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241  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: We Need a Real Bitcoin Online Store, not "retailers" who just price gouge 15-20% on: August 18, 2011, 06:07:03 AM


What about selling the food stuff that Walmart doesn't carry?
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I was actually getting to that same conclusion...
242  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: We Need a Real Bitcoin Online Store, not "retailers" who just price gouge 15-20% on: August 18, 2011, 04:45:15 AM
If 1,000 merchants offer 10,000 products/services and keep their BTC prices 10% lower in value to their USD, EUR< etc. prices, then wouldn't that create a BTC buying momentum that would raise the BTC/USD exchange rate?

After all, if we're talking quality vendors and not quick-buck scammers, new people (not miners or current BTC holders) would want to buy these things and so they would try to buy bitcoins in order to purchase these wanted items/services.

In the long term, offering a discount for BTC payments, is profitable, by expanding the market for BTC, and therefore create a buying pressure raising the exchange rates.

I do understand the businesses that want to take no risks (I've taken quite a few in my business life, and they did hurt), but if you do believe in BTC, you have to share some of the risk with your customer. They (the customers) will be hurt in the end and they will have a sour feeling if BTC/USD rises 20% from payment time to delivery time. You (the business) will be hurt if BTC/USD falls 20% from payment time to cashing in time.

And yes, I am thinking of starting a business selling food stuff for BTC, and my main concern is how to get prices lower than Walmart.
243  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: AMD Overdrive control panel when headless on: August 04, 2011, 07:03:02 AM
Don't use RDP. Use Teamviewer or VNC.

RDP sessions do not have access to the actual hardware.

Teamviewer and VNC "draw" the remote screen for you.
244  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Resting Your Video Card on: August 03, 2011, 07:38:34 AM
This made me laugh so much. Thermal stress issues aside #5 is probably the only usefull advice some smokers don't think about what it can do to other things in their enviroment.

Some new warning signs on the tobacco pouch:

"Smoking harms you and your Bitcoin mining equipment"

"Smoking drastically reduces your MH/s"

"Smoking kills. Your miners. Then you."

Oh yeah, now I need to think about it. Time for a cigarette.

And BTW, funny idea of the OP about the fridge. Judging from the name and the look, he's probably done it too much in his life. Close the fkin door, idiot!!!
245  Economy / Marketplace / Re: List of honest traders. on: July 05, 2011, 12:28:24 PM
+5 xioros http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?action=profile;u=11161

Sold to me a mint-condition 1.6GH/s miner from the other side of Europe. Professional, knowledgeable, responsive person. What else could I ask.

Full trust earned.

Thanks again !!!
246  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: GLBSE stock exchange up and trading. on: July 05, 2011, 11:20:49 AM
You don't really "install" a web client.  Tongue

Yeah, that really strikes out as a stupid statement. I meant the Windows client... lost in my enthusiasm.

Great work Nefario.

247  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: GLBSE stock exchange up and trading. on: July 05, 2011, 10:27:50 AM
Has the latest version of the command line client been posted here ? - https://gitorious.org/black-market/black-market-client/blobs/raw/master/bmc.py

That still reports "bmc.py 2.0" as version.

I am still having exactly the same problems with the bitcoin-history, asset-history and market-history commands.

I am also still unable to place a sell order for my last DISHWARA share.

Please see previous posts in this thread and PMs for all details.

As I said, no html debug files are generated when re-producing either of these problems.

Let me know what else you need.

Had same problems, erased certificate and client directory, redownloaded (git clone git://gitorious.org/black-market/black-market-client.git) and registered again.

Works fine now. Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop OS.

And BTW, I love a command line stock market client !!! This is so 1980s. Thanks GLBSE for reminding me of my freshman years. I have not installed the web client and I don't think I will for the time being.
248  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Loooolllllll... on: July 05, 2011, 10:12:37 AM
Best part is the $15/hr Rails programmer.  

LOL, I've been paid almost 10 times that for doing much more run-of-the-mill programming. Good luck to whomever posted that. Smiley

LOL,

The average programmer in Bulgaria takes 150$ easily and even more if he's good.

