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Re: I was asked a tough question, who can help me answer?
Now you have a currency that increases in value slowly over time. Sooner or later you will have something that is more valuable at that instant than the currency stuffed under your mattress, such as groceries or health insurance or a new plasma TV. You trade for something you believe to satisfy your needs. Nothing is different except which way the value of the currency is changing.
Well this is fun. I learn about bitcoin at 10.50, I get convinced at 12. I start transferring money at 17, I miss it when it hits 32, I buy it when it hit 21, and it continues to collapse from there.
I think I may have missed the big bubble. Oh well, I guess I'll hold in good faith.
I think I may have missed the big bubble. Oh well, I guess I'll hold in good faith.
Except for one minor problem. Energy is not free and unlimited for us with our current technologies. If we had limitless power, sure, absolutely. Time of scarcity is over.
Until then, you are simply wrong.
Until then, you are simply wrong.
*looks up at the sky, sees a huge quadrillion-quadrillion-ton fusion reaction overhead"
Well that ain't unlimited, but it would probably last us a while. Maybe we make a little version of it around here sometime, you know, for convenience.
Re: Why bitcoins are dropping, and will continue to do so
2. To use as a transactional currency. This is the real appeal of the bitcoin. But there is no reason for someone to convert dollars to bitcoins and buy something unless it is illegal. It is inconvenient and provides zero protection against theft or fraud.
You've clearly never purchased anything using bitcoins. It beats the crap out of paypal or credit card purchases in the convenience department.
Yes but it offers zero protection against scam sellers. And paypal is super convenient for the buyer, just sucks for the seller.
That's another HUGE issue. If I pay someone in
http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/qq234/07GLI/17-dollars-now-thats-gangsta-poster.jpg
I'm disappointed in you guys.
I'm disappointed in you guys.
And yet bitcoins are still trading around 14-15 bucks each.
Yea just goes to show how resilient Bitcoin is.
And where are the trolls and shills now? There were a lot of them prior to Gox coming back online but now their strangely silent
Just bumping this thread.
Mt. Gox open. everyone expected massive runs and total collapse. Value increased by about $1.50.
The bitcoin is tougher than some people thought, it seems.
Mt. Gox open. everyone expected massive runs and total collapse. Value increased by about $1.50.
The bitcoin is tougher than some people thought, it seems.
Hey gang. Just sharing a lifehack with you. Pick a word or phrase that you find easy to remember, say your dogs name and your birthday
peanut1945
Now push shift on those numbers and tack them on the end
peanut1945!($%
now do that, but shift your typing to the right one letter
]rsmiy2056@)%^
Came across this a while back and found it useful if you don't want to have passwords written down everywhere. Thoughts?
And yes I know the password is only as secure as the system it exists on.
peanut1945
Now push shift on those numbers and tack them on the end
peanut1945!($%
now do that, but shift your typing to the right one letter
]rsmiy2056@)%^
Came across this a while back and found it useful if you don't want to have passwords written down everywhere. Thoughts?
And yes I know the password is only as secure as the system it exists on.
Re: Hardcore libertarians: explain your anti-IP-rights position to me.
I like to look at the intellectual property argument from something of a utilitarian standpoint. Imagine there is a machine I build and it does a wonderful thing, say it cures cancer, or makes cake. If my machine is truly an improvement over other options on the market I will be able to charge a large profit for it, and eventually copycats will come out and the price will be forced down. if we are at a point where everyone can rip off everyone else for these sorts of machines if they weren't patented then I would argue the envelope is not being pushed hard enough. I can't patent making ice or yarn or beer now because everyone can do it. If your cooking methods are really that revolutionary, then no you have no reason to publish them but you would be foolish in thinking that they would never be reproduced in any real society. The innovation-knockoff cycle continues in a given industry until human intellect is strained. "Let's see them try to make THIS!" would be the shouts from remarkably high-paid engineers and scientists as they compete for capital.
Think about it. What would happen if Lycos had somehow claimed intellectual property on all search engines?
Think about it. What would happen if Lycos had somehow claimed intellectual property on all search engines?
This isn't news to anyone that doesn't have their head up their ass (so it'll be news to a lot of people on this board). Properly, centrally planned economies have been outpacing the growth of more "capitalist" economies like the US for... ever.
Interesting note: These wars all over the world that the US is involved in, those ARE results of the capitalist economy. The big, greedy defense contractors are big and greedy and want more money, so they set their cronies up in government positions and off to war we go.
Interesting note: These wars all over the world that the US is involved in, those ARE results of the capitalist economy. The big, greedy defense contractors are big and greedy and want more money, so they set their cronies up in government positions and off to war we go.
no.
Defense companies make a product, same as anybody else. They advertise to those who want to buy it, and convince them to hand over money. The bad guy here is not the defense contractor, but the government because the government is unique as a customer in that it can take money by force or make it at will. Nobody else can do that.
The only way to prevent this pattern is to completely change human nature (NOT GONNA HAPPEN) or strip the government of its power (more likely)
Once upon a time I was a social democrat. I believed in making programs to help the less fortunate because I believed the "system" in place inherently kept them down. This system was a collection of private corporations and greedy individuals who did not care for those below them. I believed that drugs were a harmful evil inflicted on society and should be stopped. I believe a whole lot of things in which I believed there was moral backing for them, but these beliefs were founded entirely on emotional response and I had no real educational backing behind them but I fundamentally felt that it was the duty of the strong to protect the weak and the duty of the wealthy to protect the poor.
