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Shit, thought I had mentioned that, only recently have gotten the pain management under control enough o make coherent thoughts so I'll reiterate here.
I was leaving the Casino ~2am following 2 SUV's around a bend when we hit a fog bank and I'm not completely sure if the visor fogged up as well as it was so instant but I went to zero visibility in a corner and had nothing to gauge where I was heading besides the taillights of the vehicle directly in front of me. I pulled in the clutch and started to brake as quickly as possible while following the taillights in front of me only to have the SUV Brake hard and veer off to the left only to notice that there was grass under the SUV instead of pavement. As I tried to follow the bike slid out from under me on the wet grass and mud not unlike a hydroplaning effect and while the bike slid off to the side into a chain link fence I hit the ground and rolled into a telephone pole. We were doing about 45 Mph.
Sounds awful..and just painkillers are not the worst outcome, perhaps, all things considered. Yeah, The Doc said I was pretty lucky all the bones are lined up so they didn't have to pin them but I'm pretty sure thats because I got up and aligned them while leaning on the dude that pulled over. LOL Funny thing is the guy who finally stopped ended up being someone I played against all night. *Also they were giving me fentanol injections so I asked the doc if he was trying to OD me?  |
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Hm?
You are blaming some kinds of lens fogging for your M/c accident?
I spent quite a bit of time in my youth (and even into my middle age driving motorcycles - not so much recently, but not really opposed to the idea. and surely in some locations, driving MC/scooters can be quite practical, convenient and surely fun).. .when I was really young, fuck I was a risk taker and overall just have to say that there was some luck to get through that period without any major life-diminishing encounters with either moving or stationary objects.
By the way, I know about lenses fogging too, so I would not even have had been questioning your rendition of blame (at least in part).
I recall that frequently I would drive with my helmet visor up (especially at night.. and part of the reason did have to do with some of the fogging that would happen if I put it down), and I would just use the plastic windshield on the motorcycle as a means to block the vast majority of the road wind, and I was on a somewhat country highway and going about 50mph/80kmh.. and in some miraculous kind of a way, some kind of bug ended up hitting me between the eyes, very close to my right eye, and did not even hit the eye, but that impact was so painful and debilitating to my eyesight. It was like all of a sudden going blind but still being able to force a wee bit of eyesight (but not easy because both eyes were tearing and really wanting to close).. I was so fucking lucky that I was able to stop. .and in a kind of almost blind state in the middle of nowhere, and I did not even fall of the motorcycle.. another lucky thing that I was barely able to do and to muster enough muscle movement to accomplish.
Once I stopped, I did recover within about 5-10 minutes and I was even able to open both eyes and stop them from continuing to tear. Luck sometimes.. and surely I did not stop riding motorcycle from that, and I did not even stop putting my visor up either, but it only happened once in my many thousands of hours of overall ride time.
Shit, thought I had mentioned that, only recently have gotten the pain management under control enough o make coherent thoughts so I'll reiterate here. I was leaving the Casino ~2am following 2 SUV's around a bend when we hit a fog bank and I'm not completely sure if the visor fogged up as well as it was so instant but I went to zero visibility in a corner and had nothing to gauge where I was heading besides the taillights of the vehicle directly in front of me. I pulled in the clutch and started to brake as quickly as possible while following the taillights in front of me only to have the SUV Brake hard and veer off to the left only to notice that there was grass under the SUV instead of pavement. As I tried to follow the bike slid out from under me on the wet grass and mud not unlike a hydroplaning effect and while the bike slid off to the side into a chain link fence I hit the ground and rolled into a telephone pole. We were doing about 45 Mph. |
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As things now stand, it is practically impossible to discuss zero-knowledge proofs for Bitcoin without discussing the technologies and the real-world experiences from the premier ZK proof privacy altcoin. I will not self-censor to avoid knee-jerk reactions: That would prevent me from discussing my longtime dream of having ZK proof privacy in Bitcoin. I have been wanting that since around 2013, according to my recollection of when I first heard of Zerocoin.
