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| Topic | A woman dumped me last month, and I just found her profile on Tinder |
| TheMikh 02/06/21 1:14:51 PM #56 | be extremely wary of how you conduct yourself when dealing with ex/breakup anxiety, both with respect to thoughts and actions. i would strongly advise against doing this as it could lead to an ugly feedback loop, for lack of better words. --- |
| Topic | Man remember when everyone said Spider-Man 3 (2007) was a terrible movie? |
| TheMikh 02/06/21 7:04:33 AM #11 | |
| Topic | She looks at you and says, "do you wanna go crazy at each other?" |
| TheMikh 02/05/21 6:24:40 PM #5 | |
| Topic | why are so many people like this? |
| TheMikh 02/05/21 5:42:32 PM #3 | it's called poisoning the well, and it's a fallacy way too many people fall for. --- |
| Topic | does my brother in law tip too much at restaurants? |
| TheMikh 02/05/21 4:11:16 PM #6 | i tip up to 30-35%, though probably 20-25% on average, except on drinks where I'll sometimes tip 100% --- |
| Topic | New ATH for Etherum. Over $1,500 now. |
| TheMikh 02/05/21 1:27:38 PM #110 | Trumble posted... So what's the downside or extra cost of Pro then? If nothing, why use normal at all?Convenience and ease of use. Bank clearance time for pro is 3-5 business days or something like that. --- |
| Topic | New ATH for Etherum. Over $1,500 now. |
| TheMikh 02/05/21 1:26:11 PM #108 | BudDupree48 posted... Just started using a coinbase account a week or so ago and they do charge a fee per transaction. Like 1.99 usually and they say coinbase pro doesn't have fees but it's a whole other exchange and I can't be bothered to transfer after the ID verification and all that stuff. Heard you gotta do it all again. The app is pretty bare tho it seems to me I never had to do verification for Coinbase pro after verifying with Coinbase. BudDupree48 posted... But you have to transfer things dont you You have to wait for the initial bank transfers to clear, yes. --- |
| Topic | New ATH for Etherum. Over $1,500 now. |
| TheMikh 02/05/21 1:17:56 PM #103 | __aCEr__ posted... Is coinbase the best place to buy crypto? It's been my go-to for years, but there are others, though I'm not so familiar with them. --- |
| Topic | New ATH for Etherum. Over $1,500 now. |
| TheMikh 02/05/21 1:09:45 PM #100 | BudDupree48 posted... Why does coinbase not get certain coins. Tron, tether, and XRP for example They were selling XRP for the longest time but recently unlisted it. As they should, because it's garbage imo. As for other more viable currencies, who knows what's driving decisionmaking at corporate. For some, it's presumably due to regulatory compliance concerns. I'd spend a pretty penny on Monero if it was available. --- |
| Topic | windows 10 restarted my pc by itself, now my sound speakers don't work? |
| TheMikh 02/05/21 12:38:28 PM #8 | this happened to me too, repeatedly. so i rolled back the version and then blocked all outgoing internet traffic (via router) except for specific applications configured to access it through a proxy i set up on another (linux) computer in my local area network. i can give instructions on how to do this if needed. there are tradeoffs in networking performance, so i'm not sure how it will handle things with more demands with respect to networking resources, but windows update hasn't nagged me or run in weeks now. i didn't use the computer for much except audio production to begin with, so updates are not much of a concern for me, and system vulnerabilities aren't a concern since the computer can't access the internet through its normal avenues. --- |
| Topic | So I signed up to a crypto exchange a couple of days ago. |
| TheMikh 02/05/21 4:09:26 AM #9 | |
| Topic | Is this political alignment true? |
| TheMikh 02/05/21 2:41:39 AM #19 | good: bernie (lawful), thomas f. wilson (neutral) neutral: aoc (true), warren (chaotic) evil: jeb (neutral), biden (neutral), dnc (chaotic), mcconnell (lawful), gop (neutral) --- |
| Topic | I am not excited for a new HOA |
| TheMikh 02/04/21 1:48:21 PM #9 | **** homeowner associations they'll nitpick about your lawn but do nothing about the idiots blasting music on another street so loud it makes your office vibrate --- |
| Topic | Rate this girl I have a date with |
| TheMikh 02/04/21 1:15:56 PM #30 | |
| Topic | 500 happy birthdays for @jeffhardyb0yz!!!!! |
| TheMikh 02/04/21 1:15:31 PM #18 | |
| Topic | Biden to announce of 'US participation in offensive operations' in Yemen |
| TheMikh 02/04/21 1:14:45 PM #13 | Biden will announce an end to U.S. participation in offensive operations in the Saudi-led war on Yemen finally doing something right --- |
| Topic | White Castle or McDonald's? |
| TheMikh 02/04/21 12:04:41 PM #17 | |
| Topic | $10 or admin/mod immunity on gamefaqs for a year? |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 11:19:49 PM #9 | |
