*sigh* Why did I waste my time reading this?

What about the people who want to receive a premium to compensate for not being able to get their money out? Might those people be willing to take the other side of the trade?

"Provably fair" doesn't mean that there's no house edge, it just means that it's possible for the public to verify that the results really are random.

It's penes. And I'm pretty sure it's the hen that has to eat the penis, not the farmer, unless the farmer is more directly involved in chicken reproduction than he should be.

If you ask him, he'll say the hen bit him without provocation. That's what they all say.

Per annum (per year).

No, that's 1300% on top of my original investment. Buy for 10, sell for 140. Of course, such rapid gains are much less likely now that the market is larger and more mature, and in any case Bitcoin should be regarded as a high-risk investment.

Yes, but it's not just about the money, it's about changing the world for the better. Though, to be fair, there aren't many honest ways of making a shitload of money without changing the world. Capitalism's all about incentives.

Buy low, sell high.

Like, $50 in a day? Pretty rare. $50 in a month? Not so rare.

Is there any official value of a gallon of milk? Or anything else for that matter? No, value is just whatever price a buyer and seller can agree on. If a buyer offers too low a price, nobody will sell to him. If a seller charges too high a price, nobody will buy from him. They have to reach an agreement in order to make a trade. The price you see listed on exchanges is simply an indication of what that exchange's users are currently willing to trade bitcoins for.

On average, about 1300% pa. Note that past performance does not guarantee future results. Only invest what you can afford to lose.

It did after June 2011. The price went from from $32 to $2 and took nearly two years to recover. There have also been other crashes since then, though none so massive, and of course the market is a lot larger now, but it's still rather small is the grand scheme of things, so don't assume it won't crash massively in the future.

Then there's also the risk of your bitcoins being lost or stolen, so make sure you encrypt and backup your wallet (in that order) and keep it secure.

It's worse than that. The reason mechanically separated meat is more expensive now is that they're no longer allowed to throw the whole carcass into the grinder, due to the risk of disease. Instead, they now throw in just the breast and call it "100% chicken breast", as though they're doing something different, when it's exactly the same process only with fewer parts of the animal.

That's not true at all. USDA beef grades simply refer to the age of the beast when it was slaughtered, nothing more. Grade D means it was 6-8 years old, Grade C is 3.5-6 years, and so on. It's all equally safe (or not, depending on your point of view) for human consumption. Dog meat typically isn't graded at all, and in most cases can't even be legally identified as "meat", thanks to such tasty ingredients as "meat byproducts" (bone, hooves, fur, and other "non-meat" parts of the animal) and "meat meal" (recycled roadkill, zoo animals, diseased livestock, former pets - yes, your dog is quite possibly a cannibal).

Which is why lenders take the effort to actually check whether the borrower can actually afford to pay off the loan.

They can't be sold a fairy tale if they're not buying it. Obviously people do, in fact, enjoy owning these things that they're buying, or they wouldn't buy them. I fail to see the problem with charging people more money so they can get more enjoyment from their lives.

People who can't make rational decisions are going to end up struggling with or without debt. That's not unfair, that's just a fact of life.

I stopped reading here. If you can't figure out how to acquire assets without exploiting others, you deserve a lot worse than what you're getting.

You don't lend money to people who can't afford things, at least not if you expect to be paid back. You lend money to people who can afford things, just not right now, and are willing to pay more money to be able to buy things now rather than later. If people didn't think it was more useful to be able to buy things now rather than later, they wouldn't be willing to pay more, and the lenders would be out of business. The lenders are providing a service that people want, just like everybody else who earns a living. Though whether borrowers can distinguish what they want from what they actually need is another matter altogether.

Am I the only one here appalled by this double standard? When I accidentally brush my tail against somebody's thigh, that's "sexual harassment", even though it's their own fault for standing that close to me in the first place (doesn't anybody respect personal space these days?), but when I complain about people stroking my tail without my permission, nobody takes me seriously.

