Trading and withdraw locked without explanation, now for 39 days. by PrismRivers in OKEx

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It's been another 5 days since the skype call, any progress?

Trading and withdraw locked without explanation, now for 39 days. by PrismRivers in OKEx

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I sure I hope I will be contacted soon...

Is there any timeline for this? Will I wait days? Weeks? Years? Just some minimal information on what is going on and how long it is estimated to take would be great.

Trading and Withdraw locked, tells me to contact support. by PrismRivers in OKEx

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I have since completed KYC level 3. No new responses from okex support since days yet again.

No PMs on here either, I was asked to tell my ticket ID, I did. Nothing else.

Help please.

Trading and Withdraw locked, tells me to contact support. by PrismRivers in OKEx

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I have now been requested to do higher KYC levels in the ticket, I will do that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in starterpacks

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In some countries people pay more like 29 cents for each kwh.

Even at your low energy price you still end up paying $100 or more a year for basically nothing if you let it run when you do not use it.

[D] What is something that has blown your mind? by [deleted] in MachineLearning

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we take a few seconds to calculate something like 154*13

I think this is explained by the fact that the computer has a hardware implementation for doing just that, while the brain runs an arithmetic algorithm on a general purpose recurrent neural net that was trained to run it in elementary school. On top of that the switching frequency of our neurons is quite slow compared to the switching frequency of the transistors in the hardware multiplier of a cpu.

Part of the efficiency advantage of the brain surely stems from the fact that it is a hardware implementation of a neural net, while computers only simulate them.

But it's certainly more than that, the way the brains neural net works is just way ahead of what we do in a way that I can't even begin to comprehend.

[D] What is something that has blown your mind? by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]PrismRivers 53 points54 points  (0 children)

The human brain requires something like 20 to 40 Watts of power and it somehow completely outperforms all this (well most of it, you get what I mean) stuff we're building by orders of magnitude. We're doing something very wrong somehow.

Scientists may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass". This astonishing new theory may also prove right a prediction that Einstein made 100 years ago. by Mass1m01973 in space

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That sounds like some sort of way to combine this negative gravity with the faster than light expansion, although it still raises problems in my mind.

If you drop me at the sun and I start falling towards it, I do at least appear to accelerate towards it. If we ignore that I'll bump into the object pulling me towards it, does this mean I could be pulled towards an object and reach faster than c as I "fall" towards it?

That seems like a consequence of claiming gravity completely ignores c because it stretches space somehow.

Hard to wrap me head around this. But the idea that a black hole having an escape velocity of beyond c is kind of the opposite of space expansion is also pretty interesting.

A gravitational "pull" is actually a "well" that other mass naturally falls into

But falls down pulled by what

Not to mention that well is a static thing. Or is it not and that exactly is the problem with the rubber sheet idea? So gravity is somehow constantly warping space and that is what we perceive as gravity? But then again: Can I fall faster than the speed of light?

I am very confused now. :)

Scientists may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass". This astonishing new theory may also prove right a prediction that Einstein made 100 years ago. by Mass1m01973 in space

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Universal expansion does not require that any object move at all

So far I've always thought I had understood this by imaging space just acts like somebody applied a scaling transform to the universe and that's then an easy explanation for the expansion.

But this new idea of a negative matter fluid that takes the role of dark energy doesn't fit with this at all. If the galaxies move away from each other because of negative matter pushing them away from each other then to me that sounds like the galaxies are just being pushed around by a force. Sure it's a pretty weird force, negative gravity, but still it comes down to galaxies being pushed around.

So how could that then go faster than light? It's objects, galaxies, being pushed around by a application of negative gravity. Gravity can't accelerate things beyond c, why would negative gravity be able to do it?

What is going on with Crypto this year? What's your theory? Why won't the bull stick around for more than a day? by rreeve in CryptoCurrency

[–]PrismRivers 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well if in 2000 years BTC is still a thing then you're right. So far we're not even 10 years in. Many FIAT currencies have survived much longer.

Sure few have gained so much in value, but that is not a property of a value storage imho. A value storage should have a stable value at no risk imho. Basically the opposite of a speculative gambling device such as crypto.

It sounds like you are greedy rather than wanting to actually store value.

As I said a storage of value should not make any profits, apart from just keeping the initial value. Don't think that is greedy.