Per month.
249  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BitPonzi: GLBSE pyramid scheme! on: July 05, 2011, 07:34:46 AM

Kind of like social security.


aah, NOW I UNDERSTAND!!
250  Other / Politics & Society / Re: I am willing to argue public education has ruined this country... on: July 05, 2011, 07:28:26 AM
Guys, does any of you HAVE children going to a public school?
Yeah, two.  Also I tend to find the contrast interesting between say my education (in one of the public schools known for drugs and violence - although frankly much of that was hype) and my wife's education (private - costing more per year than medical school)...and by that I mean the lack of contrast.

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I personally don't need to argue with the OP's statement, I know it to be true
Personally I try not to "know anything to be true" rather I try to look at evidence subjected to the rigor of math, logic and reason. Perhaps that was left out of your education?

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ever since Marx advocated free public education for everyone in the Communist Manifesto. Sure he wasn't the first to say so, but what a good way for the ruling class to enslave the people even more, by offering them a part of what their revolutionary thought leader asked for, as a teaser? (they also offered central banking and graduated taxes to make the people happier indeed - again from the above paper)

Wait. What?  So anything advocated in the Communist Manifesto is a way of enslaving the hoi palloi? This seems like the "hitler" argument. I'm sure if you asked Marx (or Hitler) he would have also come out in favor of shelter, food and possibly clothing.   Are all those ways of enslaving us too?  If so then tomorrow I'm really going to push the envelope of my workplaces casual dress policy.

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And I know it (concerning education) to be true because I've seen it happen to MY children. I was too young to realize it when I was going to school, but at least I kept wondering and searching for better ways instead of accepting what is being offered as the only truth.

Ok, I'd like to take this moment to ask you: "What the heck are you talking about?" The "only truth"? Does this "truth" have anything to do with aliens and the year 2012? If so, are you sure you're all not in some cult or something?  In any case the problem with your example - whatever the heck it's about.   Is that it's an anecdote, it doesn't say anything generally about public education and that's even if you are correct and your childrens' education is poor.

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I would suggest that you bear some children of your own, and send them to a public-funded school (and please - no cheating with any private institution) until they're 18. Then come back and I would be happy to hear and discuss your ACTUAL experience.

Well I certainly have children in Public school.  They're not 18 but that seems like an arbitrary standard of evidence.  I have, as of yet no reason to move them to a private institution.  My wife and I have discussed it and our conclusion would be that the only justifiable reason would be if our child had some aptitude that only could be fulfilled at a private institution i.e. My Daughter might want to be involved in particle physics and the School of St. We-Transport-Steel-Bars-Rectally might be the only school with a cyclotron.

Honestly I am highly skeptical of the cost/benefit of private education.  Most private schools have some sort of entrance exam making it difficult to impossible to objectively evaluate their claims.  Which makes them unimpressive either because they belong to the subset of people who suck at math or they are trying to market to that group.  Grin

Since you are raising children, I am certainly wiling to exchange views.

The word "know" as you are probably aware, comes from education or experience. I said "I know" based on experience of many years raising my own children. You can argue with it, but it doesn't change the facts which I have witnessed. If I witness in the future facts contradicting to my knowledge, I would reevaluate the issue. I am a scientist, as I suppose from your stance you are as well, and I am always looking for evidence to support any theoretical assumption

The Marx reference meant that his writings have been and still are used in order to justify the actions of the elite. Can you say Socialist Party of (fill in the country that you want)? Free public education is one of the current big avenues of disillusionment in my country at least. Still people demand it, because they cannot see any alternative. I can. I don't understand how Hitler came about in your argument.

Same goes for "the only truth" statement. We are conditioned to think that there is no other way than public-funded schools for everyone except if you have the money to pay for something more. And to be sure, everybody I know (and we are not in a rich circle) pays extras for education simply because public-funded one is in no way enough. Maybe there is another way. Again, I don't understand how cults came about in your argument.

I would pay for a school where I could have a say in the formation of the curriculum, the values and the principles passed to the children and the quality of every aspect of the school, starting from the toilets and going to the chemistry lab. I am actively trying to do this in the public schools where my children attend, volunteering my work and my skills to add something to it, be it in stacking chairs, setting up their wireless network or taking care of the sound system in a school festivity. However, my volunteering (and that of others like me) does not affect the core of things, rather it polishes the surface for a while.

