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The Closing of Bitmit: What Now?
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Merralea
on 08/11/2013, 02:52:30 UTC
Perhaps my view is distorted, but to me, Bitmit was the main btc-to-physical-goods marketplace. Now that it's shutting down, where will all of the sellers/buyers go? Is there a viable competitor, or is there now an opening for such a site?
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Re: Guy Fawkes
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Merralea
on 07/11/2013, 04:16:35 UTC
The term "terrorism" is...not useful to me.
But yeah, Fawkes was just some random Catholic that wanted a Catholic England. Not an anarchist or anything special, just some violent fool.
The Time Warner appreciation masks are a whole other story.
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Interest Gauge: Android App Store that Accepts Bitcoin
by
Merralea
on 28/10/2013, 20:38:35 UTC
I've been playing around with this idea for a while, and I wanted to see what you all thought before I put too much time into it.
Essentially Yandex/Play/whathaveyou, but using Bitcoin as currency. Ideally it would be an independent store, but most likely it will wind up being a proxy to buy from the other major stores.

Would anyone use this? Would it still be worth it with the possible (at least, initially) limited selection of an independent store, or would it have to include third-party products?
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Re: The New "School House Rock"
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Merralea
on 14/07/2013, 10:14:21 UTC
Yes, all of the world's problems could be solved, if only the two parties could get along.
Everything would be just perfect if there were only one party, wouldn't it?

thanks for saving me the trouble

Happy to help. I quite enjoy your work.
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Re: The New "School House Rock"
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Merralea
on 14/07/2013, 00:01:25 UTC
Yes, all of the world's problems could be solved, if only the two parties could get along.
Everything would be just perfect if there were only one party, wouldn't it?
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Re: "I don't vote"... "it's beneath me"??
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Merralea
on 13/07/2013, 00:08:05 UTC
It would take a while for me to find the post again, but the most salient argument I've heard against voting amounted to the fact that every time the voter participation rate in a country went below something like 20%, the country was just about guaranteed to have a revolution either in immediate response or pretty shortly thereafter. It's a vote of no confidence, and apparently it does count.
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The Pledge of Allegiance and the Lord's Prayer have ridiculously similar rhythms
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Merralea
on 12/07/2013, 23:50:08 UTC
don't they?

I pledge allegiance, who art in heaven
of the hallowed states of name.
Thy will be republic, in earth as it stands for heaven.
One day our daily bread, and forgive us our god.
Indivisible, them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into liberty and justice for all,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power,
and the glory,
for ever and ever.
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Re: Bitcoin Condoms - Cryptocondom Collection
by
Merralea
on 23/04/2013, 15:45:47 UTC
Marketing condoms to Bitcoin users is like marketing protractors to football players.

Sure, but it's a protractor with a picture of a football on it!
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Merralea
on 23/04/2013, 15:29:41 UTC
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Re: RIP Dank
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Merralea
on 20/04/2013, 23:38:49 UTC
Jesus; epilepsy warning needed. *twitch*
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Re: Who ACTUALLY knows what they're talking about here?
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Merralea
on 20/04/2013, 23:36:15 UTC
I'm sure this thread will soon be full of lies and slander (or is it libel?), but I generally make the assumption that:

  • 50% have no formal training and generally don't know what the foolishness they're talking about,
  • 25% have no formal training, but have made enough of a hobby of it to know quite a bit,
  • 20% have taken one or two intro Economics classes and know enough to pass for formally educated if no one's looking too closely (hi there!)
  • 2.5% have taken one or two intro classes that went in one ear and out the other, yet think they are infallible, and
  • 2.5% have some kind of degree or significant experience.

Qualification: all of these are wrong.
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Re: Bitcoin Condoms
by
Merralea
on 20/04/2013, 18:16:10 UTC
You know what Futurama screenshot is in my head right now.

Do these exist yet? Are you taking orders? Where?

Nothing says foreplay like a long and tedious drunken explanation of what a Bitcoin is.
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Re: Bitcoin might create a prisoners dilema problem among the most powerful elites?
by
Merralea
on 20/04/2013, 18:13:48 UTC
I can certainly see the possibility of single actors buying up btc on the side as a speculative endeavor. However, the idea that said actor will use their media strings to promote it is extremely unlikely to me, as their risk (attack from other influentials, possible social/financial ostracism, assassination if one wants to don that cap) far outweighs the potential benefit (a nebulous amount of one-time profit that may or may not be greater than what they make off of the current system).

Your theory is correct qualitatively, I just disagree on a quantitative basis. I don't think that anyone with enough power to do what you describe would make more from doing so than from continuing on as they are.
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Re: Do you remember?
by
Merralea
on 19/04/2013, 15:07:11 UTC
...the 21st night of September?
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Re: Elitist Bitcoin Clubs
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Merralea
on 16/04/2013, 18:16:28 UTC
2.1 BTC is already named, I'm afraid: Hitler Club. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=4axmD2YvPnA)
As far as naming, trying to label them all top-down like this isn't going to stick. You have to go make kooky videos about it or something, have some kind of twisted logic to back up the significance of the number. Plus, I'm not a big fan of knights, or clubs. Though, it *would* be fun to call XXXXX BTC the "Club of Rome" just so I could convince certain segments of the population that I was a reptoid.
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Re: Political Typology Quiz
by
Merralea
on 15/04/2013, 14:42:16 UTC
A much more comprehensive test that has been around for ages

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

1. This isn't really any different than the rest of the diamond charts.
2. For some reason, the question-maker is under the impression that corporatism is a part of libertarianism.
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Re: Bitcoin petition to stop US gov from interfering
by
Merralea
on 15/04/2013, 14:32:35 UTC
The conspiracy language isn't relevant to the main point, so I'll sidestep that.

More to the point: do people really think .gov gives a flying fuck about a petition? Has any petition to congress/president/judges/pta-moms ever actually accomplished anything beyond telling the petitionees precisely who thinks what? The website isn't there to change anything; it's there for data collection.
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Re: Explaining the subjective theory of value to the mentally disabled.
by
Merralea
on 11/04/2013, 02:46:34 UTC
Perhaps...mostly the types of people that think gold/silver and bitcoin are diametrically opposed for all eternity.
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Explaining the subjective theory of value to the mentally disabled.
by
Merralea
on 11/04/2013, 02:41:53 UTC
How exactly does one do it? I spend too much time with the metals magpies trying to get them to understand that "intrinsic value" is an oxymoron. It's physically painful.
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Re: Chatbans on BTC-E
by
Merralea
on 11/04/2013, 01:07:58 UTC
It had nothing to do with the content of your post. They auto-ban for caps.