But it exists, does it not? How can you declare one part of existence more real than another?
Things can only exist within reality. |
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There are infinite realities.
By definition, anything outside of reality is not real. |
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Yogi, can't dreams simply be an alternate reality? There are infinite realities, after all.
There is only one reality, if something does not exist within reality then it does not exist. Dreams take place in the mind. |
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Dank, I find this interesting because I had a similar dream not long ago.
I was up in the 20th story or so of a large apartment building. I couldn't tell what city it was, there were no landmarks that I could discern. Outside, it seemed to be rainy and a bit of fog was in the air. Blue-green pall over everything as buildings receded into the fog like lost soldiers.
Then, I think I see movement, but I can't make out what it is -- and this is what really threw me -- because at that point I'm somewhat lucid about the fact I'm dreaming, but even then I didn't know what it was. That isn't how it is supposed to work -- you become lucid in a dream, then you start to direct things, and you know in typical twisted-dream-logic what is happening.
That wasn't the case here. I was watching *something* move towards me, and being as high up as I was, I couldn't say what it was through how the fog kept obscuring details.
Then, as the distance closed between whatever it was and the twenty-story window I was looking through, it dawned on me. Some tiny hint of specular reflection, a facet of the wall that was going to become my certain death filled me with instant dread.
It was a 40-story high tidal wave.
What I had seen was the reflection of lights shining out the windows in the buildings on the face of the wave.
I had about a second to process this, then I started yelling "I knew it, I knew it --" and then the building is shuddering and the wave is breaking through the glass - and we're underwater in no time flat. I flail and try to move out into the hallway, but then there's a dream-jump, and I'm impossibly watching it from outside somewhere, like a closed-circuit tv camera, as it sweeps its way inland, smashing buildings in its path.
I haven't shared this with anyone until now, so I had to stop and pause when you mentioned what your dream was about.
I would prefer to be wrong, but honestly the only way a wave that high can form is either from a impact of an asteroid or some other disasterous natural event.
The key to understanding this dream is this bit; "at that point I'm somewhat lucid about the fact I'm dreaming" The realisation that you are dreaming is a result of the subconscious revealing the fact to your conscious mind. The reason for it doing so is because your conscious had become to overwhelmed by the content of the dream. The first part of your dream was probably violent and/or sexual and sprang from repressed desires. It overwhelmed the concious mind to the point of nearly waking you. Your subconscious mind then decided to reveal it is only a dream to calm you down and protect your sleep. The subconscious utilised the fact that you needed to urinate, or some other thing related to water, to change the content of the dream. It also screen the previous emotive content. The result is an amalgamation of the symbolic elements of the explicit first parts of the dream with the material watery parts of the second. |
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Psychology is a much better predictor than mathematics as far as the bitcoin market is concerned. Recent rise was due to peoples perception of the impending drop in reward. Currently we are in a correction which will likely bottom around the high eights. If bitcoin adoption continues then we will see growth again after the new year.
(Note, I am often wrong)
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I just noticed - I think there's something wrong with your chart. 17 bitcoiners per 10 megahookers? That's nearly six hundred thousand hookers per bitcoiner. I'm not sure that's possible, even with the legendary feats of endurance one develops by becoming a bitcoiner. Perhaps you've estimated the curve incorrectly?
Sorry, maybe I should have made the chart clearer. A mega hooker a a measurement of difficulty and not the number of hookers. An average hooker rates at a difficulty of around 10 mega hookers or 10MHks. But remember not all hookers rate the same difficulty. Your average bitconer, for example, is likely to seek out hookers of low difficulty due to the non-native environment. I hope this clears things up. |
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I initially thought this joke was way funnier than it was - I thought the post was: how many bitcoiners does it take to bang a hooker? not how many bitcoins does it cost to bang a hooker?
My answer to the joke I thought it was would have been - "Dunno - it depends on the Difficulty". I made a chart.  |
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They should change its name to Commercialmas.
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I don't know, how many bitcoins does it cost to bang a hooker?
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I am not sure if thought crime and what I am talking about is the same thing.
Here's a hypothetical;
Say someone, lets call him 'Honest Jon' comes up with an idea to merge file sharing with bitcoin technology. Lets call it 'Bitwire'. Jon outlines how Bitwire would work but provides no reference implementation.
Later a reference implementation appears created by a mysterious person or persons unknown but who goes by the pseudonym 'Satamo Nakosito'.
Now the way Bitwire works is by rewarding those who provide content to download with coins. People who just want to leach have to obtain coins in other ways. The incentive for people to provide and make available content makes Bitwire successful. And, as usual copy-write infringement abounds.
The film and music industry are up in arms and want to sue. As they can not identify Satamo they go after Jon.
Now, can Jon be prosecuted merely for coming up with the idea?
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I have a question.
Can it be a crime to use your imagination?
Are there forbidden ideas that it is a crime to think of?
I am thinking of Satoshi, what he really gave us is the idea of bitcoin. An idea that this community has built on.
So, is it right that he has been made to feel that he must hide his identity for fear of prosecution?
Is Satoshi just paranoid or is he being clever?
Should we all be careful about the ideas we have?
Every time I have an idea, should I just keep my mouth shut?
Or, is it safe to use your imagination as long as you play no part in its implementation.
Would the creator of limewire still be sued for $75 trillion if all he had done was release a white paper?
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I think the unusually high volume of short selling of AMR and UAL prior to the event is also interesting.
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Are you guys familiar with Adam Curtis? In particular the Power of Nightmares which paints a view of 9/11 and the war on terror which I haven't seen before. Its in 3 parts, each an hour long but it is well worth a watch. Id be interested to know what you think of it too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGo1DqmfHjYYeah, I would recommend everyone give Adam Curtis a watch. |
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In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the country of Oceania has been in a war against Eurasia for years.
Oceania suddenly switches sides, naming Eastasia as its enemy and making its mortal enemy, Eurasia, its new ally.
The government uses propaganda to convince people that, “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia”. The dumbed-down public doesn’t even notice that they’ve switches sides, and blindly rallies around Eurasia as its perennial friend and ally.
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What I don't understand from the conspiracy theory angle is that if they did plan it, how did they keep the secret from coming out? Say what you will, governments are not really good about keeping big secrets. And with a false flag operation of this scale surely some documents would have made it to the public.
Conspiracy theorists have no hard evidence, and the fact that there is no hard evidence for their theories speaks a lot by itself.
I remember seeing an interview once with Tony Ben (A famous UK politician). He was ask if he had ever had to keep any big secrets. He laughed and said "Only little ones, the big ones keep themselves due to public incredulity". |
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can't sleep  no one ever does in Bitcoin World. Yesterday, my girlfriend told me I was talking about Bitcoin in sleep the other night I had a dream the other night. It was dark and a terrible storm was raging, out at sea was the darkest most sinister looking pirate ship I had ever seen. Do you think that had something to do with bitcoin? |
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