I began to get into debates with a friend of mine on facebook who is quite forcefully Anarchist-Capitalist and at the same time Ron Paul began to get a bit of press during the 2008 republican primaries. I read a book called Economics in One lesson. From then I began to see that the government caused more problems than it solved and while I still believe it is the duty of the strong to protect the weak the question is now should they be FORCED to do it against their will?
I now answer emphatically NO.
I now self-identify as a libertarian. I believe a free market in all goods is the best way to ensure prosperity because of my academic study on the matter, not because of some emotional reaction. I read works by Friedman, Von Mises, Hazlitt, Hayek and Ron Paul. I even read the arguments by Keyenes and his ilk and found I disagreed with it. And that leads me where I am today, a lone libertarian in California, where most people only think there are two schools of political thought: Democrat and Republican.
I began to get into debates with a friend of mine on facebook who is quite forcefully Anarchist-Capitalist and at the same time Ron Paul began to get a bit of press during the 2008 republican primaries. I read a book called Economics in One lesson. From then I began to see that the government caused more problems than it solved and while I still believe it is the duty of the strong to protect the weak the question is now should they be FORCED to do it against their will?
I now answer emphatically NO.
I now self-identify as a libertarian. I believe a free market in all goods is the best way to ensure prosperity because of my academic study on the matter, not because of some emotional reaction. I read works by Friedman, Von Mises, Hazlitt, Hayek and Ron Paul. I even read the arguments by Keyenes and his ilk and found I disagreed with it. And that leads me where I am today, a lone libertarian in California, where most people only think there are two schools of political thought: Democrat and Republican.
People like you are my heroes. Stay strong, my friend.
Maybe you could kick a few bitcoins my way for being so heroic! I'll put my wallet in my sig when I get home LOL
nuclear plants are still safer (injures/kills less) than fossil fuel plants
Yeah, right.
Tell that to the people living near Chernobyl.
World health orginzation puts total deaths from chernobyl accident at 4000, with 31 deaths happening directly because of the meltdown. Deaths in mine collapses as well as black lung and related conditions are orders of magnitude higher in the fossil fuel industry. Plus the chernobyl reactor was of a TERRIBLE design as you learn in any introduction to engineering course.
Once upon a time I was a social democrat. I believed in making programs to help the less fortunate because I believed the "system" in place inherently kept them down. This system was a collection of private corporations and greedy individuals who did not care for those below them. I believed that drugs were a harmful evil inflicted on society and should be stopped. I believe a whole lot of things in which I believed there was moral backing for them, but these beliefs were founded entirely on emotional response and I had no real educational backing behind them but I fundamentally felt that it was the duty of the strong to protect the weak and the duty of the wealthy to protect the poor.
I began to get into debates with a friend of mine on facebook who is quite forcefully Anarchist-Capitalist and at the same time Ron Paul began to get a bit of press during the 2008 republican primaries. I read a book called Economics in One lesson. From then I began to see that the government caused more problems than it solved and while I still believe it is the duty of the strong to protect the weak the question is now should they be FORCED to do it against their will?
I now answer emphatically NO.
I now self-identify as a libertarian. I believe a free market in all goods is the best way to ensure prosperity because of my academic study on the matter, not because of some emotional reaction. I read works by Friedman, Von Mises, Hazlitt, Hayek and Ron Paul. I even read the arguments by Keyenes and his ilk and found I disagreed with it. And that leads me where I am today, a lone libertarian in California, where most people only think there are two schools of political thought: Democrat and Republican.
I began to get into debates with a friend of mine on facebook who is quite forcefully Anarchist-Capitalist and at the same time Ron Paul began to get a bit of press during the 2008 republican primaries. I read a book called Economics in One lesson. From then I began to see that the government caused more problems than it solved and while I still believe it is the duty of the strong to protect the weak the question is now should they be FORCED to do it against their will?
I now answer emphatically NO.
I now self-identify as a libertarian. I believe a free market in all goods is the best way to ensure prosperity because of my academic study on the matter, not because of some emotional reaction. I read works by Friedman, Von Mises, Hazlitt, Hayek and Ron Paul. I even read the arguments by Keyenes and his ilk and found I disagreed with it. And that leads me where I am today, a lone libertarian in California, where most people only think there are two schools of political thought: Democrat and Republican.
Bitcoins are in fact like religion because the faith of the people who believe in it give bitcoin it's value. In that aspect bitcoin is very much like a religion. Only difference is that this religion will actually save lives when the world's fiat currencies start collapsing whereas others will tell them to pray for a change.
edited: Derp. Misread you.
+1
Bitcoins are like a religon,
They always have there little bumps.
Satoshi will reveal himself as the second coming of Christ in 2012.Bitcoins are like a religon,
They always have there little bumps.
And satoshi pulls off his mask and it's THE REANIMATED CORPSE OF JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES OH GOD WE WERE SO FOOLISH NOOOOOOO
Re: Idea: The Drug Road, a place to buy silk with bitcoins
Something Awful is leaking.
Honestly I'm more of a Farker than a SA goon. Never posted on the forums and haven't been to the site in probably about a year.
And to Litt, yeah I knew what the Silk Road was. Sometimes there are educated people on the internet.