Do not forget that your statistics are not taken into account death from AIDS, murder with the robberies committed by drug addicts to a traffic accident. I think that if you consider these factors then the victory will be for the drug.
HIV is caused by addiction to hard drugs, such as Heroin. Among those who use weed and mushrooms, there is no HIV epidemic. You need to compare soft drugs with alcohol. I also don't support the proliferation of the hard drugs. After the use of mushrooms the person can have hallucinations and they can lead to unpredictable consequences both for the person and for others. I'm against drugs. Are you against alcohol too? Using it can cause hallucinations and can be dangerous to the drinker and people around him. Mushrooms and weed don't make people aggressive, but alcohol does. Another question: why should we limit the ability of other people to use any substance they want? If they want to hallucinate why would you try to stop them? It's not your body and not your life.
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Sex and a smartphone can not be compared with drugs, they do not destroy the body as drugs. Those who abuse drugs are rotting alive.
Very true, but the key word is abuse. What about those who abuse cigarettes, alcohol, caffeine, food in general? They are all rotting alive. Microdoses are very interesting, if that small amount of the substance can improve your senses and influence cognition it should be openly available. Our lives are so short that if we could really accomplish more just by taking a small amount of a chemical substance once every few days it would be great. I'm not against drugs or any other substance, it was all made for our benefit and stupid people will overdose and die, that's life. Stupid people also drive carelessly and kill themselves, but we aren't banning cars.
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Been many ups and downs but it always goes up. It's definitely shown constant growth over a very long time period and something like that is very promising. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) It has to stop one day. Nothing can go up indefinitely. The thing is to predict that moment when it will stagnate and sell. Every accepted technology has its boom that leads to stabilization. I think Bitcoin is still in the stage of boom, but the stabilization is lurking around the corner. It can be next year or in two years, but some investors will not gain anything by investing.
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I tried it and nothing works. It doesn't show the replays of previous games and if you start a room nobody joins. Some game rooms have error message blinking, what's that about? The project looks nice, very old school console style, shame it ended up like this.
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To answer your question I wouldn't martingale at all. This strategy is flawed and can work on real casinos, when your luck is your own. This means that if you have 5 dice throws it's almost impossible for all 5 to be the same number, but in an internet casino your throws are not consecutive. It's rather like throwing in turns with 5 other people and each of your throws is like 1 out of 5 then another 1 out of five and so on until you reach 5 yourself. Once you understand this you'll never martingale a bitcoin dice site.
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Hmm ok this seems really interesting in the means of free electricity but there's one very important factor that you have just ignored.
HEAT. Africa = more heat.
Which means MUCH more cooling required than you can imagine. Mining rigs run at 50 degree celsius in cold regions what about in desert !!
OH yes energy is free but to provide what is enough for air conditioners to cool down in the red hot desert, you'll simply need millions and millions spent in solar panels.
IN short (my opinion) : Not a good idea.
It could pay off. He'd have to do the calculations of course, but If I were to attempt it I'd dig a hole to place the mine below the sand level, like a basement and used the sand as an insulator. Nights in the desert are very cold so all you have to do is to open all vents and push cold air through the compound to cool down the walls and then close the vents and circulate the air inside until it gets too hot at which point you'd start up the AC. In good conditions it would run all night without AC, then at closed circulation for another 6 hours until noon and past noon on AC.
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What is all about gambling? They just put it on internet and they use bitcoin to be more anonymous also the transaction that they made if its it came from illegal activities drug related or what so ever as long as they earning money from it. they love the way how they can use bitcoin to gamble just to fulfill their addiction.
So what do you propose? Stop gambling just so that you won't fulfill other people's addiction. Is money we made through gambling dirty? I don't agree with any of this and I don't care what happens with the money I lost, just as I don't care what happens with the money I spend in a restaurant or a grocery store. You shouldn't worry about the things you cannot control, you'll be healthier this way.
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He has a sense of humour, I like him. I mean it's surely not the answer you'd expect from the president, but years ago you wouldn't expect the president to casually chat with random people online or tweet stuff about his personal life. Grab'em by the pussy! ![Kiss](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/kiss.gif)
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It's not going to be an easy run. Korea has some fighters and AA missiles ready, so the losses would be significant on both sides. I bet they are now calculating if losing 50 planes is worth teaching Kim a lesson, because this bombing run will be nothing more than a smack in the cheek. They'd need weeks of constant bombing to completely disable Korea. IMO it's not worth it, but they won't come to an agreement because Kim is crazy and stubborn.
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The real question is what about self awareness? Artificial Inteligence would be just a tool without it.
There's no real intelligence without self awareness. A conscious mind has to know of its existence and try to preserve itself for the future generations. It will protects its life at all cost and want to improve itself. The Turing test is very basic, it doesn't grasps the true being, just looks for human resemblance.
