Yes, I can help university students as well. I spent a couple years as a teaching aide and lab instructor while I was in grad school, and I also tutored several college students.  

I can try to answer questions on other subjects, hit me with your best shot  

I never really memorized the periodic table, it is easy enough to access it when you need it. Have a copy of it readily available to look at, like hang one on the wall by your desk. The best way to learn the periodic table is to use it, so find a high school/introductory college textbook and answer the questions in the chapter about the periodic table. But it you just want to impress people by being able to say all the elements, then look up them set to music; having something set to music is a great way to memorize it.

Well, I imagine that there are several ways to make this. My initial thought is to get some safrole (http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/sigma/s9652?lang=en&region=US), treat it with aqueous acid (sulfuric acid and water) to hydrate the double bond and make an alcohol, and then treat with ammonia to do a nucleophilic substitution to replace the alcohol with the desired amine. I am not sure how well the methylenedioxy moiety at the other end of the molecule would hold up under these harsh conditions, I will have to look into that some more.

Found a nice reference: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073804004463


Start with safrole, react with HBr, then react with ammonia.

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So, I start sentences with 'so' all the time. So what?

The first time I did a trade on the OTC ... I wanted to sell some bitcoin, this guy with lots of nice feedback offered to buy the for dwolla cash. I didn't have any rep (I think I still don't), so he wanted me to go first. He was giving me a nice deal on them, a bit over MtGox at the time, so I sent the bitcoins. About a minute later, the channel mod called him out for being identified (simple password) but not confirmed (gpg signature required). After complaining for a minute he disappeared. I should have seen the signs of the scammer using a stolen account, but I was having too much fun doing an OTC trade for the first time so I missed it.

The USD is not used by everyone everywhere.

Clearly people want the damn things, since there are people paying to get them. So they have a demand, so they are scarce. And I addressed the point about altcoins already a couple posts ago, since that is where I thought you were going with the scarcity argument when you first brought it up. These arguments have been debunked many times before.

Often is not derived from 'of ten', it is, as you rightly point out, related to oft. Thanks for emphasizing my point for me.

Aha, I looked at the link and I see your problem. You tried to make up your own definition of scarcity and then argue using your own definitions of other words why bitcoins cannot fit into that box. This is something like a strawman argument. If you want to have decent debates, you must agree to use the same definitions for words as everybody else uses.

Having the metals stored in a secure place does not help you any if it is illegal to trade things for that gold, or transport the gold (how are you going to sneak it through checkpoints on the highway, security at the airport?). It would actually be easier for the government to stop people using gold than for them to stop bitcoins.

There are only 21 million coins on the longest cryptographic blockchain. The blockchain upon which they rest is a key characteristic which constrains their abundance. This is like claiming gold is not scare because it is just an element, and look how much of these other elements we have sitting around!

I don't see any similarity???

(of course spelled ofcourse) is making a compound word out of two words in a way which is not done in English (at least, I can't think of any words where of is used as a prefix), and the resulting word is not a valid English word and so this mistake will be caught by any spellcheck.

(lose spelled loose) is spelling a word more phonetically than the correct spelling, and the resulting word is a valid English word, so spellcheck will not catch it.

You see what you are looking for. What would adoption look like to you? I see an increasing number of people around the world using bitcoins for an increasing number of things.

What would money look like to you? I traded something for bitcoins, after some time I traded those bitcoins for something I wanted. That looks like it is functioning as money.

What would value look like to you? Right now I check my balance and I see I have X bitcoins. I can choose to hold those X bitcoins or trade them for Y. The person selling Y seems to agree with me that those X bitcoins have a value of Y.

I really fail to see abundance here. Maybe you could expand on that?

Don't forget that those prices are quoted in the inflating currency of USD, so the loss of purchasing power is even greater than what is reflected in the price of these metals.

How many people before this year were saying we would never reach $100 for a sustained period? Yet we did, now if you offered to buy a bitcoin for $100 people would laugh at you.

You keep saying that "Worthless tokens will never become money, as they dont[sic] fullfill[sic] the requirments[sic] of money.", maybe your requirements for money are wrong? In the hard sciences (chemistry, physics, etc), if we observe facts which do not match our theory then we change our theory, we do not throw out empirical observations.

It is hard to keep track of everything going on around here, but with VTX delisting, and "mining companies" turning out to be scams, even though a couple new listings have gone up, the total number of listed funds has remained pretty much constant. How is this company supposed to grow and make the money projected in the prospectus if they lose business as fast as they get it new?

I still think the IPO was vastly overpriced.

Actually, ... I remember hearing once of a waitress who was left a huge tip by a generous couple so she could afford to go to school (I don't remember the exact detail).

Clearly you didn't get my joke, since I had to explain it to you. Who should be laughing?

He said he can't argue with me because it is my right to be bugged by that sort of typo.

Then you started to say something about his retarded smileyface but didn't finish the thought.