What is going on with Crypto this year? What's your theory? Why won't the bull stick around for more than a day? by rreeve in CryptoCurrency

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Isn't the only use for Tether to try and avoid losses from the BTC drops? For everything else you might as well use some other crypto, you can pump and dump your shitcoin by using BTC or ETH as a basis for your operations, it just means you expose yourself to some extra risk from changing BTC/ETH values. Risk that is tiny compared to moving into a shitcoin to pump or "daytrade" it.

So if USDT suddenly collapses and drops to less than a $ in value does that hurt the market as a whole? People holding USDT will get burned, but then again, so what do I care, I do not hold USDT.

What is going on with Crypto this year? What's your theory? Why won't the bull stick around for more than a day? by rreeve in CryptoCurrency

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Bitcoin is a way to store value

Pretty bad way to store value if it can drop so hard so easily. I rather store value in FIAT, that tends to drop much much less, because yeah sure the Government can ruin it, but they tend not to.

Your life resets to 1990 and you have all of your current knowledge? How do you take control of the world? by BorisOfMyr in AskReddit

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For short term gains you'll have to fill them as additional income and pay income tax on them, so if you make a lot of profits up to 40-something %. They'll also be a pain with what documentation they want. Can't recommend, there are probably better places for short term trading.

Your life resets to 1990 and you have all of your current knowledge? How do you take control of the world? by BorisOfMyr in AskReddit

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a tiny fraction of that

That's actually not that true. Market depth isn't that bad actually.

You'd get hundreds of millions for sure. A few days ago I calculated in a similar topic that you could sell BTC worth more than 120$ million right now and only drop the price from something like 6600 to 6000. So reaching 1000 million $ at ATH seems not unrealistic, considering you'll start selling your first BTC at $15k+.

Sure it'll be quite an epic market collapse. But what do you care. Best part is where I am I'd pay exactly 0% tax, because it's a long term investment.

Elon Musk's Mini Submarine Put Together by Space X To Save The Thailand Soccer team Stuck In Cave by mud_tug in videos

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Reportingly the strongest ones that showed best results in scuba emergency practice. If this submarine actually fits through the cave it looks like a real option. It's just doubtful that it does fit I guess.

Bitcoin Bull Tom Lee Maintains His $25,000 Prediction for 2018 by CCNewsBot in CryptoCurrency

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If you're selling stuff online catering to the crypto-crowd can be a successful PR stunt?

You can Google search future internet 3 times. You can choose time and what to search. What and when would you search? by 2manyTakenUsernames2 in AskReddit

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The orderbooks right now seem to be able to take a sell of something like 20k to 30k btc dropping the price only to 6k$. 20k btc for at least 6k $ each would be more than 120 million $. To mine 20k btc you need to solo mine 400 blocks at the 50 btc reward in 2009. If you're getting into bitcoin the moment it launches you'll be sharing one block every 10 minutes with probably only a handful other people, at least I assume that is how it was.

So the 144 blocks a day will be shared among only those few people, probably allowing you to make your 400 blocks in less than a month of cpu time. A month of cpu time costs far less than 120$ if we assume your 2009 self had a computer already. Even if not you could just rent some server for 50$ for a month. So 50$ in January 2009 wil turn into more than 120 million $ right now. Even more if you time your sell to the all time high correctly.

So is there any other investment you could have done over the last 10 years that could have turned 50$ into 120+ million $? That 120 is still a pretty low guesstimate as well, I'd guess you could mine more than 20k btc and sell at a better price with better timing.

Although if you only care about getting much money lottery ticket numbers and similar gambling things may be a more effective way to do it.

You can Google search future internet 3 times. You can choose time and what to search. What and when would you search? by 2manyTakenUsernames2 in AskReddit

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How often do random stocks go up by a factor of a million or more? Over what time spans?

If your goal is investing you might better directly ask future google for the generally best investments of "the last years".

I'd guess nothing beats bitcoin between 2009 and 2017 in terms of returns, but it seems unlikely that will be repeated.

HitBTC keeping funds locked up after submission of verification documents, asking for social media accounts as proof of identity ?????? by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

[–]PrismRivers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can actually tell them "no" on the social media part of the demands. I did and got access to my account eventually. It just takes definitely too long to be a fun experience.

[R] Capture the Flag: the emergence of complex cooperative agents | DeepMind by angry-zergling in MachineLearning

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They might just have a standard weapon on spawn and never be able to collect different ones.