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1921  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Interesting Graffiti in Sheung Wan Hong Kong on: September 09, 2019, 02:12:22 PM
Can you give reasons for your conclusion. I agree, Capitalism is a bull shit

Capitalism isn't bullshit.

Hating on Chinese for failing to give their people proper human rights, protections, and so on and so forth is fair.

But attacking the entire system of Capitalism, which has been the best system to date with lifting people out of poverty, is completely unfair.
1922  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Can Trump liberate Hong Kong from China?. on: September 09, 2019, 01:53:58 PM
Doubt it.

Can't see something like this happening in the list, if something like this were to happen China would retaliate by using violence against the protesters.

Trump can't do much relating to economic issues on China, he can't just use tariffs on them because he wants to win reelection and needs the economy to be propped up for that time.
1923  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Campaign to Establish Islamic State in Belgium on: September 06, 2019, 02:13:35 PM
Hate to be that guy, but I don't see any real news regarding the topic. I'm not a big fan of trusting random people on social media to get my news from (even if the mainstream media can't always be trusted)

Anychance you have a reputable news company, even one in Belgium which is reporting on this issue?

I speak dutch, and i did a quick google search... Ended up on sites like this one: https://www.bruzz.be/brussel-kiest-2018/partij-islam-haalt-nergens-verkozene-2018-10-15  or on wikipedia https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_(politieke_partij) (and a bunch of other sites that tell basically the same thing)


For those that do not wish to use google translate, the TL;DR; version is:
- There is a political party called "Islam" in Belgium
- They want to install an islamic ruling, and Sharia
- In 2012 they tried to gain votes in 3 of the most muslim-centralised cities in brussels, they only got 2 seats in the city's council. This means they had nothing to say even in those 3 cities they tried to infiltrate
- In the last elections in 2019 2018 they even lost these 2 seats, and they are now a non-issue

EDIT: Fixed a typo

This is pretty much what I was looking for, as I wasn't expecting the mainstream media to cover this but it is fair to see this coming out of a local news company in Belgium.

I'm personally unaware of how to check for bias on this site, but this is a start towards showing real evidence. Thanks for chiming in!
1924  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Need help figuring out fees of a dice/crash game. on: September 06, 2019, 01:48:18 PM
Dice sites and crash games mostly have a 1% house edge that's the accurate amount they take on all of their bets.

The amount of commission they take depends on the win probability. If I play dice with a x2 multiplier and the win probability is 49.5% that's 1%, without the house edge it should be x2.02.

This is going to be it. You're going to have to look at the house edge for any site in particular that you're on.

I'd also ensure to look for withdrawal fees, deposit fees, and so on and so forth. As they could try to sneak a couple things in there to get a little more money from you.
1925  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Campaign to Establish Islamic State in Belgium on: September 06, 2019, 01:43:28 PM
Hate to be that guy, but I don't see any real news regarding the topic. I'm not a big fan of trusting random people on social media to get my news from (even if the mainstream media can't always be trusted)

Anychance you have a reputable news company, even one in Belgium which is reporting on this issue?
1926  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Who ever used the Tax Tool CryptoTax? on: September 06, 2019, 01:35:54 PM
Because no one shared their experiences, I have now tried it myself. I especially like the automatic linking between deposit and withdrawal as well as the recognition of hardforks etc.

Also my tax consultant recommended it because he thinks it is important that the tax logic is certified by an experienced company (KPMG).

This still isn't enough. I would much rather hire a CPA to handle this issue, instead of putting it through a computer program and praying that everything worked out correctly.

Hire a professional CPA who knows (or is familiar) with cryptocurrencies and the laws surrounding the capital gains around them. Don't use a computer program because it's much cheaper.

I am very sure that no tax consultant will do the tax calculations without a program. Nowadays, the tax consultant programs are unfortunately not made for crypto currencies. No tax consultant can calculate with FiFo or transactions on different stock exchanges etc. without a professional program.

And because you said you shouldn't use it just for being cheaper: If your tax consultant's fee exceeds your profit, it makes no sense for me to hire the tax consultant.

Most of the community of crypto currencies all reject the old values like FIAT money etc. but with digital innovations like tax programs that can replace tax consultants everyone is afraid...

Oh I'm not saying that these tax consultants aren't going to be using programs as well, they are. But they're going to have the knowledge to look at what the program spit back at you and judge if it correct based on their prior understanding of capital gain / tax law.

