Hello Rassah, How are you? Can I recommend a 501c3 non profit for the Bitcoin100 donation? There is a group that I am trying to get to start using Bitcoin that is in the process of creating their "BTC donate" button. Generation Green empowers citizens to voice their concerns and implement earth saving actions. Through heightened awareness we encourage wise choices that ensure sustainable living and the preservation of the environment. Since 1990, Generation Green (a 501c3) has sought to inform and encourage environmental action in CCC. Generation Green has hosted dozens of workshops and attended countless events. Our efforts have reached all segments of the community. From local arts and crafts classes to attendance at City Council meetings—our goal is to educate all residents in the county about environmental issues. http://www.generationgreen.com/I just wanted to run it by you first before they set up they start accepting BTC. What is the best process for them to follow to qualify for the Bitcoin100 donation? Thanks! August Not sure what to make of this one. Thoughts? |
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Is it possible to somehow create a 'vanity' BM address? Like BM-2Cyberdyne6hY111lPtD111A111hY111lP for example.
Yes, it's possible, somehow, in the same way you can do it with Bitcoin. No one wrote the software to do it yet. |
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OK, admit it, how many of you have your entire knowledge of armies, invasion, and defense based entirely on the 1980's version of Red Dawn?
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Since I was not born here, and they don't want me takin' their jerbs, would it be fair for me to not give them any jerbs in my business, too?  Might as well, all other businesses are fleeing  Where are you from initially? I am a Soviet |
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What makes it "hard" is the average person can't figure out how to swipe a credit card and use a pin keypad. The can't remember passwords, or even phone numbers anymore because they store them all in their iphones.
The entire planet is going the way of idiocracy.
I think we are moving more mundane things out of our brains and into devices that can handle these things for us, and are freeing up our brains for more advanced things. Well, some of us are. |
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From Desmond at KhanAcademy: Hi Dmitry, Thanks for your generosity - this is the largest bitcoin donation we've received  I can confirm that we received 9.633 BTC in transaction 5ab5f72a95df407504fac451a867d77036ac8a4ec91f765740a2950b49b98d99. Unfortunately when you donated the coinbase widget was not working properly, so the transaction did not trigger an email receipt or a badge. I've manually awarded you the badge and you can consider this email as confirmation that we received your donation. Thanks again! Let me know if you need any other information. Cheers, Desmond I'll get a screen grab when I get home. |
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Well, how much would you have to support or like bitcoin to be considered on the side of bitcoin?
Conversely, how much do you have to dislike bitcoin to be considered a detractor?
What about the people without strong opinions? People who like bitcoin but not fanatically? Or people who don't like digital money but still use it because its there? Are they true supporters and haters?
I don't think there is a hard division between people who like bitcoin and people who are against. It's a synthetic proposition.
Then it would follow that the Dunning-Kruger effect claim is a synthetic proposition as well. |
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...my grades were OK but not great. I did not care that much. I was shocked when I graduated with honors. I was like, "How did I do that?" I was not really trying to. I felt a little guilty then. I often think if I had only applied myself I guess I could have graduated at the top? I felt the same way during my university graduation. Everyone was all excited about having such a great accomplishment, and patting themselves for overcoming great difficulties, while I felt that there was nothing special about it. I just did what I was told to, one step at a time, and graduation was just another in a long series of steps. It's like, "anyone can do this, if they just went out and did it. What's the big deal?" Master's level graduation was a bit different. They REALLY tax your brain and make you work in those classes. |
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foreigners? u mean all those Englishmen, Spanish, Portuguese, Germans, Italians etc that have been immigrating into both countries for the last couple of centuries?  Yeah, pretty much  If you're not born there, they don't want you takin' their jerbs. Since I was not born here, and they don't want me takin' their jerbs, would it be fair for me to not give them any jerbs in my business, too? |
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The problem with this is, it's hard to figure out whom this applies to. We have two groups, Bitcoiners, and Detractors (trolls, SA goons, etc) The situation could be any of the following: - Bitcoiners are dumb, but think they are smarter than the detractors, and are ignoring the advice of the smart detractors.
