have come to question the ethics of singling out Joseph Kony and asking the government to intervene militarily. While this is a sensitive and touchy subject, I honestly believe that this campaign does more harm than good to our international community. Information on the video can be found here. Does anyone have any comments on this issue?
2374  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: A Development Thread for a Game funded With Bitcoin on: February 21, 2012, 03:27:28 AM
The game seems to freeze whenever I place a crystal stockpile on the edge. Do you have a place to report bugs?
2375  Economy / Speculation / Re: Oh the Cognitive Dissonance on: February 17, 2012, 01:06:07 AM
I think I'm going to join the proudhons for now. Bitcoin needs a period of extended hyperinflation so it can see more economic use. Of course, need is not the same as will happen, but since I hope the price will go down anyways I'm effectively short.
2376  Economy / Speculation / Re: The fact that bitcoins are $4.25 US is amazing. on: February 17, 2012, 12:53:39 AM
Its not that amazing when you consider it used to be worth $32

This is fun. I can play too. 10,000 Bitcoins used to buy you a pizza.
10000 bitcoins can still buy you a pizza, unless it took another nosedive recently Cheesy.

Comparing units is absolutely worthless. If anything, more fundamental is the smallest unit of currency available, but that is often misleading. For example, Japanese Yen are individually worth nearly nothing, but the Japanese economy is among the world's most successful. One Bitcoin satoshi is worth much less (currently around 8% of) a SolidCoin satoshi, but the Bitcoin economy is a magnitude (1300%) bigger than the SolidCoin economy.

At the current time, I think Bitcoin's problem is less with acceptance than it is with hoarding. This bear market will hopefully encourage people to spend more Bitcoins in its time of inflation, else Bitcoin may risk rapidly decreasing inflation in little more than 9 months.

Its not that amazing when you consider it used to be worth $32

for 1 hour. meaningless.

I agree, meaningless other than as a psychological barrier when we get back up there in the distant future.

Look at the weekly chart:


Look at how few bitcoins were traded during the first time we were at these prices compared to now. 
This isn't a meaningful comparison, there are twice as many Bitcoins now than then, and the Bitcoin economy is also twice as large.
2377  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Word Game: 0.1 BTC for 7 words (0.7 BTC on twitter) - animals on: February 16, 2012, 02:55:19 AM
I don't think this qualifies.
4. narwhal
5. eel
2378  Other / Off-topic / Re: Totally Off-Topic! on: February 16, 2012, 02:52:40 AM
Starting from my 4th post, many of my subsequent posts were about I0Coin. I went from Newbie to Jr. Member very quickly while experimenting with it.
2379  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why doesn't the LTC/BTC increase when BTC drops like SC/BTC does? on: February 14, 2012, 10:02:08 PM
Can the attempted FUD slinging get any more lame or blatant by the Coinhunter sockies?

~BCX~
I haven't seen any FUD slinging in here.
2380  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why doesn't the LTC/BTC increase when BTC drops like SC/BTC does? on: February 14, 2012, 08:49:18 PM
I assume Litecoin is tied to Bitcoin entirely, so people are reluctant to value it based on fiat. SolidCoin, on the other hand, has a decent-sized SC/USD exchange, probably big enough to allow arbitrators the ability to move the price/BTC up.
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