I'd rather be safe than sorry when it comes to taxes, so I wouldn't want to trust some online program without seeking out a tax professional (CPA, in the states)
1927  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Grieving dad jailed for repeatedly criticizing court system in Macomb County on: September 06, 2019, 01:29:09 PM
While I agree that he shouldn't be in trouble, I do think that once the court had put him on some sort of probation relating to it he should've relaxed with it to ensure that the court didn't have an ammunition against him. Because they pretty much can say that he violated his probation, because he did.

I think this is without a doubt bullshit though, and he should begin to sue to town, judge, etc.
1928  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [US] Mass shooting [mega-thread]; Days Since Last Mass Shooting [0] on: September 06, 2019, 02:44:04 AM
It's the easiest solution and I can't think of any other solution to ever be able to prevent crazy/mentally ill people from committing crimes. Education will not help against mentally ill people, no matter how much you try, what other solution can you think of?

1. Adequate mental health services. Making it easier for people to obtain psychiatric services and be prescribed anti-psychotic and mood stabilizing medications. A society-wide initiative to remove the stigma around mental health care.

2. Upping background checks for those seeking to purchase firearms.

3. Banning of assault weapons and military-grade weapons.

10 more people were just killed in Ohio. This is getting way out of hand.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/at-least-10-may-be-dead-in-dayton-ohio-gunfire-reports



There was extensive research done on the front of mass shootings and school shootings, and it showed that the only policy initiative that MAY work towards having any success in solving the issue is banning 'assault rifles' But it doesn't stop the amount of shootings happening, though it does limit the amount of people who would perish in thes events.

If we're willing to admit that's fine then we're good. But if you want these things to never happen again we need to keep looking for new solutions.
1929  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Reward up to $15 million by the U.S. Department of State! on: September 06, 2019, 02:35:11 AM
Sounds like a pretty interesting idea.

But the thing with bitcoin was totally due to some intern at the Department of state throwing a couple of pictures together and posting them online with the tweet, this doesn't signify that the US government like BTC or any crazy conspiracy like that (I know many of you would try to connect those crazy far dots)
1930  Other / Politics & Society / Re: US Treasury Blacklists Bitcoin, Litecoin Addresses of Chinese ‘Drug Kingpins’ on: September 05, 2019, 10:25:36 PM
More proof that there is going to be a big fiat crash, leaving Bitcoin and gold and silver to rocket to the moon.


Study Discovers That If The Debt Machine Was Turned Off...



A new study has discovered that we are far more dependent on America’s great debt creation machine than most of us would have ever dared to imagine.  Today, debt is involved in most of our major transactions.  In order to purchase a home, most of us go into debt.  The same thing is true when most of us buy a vehicle.  Total credit card debt is well over a trillion dollars, and total student loan debt is now over a trillion and a half dollars.  Corporate debt has more than doubled since the last financial crisis, state and local governments are absolutely drowning in debt and unfunded pension liabilities, and the federal government is more than 22 trillion dollars in debt.  The Federal Reserve and the “too big to fail” banks are at the core of this insidious debt-based system, and it has been systematically destroying the bright future that our children and our grandchildren were supposed to have.  But if we suddenly turned off America’s great debt creation machine at this point, our entire economic system would totally collapse because we have become so dependent on it.  In fact, a study that was just conducted by Bloomberg discovered that “gross domestic product per capita would plunge into negative territory” if the ability to borrow was suddenly removed…

    The nation’s health as measured by gross domestic product per capita would plunge into negative territory without its dependence on borrowed money, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.


Cool

So you're telling me that in the event of a fiat sell off (as in massive fiat sell of) that you're going to see fucking precious metals be worth something?

I'm telling you right now that if there is a massive fiat selloff, to the point that countries are going under -- then you're going to see the end of all of government and the economy as a whole. No investments are going to be able to withstand this sort of selloff mostly due to the fact that most of precious metals are paper trades anyway.
1931  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Which coding language does gambling sites use? on: September 05, 2019, 06:28:46 PM
Hello,
I am looking for the most popular coding language that the developers use to develop Casino games in cryptocurrency niche. Looking forward for your insights guys.
PHP is the most used language for web developers. Open source, less costly. So, I assume most of the caisno sites or even most of the sites that exists and database driven, use PHP-mySql.

SMF is using the same. It's easy to spot. You will see .php as the file extensions.

