This may not be Voat, but it sure as hell feels like Voat.
Don't stress out too much, if it's down, it's down.

Okay, now we're back. I posted this prematurely.

whoever solves the scaling problems will be the "next" bitcoin.

THIS

I save a lot of memes and dumb shit from places like reddit and deal with this all too often.

Huh.. I don't remember ever using the school toilet. Thinking back, I don't even know where the toilet would have been.

When I was a student, it seemed like teachers got great satisfaction out of that exchange.

"Can I go to the bathroom?"

-- "I don't know, can you?"

<sighs> "May I go to the bathroom?"

I had 8 classes each day and just pissed between them like a normal person but it seemed like that once per day I'd witness this exchange. It seemed to always give the teachers satisifaction to correct the student and it happened enough that I know when to use "may I" and "can I" in normal discussion for fear of activating some smug look on the other person's face.

Maybe they don't report when it can be settled in other ways. "It's Chinatown" is a cliche for a reason.

Asians are the only demographic shown where the victim and the offender aren't usually the same race.

Ex: White on white violence makes up 62% of violence with a white victim. Black on black violence being 70% of the cause of a black violence victim... Yet Asians, across the board, seemingly are the victim almost equally from the other races. (24% white offender, 27% black offender, 24% Asian offender, 7% Hispanic offender, 14% other.

Asians also have the lowest number of reported violent incidents but I'm not sure if that's due to their population size or not,.

Who are these people hating Asians? They work hard, the have good family values and push their children to be educated and productive members of society. They're good people. If they're in America it's because they left behind a shit hole for a better future and they almost always work hard and achieve the American dream. It's amazing what they're able to achieve in just two generations, from poverty to grandson going to med school and becoming a doctor.

See table 14 on page 13 https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv18.pdf

You know, I generally don't like the whole "throw the book at the hacker" mentality the legal system has sometimes, in this case, the prison time is due to the financial fraud component of this. He hacked those accounts... To trick people into giving him bitcoin. I'm ok with the years for that. His life isn't ruined.

Let me present here my opition, not strictly related to "coins" about which you are asking. Instead of trying get get a quick buck, have a look at The Bitcoin Standard book. In more general terms it is like planting a tree: "The Best Time to Plant a Tree was 20 Years Ago. The Second-best Time is Now!"

Anytime someone gets interested in "anycoins" my question is: do you intend to run a node for that network during the time you own anything?

Another important thing to realize is that even the second most popular "crypto" tringy (starting with letter E) had a 72 million pre-mine in its genesis block:

$ torsocks ./bitquery.io.sh
curl is /usr/bin/curl
jq is /usr/bin/jq
Timestamp: 1616268327
total=118176381.81876291
premine=72009990.49947998
premine/total = 60.93400%

This means that more than 60% of this "E*" coin were created out of thin air and no real mining costs may be applied to them. Now imagine all that NFT hype… See the source of above-used bitquery.io.sh script at bin.idrix.fr. See also bitquery.io article and feel free to look for the pre-mined transactions in etherscan explorer (or any other which knows about the genesis block on that network).

Live long and prosper!

i suppose so but then it also comes down to if you trust wikipedias info.

Not that i know of. But if you find one tell me asap.

Wow. Thanks. I didn't know that. I thought Monero was one of the few anon coins. Are their other coins that are anonymous?

Based af

I think the main benefit of something like this is that if the internet goes down, you still have Wikipedia. Could be useful in a disaster scenario that results in an internet outage for an extended period.

as cool as this is, i donated over 1k this year to wikipedia and they get plenty more than that i think itll be fine.

Not only you can run it on your computer, but also on your Android device, so you can take Wikipedia wherever you go. Although...

Wikipedia may just shut down completely.

I don't think that Wikimedia Foundation will die. I mean, they do like "fighting disinformation", which we call censorship, so I guess they might be working with big corpos. And, well, anyone could edit Wikipedia, so even then, it might not be correct. But hey, you got a search engine to dig deep into whatever you want, and then you can save the website and also take it wherever you want. And hey, Kiwix has other stuff worth taking a look, like Project Gutenberg, where they archive books that are public domain in the United States, so there's that...

Monero for sure but id also look out for good anon coins as Monero is realistically private but not anon.

