She is very attractive to me and because of some not-so-platonic things we've been doing she thought I liked her more as a partner than a friend. We are very close. I am incapable of a relationship right now and she knows it so I'm not going to get into anything and if that means a little less intimacy I don't really care.

I don't know if I can remain her friend because of this. Last night after we discussed this I ended on a note about not knowing if we can still be friends. She texted me a few times telling me that she honestly loves me and that she was being kind of jerkish and that I've been good for her life and things along those lines and asking me to answer the phone (my phone was out so I got those messages after charging it a little). She even texted my mother (she has her number cause I had to call her from that phone a few times) that she had to speak to me and that it was important.

I couldn't manage talking to her then (the prospect of losing my best friend brought my food back up, even though that never happens to me usually) and there so I texted back that I'm the jerk and to talk at a later time.

I'm bipolar and a little weird so I don't hang out with anyone anymore (especially since I moved to the US, in Florida) so I'm not really able to deal with much. I know that there is no way that I can remain her friend that we won't fall for each other but being who I am right now, I can't do it. If we remain friends it's very likely we'll both be miserable.

I also feel a little guilty because as long as we've been friends (over a year) she hasn't had sex with anyone. I've been very clear that we're not going to do anything together and that I'm not going to be jealous if she goes out with someone. I must have mentioned platonic more than I'd like.

I don't want to lose the only friend that I'm really connected to in the recent past but I know that if we stick together it's going to be 12-16 months at the very least until I stand on my own to feet and until then we'd probably suffer. She lives on an apartment very far away and I live with my parents. Neither of us has a car at the moment.

I'm only typing this out because I know other people must have been through something similar.

Can you send me 10 BTC?

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Thanks!

Where I live is $5.40 per gallon. (Not talking about Costco)

Really crappy tasting ice cream doesn't count.

Jokes on you, I'm not!

Nuclear is really expensive and difficult to start.

A factory takes a long time to become operational, and starting up a nuclear factory takes months even after completion until the reaction reaches a good level.

It's also a regulatory nightmare and there is always the difficulty of finding the right people to run a nuclear factory. It's not like you can find them with a job search on craigslist overnight.

Plus your dealing with something that poops out potential bomb grade plutonium, not something you do without the government fondling your privates.

My 2 cents would be to hold at least 10 Bitcents somewhere and if this takes off you're going to be looking at quite a sum.

If you're being ambitious you don't even need anything more than a single bitcoin.

is 600 bucks worth it? I say yes!

Girls aren't something you buy like a playstation console.

I'm a total noob, the last time I programmed was in 8th grade using a floppy disk drive (not the floppy kind 6 years ago, it was an educational language like cpp), I also took a python class a year ago but I didn't use anything I learned.

I'll use programming principles and practices using cpp as well as the other book I'm getting from amazon.

Thank you all for the help!

I'll keep that in mind, however, in chapter 3 of thinking in C++ there is the following


I probably won't use this book

So it has a tutorial touching on C as a foundation http://mindview.net/CDs/ThinkingInC/beta3 It's interesting and I'm not in a hurry so I'll go through this until I receive the book I ordered from amazon.


/* avg.c: Averages 2 integers */
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    int num1, num2;
    float sum;
   
    puts("Enter the 1st number:");
    scanf("%d",&num1);
    puts("Enter the 2nd number:");
    scanf("%d",&num2);
   
    sum = num1 + num2;
    printf("The average is %f\n", sum/2);
    return 0;
}

This would probably be easier in python. Would it be faster in python as well? Or pretty much the same?

I won't stick to this I'll just use it till my book arrives, I just get this creeping feeling that learning C is kind of pointless.

I saw this site and liked the look of it so I ordered this book http://www.amazon.com/Jumping-into-C-Alex-Allain/dp/0988927802 (paperback) (since it was very recent, only 1 year old) and had really good reviews.


Thanks, I'm checking it out, I really like the personality of this author.

I like having all these different options open to me. Ultimately this is going to be a hobby for a few years (since I want to be a truck driver for a while (I love travelling long distance)).

