This is a bad idea, because the browser isn't guaranteed to copy the invisible TC.
Are you sure? The characters are "visible", but the font defines them to have zero width. Yes, I'm sure. I copied this: 100 BTCAnd got: 100 B This is only an issue when the only thing copied is the price tag, as the TC is copied properly if the selection encompasses what's after it too. |
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It's also the same character the forum is using a webfont to render in BTC.
Actually, BTC is the characters "BTC" with the B made to look like BTC and the "TC" invisible (using webfonts). So you can copy/paste it without losing meaning, even if Unicode isn't fully-supported. This is a bad idea, because the browser isn't guaranteed to copy the invisible TC. Use ligatures instead to achieve the desired effect. |
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Coming from someone promoting Bitcoin as a tool for illegal activities (and thus harming Bitcoin), I guess I should take this as a compliment...
You seem a little nutty to me... [A little nutty] * [all the people who think he's a little nutty] = [a shitload of nutty] If that's how it works, then I think I have a shitload of humanness. You guys... where can I get these fonts  All I see is the baht and the "currency symbol." The rest are boxes and B-boxes. I didn't need to "get a font". Ubuntu 12.04, works out of the box. What OS are you using? |
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Its heyday is over. Time to move to Service Announcements?
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Might I ask how you qualify "better" (sounding) in this case?
Some people feel that exclusively using "he / him / his" effectively erases half the population when such language is used in discussing a topic.
The free speech we all enjoy stops being fair, equal, and "just an opinion" when it is suddenly reinforced and backed up by influence, the ability to suggest policy, to set an example for behabior and tone, etc.
As an admin / moderator, I would have expected you to take more care with a more friendly / neutral choice of words.
"sounds better in your opinion" doesn't make it right.
Stuff like "themself" just sounds wrong. "Them" and "they" are plural. If you use such words in a singular sense, you either need to fill the sentence with plural words (e.g. "they are"), which makes the sentence ambiguous and often sounds strange, or you need to break agreement rules (e.g. "they is"), which sounds really bad. "He", etc. are the appropriate singular words to use when talking about someone of unknown gender. "Masculine" pronouns don't really imply any gender. Using masculine pronouns is how this issue has traditionally been handled in English. Plenty of other languages are "unfair" in this way. In French, if you're talking about a group of people which contains any males, you always use the male form of "they". Je comprends, mais il y a des personnes qui préfèrent l'option plus juste. The issue with using masculine pronouns is that they, as implied by their name, are masculine. This causes confusion. How would you refer to a male, if the masculine pronoun is used instead as a neuter pronoun? "They are" is not a problem. It's identical to "You are", which is also ambiguous in the same way ("You (p) are" has the same spelling as "You (s) are"). Even French has this ambiguity, "Vous êtes" and "Vous êtes" are spelt identically, while one is formal singular and the other is plural. "They" is a natural choice because it is commonly used in speech. Therefore, application to writing in an informal context is simple. |
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Luke-Jr keeps changing it to some weird Russian symbol nobody uses on Wikipedia. It probably shows up as the Baht for him or something. Um, no, I changed it to the symbol every major Bitcoin website uses - including bitcoin.org, bitcoincharts, and these forums - at least in their favicon: B⃦ This is the standard Unicode symbol used for the B with double vertical strokes.  The forum has BTC using some CSS (embedded fonts) to workaround the fact that major fonts don't render it as nice, but it is the same symbol. Anyways, we generally use the Thai Baht for Bitcoins, right?
฿ <- that right there You must be confusing Bitcoin with Silk Road. The B double vertical strokes is a Unicode symbol? What is its code? I can't find it on any list of Unicode symbols (maybe I'm not looking in the right place?). Two unicode symbols that look like one: B⃦. |
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Bump! I'm knocking together a generator that makes just as little sense, but has more flexible grammar. So, let's start from the basics: The collection of wrists consumes cats; a volcano consumes cats. The couple of machines consumes cats, for a team of screens consumes cats. A series of hurricanes consumes cats. Couples of cables consume cats, and teams of thieves consume cats.
Though rocks consume cats, mobs of disks consume cats. A collection of defects consumes cats; a team of ideas consumes cats. Teams of families consume cats; libraries consume cats. The defect consumes cats, but the collection of keyboards consumes cats. A border consumes cats; a wish consumes cats. Though the labourer consumes cats, arbitrators consume cats.