- Detractors are dumb, but think they are smarter than bitcoiners, and are ignoring the advice of the smart bitcoiners.
I think you misinterpret the Dunning-Kruger effect. You do not have to be dumb to be affected. It's a relative scale. The smartest people on earth have problems with this phenomenon. It simply states that people affected will think they are smatrter than they realy are. It's about thinking you are smarter than you actually are. It's not about being smart or dumb in an absolute way. Moreover, you synthetically divide the community into 'bitcoiners' and 'detractors' while it's an obvious 'no true scotsman'. We have two very distinct groups here: people who like bitcoin and support it, and people who dislike bitcoin and think it's stupid. The group that is indifferent is irrelevant, since it simply doesn't participate. I don't see an issue with the 'no true scotsman' here. Regarding Dunning-Kruger, I wasn't aware that there was a scale to it. From what I understand, it's just a concept where people who are dumb are convincing themselves that they are actually smarter than they truly are, and reject competing ideas from smarter people as stupid. If you didn't understand the issue I was talking about, let me rephrase it: Bitcoiners, being involved with a digital currency in many different aspects, believe they understand economics, currencies, and finance. Bitcoin detractors, such as SA goons, believe that bitcoin is actually a stupid idea, and that bitcoiners who support it are suffering from a Dunning-Krueger effect, wherein the bitcoiners have convinced themselves that they are smart about finance and econ, when they actually aren't. In this case, bitcoiners are dumb Dunning-Kruger types, and the detractors that accuse them of such are the smart ones. Conversely, bitcoin detractors, such as SA goods, believe they understand finance, currencies, and economics, and think that bitcoin is a stupid idea. Bitcoiners think that bitcoin is actually a good idea, and that bitcoin detractors are suffering from a Dunning-Kruger effect, wherein the SA goons only think they are smart about finance and econ, but actually aren't. In this case, bitcoin detractors are dumb Dunning-Kruger types (ironically), and bitcoiners that use bitcoin and understand the related finance and econ are the smart ones. It's not a question of who is smart and who is dumb. It's an issue of bitcoin detractors, such as SA goons, accusing Bitcoiners of suffering from Dunning-Kruger effects, thinking they understand econ and finance better, when, ironically, they themselves may be the ones suffering from those effects. As for IQ, it sounds like some of you don't even know what IQ test questions are like. They don't test your knowledge (i.e. you don't need to know algebra, though I knew it since I was 10). You just need to show how well you can conceptualize problems, and how quickly you can process data. A good analogy would be: A person with a high IQ is like a Quad-Core 3.5Ghz PC. A person with a low IQ is like a single code 1.5Ghz PC. One can process data much faster than the other. Knowledge and skills, on the other hand, is like OS and software. You can stick Windows on the 3.5Ghz PC, and a trimmed-down Linux on the 1.5Ghz PC, and in the end they will both run at about the same speed. The 1.5Ghz PC may even be more capable, depending on software you need to use. So, if you were to sit two people with the same set of skills in front of a logic or concept problem, both will be able to solve it, but the higher IQ one will solve it faster. If you give the problem to an experienced low-IQ person and an inexperienced high-IQ person, the low-IQ person will solve it faster, since the high-IQ person will have to figure it out from scratch. If you give the problem to low and high IQ people who have no prior experience at all, the low-IQ one might never be able to solve it. FYI, I am a lazy bastard, and spent the last two years of highschool getting shit grades and almost never doing homework or studying for exams, but I never got less than a B on tests, simply because I derived most of the exam problems from scratch or bits of memory, instead of studying and memorizing things like my classmates. Out of humility, I'd like to think that I'm not that special, and any one of my classmates could have done the same, but I somehow doubt that. |
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On the topic of IQ, my husband said that he heard once that people cannot have an intelligent discussion with anyone outside of 30 points of their personal IQ. Hence why people in the 100-120 range are typically the most "successful" especially in sales jobs or any jobs requiring communication. Also, this is why it can become more difficult for people with IQ's above 140 to find more people to relate too. There are just less people in that range.