Just equating Zero Knowledge Proofs to zcrap here is a disingenuous argument, in your continual context you act as though Zcrap led the way when in fact ZKP has been used forever and it is essential to any privacy algorithm. With that being said there is ZERO reason to bring up that shitcoin when trying to discuss ZKP. Pretending that Zcash doesn’t have the best and only yet-seen practical way to apply ZKP here is a disingenuous argument. Especially since I want to copy their open-source technology—research and development of which was paid for by their “dev tax”. (Thanks.) There does not exist any other decentralized privacy solution that reveals zero information. In one of the posts that you said you did not bother to read, I explained why. All other existing privacy solutions either are copies of Zcash, or are centralized (with blind signatures, as Digicash), or rely on decoy obfuscation of leaked information to try to cover up the trail of transactions (Monero mixins). (Or are ridiculous outright scams, such DASH. Or rely on trusted hardware enclaves, like some new shitcoins—literally “Intel inside!”) Monero (or Blockstream’s Liquid) technically use “zero-knowledge proofs” to keep transaction amounts confidential, but they are not overall “zero-knowledge”. Your claim that “ZKP has been used forever and it is essential to any privacy algorithm” is hypertechnical hairsplitting to avoid an obvious point.  |
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As things now stand, it is practically impossible to discuss zero-knowledge proofs for Bitcoin without discussing the technologies and the real-world experiences from the premier ZK proof privacy altcoin. I will not self-censor to avoid knee-jerk reactions: That would prevent me from discussing my longtime dream of having ZK proof privacy in Bitcoin. I have been wanting that since around 2013, according to my recollection of when I first heard of Zerocoin.
Just equating Zero Knowledge Proofs to zcrap here is a disingenuous argument, in your continual context you act as though Zcrap led the way when in fact ZKP has been used forever and it is essential to any privacy algorithm. With that being said there is ZERO reason to bring up that shitcoin when trying to discuss ZKP. |
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By the way, cAPSLOCK: When Richy_T civilly disagreed with me based on his outdated information about Blockstream Satellite, and I corrected him, he kinda-sorta acknowledged his mistake; and he continued with a constructive discussion. Why do you dodge the factual correction of your very rude misinformation?  ZCASH is a fucking trusted setup Your are ill-informed. The trusted setup is dead. Gone with Halo2. Zcash’s Orchard shielded value pool, activated on mainnet in May 2022, has no trusted setup! That is one of several major reasons why I declare the technology now “mature”: No more trusted setup. I put up with the trusted setup in Zcash myself, from its beginning until 2022; but I disliked it. I would not want to bring it to Bitcoin. The Zcash team also disliked it—actually, they hated it! Therefore, they spent years working on improved cryptography to get rid of it forever. You also have not answered my point about a “dev tax”. cAPSLOCK, you hate the idea of a “dev tax”; and you insult altcoins that have a “dev tax”. So, over all these years that you have enjoyed Bitcoin, have you donated any nontrivial amounts to support Bitcoin Core development? Developers need to be paid somehow. I know that some big BTC HODLers are very good about this; they tend not to be the ones who sneer at little altcoins for having a “dev tax”, for they understand that developers need to be paid somehow.There are many reasons Zcrap is not discussed here, not the least of which is respect for the WO. If you want to shill it them start a thread in the appropriate section. Who knows maybe you will make a convert or two if you do it appropriately. I haven't even bothered to read your arguments about it as it is about as OFF TOPIC as it gets in the thread and is a complete SCAM in my view. |
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Hey Bros, i'm in a hurry, so here's that promised photo from NGC7000 (North America Nebula). Seond try, because my lens fogged in the humid air of the night. Details: 200mm lens on a H-Alpha modified DSLR, 100x25 sec frames for the stars, 20x60 sec frames for the nebula.  Hmm, yours fogged and you just had to try again and mine fogged and I ate a telephone pole. Maybe I should change hobbies. |
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HAPPY MIDSUMMER EVERYBODY!!
Fuck! and I'm lying here with another month or 2 before I can walk. SHIT! *need another pill |
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Is there a difference between playing 10 teams and 12 teams?