| Topic | New ATH for Etherum. Over $1,500 now. |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 10:44:20 PM #81 | 1337toothbrush posted... No, because they own real things. "real things" consider the following case study: dropbox. their core service is, of course, user-friendly cloud storage. a simple but very useful application. it's a public company, trading at around $24 at the moment, with a market capitalization of nearly 10 billion. its co-founder and ceo has a net worth of 2.2 billion - which is chiefly based on his ownership stake in the company. i'd imagine you would consider him a real billionaire - after all, he owns "real things." it's an especially interesting company though, in that its services are chiefly powered by amazon web services, which in turn run in amazon data centers - not those of dropbox. as far as i know, the company's only "hard assets" are its offices and whatever necessary tools and materials are inside of them, assuming they're not renting, and even then a lot of workers are mainly remote. "fake things" now compare this with a cryptocurrency, like say, ethereum. in the simplest terms, its services are acting as a distributed medium of payment and verifiable computing by way of smart contracts. like most all viable cryptocurrencies in this day and age, it is powered by blockchain technology. this too is a very useful service. years before ethereum was developed, i spent a bit of time contemplating this very problem - verifiable computing - as its implications for collaborative distributed computation while ensuring the integrity of the results were and are quite significant. tying financial possibilities into this make it that much more explosive, for lack of better words. leveraging the blockchain as a means to accomplishing this never crossed my mind, however, not that i knew the first thing about how the new technology worked. but i digress. like dropbox, this protocol is not powered by its own physical assets, as it "owns" none. protocols are neither persons nor legal entities which can "own" anything, after all. rather, it leverages the computational power of a network of nodes - computer controlled by users - which establish consensus with respect to an ongoing series of states. in return for their computation services, whether by way of mining, staking, or verifying computation (i'm not up to date with the specifics of how the protocol operates or scales, having only read the original whitepaper which is quite outdated - please forgive me), the operators of these nodes are rewarded with ether. this could be considered analogous to some company A paying a web services company B like amazon for virtualization using stocks of company A at their trading price. similarly, the ethereum foundation uses its stake to fund the development of the ethereum protocol and adjacent technologies - using ether, similar to companies paying employees in stock. the goal is to increase the utility and value of the network and its services. like dropbox shares, ether is issued, bought, and sold, its price established based on trading value. early investors in crypto like ethereum, too, assumed greater potential risk and potential reward than later investors. crypto holders, like investors in stock, have a net worth on paper proportional to their stake in the market capitalization of the operation. the sole difference between a company and a cryptocurrency network, organizational differences aside, is that the computational operation is not a legal entity, and ownership in this organization is not managed by legal entities. with this in mind, absent legal mechanisms to sort out issues, algorithmic and/or voluntary methods are leveraged where possible instead, but this does not invalidate the "realness" of the collective operation. forbes does not, after all, consider vitalik buterin a "fake billionaire". --- |
| Topic | New ATH for Etherum. Over $1,500 now. |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 9:35:53 PM #77 | EndOfDiscOne posted... LINK is probably gonna pass its ATH soon tooit hit a new ATH a couple hours ago --- |
| Topic | New ATH for Etherum. Over $1,500 now. |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 9:34:27 PM #76 | 1337toothbrush posted... are rich shareholders and landowners fake millionaires too --- |
| Topic | They tried to make Kat Dennings look like an ugly nerd in the MCU |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 6:46:37 PM #9 | |
| Topic | what's the new thing to invest in, after crypto? |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 6:35:43 PM #36 | ShyOx posted... Virgin galactic jumped even higher. Space is giving everyone a boner, and since SpaceX isnt a publicly traded company theres going to be rollover to other stocks. spce has astronomically high short interest and has mooned during the present fiasco i'd be careful with that stock before things blow over --- |
