https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/966This my friends is what power lust looks like. Mr. Luke Jr. wants your location easily traceable when using Bitcoins. He wants you to fear the powers that be when you deal in Bitcoins. Bitcoin users could then be controlled. Let's keep a watchful eye on people like Mr. Luke and their proposals. With no vigilance, stuff like this could be merged. You advocate a surveillance of Luke Jr. because he advocates surveillance of you? Interesting. What is it like living inside your hypocritical mind, Atlas?
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Here's what I see, and I bet you can't unsee it now.
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protesting Goddamnit. You guys are starting to get creepy with the stalking. Where are you finding all of my photos?
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Due to popular demand, I'm posting images of the Bitcoin Conference t-shirts I still have (S, M, L, XL): Front: Back: It's hard to read in these images, but the second line says "March 2012." I also still have plenty of goodie bags with other stuff you can have for only the cost of shipping. Adding a shirt increases the cost by 2 BTC. I'll take one goody bag to Korea if you don't mind filling out the customs form for it and finding out what shipping would be. I'll also take a toad fish in your avatar.
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I think you're expecting me to be able to comprehend what I read. Reading the OP thoroughly (I originally thought it only said "near-free"), no, I don't see how that makes sense for landlords, unless maybe they really regret getting into landlording but can't sell the properties. In actuality, it is "near-free" in most cases (unless you drop $200,000 down). Even with $20k, I would expect to pay $100 at least for rent but that's better than $750.
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I think he's talking about incentive as in "How does the landlord make any money", and the truth is, the "free" apartments I'm talking about are typically much more expensive than what I mentioned, but I know a few places that the rent would be about $100 with a $20k deposit.
Rule of thumb in Korea is, larger deposit = cheaper rent.
As long as the asset isn't depreciating significantly in value (which it likely won't [outside of normal wear & tear] given the huge deposit), there is very little risk of the landlord losing money, so revenues can be much lower while still keeping a healthy profit factoring in bad tenants across many samples -- similar to wanting FPGAs over GPUs for mining. That lower risk of bad tenants probably also relieves the landlord of stress, time consumption, and sudden needs to spend funds on repair in case of property damage. I still think you're missing his (and my) original point. Normally, you would pay rent. That is where the landlord's income comes from. I think the question he was asking was "how does the landlord make any money?". And the answer was my response.
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I really don't think it's a good idea, Matthew, to tell them that Bitcoin Magazine will be ready in a month. I lol'ed. I didn't realize I worked at ThinkGeek.
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Not commenting on this other than to say that I also live in Korea, and Matt's description of the various rental/deposit systems here is pretty much spot on. So if you're sitting there wondering WTF is up with that, well, welcome to our life.
What is the landlord's incentive for this? On the figures Matthew posted, the landlord would need to earn around 20-25% p.a. on the deposit to break even with lost rent compared with a "normal" lease. How much is the standard risk-free interest rate in Korea at the moment? An unsavory tenant would likely not destroy a dwelling if he has $20k to lose for doing so. However, with lower amounts, the value of being lazy & otherwise unsavory may exceed the value of the security deposit. Similar to punishment through law. If the punishment is $250, I don't care too much about possibly violating it and taking my chances being caught. If the punishment is 10 years in rape-ville, I would not take a chance at violating the law except in extreme circumstances. I think he's talking about incentive as in "How does the landlord make any money", and the truth is, the "free" apartments I'm talking about are typically much more expensive than what I mentioned, but I know a few places that the rent would be about $100 with a $20k deposit. Rule of thumb in Korea is, larger deposit = cheaper rent.
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(Those who are normally interested in gay make-out scenes probably wouldn't be any more. ) Agreed. Two obnoxious skinny tall guys making out is hardly attractive to anyone. Unless we dyed our hair, got a single lip stud, wore tight jeans and called ourselves "scene" in which case EVERYONE LOVES US. Crap, I should stop giving Bruce ideas. Haha just kidding, he'd never fit into skinny jeans.
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No way...co-worker posted it randomly in chat...I'll get more details momentarily LOL
Haha. I'm just bluffing. I haven't been to DisneyLand since I lived in OC, and the only thing I did then was wear giant Mickey gloves.
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Holy shit where did you find this? I didn't know Wendy put this online.
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Pathetic.
You don't like that you're banned and no one listens to you, so instead of growing up and learning how to communicate you act like Kimmo Alm approach by spamming your 'anonymous' board on the real board.
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To those who wish to comment about any grammatical or spelling issues, understand that the draft shot shown is pre-copy-edit and already been revised twice. I'm going in over everyone's head here to show that, so don't make me regret it by complaining about some words..... on a draft... Thanks!
I'd like to complain about the words on the draft.
They are quite obviously riddled with grammatical errors and spelling mistakes.
In related news: I still want my fucking magazine. Yesterday.
I see what you did there. (Image relevant)
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To those who wish to comment about any grammatical or spelling issues, understand that the draft shot shown is pre-copy-edit and already been revised twice. I'm going in over everyone's head here to show that, so don't make me regret it by complaining about some words..... on a draft... Thanks!
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That sure does look good, Matthew. I'll assume you'll edit the final draft of the magazine in regards to any spelling and grammatical errors.
~Bruno~
Yep. The workflow so far has been article draft -> layout design -> graphics overlays -> article copy-edit -> final design -> review and approval. In the future it will be article draft -> article copy-edit -> graphics & layout design -> review -> final design -> re-review and approval
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It should be quite easy to resolve this dispute by checking the transaction within the Liberty Reserve system - > HEREOhsnap. pwn3d.
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Now if Atlas and I had both gone, that's different. I'm sure plenty of people would have joined just to see us make out.
Damn right. I could have charged admission and made a fortune! In San Antonio? Maybe try Pattaya next time. Then only gay Bruce wannabees will show up. I think that's what he was implying.
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If I had a car, I would of come. ;_;
I wasn't ballsy enough to take the van and cite common law as my driver's license.
Well that's a sign of the apsergers wearing off. Good on you. You could have taken a greyhound bus though. EDIT: For the record, the reason I didn't go is because it would have cost $1,100 to fly there from South Korea just to hang out with some dudes and discuss things that could have been discussed over a Skype group call. For those just tuning in and thinking that starting a convention or conference is a good idea, try to remember that you need to back it off of a release party. Even the Prague conference was not a smashing hit because there was too much ranting about copyrights and not enough actual tech released there. There needs to be something interesting happening that can't be accessed elsewhere. Meeting nerds is not sufficiently interesting enough imo. Now if Atlas and I had both gone, that's different. I'm sure plenty of people would have joined just to see us make out.
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lmao so people would be able to guess that exorbitant amounts of money is going through the system, not so discreet
You have missed the point of Bitcoin. Are the world trade center towers discrete? Yet wealthy men own them, and you do not know how much money they have, where it is located etc? Bitcoin goes one further and strips the names from the buildings, and locks the building down.
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