PHP is getting outdated at this point and less and less sites are using it. Most modern gambling sites use some form of JavaScript on the front end (such as AngularJS or React) and many are also using JavaScript on the backend, via node.js.

If you're looking to create a gambling website, I'd recommend avoiding PHP and start learning JavaScript.

Onto this point, if you want to create a gambling site and don't know how to code yourself and don't have a large amount of funding available. I would stop right now, as you're not going to be able to run your own site without significant capital investments and time investments.

This isn't something where you buy an online portal from someone for $50 and next thing you know you're practically printing money (Don't fall for those scams, where people are selling their sites)
1932  Other / Politics & Society / Re: SF declared the National Rifle Association as domestic terrorist organization!!! on: September 05, 2019, 06:17:33 PM
^^^ But SF is a far bigger domestic terrorist organization than the NRA. Just look at the people of SF who live on the streets. The NRA doesn't have any kinds of these people, and they aren't the reason why SF has them. SF sick homeless druggies, who s*** all over the streets and public grounds of SF, are SF's own doing.

Cool

No.

That's not the case in the least. And it's unfair to stoop to the level of these people in order to make yourself sound better.

The NRA is not a terrorist organization, San Francisco is NOT a terrorist organization as well. Plain and fucking simple.
1933  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Groped by the TSA? #MeToo And FINALLY, We Can Sue Them on: September 05, 2019, 06:01:03 PM
Sounds great for right now, but this is just going to be appealed one step further and the Supreme Court is probably just going to let them overstep powers due to the fact that they're 'securing the nation' even though they're just a glorified jobs program for people who live near the airport, and routinely fail tests regarding bombs getting passed them.

It might certainly happen as you say. But there is one difference, which is...

People are gradually waking up to the fact that government is erasing freedom. And in the States, freedom of the courts is available for anybody to sue anybody. This means that people can sue TSA people rather than their TSA position... with results that are different than when people sue government positions and offices. It is happening more and more all the time in all kinds of places besides the TSA.

The more that government takes freedom away from the people, the more people are going to find out that they have the right to sue even Supreme Court Judges, personally, without suing their Supreme Court governmental office.

Cool

Yeah, you can sue those on the Supreme Court. But why'? What would that do for you?

PLUS, you're going to have to show that something they've done, outside of the purview of their office. As they are going to get immunity from cases they've decided on, but not on their personal life. So yeah, take this example from online

There are some stupid examples where a suit like that could survive. For example, if all nine justices (cough cough, or eight justices… this answer was written in late 2016) decided to rent a houseboat, then they absolutely trashed the houseboat in an alcohol-fueled spring break style rager, the houseboat owner could sue the nine justices for the damage.

But that’s a lawsuit against the justices in their personal capacity. Supreme Court justices — or any government official, for that matter — do not get immunity from personal liability.
1934  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Too much tech in schools with no benefit, researchers agree. on: September 05, 2019, 03:52:57 PM
Kids sit in classrooms for 5 or 6 hours a day. What does this teach them... just the sitting there? It teaches them to be good little office workers for their bosses when they grow up. It is brainwashed into their systems as they are forced to sit in school for hours.

Now that we have recognized the above, we can move on to what the kids are taught or not taught as they sit there.

Cool

Well yes, wasn't the whole idea of school to mold people into good factory workers? I think this was the case.

Education hasn't changed in sometime, and it's now changing in a way that isn't working in the least.
1935  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Who ever used the Tax Tool CryptoTax? on: September 05, 2019, 03:30:33 PM
Because no one shared their experiences, I have now tried it myself. I especially like the automatic linking between deposit and withdrawal as well as the recognition of hardforks etc.

Also my tax consultant recommended it because he thinks it is important that the tax logic is certified by an experienced company (KPMG).

This still isn't enough. I would much rather hire a CPA to handle this issue, instead of putting it through a computer program and praying that everything worked out correctly.

