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2661  Other / Meta / Re: Why exactly memberlist is disabled? on: May 10, 2020, 01:08:24 AM
Viewing all member feature is disabled the same as the statistics feature because it takes lots of resources to get from the server and cause the forum to have downtime imo while the search for member feature is still working so there's no need to remove the Members button.
It would be great if resource-intensive restrictions were lifted in relation to rank progression, similarly to the time restrictions with forum actions.

I don't think the restrictions are in response to 'human' use of these features, but rather automated queries such as what the OP is wanting to do.

Solving a rechaptcha could be required to access each resource intensive page, on each page visit would solve this issue.
2662  Economy / Services / Re: [FULL] ChipMixer Signature Campaign | Sr Member+ | Up to 0.0375 BTC/w on: May 09, 2020, 07:21:55 PM
so my best guess is that he'll be out of the forum or without enough time to post regularly for some weeks.

Since there's no minimum weekly post count, this is not much of a valid reason.

The reason is most likely either post quality or the sections/threads they post in.

DS appears to want to have posters participate in diverse sections of the forum so his advertisers provide maximum exposure for ChipMixer. If all CM advertisers post in similar threads, these threads will have every post contain a CM ad, while other threads will have no CM ads.
2663  Economy / Services / Re: [$10 Bitcoin Bounty] Create a static on Amazon AWS on: May 09, 2020, 07:19:15 AM
You will be charged for each time someone accesses your bucket object, and you will be charged for data transfer to the internet. AWS has the capacity to handle many requests out of S3 storage buckets.

For the above reasons, making storage bucket objects public is really not a good idea. Someone could make DDOS requests to your bucket object, except instead of taking the website offline, it would run up charges to your credit card.
2664  Economy / Services / Re: Project Covid-19 Signature Campaign on: May 09, 2020, 07:07:40 AM
I don't need a payment to wear the signature.

The economic impact of the Wuhan Coronavirus is very real and it will be devastating to hundreds of millions, if not billions of people's livelihoods. I don't expect this initiative to even scratch the surface of forum members who are currently in need, but everything helps.
2665  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kim Chen Un on: May 09, 2020, 06:58:17 AM
The NK government has not made any announcement regarding the matter, which leads me to believe he is still alive, even if incapacitated.

You were right. He is alive :C
but some american magazines told that he is not real Kim, rather his clone (like it was with Putin or any other dictator). "Clone" more fat and has another teeth.

I have not heard that theory. He does not live a healthy lifestyle, so I would not be surprised if he gained weight in the past month. I also don't see any real benefit for the NK government to pretend Kim is still alive if he is dead.
2666  Other / Meta / Re: I want a way to demerit posts. on: May 09, 2020, 04:34:59 AM
I don't like the idea of punishing unpopular ideas, even if they are nonsense.

One feature of merit is once merit is given, it cannot be removed. The same would presumably apply to demerit. This might result in someone presenting what appears to be a bad idea, but once more details are given, or more information is presented, it is in fact a good idea. This idea might attract some demerit when it appears bad, and someone reading the thread months after the fact might promptly ignore the post after seeing the demerit present. You could argue the opposite could also happen, but this is less common.

If you think a post or idea is bad, you can say "this is awful, wtf"

I would expect he is referring to posts that can be independently and objectively debunked as false conclusively.
In the tech boards I assume that could be far easier to establish.
Allowing a single person, or group of people remove (or hide) content they determine to be false is specifically the type of censorship the forum wants to avoid. If gmaxwell says something is false, I would probably agree with him nearly all the time if I were to look at the facts. There are times in which gmaxwell is wrong, and these times probably at least partially overlap in which I would also incorrectly agree with him.

Your post is of course true for the scenario you present.
Sometimes the most optimal and valuable solution or answer only reveals itself after much debate.


My time spent is mainly in Collectibles and we often times have people come in and provide completely false information about coins/specifications/sales etc... rather than have to light these people up and tell them they are wrong which causes bad blood resulting in them less willing to revisit the community it would be nice to be able to just have a few of the "in the know" members be able to have an option to effectively hide this information or make it less visible in the eyes of new collectors/newbies coming into the space. The majority of the time the person with the false information rages and is unwilling to admit they were wrong which causes great friction and furthered confrontation.
A button such as others suggested that after being pressed 5x or so could hide their false comment and no more harm done, the affected would realize and seek out advice/the truth I would hope.
Who gets to decide someone is "in the know"? What if one, or some of these people turn out to be a bad apple?

