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My Linux Rig
Mar 27, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 6 years!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

isn't it something like some people who are geniuses happen to be able to do this, possibly because there's something very different going on in their brains, but non-geniuses are all like "hurr must be the sleep cycle" then have massive psychotic breaks/fall asleep while driving?

that or people who are geniuses tend to be neurotic

and maybe they're neurotic cause they're geniuses or their geniuses cause they're neurotic who knows

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cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Silver Alicorn posted:

he had no interest in women iirc
he didn't indeed

shadok
Dec 12, 2004

You tried to destroy it once before, Commodore.
The result was a wrecked ship and a dead crew.
Fun Shoe

Krinkle posted:

someone said tesla wasted his dumb life trying to do one stupid thing I don't want to read his wiki entry can you tell me what he broke his brain on

wireless transmission of electrical power. like your appliances wouldn't be plugged into wall sockets, they'd have built-in Tesla receivers.

he also claimed to have designed and secretly built a directed-energy death ray but the world wasn't ready for it.

coincidentally, many people who believe in things like the inevitable ascendance of bitcoin, freeman-on-the-land legal voodoo, the moon landing hoax and the existence of paid anti-bitcoin shills also believe that the Tesla death ray is out there somewhere in warehouse 13 or something.

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

surebet posted:

i really don't get why people would aspire to this, especially without the pills and proper medical supervision, since yeah you're up more, but best case scenario you'll end up doing about the same things, just slower

because the idea is that you only sleep for 2 hours but your mental capacity and everything else is the same, so you can finally finish all the animes you have been neglecting.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

isn't it something like some people who are geniuses happen to be able to do this, possibly because there's something very different going on in their brains, but non-geniuses are all like "hurr must be the sleep cycle" then have massive psychotic breaks/fall asleep while driving?

It is also that some geniuses are greater than life figures and, after a while, all sorts of crazy "facts" about them begin to circulate.

trucutru fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Jan 13, 2015

Krinkle
Feb 9, 2003

Ah do believe Ah've got the vapors...
Ah mean the farts


shadok posted:

wireless transmission of electrical power. like your appliances wouldn't be plugged into wall sockets, they'd have built-in Tesla receivers.

he also claimed to have designed and secretly built a directed-energy death ray but the world wasn't ready for it.

coincidentally, many people who believe in things like the inevitable ascendance of bitcoin, freeman-on-the-land legal voodoo, the moon landing hoax and the existence of paid anti-bitcoin shills also believe that the Tesla death ray is out there somewhere in warehouse 13 or something.

my physics teacher said the number one reason why tesla lost was because of women's fashion. beehive hairdos and hoop earrings with a tiny gap woulda sparked like crazy and set lady's heads on fire so sorry no free electricity through the airwaves. poo poo man it'd gently caress up computers that's all you had to say.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

I think tesla just forgot about that pesky distance squared thing

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

found a withdraw exploit on a exchange, how much should i ask for? (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 15 minutes ago by frently_guy

i wont release the name or how to do it but, how much should i ask for considering you can withdraw as much as is in your wallet multiple times, and when i brought the issue up support said they don't even see that happening although i know it is since i have multiple confirmations on blockchain

[–]iWillDoItForBitcoin 1 point 11 minutes ago

Don't do it. Be honest and moral. If you're going to do it, just do two transactions and show them the evidence of it. Maybe they will listen with hard proof. If you've already given them hard proof, just let it go. If NONE of these things are options, and you're going to bleed them dry, pass off the coins to everyone here before you get caught and possibly put in a position where you can't get those coins anymore. :)

[–]frently_guy[S] 1 point 9 minutes ago

no, im referring to asking from them, i wont bleed em dry and abuse it and if they dont want to give me a reward i just wont tell them how i did it, but who knows how long its been going on

[–]iWillDoItForBitcoin 0 points 5 minutes ago

I see you're a person of little or no morality - so I'm not sure why you're asking here anyway. Just tell them the exploit knowing you did something good for someone, or do whatever the hell else you're going to do. You shouldn't always be rewarded for doing the right thing. Pretty low.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

hobbesmaster posted:

I think tesla just forgot about that pesky distance squared thing

part of his ideas involved finding massive nearly free energy sources

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

Nintendo Kid posted:

part of his ideas involved finding massive nearly free energy sources

another thing that libertarians like

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost
DO NOT DEPOSIT BITCOINS ON WINNING POKER NETWORK THERE IS NO WAY TO WITHDRAW THEM IT WAS A LIE (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 4 hours ago by robogrowth

there is no bitcoin withdraw method available. "It's currently broken." and I have no way other than to loving pay WU to get my money back.. gently caress these scum bags.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

ayn rand hand job posted:

THERE IS NO WAY TO WITHDRAW THEM IT WAS A LIE

darn i think that's too long for a title

Tetramin
Apr 1, 2006

I'ma buck you up.
who was the gambling freak that had a couple hundred grand stuck in some btc sports betting sites again

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

idk tesla built a weird synthesizer that he thought was a radio to talk to ghosts, so that's like a hatsune miku creepypasta back in tyool 1901. don't tell me that's not advanced.

e: also somebody post a few stories of people "investing" money in just-dice/satoshi-dice, and then losing it all gambling. my understanding of how it worked was "hey, pay us some money to help us finance our servers and developers, and we'll give you a cut of the profits, and your funds are also right next to the roulette table should you ever get bored with earning 1% per year and want to put it all on black!"

