theflyingorc posted:

don't put real randomness in your vidjagames, game makers

theflyingorc posted:

pascal's wager is only valid if you're on the fence for one and exactly one religion (with a similar afterlife to Christianity), if you don't think there's a reasonable chance the religion is true just ignore it

but if you're seriously like 50/50 it's a pretty logically valid proposition, there's just kinda some hidden parameters

and even though it has some hidden assumptions it's a really important part of the development of logical proof as a thing people do

also in my head I always pretend he's named "Blaze" Pascal because that sounds like he's the bully from 1950s who wears a leather jacket and rides a motorcycle

goddamnedtwisto posted:

i always like pratchett's response to that:

FMguru posted:

he was the freethinking golem, right? the fact that the discworld's more prominent atheist had a lightning-proof baked clay body was extremely infuriating to the gods

Ursine Asylum posted:

there was another one in small gods that everyone would start scooting away from when he went on his atheist diatribes because the gods occasionally have bad aim

theflyingorc posted:

actually its guards guards but i understand your confusion

Greyhawk posted:

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QuarkJets posted:

It wasn't mental deficiencies, it was my wallet at the time. Switzerland sucks for everyone who's not extremely rich, sorry

Dr. Honked posted:

i've not been to switzerland but i have been to sweden. i was taken aback somewhat by the racism and homophobia of this otherwise gentle peoples

crusader_complex posted:

they dont even use the blockchain!?

theflyingorc posted:

am i crazy or did you just post "racism against immigrants is OK because the local immigrants are really bad"?

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

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Sweevo posted:

it's like a $15 giftcard for a shop you've never heard of, and when you look them up they have nothing you'd ever want to buy

Robawesome posted:

more from americanpegasus' great american novel

[–]Aalewis__ 2 points 4 minutes ago

It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know.

An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.

My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.

I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).

I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.

Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.

I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.

I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code.

I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them.

I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things.

I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of poo poo human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone.

I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I don't attack, I'll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I don't fight back. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really don't care.

The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, I'd prefer to do that over killing them.

I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome.

That doesn't mean I look for places to victimize women, I just don't believe it's fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everything's OK when it's really not (and that's a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that).

I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this in a post asking everyone what their favorite motivational/inspirational quote was, and that comment was second to the top, so I guess other people agreed (though, granted, it was a pretty low-traffic post, only about a dozen competing comments).

And, uh, I'm a pretty good moderator.

All that, and I think your behavior in this thread was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?

Erenthal posted:

if he's seventeen then he's lived a rough life

DAT NIGGA HOW posted:

because i only bought what i could afford to lose.

i have no reason to sell my bitcoin.

maybe if i need 10K for a heart transplant, i'll have to sell some bitcoin.

which reminds me!!!! last lear right before April 20, 2013, i had to sell some bitcoins into dollars so that I could pay my taxes. the government was going to charge me an extra $500 to accept my taxes via credit card, so I was forced to pay my taxes with a check. but i had also just paid off my credit card (which had a lot on it because i had to get a bunch of car repairs). basically i had to either sell some stocks or sell some bitcoin in order to have enough USD in my bank account to clear the tax check. this is basic normal people stuff with moving money between accounts and such. the point is that i really have sold bitcoin, and i did it with coinbase. i think i sold 5K or so.

DAT NIGGA HOW posted:

i buy most things with dollars, i only spend bitcoin if its an option, i don't go out of my way to spend btc unless the btc price is way up and i want to offload some.

2 days ago i bought a casacius coin. bitpay was an option so i thought what the hell... i'd rather just reach over, grab my phone, make the transaction, rather than reach over the other direction to grab my card and type the numbers into my computer. once you have a bitcoin wallet set up its not any more difficult to use than credit cards. the hard part is learning all the terminology (blockchain, transaction, outputs, etc), and getting your bank account attached to an exchange.

Muscle Tracer posted:

how does one even use a bitcoin

like if i want to buy windwos 10 with bitcoins, at what point do i leave microsoft dot com and enter the domain of bitpay, and then return to microsoft? or is it all in some shell on microsoft somehow?

Robawesome posted:

What could a city do to become more bitcoin friendly? (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 4 minutes ago by zcc0nonA

Having nothing else to do I'd like to try and help the city I live in become a more btcentric place, I can try to meet with the mayor or city council or create a new position to make advisement on how to integrate government record with a blockchain. Is this way to silly of an idea, and if not how can I go about improving it? Thanks

Sham bam bamina! posted:

well, first you'd need to seal the ethernet port,

Sham bam bamina! posted:

well, first you'd need to seal the ethernet port,

Buttcoin purse posted:

But how will it run unprotected TeamViewer?

Jizz Festival posted:

[–]luckdragon69 6 points 6 hours ago
If I could, Id Betmoose that it is a whitehat hacker who took the coins - and will give them back

[–]miles37 6 points an hour ago
I prefer grey hats, he keeps 5% and returns the other 95% to them, charge for the lesson.

Adix posted:

where do people even get the idea for hackers returning anything? mybitcoins and the horse trader? i thought both of those were known fakes

CSM posted:

Amazing.

Boxturret posted:

aparently harassing people via an ipad on a stick

Robawesome posted:

Powershift posted:

Even if they could magically sell at the current value, 68% of bitcoins have never moved from the address they were mined too. Most of them are likely people who tinkered, got bored, and deleted the keys, so they're basically lost forever.

infernal machines posted:

no this was literally "what tablet should i get so my infant child can paw at the screen like a cat for hours on end"

AlbieQuirky posted:

What's Helsinki syndrome? Stockholm syndrome with more As?