Don't forget that if you're only buying Bitcoins, you're relying on others to back the network. The security of bitcoin is in the power required to 51% the chain -- if I buy $1000 dollars of equipment and mine with it, I'm making bitcoin $1000 more secure (ish).

I sent the BTC to that address (1GdWQhRxPfPyrhw8xdYvDu94cDiDGmb757), txID aecd845b2de1837bb0c3dacb28adad91412c01ac728bec3308d1d807aca9421a

Just verifying for all to see.

Does it follow diminishing returns? That second post is doubling your chances...but the third post is only a 50% increase...

MAGIC BANANA

I got that one, I think.

Do the mobile wallet apps support importing private keys via QR yet? If not, it might be a handy feature.

Well, I've got a folk-ey song I'll throw up soon as I can get my hands on a mic. It's got verses and a chorus, but no bridge (since I can't do any fancy playing).

Lyrics:



Can't you hear it? See it falling,
Our system's crashing down around our heads.
What can fix it? Who has the answer?
'Stead of FIAT look to crypto instead.

Chorus:
Got something started,
Getting bigger, right in front of our eyes,
We'll just keep those hashes flowing
It's up to us, to keep it alive

Blood sweat and tears of, those mighty miners,
Secure the network, one small block at a time,
No ruling body, clear laws we all see,
A foundation to, build our future on.

Chorus

So trade your dollars in, for coins you can spend,
On anything, anywhere in the world.
Fast clear transactions, we're taking action,
The bitcoin wheels, have begun to turn.

I'm not sure if that would help -- I think it might just impede the flow of air (narrowing the aperture would increase back-pressure).

If you have a fan controller (the 3 pins on your mobo, for example) you can run the fans at about 70% they are a LOT quieter. Move less air, but easier on the ears.

Thanks Terry. Things are back to how they should be.

There are a couple companies that work with Google, and pay hourly to do search reviews and other really, really boring stuff. Leapforce and Lionbridge are two of them, I believe. I've done some work with Leapforce, and they do honestly pay $13/hr, but you have to be willing to sit and do boring, monotonous things for hours at a time. Coupled with that, there isn't always work available, and their invoicing system is obnoxious. They do pay though, and it can help fill some gaps in jobs. It's not "free money" by any means though.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_neuroscienceofmagic?currentPage=all
That's what I'm talking about with magic tricks. It's science -- the brain makes all kinds of fun assumptions, magicians abuse that.

If mars had a much thicker atmosphere and life, we should be seeing much heavier carbon-rich deposits than we do. Assuming you're talking about "life as we know it".

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_22_4_radin.pdf

That's the full write-up for it.

Emoto's experiment was repeated in a triple-blind study, and they did not get repeatable results.

UFOs happen for much the same reason magic tricks work -- our brains make a ton of assumptions.

What does 9/11 have to do with science?

That last paragraph...I don't even know what to say, except that from a scientific viewpoint, we have no evidence of any of that. There's the possibility, but we've yet to uncover anything on Mars that gives an indication of life.

I've ordered a couple stones from him, and they're very nice -- definitely not crap. I don't see what they issue is -- it's not like other threads are being bumped off...the bottom thread on the page is weeks old -- it would be different if he was bumping all the threads off the page every day. This is a free market, and it tends to reward those with large and varied inventories, after all.

Some of the completed ones should be archived though.

p2pool uses 2 types of shares: the ones you are seeing in CGminer are only used for estimating hashrate, and are a much lower difficulty than actual p2pool share. The high difficulty shares are what are added to the chain, and determine payment.

Talking about time...time is another dimension.

The first dimension is a line. You need 1 coordinate to fix yourself in it -- think of a number line. If I tell you "1" it can only be that point.

The second dimension is a flat surface. You need 2 coordinates (x, y) to fix yourself. This is your standard Cartesian plane.

Three dimensions is what we experience the most of. You need 3 coordinates (x,y,z) to fix yourself. This is why, as far as we are concerned in daily life, triangles and tripods are the most stable geometry.

Four dimensions we experience a sliver of every moment. You need 4 coordinates to fix yourself -- not only do you need to anchor your location in 3d space, but at a specific location in time. Like in a computer simulation -- you need to specify where, and at what point in time.

Sure we only experience an infinitesimally small piece of "time" at any moment, but mathematically it's there. Now, ala Slaughterhouse Five, you could have "creatures" that lived in the 4th dimension, and moved through it just like we move through our world. But that's getting a little out there.

See...the science that I know says "it's likely the sun will rise tomorrow, but we can't answer for sure, because of the possibility that there will be an anomalous event, like an alien abducting the sun. Or it might just go out. But given what we've experienced in the past, and from the data we've managed to collect, our money's on the sun rising."

Does science rule out a more powerful, conscious being? No. In fact it says that somewhere, one should (but doesn't have to) exist. Based on the science I know, I do have to have faith that Math is absolute. But that seems to be it.  

From when I added questions, you are able to add keywords -- some people don't, it seems. I feel like this will aid Wise168 in the future, if it's decided to make "themed" quizzes, but that's just a hunch.

Wise168 sent me a valid Amazon card as well. Cool idea for a site, I love trivia. Good to see you were able to fix the problems.

Doesn't work for me, gives a kernel build error.