If there is a person alleging wrongdoing that has his post hidden, it could possibly end up covering up actual wrongdoing. What you describe would change the response to someone alleging wrongdoing from saying "provide evidence" to "[hide post]"
2667  Other / Meta / Re: I want a way to demerit posts. on: May 09, 2020, 02:40:47 AM
I don't like the idea of punishing unpopular ideas, even if they are nonsense.

One feature of merit is once merit is given, it cannot be removed. The same would presumably apply to demerit. This might result in someone presenting what appears to be a bad idea, but once more details are given, or more information is presented, it is in fact a good idea. This idea might attract some demerit when it appears bad, and someone reading the thread months after the fact might promptly ignore the post after seeing the demerit present. You could argue the opposite could also happen, but this is less common.

If you think a post or idea is bad, you can say "this is awful, wtf"
2668  Economy / Goods / Re: KN95 Face Masks UK stock shipping available to EU on: May 04, 2020, 03:47:39 AM
There are many reports of Chinese N95 masks being imported into the US that do not filter 95% of particles (as is required to be a *N95* mask) or are otherwise defective.

There is also a lot of suppliers of medical suppliers who have popped up recently that have shown themselves to be unreliable, at best.

I would strongly recommend against buying from anyone selling masks, medical supplies, or anything coronavirus related on this forum.
2669  Economy / Goods / Re: ***Share order of reusable Facemasks*** on: May 04, 2020, 03:47:28 AM
There are many reports of Chinese N95 masks being imported into the US that do not filter 95% of particles (as is required to be a *N95* mask) or are otherwise defective.

There is also a lot of suppliers of medical suppliers who have popped up recently that have shown themselves to be unreliable, at best.

I would strongly recommend against buying from anyone selling masks, medical supplies, or anything coronavirus related on this forum.
2670  Economy / Goods / Re: ***Selling Medical Surgical Face Mask Disposable 3ply, 4ply CE, FDA Approved*** on: May 04, 2020, 03:45:41 AM
There are many reports of Chinese N95 masks being imported into the US that do not filter 95% of particles (as is required to be a *N95* mask) or are otherwise defective.

There is also a lot of suppliers of medical suppliers who have popped up recently that have shown themselves to be unreliable, at best.

I would strongly recommend against buying from anyone selling masks, medical supplies, or anything coronavirus related on this forum.
2671  Other / Meta / Re: Large number of face mask selling threads in marketplace board on: May 04, 2020, 03:45:19 AM
There are many reports of Chinese N95 masks being imported into the US that do not filter 95% of particles (as is required to be a *N95* mask) or are otherwise defective.

There is also a lot of suppliers of medical suppliers who have popped up recently that have shown themselves to be unreliable, at best.

I would strongly recommend against buying from anyone selling masks, medical supplies, or anything coronavirus related on this forum.
2672  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to lose your Bitcoins with CTRL-C CTRL-V on: May 03, 2020, 08:38:11 PM
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So the vulmerability can come from:

a)Malware changing the QR code
b)Malware on the code reader (app and/or terminal)
c)all of the above

Copy pasting and the hand-checking the address seems "safer" if that's true....
It is also possible the malware will change what is displayed on your computer. So your computer would display 3_correct_address, however in reality, the malware is actually sending coin to 3_maleware_creator_address. Or malware could not touch anything you input, and simply grab your private keys once you decrypt your wallet, and send all your coin to 3_maleware_creator_address.
2673  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: "HCP's ongoing experiment of the BotHIVE.io Trading Platform"™ on: May 02, 2020, 06:37:30 PM
Well... my "passive" investment has been REKT while I wasn't watching... AGAIN:
[ing ]https://i.imgur.com/S57MqQD.png[/img]


Another full 30% loss... apparently both the bots got hit. <>


I am curious if you can look at your trading history, and what happened in the market at the time to determine what caused the massive, sudden losses.

Did something happen the bot did not expect, that is so unusual that it is unlikely to ever happen again? Or did the bot simply make a bet in the wrong direction and the market turned against you?