I think 12 teams would make things easier since we could have the regular season be 11 weeks long, then still have up to 5 weeks for playoffs without having to play week 17. Another option for 12 players is to have 4 divisions, and play each of your division rivals twice. That would make the regular season 13 weeks long, and we'd still have 3 weeks for playoffs without week 17. I would like to keep the playoffs to 3 weeks, that would make for Quarter Finals (8 teams,) Semi Finals (4,) and Finals for the championship. We could still do the same thing without divisions, we'll just have two random teams that we each play twice, then select the top 8 teams for the playoffs. In any case, I might regret this suggestion later. I suggest for everyone's continued motivation until the end of the season, bottom 2 teams pay between $20 and $25 each.
Even though I won the league last year, this scares me.  Hehehe it also scares me. What about if we make it optional and we only have a buy yourself out agreement if someone wants to stop playing and leave the game? This will not force anyone to pay, however, it will force everyone to play despite if someone is winning or losing hehehe. Works for me if everyone else is in. |
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BIS Says Crypto Weaknesses Have Materialized Following Market Sell-Off Did he find them at the bottom of his trough?  |
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Plz give me your wallets from the test network - leaving transactions for testing
Hmm... I really don't know what you mean by this. IP harvesting? |
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Some calculations based on the prolific posting habits of JayJuanGee
Based on the profile of JJG he has made 25 491 posts to date at the time of this post.
With an estimated average word count of 400 words per post:
25 491 * 400 = 10 196 400 total words posted
Assuming an average typing speed of 40 words per minute:
10 196 400 / 40 = 254 910 minutes spend typing posts (Excludes time spent formatting posts and reading replies)
or 254 910 / 60 = 4 248.50 hours
or 4 248.50 / 24 = 177.02 days
JJG started posting on bitcointalk on 18 February 2014, or 3 047 days ago.
254 910 minutes / 3047 days = 83.66 minutes per day on average spent typing posts
A typical book has 300 words per page: The Bitcointalk book of JJG would be a monster at 10 196 400/400 = 25 491 pages long or 2.55 meters thick from front cover to back.
This is the definition of POW.
I have had a sneaking suspicion he uses something like Dragon naturally speaking for quite awhile. |
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Aside from such musings, I make efficient use of the ignore list just to save time and to clear clutter. If you ever have any problems with users who want to follow you around obsessively and spit at you, then consider the ignore list as an efficient (non-)response.
Be extension you will find as your time grows shorter your list grows longer and its much easier to hit the show button to see if the quality of those you ignored improved over time. Generally you will find they end up being banned anyway and the time you have left on this earth was not wasted on them.  The “show” button requires Javascript. Disabled here. My forum-usage security policy inadvertently makes my ignorelist ultra-hardcore.  WTF am I doing with web3? I’ll tell you what. Miserably running web3 dapps in ten layers of sandboxing, and then figuring out how to access the same things programmatically via node.js in only five layers of sandboxing. This is a problem that needs to be solved.Yeah it sucks, I capitulated. |
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Aside from such musings, I make efficient use of the ignore list just to save time and to clear clutter. If you ever have any problems with users who want to follow you around obsessively and spit at you, then consider the ignore list as an efficient (non-)response.
Be extension you will find as your time grows shorter your list grows longer and its much easier to hit the show button to see if the quality of those you ignored improved over time. Generally you will find they end up being banned anyway and the time you have left on this earth was not wasted on them. |
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The Russian oracle made an astounding call in 2014. Not only did he nail the top but he described the trajectory of the next couple years to a 'T'. But broken clocks are right from time to time... (I always hated that old saw... because you can have a clock that is broken, and just slow... or others... it has the be STOPPED to be right twice a day).
And even since that time some of his analysis has been interesting and even sometimes accurate...
But one thing I have noticed in my years trading thing... Either do you own research and act on it or stay the fuck away from 'trading'.
I wonder how much money good old "bitcoin vanga" cost various sheep along the way? Not to blame it on them. No on second thought I blame it on them.
I remember a few times back then warning people not to blindly follow his advice (I thought he was manipulating), but people don't listen and I just got tired of having people ignore my advice. Sheeple like to have their bad choices justified and actually hate people who try to stop them from making them. I can count on one hand the amount of times I've been thanked over the years when I can only remember one time when I gave bad advice (which sticks in my mind as is still bothers me) and even that was only a 10% loss. |
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