200k to parents

200k in building a self-sustainable household in the middle of nowhere with the most basic things, powered by solar, smart building (with a greenhouse for growing stuff (that may or may not earn me profits))

100k in a Tesla Car

50k in solar cells

100k in gold and silver burried in a secret location in the house.

200k (100k in bitcoin and the rest in other alts (lite,dark,NXT,whatever)

5k in building an awesome PC (with multiple monitors, etc)

145k (the rest I'd keep in a couple of bank accounts for my everyday living)

From an honest days work? $150

From cryptocurrency? little more than $1000

I bought a cutting edge smartphone, a new paddle for my kayak and a new rudder as well. (saved a little bit)

I also bought a btc1k party ticket which I hope I'll get to use.

Technically the most I will have made in a day is yet to come after I get my college fund/ insurance which I will use to get my CDL to become a truck driver (so I can travel and see the world for a couple of years)

It's likely to be in the neighborhood of 15k if I'm lucky. Some will go to my CDL and the rest will probably be living expenses.

  My time is free as I am a college student (on break this summer)

Now I've installed the codeblocks IDE (also installed the Microsoft Visual Studo one but did not use it as the Terms said trial) and haven't gotten far.

I'm at the Hello World program and I'm thinking of watching some Game of Thrones at this point since it's so late.

Since I haven't gotten to the library yet (because the night is dark and full of terrors (and closed libraries)) I don't have a physical C++ book. (Although I'm sure I can get 1,000,000 off the net in e-book form.

Is there a book that really helps beginners like me to get into programming and c++ that you would recommend? Even if I have to buy it through Amazon?

I am the world's most productive CAPTCHA maker and I will take all your advice under consideration.

Nah, I'm just fucking with you I really hate captchas as well, I was on the internet only for a few years before they started. It's interesting that one day a bot will pass all this CAPTCHA tests, that bot will probably also pass the Turing test with flying colors and will probably also rent an apartment in NYC.

I'm starting to learn C++, my only previous experience was a little bit of python, a little bit of java script, a little HTML5 and a lot of an educational language (glosomatheia) but I'm really rusty.

Do you have any recommendations for me? (Compilers and environments especially) I'll go out to the library and rent a couple of books tomorrow as well.

When 3 police cars showed up at my front door as I went out for a walk, a police officer from inside a cruiser told me (Are you (MY NAME)) and I said yes and got out and handcuffed me and then put me in the back of the cruiser.

(I was still all right)

Then I asked for my miranda rights and he said no. I thought to myself, I'm FUUUUCKED. I asked where I was going and got no answer.We went a couple of towns over (10-15 miles) and then another policeman walked to to some run down asylum place.

It was kind of a misunderstanding but it was really scary. I was calm throughout.

I'm going to be an American citizen in a couple of months, and I've always been legal but at the time I had heard a few horror stories about how people that were not yet citizens have been treated by the system here.

Anything seemed to have been on the table. I'm also one to give speeches about closing GITMO among other things but the two are completely unrelated. The story is all within the law and explainable but I'd rather not explain it.

The funniest part of the whole thing was that I didn't have my seat belt secured and the back of the police cruiser is all smooth hard  plastic and with my hands painfully cuffed behind my back I was bouncing all over the place since the police officer was driving like a maniac.

I don't own a car or house.

I could own a car if I wanted to but it seems like a waste of $$$ at this point.
I'll get my CDL and become a truck driver for 2-3 years and then I'll become a programmer.


Bitcoinaire sounds nice!

It's kind of weird that we're stuck with millionaire, today 1 Million dollars isn't really all that much.

To me it would be a lot but I'm smart with my finances and I don't buy useless fluff. (Not all the time at least).

1 Million dollars is like 67 years of minimum wage (which is a shitty definition of a rich person)

Or maybe 20 years of a fairer minimum wage (still not the definition of rich).
 

Fiction:

A Song of Ice and Fire (only if you have about 15 days of free time)

Non-fiction: Into the wild
                  IUPAC Blue Book (http://www.acdlabs.com/iupac/nomenclature/)

Khan Academy coin that translates earning energy points and badges into some crypto?

Massively premined (~50%) for Khan Academy.

I'm sure that Khan Academy would love it and so would the students in khan academy. It would also be a good introduction to crypto-currency to Khan Academy users.

What do you think?