Based on the response from CryptoSparks, I don't have a lot of confidence in his product.
2674  Other / Meta / Re: A bug? on: May 02, 2020, 06:26:26 PM
I think the system takes certain amounts of time to update the activity. I have seen it in some newbie accounts already several times.
It has been over 24 hours since random_australian made his last post. I don't believe it takes this long to update activity numbers.
2675  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon on: May 01, 2020, 04:56:34 PM
There are protests in PA as well.

Trump tweeted this morning that the MI governor should try to strike a deal with the protestors and to meet with them. The last part is important because it implies she hasn’t met with the protestors. My guess is she won’t meet with them in the immediate future and may not at all until it becomes a moot point when the courts overturn her stay at home order. This means she is refusing to even listen to concerns from her constituents. I can see a lot of people relating to the protestors and to Republicans and voting as such in November (assuming she doesn’t cancel the election as New York did in the primaries).

I am also surprised there aren’t any better pictures of her. Every picture any news outlet shows of her makes her look just evil. If Obama has a white daughter....
2676  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Coronavirus Outbreak on: April 30, 2020, 04:02:29 AM
With regards to risk analysis, its a game of balancing the risk and reward. The convenience of motor vehicles is something we've agreed is worth taking the risk of dying in a car crash, but we wear seat belts and strive for higher safety engineering.
The cost of wearing a seat belt is something close to zero. The cost of closing the economy is far above zero and is costing lives (and livelihoods), and it may not even be effective. The lockdowns were not intended to prevent the majority of coronavirus deaths, they were intended to spread out coronavirus deaths, and to prevent deaths resulting from an overwhelmed healthcare system. The healthcare system is currently vastly underwhelmed.


You brought up an interesting point about the asymptomatic thing. On one hand, we may consider ourselves lucky that Covid doesn't have the 35% mortality rate of MERS. On the other hand, when you catch the flu, you know within a day or two and are then on your couch eating soup until you're feeling better. With Covid, you're running around feeling fine exposing other people who may or may not end up feeling fine. You could go out for a jog and then go chat with Grandma or little Timmy, and then they've croaked. The death statistics are important, but the hospitalization rate is also incredibly important. Assuming medical care is available, its not cheap. The things that put you in the high risk category for Covid aren't just rare lung diseases or being 97 years old. They're things like obesity, asthma, high blood pressure, and diabetes, things that effect more than 50% of Americans. There are essentially four outcomes with Covid, either you are asymptomatic and don't get sick at all, you get a really shitty but not life threatening two week illness, you end up in the hospital with a mountain of medical bills, or you die (and still wrack up medical bills). Three out of four of those are bad options, and option #1 isn't fantastic either for the sake of spread of contagion.
As discussed above, the lockdowns are not intended to prevent everyone from getting the coronavirus, only delay people from getting it. Most people have had health insurance, but less so today because millions have lost their jobs that typically provide health insurance benefits. In 2018, the percentage of Americans without health insurance was about 7.75% (assuming a population of 360mm), but this probably went down in 2019/early 2020 due to job and wage gains.

Every decision we will ever make is based on predictions. We predicted and are still predicting the effects of Covid, time will tell how things end up, but its typically better to contain the problem rather than try to deal with it later if its possible to at all.
This depends on the costs. Trying to contain the problem is going to cost lives over the long run.
I'd have to look at a lot of data before making a statement about empty hospitals, that hasn't been my experience, but I'm also looking at the mid Atlantic to northeast corridor, not the country as a whole in depth. We've got fancy statistics here on hospital capacity, death demographics and all sorts of other interesting things if you'd like to take a look. https://coronavirus.maryland.gov/
In Maryland, there are about 1,600 people in the hospital for with coronavirus. This is out of about 9,400 hospital beds in MD, and is below the surge capacity of the hospitals themselves without state or federal government assistance.
Ah, quick final thought, its a prediction that having covid right now will leave you immune next month.
Recovering from a virus will leave you immune for at least a period of time. As previously discussed, the lockdowns are intended to slow the spread, not stop it. Once between 60-70% or so of the population is immune to a disease(due to vaccination or otherwise), its transmission will stop due to herd immunity. Under a very poor case scenario, if immunity from recovering from the virus lasts less than the time it takes for 60% of the population to get and recover from the virus, the population will never get herd immunity without a vaccine that is not guaranteed to come.