| Topic | what's the new thing to invest in, after crypto? |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 5:37:51 PM #23 | Parappa09 posted... already on that. crypto is too mainstream now. im looking for something like crypto but 10 years ago if innovations within that ecosystem are to be ruled out completely, anything pertaining to quantum computing is another option though a little late, the intersection between information and the likes of medicine and defense are always worth keeping on eye on --- |
| Topic | what's the new thing to invest in, after crypto? |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 5:16:42 PM #15 | |
| Topic | What if we made a CEcoin? |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 5:14:31 PM #5 | i have a simple p2p mutual credit protocol project sitting around collecting dust it's far from ready for primetime though, platform support is limited, deployment is complicated, and coinage in the conventional crypto sense (independent of mutual credit lines natively supported) is not yet functional i'm sure someone here can fork bitcoin or litecoin and create a proper CEcoin though --- |
| Topic | Amazon doesn't knock anymore. |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 3:19:09 PM #19 | i hate it when amazon barges into my room without knocking ...but in all seriousness, they've never knocked for my deliveries. ever. --- |
| Topic | Is there an extreme end where liberals become TOO liberal? |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 3:13:13 PM #42 | Questionmarktarius posted... Classical liberalism is "bad" now, for some reason. the constant flux with respect to the definition of liberalism (and conservatism for that matter) in the united states results in drastic and constant shifts in the perception of other positions on the political compass fixed positions on a political compass then look more like points moving around in a chaotic n-dimensional space, with "good" and "bad" equally fluid worsening the situation is a complete breakdown of what constitutes reality and ethics in the public consciousness classical liberalism is demonized as freedom, skepticism, and empiricism are viewed as potentially malicious and oppressive forces (except by approved persons). not to say that there do not exist philosophical frameworks where this may be the case, but the acknowledgement or critique of such frameworks is denied or downplayed by some means or another. ...in my honest opinion there are powerful institutions playing intellectual calvinball with society. edit: well that and a general breakdown of narratives/consensus by way of untamed technological innovations. it happens from time to time. --- |
| Topic | Is there an extreme end where liberals become TOO liberal? |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 2:53:46 PM #37 | |
| Topic | Bitcoin isn't going to crash again is it |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 2:50:07 PM #44 | LivingLegend posted... Bitcoin is not currency. At all. i've made some lovely purchases with crypto in the past. the issue with transactions with domestic businesses, particularly brick-and-mortars, is that at the end of the day all taxes must be paid to the government in dollars, and disrupting established processes to accommodate new payment forms - whether of crypto, or even dollars by way of unsupported payment processors - involves short-term investment costs that are more convenient to just pass over due to lack of short-term roi prospects. there are, however, locales with a far more vibrant payment ecosystems - particularly in the prc and certain african countries, the former having an ostensibly freer market in some regards than our own in its special economic zones, the latter having far more room for economic growth and development. time will tell whether we're being left in the dust with respect to this. --- |
| Topic | Bitcoin isn't going to crash again is it |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 2:30:21 PM #42 | Squall28 posted... Do you think using big words make your argument better? by no stretch of the imagination am i using "big words," not that it should matter if we're discussing a topic at the intersection of multiple disciplines (technology, finance, economics, business, social science, and political theory), and where there's an assumption that anyone commenting authoritatively has done their homework such that the needless verbosity that comes with simplifying the most basic concepts and terminology of those domains is unnecessary. Bitcoin is going to be zero in a few years. A currency that fluctuates as much as it does has no value as currency. though it checks all the boxes with respect to the federal reserve's definition of money, adoption a