Hire a professional CPA who knows (or is familiar) with cryptocurrencies and the laws surrounding the capital gains around them. Don't use a computer program because it's much cheaper.
1936  Other / Politics & Society / Re: SF declared the National Rifle Association as domestic terrorist organization!!! on: September 05, 2019, 12:41:23 AM
SF is very stupid. We've seen time and time again that they're not able to functionally do things without making up some stupid policies relating "manhole covers" being "working covers" and all this other stupid legislation

The NRA is a domestic terrorism organization just like any other lobbying group.
1937  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Groped by the TSA? #MeToo And FINALLY, We Can Sue Them on: September 04, 2019, 06:47:48 PM
Sounds great for right now, but this is just going to be appealed one step further and the Supreme Court is probably just going to let them overstep powers due to the fact that they're 'securing the nation' even though they're just a glorified jobs program for people who live near the airport, and routinely fail tests regarding bombs getting passed them.
1938  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Too much tech in schools with no benefit, researchers agree. on: September 04, 2019, 06:45:43 PM
I have read studies relating to child neural development and technology in the past. Apparently children from 0-3 especially, but up to 5 years of age have a much higher level of what is called neuroplasticity. This is basically a phase of human brain development where the basic structures of the neurons are forming and becoming solidified in these states. As a result of this, depending on how the neurons are conditioned, it will result in more permanent lasting effects through the child's lifetime. This is an important fact to know for parents because when you give a child under 5 an electronic device or even sit them in from of a tv/monitor, you are wiring their brains in a way that can cause difficulties for them later.

The simplest example I can give is how media has all these quick cuts and fast moving scenes. Humans have evolved a hardwired response to pull the eye to any fast movement reflexively as a survival mechanism. When humans were not at the top of the food chain, this could be the difference between seeing that tiger hiding in the grass before he attacks or being his dinner. Essentially what is happening is all of these quick cuts are triggering this response in children, signaling to the brain that they are in an environment full of predators. As a result the brain becomes hyper active to compensate for this perceived risk to life, and this is where many attention, behavioral, and hyper activity issues stem from. Then parents often end up drugging their children to cope with this and making it worse. In my opinion, based on the scientific data I have read, no children under 5 should be using any electronic device with a monitor, including televisions.

Oh yeah, this is without a doubt true. Though there are still going to be parents who instead of parenting, are just going to hand their children a device and call it a day -- it's horrible, but you don't need a permit to become a parent.

All of this is done because of massive lobbying by tech companies to get state and local governments to push for more tech in schools with no real signs of any benefit.

Well, gonna make money right?  Grin

Unless they are bringing things into school that actually allows the kids to learn "tech", then everything else is snake oil. IMHO all they need is a large projecter and a tablet each student loaded with the lessons. And PC of course if they're going to be taught programming.

I wouldn't mind them spending a bit more for materials if they're teaching robotics. That can get quite expensive. IMHO those two, programming and robotics is the tech that should be taught to kids. But then again that's expecting much, of course those kids have to grow up into consumers rather than producers.  Wink

Yup. Google classroom right now is free for every school that wants to use it. People are like -- oh google is so great they care about education --> Google doesn't give a shit about education, they care about making a buck and they've suckered every kid into using the google ecosystem. They're all going to be consumers for LIFE.
1939  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Who ever used the Tax Tool CryptoTax? on: September 04, 2019, 03:48:46 PM
Eh there's a good deal of other programs that do the same thing, so I wouldn't think this is something that is fully necessary. You're able to go to other programs and I would check that out here (https://blockfi.com/best-crypto-tax-software/)

I don't think this is the best program out of all of them, as there are a ton of them. Goodluck!

1940  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is there a culture where people are sorted by aptitude at age 9/10? on: September 04, 2019, 01:41:33 PM
So pretty much all of the reports that "European children are smarter then American children" is only due to the fact that they're sorting children by how smart they are at a certain age, and only letting the smartest people continue on further into academia while the rest are left for the trades and such?

Wow.

That's just one country in europe and I'm not sure how the system actually works in Germany.

Most European countries and America seem to have bad education systems (if not all) but I'm not sure there's much they can do to improve it unelss you get teachers that have a better knowledge of their subject and can better direct their students. I think everyone remembers the few teachers who gave up on what they were supposed to be teaching or followed it so loosly as to a point where they would also cover a bit behind what you were supposed to learn too...



How was Einstein at math was he still pretty average by age 10 - that might be an interesting thing to look at do you have a link?

I would blame the education issues on no one wanting to change and everyone blaming one another.

Teachers in particular don't have a clear way of being rated by administration, this is partly due to Unions fighting this sort of thing happening (because they think using test scores to rate teachers is unfair, which it is) and then administration wanting too much power to punish teachers with.

Politicians want instant action, so they push forward with large policy initiatives that sound great on paper but don't lead to anything.

Who knows the correct way to fix education, honestly it's not going to be easy.
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