Additionally, Khosla Ventures and Data Collective have invested in 21, as well as chief executives and founders from various tech companies, including PayPal co-founders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, eBay Inc. co-founder Jeff Skoll, Dropbox Inc. CEO Drew Houston, Expedia Inc. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and Zynga Inc. co-founder Mark Pincus.  The Empire strikes back! |
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does anybody know what time we will break $300? I couldn't find it in my calendar, although I am sure it is scheduled for today.
I suppose you didnt get the memo? bitcoin ceo said we goin up, get your rockets ready  |
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Can someone in the know explain the difference between Blocknet and SuperNet?
It is very encouraging to see BitNation selecting BlockNet as a partner over SuperNet, but it would be great to understand why.
Thanks,
G.
You're making the assumption that BitNation 'selected' blocknet. I don't think SuperNet opened its doors to BN. SuperNet is very picky and focused on its trajectory. Regardless of SuperNET's choices (of which I'm completely unaware), Bitnation considered a very wide range of technologies (and the people developing them) before choosing the Blocknet and Horizon. Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof is especially well connected. Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof is a conflict zone entrepreneur who has assisted with building and overthrowing governments across the world. Most recently, Ms Tarkowski Tempelhof set up the research and communication firm SHABAKAT Corporation on the ground in Benghazi, Libya during the civil war. She then expanded the company to Egypt and oversaw operations in Ghana and Yemen. Prior to this, Ms. Tarkowski Tempelhof set up Wise Strategic Communication (WSC) in Kabul, Afghanistan, acquiring contracts for a value of more than 7.4 million USD within the first two years of operations. She recruited, trained, and managed more than 300 personnel and eventually sold the company to IDS International. Based in Afghanistan from early 2006, Ms. Tarkowski Tempelhof worked with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Psychological Operations (PSYOP) programs, covering the areas of counterterrorism, elections, and rule of law, as well as campaigns to strengthen the Afghan government, police force and military.
Ms. Tarkowski Tempelhof is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), an associate of European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and provides political commentary and analysis for U.S. and Swedish media. She has been featured in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and The Huffington Post, and is a regular speaker at U.S. military, NATO, TEDx, and corporate communication conferences around the world. i dont think it will take long for the first people to dig out information about her past, but it seems she did a lot of work for intellegence and defense agencies. |
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While I think it's absolutely great (!) to have more devs onboard, it seems it's no longer about Supernet's original " only coins with unique features can join as core coins". It's not about coins, or even (future) coin-features. It seems to be about the people. And imo ideally devs should join voluntarily because they like the SuperNET idea, without getting a reward by having their 'coins' bought with SuperNET money. Maybe James should officially state this change in SuperNET policy, and say he's paying devs to join SuperNET. Not a bad thing imo, times change. (And please correct me if I'm mistaken, I frequently am!)  imho you understood wrong. supernet is not buying devs with ICO money. the only thing which comes near is that there exist a fund which pays whoever distributes to supernet (bug bountys, development etc) |
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where is the promised sub 200   |
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when resistance becomes support  |
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where did i said you need to be a monk to do that? the monk was just a good example, because this people can take control over body functions - which you usually can't control - through meditation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumoaccelerating your heartbeat or increasing your body temperature through running fast, sports or freaking out is something completely different. I didn't mean running or any other physical activity (the example with cyclists was to show the physiological range which can be experienced by a human). Any person can dramatically change his heart rate through strong emotions and emotional recollections, and no physical activity.So what are you actually disagreeing with? No one in good health can kill himself with just a thought. my bad to not make clear what i was answering too, but i though you would understand from the context of the endocrine system and processing of memory or emotions in the human brain. I already agreed in an earlier post that it is not possible to kill oneself with a though alone. I disagreed to your point that some body functions are not able to be controlled with the mind. the article that both you and i linked are agreeing with my standpoint. Is something still not clear? /edit And about the part with proof. I linked an article that validated my argument which was even double verified through the article you linked. |
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It seems you have some difficulties to read sources proberly. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.htmlDuring visits to remote monasteries in the 1980s, Benson and his team studied monks living in the Himalayan Mountains who could, by g Tum-mo meditation, raise the temperatures of their fingers and toes by as much as 17 degrees. It has yet to be determined how the monks are able to generate such heat.
