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421  Other / Politics & Society / Re: When Will The Economy Collapse? on: September 17, 2013, 05:03:58 PM
Even from Finland it doesn't look rosy... Things going downhill and we are "better off" than southern parts of EMU...

It's suprising how everything seems to be collapsing, but on other hand we haven't really fully run out of energy and such...

422  Economy / Economics / Re: Best way to turn 2BTC into 4BTC on: September 17, 2013, 01:45:42 PM
Be the first investing in a ponzi?

Ponzi and any other pyramid schemes you start are good way to make money. Not legal, but good Grin
423  Economy / Economics / Re: The Insanity of Fiat Money on: September 17, 2013, 01:43:08 PM
BTC is kinda like fiat, but it's limited.

I never got why gold would be so good, what is real worth of marginally useful metal...

Still, I don't believe BTC is final solution. I think we need something linked to energy. Only real currency that can exist...
424  Other / Politics & Society / Re: This man owed $134 in property taxes. The District sold the lien to an investor on: September 10, 2013, 02:54:27 PM
So if the house is auctioned off for say $150,000 the private investor can keep the full amount of the money that was raised? And not pay back the surplus to this guy? That seems wrong to me. It must be very lucrative to be in this business then. Roll Eyes

Must be one very great nation where this sort of stuff happens...

Is it in some third world country?
425  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Has the NSA already broken bitcoin? on: September 06, 2013, 06:14:24 AM
Remember. This website is not safe.

Bitcoin probably is.


Just check the certificate in address bar:
The issuer:
CN = GeoTrust Global CA
O = GeoTrust Inc.
C = US


Oh US... I wonder if NSA has the keys...

The web security isn't really a hard thing to crack. You have handful of authorities and if you get to them whole chain unravels... There is points of weakness and USA government has access to those...
426  Other / Politics & Society / Re: New Snowden Leak Reports ‘Groundbreaking’ NSA Crypto-Cracking on: September 06, 2013, 05:47:04 AM
Im not too savvy on all the crypto shit, but does this mean that Pretty Good Privacy isn't so good and private anymore?

its now going to be called kinda-ok privacy w. the acronym (KOP)

lol.

I'd say they won't touch pgp for the next 10ish years. hopefully.

What they're capable of is https, SSL and VoIP, but that's obvious IMO

I think PGP is itself still sound. But there is a big trust issues...

Maybe it's time to find a new root authority and not involve it with USA in anyway...
427  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Should Nokia invest $7.2 billion in Bitcoins and what would happen if they did? on: September 03, 2013, 06:29:10 PM
Nokia has been involved in many fields.

Not really, investing in BTC would be waste... Better let investment banks do that stuff...
428  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I am pretty confident we are the new wealthy elite, gentlemen. on: September 01, 2013, 10:56:40 PM
I just moved my minor holdings from XRP to BTC

I hope it's worth it... Grin
429  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: [IFC] Free IFC - Infinitecoin Giveaway! 4000 IFC to the 250 first users! on: September 01, 2013, 09:55:47 PM
Why not hop in...

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430  Economy / Economics / Re: Why do people trust fiat money? on: September 01, 2013, 01:59:28 PM
Currently I trust that fiat money is good for a few weeks or months at least. Which is more than BTC now Grin
431  Economy / Economics / Re: Billionaires hate Bitcoin. on: August 31, 2013, 09:25:24 PM
Does the currency matter for billionaires that is euro and dollar ones...

They should have relatively diverse assets for their own good so currency isn't really a big thing. If you are really rich, you are really rich no matter what currency is in use. Unless you only do bonds...
432  Economy / Economics / Re: Energy consumption could become an issue if bitcoin really breaks through on: August 05, 2013, 04:07:31 PM


Dunno if this could lead to situation where in countries like Germany there would be large pools of rather inefficient, but cheap hardware which is only run when energy cost is low or zero...
433  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Family is visited by 6 armed men after Googling backpacks and pressure cookers on: August 03, 2013, 09:45:49 AM
The story, from a more or less first-person point of view: https://medium.com/something-like-falling/2e7d13e54724

You know that records from his previous job were also included makes the thing really scary...

Maybe someone should do something about this..
434  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Morality is a guilt trip on: July 28, 2013, 07:22:52 AM
Good is also subjective and relative term.

But cleary there is some basis of what is moral and how these rules are good for general working of society.

And these basis are rather smaller than what moral is now used for...
435  Economy / Economics / Re: Money Is the Perceived Value of Energy on: July 27, 2013, 10:18:47 AM
how much joule is an hour of programming?  Huh

0.0053~ seconds

That is for daily energy consumption of programmer, with 8 hours of work.

Then there is needed hardware, living space, training, upkeep cost and so on.
436  Economy / Economics / Re: Spain Blots Out the Sun, wonders why their economy sucks... on: July 27, 2013, 10:01:12 AM
Is the tax a fee for those times when there is no sun as backup power must be kept operational?

I'm okay with wind and solar as long as people don't use electricity when there is no production. Or maybe they should force variable rates on those users...
437  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Irrational 1% Jealousy on: July 20, 2013, 11:43:52 AM
Grin We have a Pyramid human society struture , it's true. 99% people can't get to the top.

A society with only hero's doesn't work. We need many people doing 'normal' labour Smiley

Problem in my mind is that are we possibly yet in point where regular person or tad below average can get reasonable living for working 40 hours a week? And by reasonable, I mean sufficient nutrion, living space and healthcare without many very special luxuries. In my mind we should be there in west, with current productivity... Though somehow it just doesn't seem to work out...
438  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The private sector can NOT provide a benevolent police/security service [proof] on: July 07, 2013, 07:37:20 AM
Yes, celebrities and rich people never hire private protection because they do not work.

Rich have always hired private protection, got to have something to keep those slaves under control.

But what about regular people?
439  Economy / Economics / Re: who is to blame? on: July 06, 2013, 06:57:25 AM
Humans, I would get rid of those...
440  Other / Politics & Society / Re: California man faces 13 years in jail for scribbling anti-bank messages in chalk on: June 28, 2013, 04:51:56 PM
Really, though, the bank made the dumbest claim of the story. "one Bank of America branch claimed it had cost $6,000 to clean up the [water-soluble!] chalk writing."

That quote's presence is vandalizing my monitor, and I can't remove it without hiring a team of contractors to scroll for me.

So they had bankers doing some real work? I don't see any other way for that crazy rate for cleaning...
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