I haven't really found that to be a problem in daily life. I'm over 160, but I can still have a casual banter with friends and coworkers about random stuff. It's only a problem when I'm having to deal with work or business stuff, where the people I'm working with seem to constantly lag many steps behind me in figuring out or processing information, and it sometimes gets very frustrating. But it's one of those things where I think that the people I work with are really stupid, and then I immediately feel bad about thinking about them that way, because they can't help it Oh, and the random bouts of insanity and megalomania are a bit annoying sometimes, too  |
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The problem with this is, it's hard to figure out whom this applies to. We have two groups, Bitcoiners, and Detractors (trolls, SA goons, etc) The situation could be any of the following: - Bitcoiners are dumb, but think they are smarter than the detractors, and are ignoring the advice of the smart detractors.
- Detractors are dumb, but think they are smarter than bitcoiners, and are ignoring the advice of the smart bitcoiners.
I'm not sure how this dilemma can be settled. I mean, there are a few very very obvious cases (we have some obviously completely retarded bitcoiners, and the detractors, especially a lot of the goons, have a lot of really retarded armchair economists), but overall it's kinda hard to tell. I think, when it comes to making a decision on the Dunning-Krueger, the only winning move is not to play. |
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Happy to see your efforts starting to consolidate, and I'll be happy to see new and old friends there. P.S. Matthew can't really participate on this thread, because theymos made him go sit in a time-out again Oh? What happened this time? Link please? I have zero clues, and zero fucks to give. sorry |
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I prefer to see the Food not Bombs site accept bitcoins since both sites are operated by the same good guy, Keith McHenry.
Please open up this noble cause for further discussion, pro or con.
~Bruno Kucinskas~
Seconded. Thirded. Says the guy who spent the day building a rail gun At least it wasn't a bomb. |
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Speaker list: Johann Gevers, Entrepreneur (Monetas) Leszek Rychlewski, Developer (PicoStocks) Mike Hearn, Developer (Google) Celso Cardoso Pitta, Entrepreneur (BTCJAM) Jeff Garzik, Developer (Bitcoin) Danny Brewster, Correspondent (Cyprus) Kris Henriksen, Entrepreneur (BIPS) Tuur Demeester, Editor at Macrotrends Tamas Blummer, Founder (Bits of Proof) Willem van Rooyen, Skilled Gaming SC2BTC Peter Šurda, Economics of Bitcoin Stefan Thomas, Developer (Ripple) Mirko Sprengnether, German Attorney (Winheller) Eli Sklar, Entrepreneur (SafeBit) Joseph Perling, Founder (New Liberty Dollar) Charles Lee, Developer (Litecoin) Ron Gross, Founder (Bitblu) Chris Odom, Developer (Open Transactions) Nejc Kodrič, Entrepreneur (Bitstamp) Mihai Alisie, Editor (Bitcoin Magazine) Willem Van Oort, eGaming Consultant And we're still adding more. We have a few discussion panels, too: - Decentralized Exchange Discussion Panel
- Mainstream Acceptance of Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Enterprise Solutions
- Bitcoin Alternatives Discussion Panel (Alt-coins)
- Bitcoin Development Discussion Panel
- Security and Innovation Discussion Panel
- E-Gaming Discussion Panel
- Economic Neutrality Discussion Panel
- Borderless Solutions Discussion Panel
If you would would like to add some other topic, please feel free to suggest it. P.S. Matthew can't really participate on this thread, because theymos made him go sit in a time-out again |
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Can't rebut the message? Attack the messenger by implying they "are not intelligent" because they insulted someone
Oh, the irony! It hurts! Am I being condescended to by a furry, in the name of demonstrating the value of manners? That's like the fourth time this week. How do I pry these pervy freaks off my nuts?  I'm not being condescending. I'm just pointing out that you quite literally said that when someone can't rebut the message, they attack the messenger, except that you were the first one to attack them. It's like the Inception of attacking the messenger due to not being able to rebut the message |
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