The researchers also made measurements on practitioners of other forms of advanced meditation in Sikkim, India. They were astonished to find that these monks could lower their metabolism by 64 percent. "It was an astounding, breathtaking [no pun intended] result," Benson exclaims.
To put that decrease in perspective, metabolism, or oxygen consumption, drops only 10-15 percent in sleep and about 17 percent during simple meditation. Benson believes that such a capability could be useful for space travel. Travelers might use meditation to ease stress and oxygen consumption on long flights to other planets.
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"Lazar found a marked decrease in blood flow to the entire brain," Benson explains. "At the same time, certain areas of the brain became more active, specifically those that control attention and autonomic functions like blood pressure and metabolism. In short, she showed the value of using this method to record changes in the brain's activity during meditation."
/edit I just read the article you linked: A limitation affecting the generalizability our findings is the small sample size due to the sacredness of the practice and difficulties in accessing g-tummo practitioners. Despite this limitation, we were able, for the first time, to document reliable CBT increases during the FB type of g-tummo practice, all within the slight to moderate fever zone, validating the legends of the extraordinary capacity of g-tummo meditators to elevate their body temperature beyond normal. However, the results also suggest that temperature increases during g-tummo meditation are neither solely a by-product of meditation nor its goal, but instead may be a means to facilitate the achievement of “deep meditative states”. The g-tummo meditators may use the CBT increases as a vehicle to enhance their attention and focus their meditative performance (which may in turn facilitate a further increase in their temperature through meditative visualization). Future studies of experts in g-tummo meditation who are capable of elevating and maintaining elevated CBT may offer promising research insights and approaches to investigating mechanisms of CBT regulation. Because many variables underlying neuronal functioning (e.g., transport via ion-selective channels, amplitude and duration of single-unit spikes) are temperature-dependent [42], [43], possibility of self-regulation of CBT may have a direct effect on self-regulating and maximizing neurocognitive activity. If future studies show that it is possible to self regulate CBT, by mastering vase breathing in conjunction with guided mental imagery without extensive meditation experience, it will open a wide range of possible medical and behavior interventions, such as adapting to and functioning in hostile (cold) environments, improving resistance to infections, boosting cognitive performance by speeding response time, and reducing performance problems associated with decreased body temperature as reported in human factor studies of shift work and continuous night operations [44], [45]. This quote. i dont think you read my post properly either. nowhere did i state what you are saying ( killing oneself with a though) like i though you didnt even read the article you linked right? see bolded part of quote. You should stop making a idiot of yourself. try to read _and_ understand. |
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You might wanna read the results part of the paper you linked.
Yes you are either not reading properly or ignoring parts that does not help your standpoint.
Funny thing is the result of the paper your linked is agreeing to benson ( and therefor with me)
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It seems you have some difficulties to read sources proberly. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.htmlDuring visits to remote monasteries in the 1980s, Benson and his team studied monks living in the Himalayan Mountains who could, by g Tum-mo meditation, raise the temperatures of their fingers and toes by as much as 17 degrees. It has yet to be determined how the monks are able to generate such heat.
The researchers also made measurements on practitioners of other forms of advanced meditation in Sikkim, India. They were astonished to find that these monks could lower their metabolism by 64 percent. "It was an astounding, breathtaking [no pun intended] result," Benson exclaims.
To put that decrease in perspective, metabolism, or oxygen consumption, drops only 10-15 percent in sleep and about 17 percent during simple meditation. Benson believes that such a capability could be useful for space travel. Travelers might use meditation to ease stress and oxygen consumption on long flights to other planets.
[...]
"Lazar found a marked decrease in blood flow to the entire brain," Benson explains. "At the same time, certain areas of the brain became more active, specifically those that control attention and autonomic functions like blood pressure and metabolism. In short, she showed the value of using this method to record changes in the brain's activity during meditation."