Parents like this need to be executed. It was clearly never about his choice. The mom was following a trend and wanted to be fashionable. It's no longer hip for your kid to be just be autistic, ADD or ADHD. Now they have to be a full-blown fagosexual tranny with all the mental illness trimmings. Because no one is going to give Instagram likes to your boring normal kid.

Nobody has to check plastics, though. Bisphenol A can still be sold without repercussions. There's also this whole thing about cell phone towers they place on school roofs maybe causing health issues and scientists assuring everyone that 5G is safe. Like they did 100 years ago that tobacco was safe.

It's just so incredibly hard to trust what scientists say.

I don't know every European country good enough, but for Germany: "Nobody plans to erect a wall!" and for Great Britain: September Dossier

No government has the best of their citizens in mind, that's just how it is. European countries have more social features because they are rather homogeneous. Handing out some benefits to people you have a positive attitude for is easier than handing out benefits to your arch nemesis. The major reason the USA isn't like that is because people from the US hate each other. And the reason for that is that the USA is a melting pot of many different people. The more you increase that type of diversity the worse things will get.

It's also why people in the US can feel the need to arm themselves. I was on vacation in Norway once and saw a car in the middle of nowhere. Open door, key in the ignition. It was a non-issue. People were just all nice to each other. Do that in the US and that car will be gone fast. Americans actually have a valid reason to arm themselves for defense. Not necessarily everywhere in the US, but in enough places. People hate each other. There are gangs in the streets fighting to death. That's just the kind of place you get when mixing people together that actually hate each other.

The way I see it Socrates was right. I know that I know nothing.

Oh man, I'm a bit ashamed of myself that throughout our entire discussion I hadn't once thought of the replication crisis in contemporary science. I had a course that covered that last semester quite thoroughly, including p-value-hacking to get statistically significant results. Well, so much for my university education.

Thank you for reminding me of it, you are absolutely correct that many research findings nowadays cannot be replicated when reproduced! If anything, it makes the need for a truly independently funded scientific agency more imperative. The publish-or-perish mentality nowadays is absolutely destructive for scientific integrity and makes researchers susceptible to publishing inherently biased findings.

Anyway, regarding your claim that I make an appeal to authority: although I agree with you in principle that:

Claim B is true, because Authority A says so

is a logical fallacy, some subjects (including medical science and pharmacy) are expert topics that require multiple years of dedicated study to get a good grasp of. It is idiotic to think that any layman can make the same informed judgements that a researcher can. The best we have is peers of said researcher checking the validity of their methods before and after publication. Hence peer-review (but as you pointed out, replication crisis throws that in the dirt)

Plato himself pointed that out when he asked someone if they'd rather vote on how a ship is steered or let the helmsman handle it.

Closely related is the argument from ignorance: because you don't understand how something works, doesn't mean that it is false. Or in this case, because a layman (including myself, I'm in the field of AI and CS, not biology) doesn't completely understand how mRNA vaccines work, doesn't mean that they're therefore dangerous.

I concur that the U.S. government has pulled some shady shit the last century and has a poor track record. So I certainly understand your skepticism regarding your government. I'm from Europe (in the case you hadn't figured that out) and I really feel that the average European citizen has a different relation to the average European government than the average U.S. citizen has to the U.S. government, if that makes sense. Generally speaking, social democracy, liberalism and christian centrism are the prevailing ideologies here and this is reflected in our government policies. Most European countries have a reasonable welfare state and collective labor's rights. To many of us, this government is not a big baddie that must be kept to a minimum, but instead ought to occasionally intervene to protect the weaker in society. European response to the coronacrisis has been largely economically Keynesian. So yeah, different relationship dynamic. Our media landscape is generally diverse and broad with relatively little polarisation. Some media outlets have a slight bias in columnists and opinions but overall I cannot think of a concrete example where two news agencies report stuff in seriously different ways, unlike the CNN/Fox situation. Perhaps that makes us a bit naive and trusting but it does appear to work well for us thus far.

And about Snowden: if I recall correctly his revelations were mostly about the intelligence agencies overstepping their legal authority and getting cooperation from the upper echelons of the tech giants. I don't think that is wholly applicable in this discussion about the reliability of government in general. But I could be wrong here.