Glaciers consume cats, so geysers consume cats. Collections of stars consume cats, for couples of companies consume cats. Avocations consume cats; a swarms of readers consumes cats. Alpaca consume cats; swarms of jungles consume cats.
Groups of afternoons consume cats, yet the group of institutions consumes cats. The boundary consumes cats. As the couple of elephants consumes cats, collections of depositions consume cats. Couples of guitars consume cats, and a series of incorporations consumes cats. Even if the horde of cats consumes cats, hordes of fifes consume cats. Unless the canoe consumes cats, activities consume cats. The team of secrets consumes cats.
I haven't worked on the predicates nor the fluff yet (which is why everything seems to consume cats), but this new structure seems to handle the subjects much better, and also boasts more sentence variety. Any English majors here to rip this apart?  Most of these sentences should be using 'consume', not 'consumes'. And as for sentence variety, well... Are you using Word Net: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/But sense is not a goal. To the contrary, sense is unwanted in my endeavours. It ruins the randomness of it. I'm pretty sure verb inflection is correct, because the computer does it better than I. I'm using standard grammar in my area when I say "a horde of cats consumes cats", because "horde" is singular and that is the subject. I'm aware that Texans, Alabamans, Mississippians, Nevadans, etc. may consider the subject to be plural because it is collective. You're correct. I wasn't looking at it closely enough. However, I don't understand why sense is unwanted. This is what happens when sense is employed: A passenger wields an umbrella. The programmer plays a piano. A father eats the mother. A narwhal resides in a jungle. A person wields the stone. The man wields the sable.
The minister eats the kangaroo. The woman eats a kangaroo. The ghost wields the sword.
There is less variety than I would want. |
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Masculine pronouns sound much better. I always try to use them instead of singular "they". They (no pun intended) are unfair and could be taken as sexist. I use either singular "they" (e.g. "themself") for both neuter and unknown gender entities, but if the situation is formal enough that that cannot be justified, I use "he or she" (unknown gender) or "it" (no gender). |
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The Baht is not an appropriate symbol for Bitcoin. Each symbol represents a specific currency, and Bitcoin is not a baht.
¤ = currency (B¤: good bitcoin symbol)
$ = peso
€ = euro
£ = pound sterling
¥ = yuan
دينار = dinar
฿ = baht (bad bitcoin symbol)
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I still find the [3600+ BTC] such awesome, on freelancer boards them coderz would code the nasa spaceshuttle os for this amount, well at least the kernel  . This is enough to hire a team to do it for you already, provided the timeframe is not too immense. You get what you paid for. |
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Prostitute myself to a sexually attractive woman.
Really? Average prostitution rates are $350 in the developed world. The only $15 prostitutes are dirty, low-class, urban slum, STD ones. |
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Bump! I'm knocking together a generator that makes just as little sense, but has more flexible grammar. So, let's start from the basics: The collection of wrists consumes cats; a volcano consumes cats. The couple of machines consumes cats, for a team of screens consumes cats. A series of hurricanes consumes cats. Couples of cables consume cats, and teams of thieves consume cats.
Though rocks consume cats, mobs of disks consume cats. A collection of defects consumes cats; a team of ideas consumes cats. Teams of families consume cats; libraries consume cats. The defect consumes cats, but the collection of keyboards consumes cats. A border consumes cats; a wish consumes cats. Though the labourer consumes cats, arbitrators consume cats.
Glaciers consume cats, so geysers consume cats. Collections of stars consume cats, for couples of companies consume cats. Avocations consume cats; a swarms of readers consumes cats. Alpaca consume cats; swarms of jungles consume cats.
Groups of afternoons consume cats, yet the group of institutions consumes cats. The boundary consumes cats. As the couple of elephants consumes cats, collections of depositions consume cats. Couples of guitars consume cats, and a series of incorporations consumes cats. Even if the horde of cats consumes cats, hordes of fifes consume cats. Unless the canoe consumes cats, activities consume cats. The team of secrets consumes cats.