/edit I just read the article you linked: A limitation affecting the generalizability our findings is the small sample size due to the sacredness of the practice and difficulties in accessing g-tummo practitioners. Despite this limitation, we were able, for the first time, to document reliable CBT increases during the FB type of g-tummo practice, all within the slight to moderate fever zone, validating the legends of the extraordinary capacity of g-tummo meditators to elevate their body temperature beyond normal. However, the results also suggest that temperature increases during g-tummo meditation are neither solely a by-product of meditation nor its goal, but instead may be a means to facilitate the achievement of “deep meditative states”. The g-tummo meditators may use the CBT increases as a vehicle to enhance their attention and focus their meditative performance (which may in turn facilitate a further increase in their temperature through meditative visualization). Future studies of experts in g-tummo meditation who are capable of elevating and maintaining elevated CBT may offer promising research insights and approaches to investigating mechanisms of CBT regulation. Because many variables underlying neuronal functioning (e.g., transport via ion-selective channels, amplitude and duration of single-unit spikes) are temperature-dependent [42], [43], possibility of self-regulation of CBT may have a direct effect on self-regulating and maximizing neurocognitive activity. If future studies show that it is possible to self regulate CBT, by mastering vase breathing in conjunction with guided mental imagery without extensive meditation experience, it will open a wide range of possible medical and behavior interventions, such as adapting to and functioning in hostile (cold) environments, improving resistance to infections, boosting cognitive performance by speeding response time, and reducing performance problems associated with decreased body temperature as reported in human factor studies of shift work and continuous night operations [44], [45]. |
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you suck lol |
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Your proposal = help bitcoin become even more of a cult than what it already is.
It's all about freedom amirite? Newbie Jail? really?
yes please lock them all |
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where did i said you need to be a monk to do that? the monk was just a good example, because this people can take control over body functions - which you usually can't control - through meditation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumoaccelerating your heartbeat or increasing your body temperature through running fast, sports or freaking out is something completely different. I didn't mean running or any other physical activity (the example with cyclists was to show the physiological range which can be experienced by a human). Any person can dramatically change his heart rate through strong emotions and emotional recollections, and no physical activity. So what are you actually disagreeing with? No one in good health can kill himself with just a thought. of course this is possible, but the underlying reason to do so is not an active though - much more about the endocrine system and processing of emotions/memory of our brain. and even that has a limit which you cant go over or under. but if you read the wiki link with the sources you will see things like: 1. increasing body temperature by 10+° degrees 2. decreasing heartbeat to ~10 3. decreasing metabolism by ~65% just by meditation. studies made by scientist of havard university and etc. that is why i was disagreeing to this: No matter how hard you try, you can't change with just the power of thought what is made to function without any at all |
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I have to disagree.
there are some really interesting documentations about monks that seem to be able to control body functions which usually cant be controlled actively.
like body temperature, heartbeat etc. The heartbeat can be controlled through CNS (as well as body temperature to a degree), but the heart itself cannot be stopped altogether unless you're dying on your own. But if your monks are, nevertheless, able to control some vital functions of the body why then they don't live forever? In fact, there are a lot of interesting "docs" which ultimately turn out to be just fiction or someone's yet another insane fantasy. no, they didnt stop their heart beating. they were controling it to a certain degree (heartbeat and body temperature). i dont see a direct link to immortality, but lowering your heartbeat and body temperature will increase your lifespan. this is not fiction, there is alot of talk in the scientific world about unusual phenomenoms like that. You needn't be a monk to slow down or accelerate your heart. You lie down, calm down, hold your breath and your heart slows down. You work yourself up, freak out, and your heart accelerates. The heart of well trained cyclists can slow down to 30 beats per minute at rest and accelerate to over 200 beats at load, more than six times difference. There is nothing unusual or magic about it. where did i said you need to be a monk to do that? the monk was just a good example, because this people can take control over body functions - which you usually can't control - through meditation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumoaccelerating your heartbeat or increasing your body temperature through running fast, sports or freaking out is something completely different. |
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I guess that's why solitary confinement is torture...