If you want to learn how to predict future bitcoin prices, there's only one book you need:

How exactly does fucking a dead whale cause it to vomit?

This bubble will not crash down to double digits. It will more likely crash down to triple digits, after rising to a few thousand. Anyone waiting for cheap coins is going to be disappointed.

Well, there's your problem. Your phone's timezone is correct. Belgrade is currently GMT+2, due to daylight saving time. I have no idea why BTC-TC thinks Belgrade is GMT+1, but that is definitely an error on their side.

The Great Depression was mostly caused by a banking panic when the Fed stopped lending money to insolvent banks. The resulting bank runs caused around a third of all banks in the U.S. to go bankrupt, and the loss of liquidity caused massive deflation. There was never a deflationary spiral, and the deflation was a result, not a cause, of the depression.

A deflationary spiral is bad not because it would lead to economic collapse, but because it means people are starving to death waiting for the price of food to go down. But it turns out that people are willing to buy things they need anyway, even if prices are constantly dropping. Look at computer sales, for example. You'd be crazy to buy a computer today - if you wait a year or so you can buy the exact same model for half the price. Yet people still buy computers. As long as people have a need or desire to buy things now rather than later, a deflationary spiral is impossible.

At first I thought this was going to be the file:/// bug, but this is different one. Dammit Apple, why can't you write a working text renderer? It's not that hard! Well, actually it is kinda hard given the bajillions of character encoding systems out there, but it's not hard to write one that doesn't crash on certain text strings! What the fuck?

December 2013: $350
December 2014: $5,000
December 2015: $80,000
December 2016: ONE MILLION DOLLARS

Expert advice: don't put all your money into bitcoins, and likewise never sell all your bitcoins. Instead, aim to have a certain percentage of your wealth in bitcoins (and ever other asset class you invest in). Exactly what percentage you choose depends on your risk tolerance. Say you put 50% of your wealth into bitcoins (as an example), and then the price of bitcoins suddenly doubles. You now have two-thirds of your wealth in bitcoins, and you should sell a quarter of your bitcoins to get back to 50%. Similarly, if the price of bitcoins drops, you will need to buy more bitcoins. In this way, you automatically buy whenever the price is low, and sell whenever the price is high. Easy money.

As for what you should do right now, just buy bitcoins now instead of waiting for the price to crash. Even if the price does crash immediately after you buy, you'll still retain most of your original profit, and in any case you won't sell until the price goes back up.

Collision detection is simple (for simple shapes, anyway); it's collision response that's the hard part.

For platform games, this depends on the type of objects that collided.

The simplest case is, of course, a bullet. A colliding bullet simply disappears and causes damage to whatever it collided with.

Enemy vs. player collisions are more complicated, since unless the player is a one hit-point wonder, both objects will still be around and still be intersecting unless you do something about it. Depending on the game, you may or may not want enemies to be solid (see below), and in either case, if the collision itself causes damage (as opposed to the more realistic case of requiring one actor to actually perform an attack in order to damage the other), then you need knockback and/or mercy invincibility to avoid repeating the damage on every frame.

Finally comes the platforms themselves (as well as anything else that functions as a solid platform). Here, it's important to know which direction the collision came from (whether you walked into a wall, bumped your head on the ceiling, or are standing on the floor). For square actors, this can be accomplished by checking which axis (X or Y) has the greatest absolute difference between the distance and the sum of the sizes of the actors (ie, how deeply they're interpenetrating) (for rectangular actors, you also need to take into account the actors' aspect ratio). The sign of the difference tells you the direction. Then it's just a simple matter for zeroing the moving actor's velocity in that axis, and clipping its position to the plane of the platform. For the special case of collisions from above (standing on the floor), you also want to set a flag saying that the actor is standing on a floor, so you can set appropriate animation, etc.

Note that all of the above only applies if no object can move fast enough to reach the other side of another within a single frame (mostly a problem for bullets, but can affect falling players if they have no terminal velocity). In that case, it gets even more complicated.

That's what foreplay is for.