I haven't worked on the predicates nor the fluff yet (which is why everything seems to consume cats), but this new structure seems to handle the subjects much better, and also boasts more sentence variety. Any English majors here to rip this apart? Most of these sentences should be using 'consume', not 'consumes'. And as for sentence variety, well... Are you using Word Net: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/But sense is not a goal. To the contrary, sense is unwanted in my endeavours. It ruins the randomness of it. I'm pretty sure verb inflection is correct, because the computer does it better than I. I'm using standard grammar in my area when I say "a horde of cats consumes cats", because "horde" is singular and that is the subject. I'm aware that Texans, Alabamans, Mississippians, Nevadans, etc. may consider the subject to be plural because it is collective. |
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Bump! I'm knocking together a generator that makes just as little sense, but has more flexible grammar. So, let's start from the basics: The collection of wrists consumes cats; a volcano consumes cats. The couple of machines consumes cats, for a team of screens consumes cats. A series of hurricanes consumes cats. Couples of cables consume cats, and teams of thieves consume cats.
Though rocks consume cats, mobs of disks consume cats. A collection of defects consumes cats; a team of ideas consumes cats. Teams of families consume cats; libraries consume cats. The defect consumes cats, but the collection of keyboards consumes cats. A border consumes cats; a wish consumes cats. Though the laborer consumes cats, arbitrators consume cats.
Glaciers consume cats, so geysers consume cats. Collections of stars consume cats, for couples of companies consume cats. Avocations consume cats; a swarms of readers consumes cats. Alpaca consume cats; swarms of jungles consume cats.
Groups of afternoons consume cats, yet the group of institutions consumes cats. The boundary consumes cats. As the couple of elephants consumes cats, collections of depositions consume cats. Couples of guitars consume cats, and a series of incorporations consumes cats. Even if the horde of cats consumes cats, hordes of fifes consume cats. Unless the canoe consumes cats, activities consume cats. The team of secrets consumes cats.
I haven't worked on the predicates nor the fluff yet (which is why everything seems to consume cats), but this new structure seems to handle the subjects much better, and also boasts more sentence variety. Any English majors here to rip this apart? |
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Much of Canada's area is internal waters (due to the sheer amount and size of it's lakes), so China and the United States are bigger than it when measuring land area. It's rather confusing because the three are just about the same size anyways, so the comparison is rather meaningless.
By land + water area, Russia is first followed by Canada and then the US and China virtually tied. By land area only, Russia is followed by China and then the US and Canada virtually tied. I've grown tired of the heated disputes around area of countries, and so I consider the three (US, China, Canada) virtually identical in area.
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The Foundation is very important to the Bitcoin ecosystem, so its main thread should exist in Bitcoin Discussion.
"The Foundation" as in "a foundation". If someone else had made one, not Mt. Gox, I doubt it would have stood there. |
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A while ago now, I reported the Bitcoin Foundation thread as being inappropriate for Bitcoin Discussion, and doubtlessly many others have done the same. Legal, Service Announcements, and Project Development are perfectly good areas to place this. In case these reports were ignored, I reported the thread again. However, it is becoming evident that mods in charge have a conflict of interest. Had anyone else created a "foundation", it would promptly be moved out of Bitcoin Discussion, even before the first report, and even without 800+ posts on the subject.
I hope this public thread will allow the forum to call into question the integrity of our Global Moderators, and force them to moderate without bias in the future.
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Unfortunately, I fail to see why it is dangerous. To me, the foundation have zero power at all beyond the consent and support of the community. As far as I am concerned, the developers will continue their dance with the independent horde of miners.
You fail to see any danger? Okay... Just think creatively for a moment. Think creatively, as in create foundations. Don't think destructively, as in destroy foundations. |
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<digression>
This lead me to another idea though, and that would be for the forum to have an API, so anyone could make a 'skin'
to the forum and present information any way they choose to.
</digression>
This has been suggested before, but is very hard to implement. I'm working on a simple board-fetcher which can currently get details about a certain thread and the posts within it (which is very useful), but it isn't optimal yet (it's very slow because I download every print page of every thread, and then save them to disk). I hope to make this faster in the future. |
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I don't want any sort of global rating feature on the forum. Reddit is nice sometimes, but the global rating system promotes groupthink and discourages controversial posts and long posts. A web-of-trust-style rating system would be good.
The forum has enough money.
What about a rating feature that doesn't affect the user, only the post? For example, each post has a upvote/downvote button (downvote button optional). To prevent exploitation, a user could be given a quota of one vote per hour logged on or per 5 posts (or both, or some other metric). A "Best Recent Posts" page and a "All Time Best" page could be added. |
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