On the topic of vaccines, if the world continues to be on lockdown, there will be intense pressure for drug companies to present their proposed vaccine as safe and effective, and governments will be under great pressure to approve vaccines. This could result in vaccines being approved after some corners are cut, which could result in not good outcomes.
2677  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 2020 Democrats on: April 30, 2020, 03:28:00 AM
My TDS makes me think Trump says whatever he thinks will make him look good (or his opponents look bad) with very little regard for the truth.  Even at White House Press briefings during a national crisis.

Jan 22: "we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
Feb 19: “in April, supposedly, it dies with the hotter weather. And that’s a beautiful date to look forward to.” "We’re going very substantially down, not up."
Feb 27: “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear”
Mar 7: “It’s got the world aflutter, but it’ll work out,”

Mar 11: WHO officially declares pandemic.

Mar 17: “I’ve always known this is a, this is a real, this is a pandemic. I’ve felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. All you had to do is look at other countries. ... No, I’ve always viewed it as very serious.”
Trump cutoff travel from China in January, and this is probably what he is referring to when he says he was taking it seriously.

On Jan 20 and Jan 22, the WHO said there was human to human transmission of the Wuhan virus, however, before that, they were saying this was not the case. I am not sure of the timing of Trump's Jan 22 statement and the WHO statements on the same date. China did not let the US CDC inside Wuhan to get a better understanding of the virus, and as a result, the rest of the world, including Trump had a difficult time gauging the seriousness of the Wuhan virus.

The Wuhan virus is not going to be here forever. I can assure you that if Trump loses the election, it will be declared safe to open up the economy the day after the election. Unless the virus mutates enough, once you recover from the Wuhan virus, you are immune from the virus, as is the case for all viruses. (if you get the flu multiple times, this is because you have caught multiple strands of the flu).

Trump, like all other politicians, will try to shine everything in a positive light for themselves.

I would point out the US's worst mayor encouraged people to visit New York theaters on a March 5 show, and 11 days after the show he encouraged New Yorkers to watch, he described the coronavirus situation as "war-like". Some of the people who got infected from going to the March 5 show had probably not yet started showing symptoms. There are other examples of prominent democrats encouraging people to go out in public in crowded areas around the same time. 
2678  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Purse.io is shutting down on: April 27, 2020, 10:37:18 PM
It seemed such an obvious avenue for fraud that I assumed they had some sort of super robust system to kill it whenever it popped up.

Several years ago, several purse.io customers were arrested after using their service. Most likely they were dealing in larger amounts, and with the same counerparty over time.

They had 17 employees working in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the world.
A lot of startups and tech companies are located in San Francisco because that is where a lot of talent is.


It looks like they are going to put themselves up for sale instead of simply ceasing operations.
2679  Economy / Reputation / Re: WHERE IS TMAN? for 1 month of inactivity 🤔🤔 on: April 27, 2020, 05:15:04 PM
Everyone just relax, all is well with TMAN.  I spoke with him recently and he's actually doing better than ever (his words not mine).  He told me he woke up one day and had an epiphany from god.  Apparently he has opened his on ministry, and is preaching the word of the lord while also goat herding ( a biblical action that was once Josheph's way of life).  He said he's over calling everyone prized cunts and will be coming back here soon to preach the word of the lord.  "Bitcoin and Prayer" as he phased it. 
Good for him. Hopefully he will get a lot out of wherever life leads him.

2680  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kim Chen Yn on: April 27, 2020, 05:11:29 PM
The NK government has not made any announcement regarding the matter, which leads me to believe he is still alive, even if incapacitated. Kim has killed members of his family in the past, so whoever will take over after his death will likely be afraid that Kim will recover and order someone close to him to have his heir killed.

I would not be surprised if Kim was in his death bed. He is apparently not in good shape and is particularly vulnerable to coronavirus. Doctors tending to him may be afraid of their own fate if Kim were to die under their care, so they may try to cover up his death as long as they can.

Rumors have apparently spread to NK and there are reports of panic buying, although there isn’t much to buy because the country is so impoverished. 
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