stop breathing. the will to die. Won't work. At first you lose consciousness, then you breath again. You don't stop breathing when you sleep, right? sure? and maybe at the first trial... when you are in solitary confinement, you have the time to train until reaching perfection... Absolutely. No matter how hard you try, you can't change with just the power of thought what is made to function without any at all. The stories of men completely shutting down their heart by their will only are fables of the same kind. I have to disagree. there are some really interesting documentations about monks that seem to be able to control body functions which usually cant be controlled actively. like body temperature, heartbeat etc. The heartbeat can be controlled through CNS (as well as body temperature to a degree), but the heart itself cannot be stopped altogether unless you're dying on your own. But if your monks are, nevertheless, able to control some vital functions of the body why then they don't live forever? In fact, there are a lot of interesting "docs" which ultimately turn out to be just fiction or someone's yet another insane fantasy. no, they didnt stop their heart beating. they were controling it to a certain degree (heartbeat and body temperature). i dont see a direct link to immortality, but lowering your heartbeat and body temperature will increase your lifespan. this is not fiction, there is alot of talk in the scientific world about unusual phenomenoms like that. |
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EUR is going to bounce to 1.15 soonish, now is not the time to sell. Parity will not happen this fast.
european qe just started this month. you sure we wont see parity soon? my bet is we gonna see it probaly before the first half of 2015 ends.  |
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I appreciate the fact that they are trying to pump this failure again.
I mean, why wouldn't you facilitate a smooth selling experience for the whales that just won the auction ?
What you doing here on this shitcoin forum? With your intelligence and wisdom you should make trillions in forex  |
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I guess that's why solitary confinement is torture...
stop breathing. the will to die. Won't work. At first you lose consciousness, then you breath again. You don't stop breathing when you sleep, right? sure? and maybe at the first trial... when you are in solitary confinement, you have the time to train until reaching perfection... Absolutely. No matter how hard you try, you can't change with just the power of thought what is made to function without any at all. The stories of men completely shutting down their heart by their will only are fables of the same kind. I have to disagree. there are some really interesting documentations about monks that seem to be able to control body functions which usually cant be controlled actively. like body temperature, heartbeat etc. |
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big yes. the first social contact you make is with your mother and their are some really interesting and cruel experiments that verify this fact. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OrNBEhzjg8IThis experiment was conducted by US scientist harry harlow in 1950. |
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it's good that they bought at 30% higher price, this mean that current value is somehow safe, and the price will rise by 30% before any dump occur, because of that auction
Can you provide us the link to your claim that the bidders bought at 30% higher price ? As far as I concern, it's just a rumour well yes just a rumor, i read it somewhere in the forum, don't remember know, there was a guy that said it ok here you go https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=960634.msg10679456#msg10679456After the previous auctions took place, I've heard the price was actually lower than the market price. It is bidding after all.. they might have been sold for $100 , otherwise, why would you bid higher then the market price ? (you always have the option to buy off the market..) The US Marshals are less likely to scam their buyers, by that basis alone it would make sense to pay more. Don't see how it's relevant, you have plenty of legit exchanges to buy from without paying 30 or even 10% above the market price. They never payed over the market price imo if anything they paid quite abit under the price or about the same if that was the case that they was willing to pay higher, why would they? I mean they could have just set buy walls and brought what they needed over a week or 2 and paid quite abit less. They paid under market rate and so they should. I'm also quite confused why would the bidders buy beyond the market price when they could have bought it on much lower rates? I COULDN'T GET THE LOGIC BEHIND IT! If you are a investor in need of 50.000 btc it will be very hard to buy it from the market or otc. The main problems are slippage and risks regarding counterparty. Both of it and more doesnt apply here no one needs 50,000 BTC, that's why you troll this shit since $6xx but no one bought those 1000k+ " $ 600 500 400 300 200 cheap coins" and the price in the other hand always go down Then just sell and forget bitcoin. But i know u cant. Your addiction and believe in bitcoin is so big that you even have to make atleast 1 new account per day on this forum  Who are all this people selling their bitcoin to if nobody buys? |
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