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Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: hacker academy
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on: November 25, 2010, 09:56:46 PM
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I was thinking of it more as a replacement for a 'real' academy. By real do you mean accredited?
Also, I think the idea behind the Khan Academy is to crowdsource tutoring and other support. Sal doesn't seem at all opposed to these people being compensated for their work - not that he'd be able to control the situation much if he was. So I think that aside from being able to provide accreditation, it could have all the useful elements of a 'real' academy.
Another source for support - in addition to Khan's future material - are local hackerspaces, which seem to be growing and springing up very rapidly.
We wouldn't be able to use his material to teach because it's a commercial enterprise, not that it is accredited. I think accreditation actually harm the academy. I would like the academy to succeed on its own merit, not be tangled up by accreditation. |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Open Source Bank
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on: November 25, 2010, 05:49:42 PM
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People will provide information about keeping your savings wallet encrypted and with you, and stored in a cloud. Banks are dying. Bankers will go down with buggy whip makers in the annals of history.
Banks, as we know it. |
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Economy / Economics / Re: Sallie Mae and Government Fascism
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on: November 25, 2010, 04:11:37 PM
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Naw, democracy and government is for old farts who brothers to vote. Crony capitalism is just a side show.
The big problem with democracy is the tendency to vote oneself money.
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Economy / Economics / Re: What's up ? Is something wrong going on with BTC market ?
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on: November 25, 2010, 04:08:33 PM
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What we are seeing is the result of stopping the Paypal fraud. We don't have that crowd of scammers bidding stolen money against each other any longer.
The volumes at all 3 cash auctions are low because folks are hording, hoping for some meteoric rise. We are loosing sight of the objective, being distracted by this fun game we have created.
We need to keep focused on implementing acceptance as far and wide as possible so that btc becomes a better vector to communicate value.
Do us this favour; when you are studying and "playing" the market, devote a tiny slice of your wet CPU to thinking about how to improve bitcoin acceptance.
Last night I tried to buy a case of beer to be delivered in a distant city with bitcoin. The deal failed but I'll make it work soon and be the first bitcoin user, that I know of, to do such a trade.
;-)
I am responsible for 21% of all posts in Project Development. Make that percentage smaller! |
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Satoshi Nakamoto versus Ben Bernanke Rap Video
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on: November 25, 2010, 03:29:42 PM
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Would it be awesome if we have a rap battle between Satoshi Nakamoto and Ben Bernanke over whom monentary system is the best?  Receptionist: Welcome to the FEE conference on Austrian Economic. Bernanke: Tell those Austrian crazies that I have arrived! Nakamoto: And tell the Austrians that I have come to counter Bernanke and his shenanigans. Receptionist: (looks to Nakamoto)...who are you? Nakamoto: I am a cryptography researcher who invented a new kind of money called....BITCOIN! |
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Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: hacker academy
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on: November 25, 2010, 03:08:23 PM
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Sal Khan at http://www.khanacademy.org/ has said he will be focusing on computer science soon, but that since it's his specialty, he's postponed doing it because he wants to really do it properly. Now (especially) that he's got Google and Bill Gates backing his free online school, I think we can expect really good stuff on this subject coming from him. The only problem is his content isn't available for commercial usage. It wouldn't be suitable for a real academy. |
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Economy / Economics / Re: What's up ? Is something wrong going on with BTC market ?
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on: November 25, 2010, 09:51:42 AM
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You can trade via #bitcoin-otc.
However, you have to remember that currency speculation on bitcoin is not often an indicator of bitcoin economy's health status. I mean, 3 new business started up and it barely affected any changes in the price or volume, if any at all.
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