There are others here like minded, and some of us sat down a while ago to do a cost/benefit analysis on Excel for athe possibility of setting up a municipal private funded school in our town. It is too long to discuss here, but I would be happy to share it.

Finally, although you seem to be diligent enough to tackle every sentence of my post, you did not respond to my last sentence.  Grin


251  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [330 GH/s] "Eligius" pool: almost feeless PPS, hoppers welcome, no registration on: July 05, 2011, 04:19:06 AM

How long of a round are you currently going on? I don't have miners at Eligius atm.

I just didn't see any "LP: New work pushed" with Phoenix on Eligius for an hour or so (hundreds of shares accepted in the meantime). I thought WTF?

So I switched a miner to Slush pool, watched the new block messages appearing there, but no such messages on my Eligius miners. I let it run for an hour again to be sure.

Switched them all from Eligius, no use mining if no blocks can be  found.



252  Other / Politics & Society / Re: I am willing to argue public education has ruined this country... on: July 05, 2011, 04:01:50 AM
Guys, does any of you HAVE children going to a public school?

I personally don't need to argue with the OP's statement, I know it to be true ever since Marx advocated free public education for everyone in the Communist Manifesto. Sure he wasn't the first to say so, but what a good way for the ruling class to enslave the people even more, by offering them a part of what their revolutionary thought leader asked for, as a teaser? (they also offered central banking and graduated taxes to make the people happier indeed - again from the above paper)

And I know it (concerning education) to be true because I've seen it happen to MY children. I was too young to realize it when I was going to school, but at least I kept wondering and searching for better ways instead of accepting what is being offered as the only truth.

I would suggest that you bear some children of your own, and send them to a public-funded school (and please - no cheating with any private institution) until they're 18. Then come back and I would be happy to hear and discuss your ACTUAL experience.

You can start by getting a girlfriend. It's good and you will enjoy it more than this forum.
253  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [330 GH/s] "Eligius" pool: almost feeless PPS, hoppers welcome, no registration on: July 05, 2011, 03:21:49 AM

It seems like Eligius will NOT find a block, unless something gets corrected. I am mining at Slush also, I get the new block notifications there, but no such notifications on Eligius.
254  Other / Politics & Society / Re: I am willing to argue public education has ruined this country... on: July 04, 2011, 07:09:33 PM
I need to know what's on those international tests before I can deduce anything from the score.

Adding to this:

What does this PISA score have to do with the quality of life that these children will lead? Is there any guarantee that a higher PISA score leads to prosperity and happiness in life? Are there any statistics for this?

Or was it something invented without a real world pressing need, so that academics in the Education Arts would have one more field to write unique peer-reviewed papers about in order to gain or extend their tenure?

I am not dismissing them altogether. I am simply wondering. I've seen far too many statistics and researches of the latter kind and far too few of the former orientation.
255  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? on: July 04, 2011, 07:01:27 PM
TheGer,

You should be thankful that I'm willing to write out so many posts to you. I hope you've had a chance to read the one I made above.

Global Warming is a scientific topic. Here's some genuine advice regarding scientific topics: immerse yourself in the scientific literature to better understand it. The academics aren't out to fool you. The peer review process works. So, if you want to discuss the topic and have your opinion respected, then don't restrict your information gathering on the subject to organizations such as FOX news or other such media outlets.

There is plenty of data on the subject. Try and stay with respected scientific sources.

I haven't jumped on any train Smiley, but still, the supposed cause-and-effect relationship between human activity and climate change (global warming if you want to call it) is nothing more than a conjecture at the moment. I've read tens of articles in the past few years that make huge assumptions to provide emotional-response reasoning for their undoubtfully true natural findings (ending up in a human-made climate change conclusion).

I don't doubt climate change; I see it happening.

But it seems to me that TheGer's and Ascent's positioning are two sides of the same coin and both do not hold the answer: One goes into denial and will look for anything that will confirm his ideas that the whole thing stinks, and the other goes into self- and collective- blaming of the human race for something that is, IMHO, far bigger than what our mistakes of the last 200 years could have ever caused (thus blame that is unfair).