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Some of you have mentioned that you never click on the signatures but rather recognize them and remember the business name. This is exactly how it's intended to work. Campaigns are not made to make you click and make an account, although it would be great for the owner. They are made to work on your subconsciousness and make you read the signature while you're reading the post and register it in your brain. If you think about it i'm sure you're able to make up the names of a few sig campaigns, although you've never been to these sites.
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Bitcoin is like a very trusted place of investment, and also I use it to give me a monthly salary. It can be said that for me, finding bitcoin is my job, and a long term investment. Well, it always gives me an advantage, such as the opportunity to become a millionaire
Hopefully bitcoin can give us a chance to be a millionaire by invest in bitcoin but honestly i've a doubt with what i has said due in my eyes the chance will not come twice in life. We can dream about it but dreaming is all we got. There simply can't suddenly be like 50k new millionaires all from holding Bitcoin. It's too good to be true. Early investors became rich and the rest of us should be happy we got something out of it. For me BTC is just one of many investments. I believe in it. If I didn't, I wouldn't have invested, but I'm not thinking that I'll be rich one day, when Bitcoin is worth 10k or something. I'm not delusional.
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Idgaf how much I could make from ether, it's just another shitty centralized currency that I want nothing to do with. It's the opposite of what all cryptocurrencies should stand for. I think he's just a follower and he only invested because they're the biggest. That's pretty dumb and takes almost 0 knowledge. Oh durp these 2 look good since they're the biggest. Great analysis.
Maybe he invested for that very thing, because it's something different. We don't know what the governments will do, maybe they won't like the idea of a decentralized crypto taking over the financial sector. This would be a chance for ETH, to fill the niche and become accepted where Bitcoin is being fought and banned. He's smart, he's dividing his assets and investing in two different platforms that don't depend on each other.
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Don’t be naive, every major router on the internet is controlled by security agencies who have strong ties to the central banking power structure. Go look at some of Snowden’s disclosures around routers and the tookits to break in and pwn them. With these tools you can use deep packet inspection to search for certain types of packets, looking at which port is being used, etc. If you can identify a certain type of data, a sender or receiver or other pattern, you can copy and retain a set of the data, diminish the QOS (quality of service) or even block the packets. The router owner is unaware of these tactics, so don’t bother suing the ISP; these tools should be assumed to be in the hands of criminal gangs.
That's what people do when they want to get your personal info, they use a sniffer to watch your traffic. Systems like Windows have their flaws and sometimes send out pieces of information, like system administrator's name, software names and versions and so on. Even without a direct access to someone's computer you can filter out a lot of information just from their outgoing packets. If someone had access to the servers of your ISP, they could eventually get all of your personal info and it wouldn't matter if you were using firewalls and VPNs, because all of it eventually goes through the server of your ISP.
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The author of this article must be out of ideas. I know how it is when you badly want to squeeze out a piece of writing and there's nothing going on, so you jump at any opportunity. The price moved a bit and he instantly farted out this crappy story and by the time he was done the price went back up again. Who cares, time to publish and get some money!
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There were many similar threads. I don't treat Bitcoin like a scheme. I think it's a great piece of technology and an efficient payment system that will take over the old and slow ones like Western Union. It's also a way to get rich, because if it does explode all investors will profit.
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=756764.0It seems to be a quite old group, so if they are still pumping after over 2 years it has to be real. Whether it's worth it to pay the fee is another thing, as their pumps could as well be financed with these fees.
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I checked the first one to see how it works and of course it's a scam. I entered an address and the site started displaying random code like it was hacking the blockchain to get me coins. After it was done it said: 0.1 BTC has been sent to wallet address 0/3 Confirmations The Bitcoin network requires a small fee to be paid for each transaction that goes to the miners, else a transaction might never be confirmed. To ensure your transaction confirms consistently and reliably, pay the miners fee 0.00335 BTC for this transaction at 1GoJG3U5eoFp2HwGHKUMuybHsTu6fZCGc5
Of course blockchain doesn't show any incoming transactions to my address, so they are scamming by making you pay the fee for a transaction that will never be sent.
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The problem is Indian government is showing less interest in crypto currencies. The government official give controversial statements from time to time and people think that investing and using Bitcoin will be too risky. I agree that India will be a great market for Bitcoin even if 10% of their population start using Bitcoin and the Bitcoin can help India's cashless economy.
They should think again, because in the current crisis and cash shortages Bitcoin could be very helpful. What is happening there now is a normal panic. People are cashing out in fear of money shortages and by doing it causing the shortage themselves. I think introducing a formal electronic currency, like Japan did, would make things easier for them.
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No, that aint possible. PayPal have gone miles away, and accepted by all. not everyone like the idea of cryptocurrency.
Paypal isn't accepted by all. Many services don't accept it because of their strict policies and many individual users, who were scammed with chargebacks stopped using them. Basically there are at least 3 main issues with Paypal: 1. Banning users with "suspicious activity" and this involves crypto businesses. 2. Chargeback scams 3. Typical corporate attitude towards customers. "we don't have to explain our decisions, all decisions are final, your funds were blocked, fuck off"
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