"Maybe" is not a good argument. Why should your "maybe" be of significance?

Hey look, in 2009 that same conference center had an expo called "MONEY EXPO Pattaya 2009" - by Thailand's first bank. Must be a really bad place for conferences, especially about money.

Irrelevant for the argument. I still believe it's the "functionally equivalent" part you're having problems with. Since I have no idea what your education level is I don't know how best to explain it.

You know that absolutely everything you can do with a computer is in reality done by just flipping bits, right? In the same way everything you can possible dream up with trading strategies boils down to "buy and sell".

I believe another poster referenced a book on the topic, where they show how traders don't outperform chance. I suggest you go read it if you want more details.

No, I'm saying they're ignorant because they claim Amsterdam is only known for drugs & sex, Pattaya is only known for child prostitution, New York is only known for drug related gang wars, San Francisco is only known as a great place to meet friendly bums, Moscow is only known as the place where former KGB agents assassinate journalists etc.

Feel free to answer the question I wrote to you earlier:

It isn't and I have no interest whatsoever in visiting Pattaya. I just dislike ignorance, and "many people are ignorant" is not a good argument

(I will go to the conference in Amsterdam though, since I go to conferences there regularly anyway)

Are you claiming there's predictive information in that graph?



I can only assume you were on the barricades in the year 2000 telling everyone that the gold bubble had burst.

(My point has nothing to do with gold per se, only with predictions-based-on-graphs)

Can you find the other posts from people who live in Thailand and who say it's no major issue and it's a good place due to the communications anyway yourself?


All places can be "remotely" bad choices. When people started to object it was Amsterdam. "It's all just sex and drugs!!!11". To a European, that's simply a joke. The same people continuing to object to Pattaya doesn't make the argument stronger.

If Pattaya is such an obviously bad place for a conference, why is one of Thailand's biggest and most modern conference centres there?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattaya_Exhibition_and_Convention_Hall

Just to reiterate though; Wuala and LastPass use client side encryption. It's the same as if you first encrypt your files manually and then put them on Dropbox. You just skip the manual part of it.

I'm using Bitcoin Wallet and, of course, always the latest version.

(In Bitcoin, sending small amounts back and forth to yourself is seldom a good idea since it looks like spam to the system. You might end up in a situation where, if you don't add large fees, your transactions won't go through for a long time)

With regards to complaints, remember than when things work no one bothers to post. Reviews are thus always skewed.

You do know the rest of the world is slightly bigger than the US, and that not everything in that "the rest of the World" works just the same as things work in the US?

This would be one of those things.

Posting just to get reactions, of course. The definition of trolling goes back decades.

As far as I see it, besides belonging to the US far religious right there's no reason for anyone to have any opinions on one out of several places for a conference. If you personally don't like the place (I don't) - then don't go.

None. If you want to claim differently, feel free to prove your point. Start with understanding chance, though.


Which is exactly functionally equivalent to "buy and sell". If you need "functionally equivalent" to be explained just let me know and I'll try to use other words.

The Bitcoin terminology is the problem. They're not wallets, they're keyrings with a lot of keys. Initially your keyring gets populated with 100 keys, all able to unlock 100 vaults. Whenever you use one key, another one gets added (and none removed) from your keyring.

Thus even your oldest backup contains the keys to the next 100 transactions (=vault contents) you do. That the client can become confused when you start switching keyrings back and forth is not a problem - just run -rescan.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39624.msg484698#msg484698

(As to the coordinated posts by The Duke, "Matthew" etc above, sorry guys, well known trolls posting in support of well known trolls just makes what you write all the more ignorable)

Well. So far you've managed to prove to us all that your knowledge about the world comes from Hollywood I agree you would have a hard time arguing successfully about pretty much everything.

is functionally equivalent to

Thank you for proving conclusively that you have absolutely no idea what chance is With enough analysists, someone will - by pure chance - outperform the market for X time. It's still completely expected, and is no different from flipping coins. It does not in any way point to the analyst using a method which has predictive power.

(I'm also quite positive your track record isn't 70%, but that's beside the actual point)

This comic describes the situation pretty well:

"You don't understand chance".

If you disagree with the above, feel free to prove your statements. If you can, you will get a Nobel Prize.

Thanks for being funny.


What?

"Chance" is that if you have a thousand people flip coins, some will flip more heads than others. It doesn't mean they're "better" at flipping coins.

Repeat: No analyst ever has outperformed chance. Ever. No one has ever shown that their analysis method has predictive powers. Ever.

If you disagree with the above, feel free to prove your statements. If you can, you will get a Nobel Prize.

Until he replies I can use the same terminology; Bitcoin Wallet is indeed a wonderful Android Bitcoin app. I've used it for quite some time.

It's likely just tricking you, not understanding the keys it has have been used from another copy. Run the client with -rescan