One is led to not care about the facts which should be obvious, the other is led to carry this burden in him for ever, being that even as a global community we could not possibly change the slightest thing on a planetary scale.

Both will be disappointed and disillusioned in the end.

In the end, it's our passion for learning and finding the whys and the hows that will reveal what is the truth of the matter. And time of course, the tamer of all things (according to an ancient Greek epithet assigned to Time).

I hope I am contributing something into this.
256  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Should I solo or pool (6 Ghash) on: July 04, 2011, 04:08:08 PM
http://bitcoinx.com/profit/index.php will tell you that you need 11 and a half days to generate a block right now.

This means that you should be making almost 30 BTC per week (7 days non stop mining) on average (with a REALLY big variance).

Getting 24 BTC per week from a pool is too low, unless you have about 18% downtime with your miners (4.30 hours a day on average). If you don't really have that downtime, change your pool.  Smiley
257  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? on: July 03, 2011, 07:17:39 PM
Now really, what is the big deal about global warming and environment destruction?

Humans will die en masse, only maybe 10% will be left, and they will live in a different way than we do, to put it shortly.

It is a great hubris, in my view, to believe that humans have the power to destroy their environment (at large scale - meaning he planet) in the first place.

Having destroyed their micro-environment, it is an even greater hubris that they can restore it by their means.

There is overwhelming evidence that the planet we live in is changing, and the chages happening will cause problems for the human race.

There has not been, in my view again, overwhelming evidence that humans have actually caused this. I do not count academic researches and papers written in order to cash out subsidies or tenure positions.

And there is complete lack of evidence that humans could possibly reverse planetary scale changes, no matter how much they wish to, no matter how much funding they have.

I think we had better start thinking about surviving WITH global environment change, instead of spending our wit in order to understand the obscure and do the impossible.
 
If you are out of food for your children, and without a shelter for the night, you will probably stop worrying about whether society is or can be libertarian or whatever else.
258  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Why do I get an out of range error when I use DVI but VGA is fine? on: July 02, 2011, 07:23:05 AM
I can only think of a defective DVI cable where maybe one of the pins does not make good contact.

Maybe try another cable?
259  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BitTalk Podcast #2 - The Greek Bitcoin | Subscribe @ BitTalk.TV on: July 02, 2011, 05:12:40 AM
Re: Greece:

Perhaps I'm not understanding you, Atom, but it sounds like you're under the impression the folk rioting are doing so...  as some sort of anti-government movement?

I would submit that it looks to me like the folks in the street are not into stable currency and minarchy, but instead are the recipients of entitlements losing their shit over a government that can no longer hand it out.


If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it most probably is a duck.

What you say n0m4d is much closer to the truth than it seems.

However, as I have seen to be the case, no one is 100% like that. There might be a range of 10-90% of doubt in each one of us thinking "What if we actually can't go on like this?". Those that have 10% of this, dismiss the thought quickly, like a bad nightmare in the morning. Those that have above 70% are not rioting in the streets. They are preparing for the next phase, which is coming.
260  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Can I mine from a virtual machine Ubuntu while using my 6990's hardware? on: July 02, 2011, 05:04:51 AM
This is mostly true .. in newer versions of Xen there is options for PCI passthrough, where it maps the physical device to a specific VM. So it is possible, but not very easy, and I wouldn't count on it not taking the whole box down if something went wrong.

True, but this is hardly a workable solution since any PCI drivers can fail in the VM for a number of reasons with this. The Amazon EC2 cloud (which runs a modified Xen) offers physical machines, not VMs, for GPU cluster rental (see http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/). If there was a way to slice GPU power within VMs, I would think Amazon would have done that.


Bummer...
Looks like I have to run my VM's on the mining OS then.
Thanks anyway.

Yes indeed, in fact I've done it and it works fine. Since GPU mining does not really impact the CPU and the memory, I have set up a machine running Ubuntu, a miner and VMWare player with my Windows Server as a VM (before the whole physical machine was dedicated to the Windows Server).

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