work in progress to the extent that people aren't being strong-armed into such, i wouldn't consider it currency moreso than an analog to fixed-supply [fractional] stock in a public company or gold, the latter a bit of a cliched comparison. if volatility undermined value, people would not invest in companies, let alone those whose value is chiefly derived from online activities moreso than physical capital or production (aside from human capital, and more abstract forms such as online "properties", software applications and activities facilitated by such, and code/data assets). if bitcoin goes to zero, it is understood that this will come not as a result of price instability, but due to its being supplanted by a more versatile but similarly distributed protocol that generates sufficient value to absorb the community and money backing it nigh wholesale. the best contender for this is ethereum, which has already seemingly tackled the volatility problem by way of stablecoins and such, but it is still addressing scalability concerns. --- |
| Topic | Bitcoin isn't going to crash again is it |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 1:10:21 PM #33 | SevenTenths posted... So many buzzwords, so little paragraph structure. a fallacious non-argument characterized by implicit apologism for deflationary monetary policy and the usurious and consumption-ridden hellscape it has given rise to is not worth a comprehensive or properly formatted response [LFAQs-redacted-quote] i've made way too much money to ever be mad --- |
| Topic | Bitcoin isn't going to crash again is it |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 12:37:54 PM #30 | LivingLegend posted... Fundamental value of Bitcoin is zero. literally the algorithmic weaponization of selfish competitive tendencies towards the ends of maximizing computational hashing power while incentivizing the minimization of energy expenditures, further incentivizing the the maintenance of not just the protocol/network but the facilitation of its scalability, robustness, and the development of infrastructure for real-world financial utility in order to preserve and encourage growth and adoption, passively encouraging and rewarding low time preference decision-making, all within an ecosystem supported by some of the industry's best minds, its cohesion reinforced by ever increasing network effects, and its operations and use cases by and large resistant to wholesale meddling by state or institutional actors but keep repeating that mantra as wages and savings are perennially diluted by state-driven inflation --- |
| Topic | WYR: Have the ability to teleport or be able to create legal 5$ bills |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 12:13:59 PM #6 | does teleportation account for relativity-related matters if not, may as well cut the risk and become a one-man federal reserve --- |
| Topic | Give me an album to listen to at work? |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 12:12:39 PM #31 | sam cardon - serious leisure or impulse match made in heaven with the office of the 90s imo --- |
| Topic | Bitcoin isn't going to crash again is it |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 12:06:10 PM #24 | Future_Trunks posted... if a catastrophic tether-related correction occurs, i'll personally see it as a powerful opportunity to buy. they may be able to manipulate price, but not fundamental value. --- |
| Topic | I never did like the Pop Punk phase we went through in the mid 2000s |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 11:30:52 AM #46 | DoubleDare posted... xXfireglzXx posted... listen to a few midwest emo mixtapes and then take that back --- |
| Topic | We have a POLICE CHASE! |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 3:36:08 AM #331 | Future_Trunks posted... wow i didnt' realize the 10 was so backed up lol with the kind of mileage this car is getting, it may as well be like a low-speed version of that hellcat chase --- |
| Topic | We have a POLICE CHASE! |
| TheMikh 02/03/21 12:53:22 AM #147 | |
| Topic | Look at this. |
| TheMikh 02/02/21 11:59:48 PM #10 | E32005 posted... i did not expect that SiO4 posted... Nobody does. i chuckled --- |
| Topic | We have a POLICE CHASE! |
| TheMikh 02/02/21 11:58:03 PM #77 | |
| Topic | American plans to LIVE until he's 180 YEARS OLD!! Look at what he's Doing!! |
| TheMikh 02/02/21 11:49:09 PM #3 | ray kurzweil was biohacking before it was cool, albeit not to the same extreme --- |
| Topic | How old were you when you first started visiting CE? |
| TheMikh 02/02/21 11:34:07 PM #4 | |
| Topic | Are there some opinions you can't stand to see go unchallenged? |
| TheMikh 02/02/21 7:23:10 PM #36 | |
| Topic | 1,400 checks inevitable. What is CE going to spend it on? |
| TheMikh 02/02/21 6:07:52 PM #16 | |
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