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


TVarmy posted:

idk tesla built a weird synthesizer that he thought was a radio to talk to ghosts, so that's like a hatsune miku creepypasta back in tyool 1901. don't tell me that's not advanced.

e: also somebody post a few stories of people "investing" money in just-dice/satoshi-dice, and then losing it all gambling. my understanding of how it worked was "hey, pay us some money to help us finance our servers and developers, and we'll give you a cut of the profits, and your funds are also right next to the roulette table should you ever get bored with earning 1% per year and want to put it all on black!"

That's not as funny as that dice knockoff that went under with investors. it was like "somebody won half the money, so we're loving off with the other half. It was a casino afterall, you gambled and lost goodbye"

while looking for the link to that, i found this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=430137.0 which seriously broke my brain so i'm going to go hold my head under water for a little while because holy poo poo what the gently caress

Fiskiggy
Feb 15, 2005

You have impressed FFCiv with your turn time!
They turn a blind eye to the turn times of other civilizations, and your Influence over them has increased by 40.
Meanwhile, bitcoin is depreciating.

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

well, if you account for laff dividends, bitcoin is still a great investment.

Cantorsdust
Aug 10, 2008

Infinitely many points, but zero length.

Fiskiggy posted:

Meanwhile, bitcoin is depreciating.

no, the dollar is deflating relative to bitcoin

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



Appears to be a big sell off in progress

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

jre posted:

Appears to be a big sell off in progress

curse you elephant eel

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

250s! :toot:

really want to see bitcoiners rationalize mining belonging to a handful of chinese mining operations. it'd be hilarious if said rigs end up getting seized by the party and the party figures for the cost of polluting china just a little bit more they take over a libertarian economy and make bitcoin fiat of a nominally communist government.

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



It's properly tanking, run on bitstamp ?

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
i don't get it bitcoin has been stable at ~270 for as long as i can remeber

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

i like to think cex.io saying they're taking a break from the whole mining thing since ROI is impossible might be a factor.

but the true believers also said boom august would happen due to miners unplugging because of expensive cooling during summer, since that would mean less miners making less bitcoin, ergo less miners selling bitcoin.

e: btc-e at 250 and i'm thinking really hard about baseball so i don't nut too soon.

Munin
Nov 14, 2004


jre posted:

It's properly tanking, run on bitstamp ?

It's across the exchanges. Btc-e is the one with the lowest price last I looked. It was about $7 below the others.

[edit] I think someone is trying to seriously cash out and is selling as much as they can across all exchanges without totally burning through the order books.

Munin fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Jan 13, 2015

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

e: ^^^^^ why not just set up a huge sellwall marginally below the last trade, and wait for rubes to demonize you as a monster, which they then slay by giving you money?

btc-e always looked like the most precarious exchange, given it has annonymous founders and weird eastern european incorporation, IIRC. but since everything else runs on bitstamp, they just might end up being the next central exchange, with even less transparency, if there's a run on bitstamp or another massive hack.

TVarmy fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Jan 13, 2015

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

kalstrams posted:

he didn't indeed

quote:

I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005



:vince:

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009



http://store.steampowered.com/app/310080/

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

TVarmy posted:

so that's like a hatsune miku creepypasta

a what ?

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Jan 13, 2015

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



The market has been bearish for so long, I've grown completely complacent with this, and begun to take it for granted that bearish is simply how bitcoin is. I know it could shift to bullish again, and it's grown like crazy in the past, but it feels like that was another place, another time.

The life of a holder is one of continual self-doubt.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


A bitcoin has crashed into the second tower

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



Powershift posted:

A bitcoin has crashed into the second tower



Fun seems to be over. Bonus laffs could it be the stolen coins being sold ?

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Powershift posted:

A bitcoin has crashed into the second tower

:eyepop: i posted too fuckin soon

Beast of Bourbon
Sep 25, 2013

Pillbug

jre posted:

Fun seems to be over. Bonus laffs could it be the stolen coins being sold ?

well the owners can get those back, so it's just a temporary slow down of overall growth

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

Someone is in the process of hacking me... (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 2 minutes ago by Throwitaway67876

Just received an email from BTCE stating the I tried to login but failed and to click a link to change my password. Deleted it. Moments later I get two failed login attempts as well as two password reset request emails from another exchange...

Any advice on what steps to take right now?

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



I'm getting really horny

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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4 Bitcoins for just $999.99! Sale going on now at your local BTC exchanges. (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 12 minutes ago by celedral
Don't wait or it's too late. Starting today you can now own 4 bitcoins for just the low low price $999.99. But wait, there's more! Included in every purchase is one Emotional Roller coaster ride for as long as you own your bitcoins.
*Please buy responsibly

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AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

surebet posted:

4 Bitcoins for just $999.99! Sale going on now at your local BTC exchanges. (self.Bitcoin)
submitted 12 minutes ago by celedral
Don't wait or it's too late. Starting today you can now own 4 bitcoins for just the low low price $999.99. But wait, there's more! Included in every purchase is one Emotional Roller coaster ride for as long as you own your bitcoins.
*Please buy responsibly

Add "humor" to the list of Things Bitcoiners Don't Understand

On the upside, he'll never go hungry because he has hams for hands

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