writtles

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by writtles 9y ago
The Ethereum crowd sale participants?
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by writtles 10y ago
Appply same principle of buying and holding for 10+ years and get the Motley Fool Stock Advisor newsletter and buy their pics periodically. Excellent stock research.
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by writtles 10y ago
To save everyone from the oozing condescension of this guy's rant I'll boil down his thesis: Just because someone can spend Satoshi's bitcoin doesn't PROVE that they're Satoshi. Given by the many common sense reaso
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by writtles 10y ago
Too many naysayers in this thread (get burned before guys?). Motley Fool Investment Guide is where I started. I've subscribe to their Stock Advisor newsletter for nearly a decade and have picked from their recommendations in that newsl
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by writtles 10y ago
i had an idea that if I were a US bank I would create a USD token on Ethereum that would be redeemable at my bank (or my network of banks). A eUSD token would created via smart contract and be pegged to the dollar and thereby tradable on th
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by writtles 11y ago
I didn't realize the scope of our data went back that far!
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by writtles 12y ago
Same here. Now it only needs the capability to share items (lists in particular).
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by writtles 12y ago
Fantastic work. I think the pride one would feel in making this work is well worth the $90 or so required for parts!
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by writtles 12y ago
True, but there are also other brilliant minds in the field that are creating solutions that you can also learn from. Isolating yourself from that doesn't help much either.
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by writtles 13y ago
Very true! Also, it's pretty clear that R2 demonstrates conscious personhood so "he's" much more than Big Dog already.
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by writtles 13y ago
I would imagine robot warfare is / will be much more politically feasable as "our" human cost goes way down.
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by writtles 13y ago
I've been investing long enough to know that: 1) if a disruptive tech has plenty of personal intrigue and 2) plenty of brilliant people herald it then buy the crash.
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by writtles 13y ago
People have to be able to move in and out of cash via BTC instantly. It currently takes days for most people.
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by writtles 13y ago
I think the introduction of bitcoin into the current paradigm would only serve to deepen and strengthen it. A universal currency with no barrier of entry and a slew of other features and benefits can and should be leveraged.
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by writtles 13y ago
What about micro loans? http://www.kiva.org/about
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by writtles 13y ago
Value Memes ala Spiral Dynamics are probably more applicable here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics
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by writtles 13y ago
I want to see community discussion about the submission.
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by writtles 13y ago
Also, socioeconomic status is key here. i.e. If no one in your life values education then incentive to learn is greatly diminished no matter how intelligent you are.
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by writtles 13y ago
Well I provided many arguments in attempt to illustrate my points. They proceeded to get cherry-picked--which effectively removed their context. You deconstructed all of my posts in an attempt to redefine each term used. Maybe I mistook a
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by writtles 13y ago
The subjective apple has objective correlative brain patterns indeed, but what else? You're imagining an apple, using stored memories to create an image in your mind. Nothing else. What if I imagine an object that i've never s
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by writtles 13y ago
All good points and I don't disagree. Regardless, I was not arguing in favor of some reality without an objective correlation. I'm stating that the subjective has real distinction from the objective--which materialism at the very
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by writtles 13y ago
Semantics. Definitions or not you can't get around the issue by specifying a new term "Subjective reality" You have made no distinction between the two anyways and here's why: * ...subjective experience is not a thing (
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by writtles 13y ago
This one always stumps people. Your subjective experience is unique to yourself. Your Self (your personal subjective experience -- which is denied by the scientific materialists) exists as such. And we can logically conclude that through
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by writtles 13y ago
Scientific materialism is merely an objectivity bias within the subject-object problem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93object_problem ) Because, you see, if we can only objectively measure things scientif
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by writtles 13y ago
>A book can alter your mind more than any drugs. So what's your point? You might be surprised...
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by writtles 13y ago
But there has to be some characteristic that certain species required many evolutionary "steps" to get to. For example, there were no humans OR poplars one billion years ago nor the possibility yet since their / our ancestors hadn't yet ma
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by writtles 13y ago
> Evolution is not about gaining complexity but about fitting to (current state of) the environment I'm glad you cleared that up. Here I was thinking evolution and its "goal" is still a mystery to science.
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by writtles 13y ago
Not to mention the "other side of the world" factor. If a bomb went off on your doorstep and killed your cat, for instance, that would be a much bigger deal to you than the Boston Marathon incident. Let alone terrorist strikes in Iraq...
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by writtles 13y ago
>Some friends followed my example onto other social media sites. Not many. Perhaps they weren't really friends. Wow, OP really feels his friends chose Google over the friendship?
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by writtles 14y ago
I work from home, and much of this rings true. I would like to see a similar article from an employer's perspective, too.

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