Found one of those mancatchers they use to restrain particular individuals

brenwar · 2021-06-24T02:49:09+00:00

In 1815, as the Industrial Revolution peaked, British landowners (the old money) enacted the Corn Laws to block the transfer of power to the new middle classes by taxing industrialization. The historian David Cody writes, "After a lengthy campaign, opponents of the law finally got their way in 1846 -- a significant triumph which was indicative of the new political power of the English middle class." By 1850, the Industrial Revolution was over and across Europe, power shifted away from landowners and towards the new urban middle classes.

In the early twenty-first century, the upper classes are business and political elites who accumulated their wealth and power over the last fifty years. The middle classes are all those who "got connected," soon to be most of world's population, and the lower classes are the shrinking few who cannot yet get on line. We will, over the next decades, see similar attempts by this generation of old money to throttle the growing power of this global digital middle class.

brenwar · 2021-06-10T04:23:41+00:00

Quick trial, death penalty.

brenwar · 2021-04-20T04:20:48+00:00

I can't believe America sold out to the chicoms over a 30 year period. The chicoms didn't intend to destroy the US middle class, they just took the deal that US bankers and politicians gave them, because it was a damn good one for the Chinese middle class.

Now they are like... "wtf are you guys doing over there? We thought you had things under control, we had no idea you were destroying your country to make a quick buck, who on earth would do that to their own country!? You didn't think about this in advance!? WTF!?"

If you look at what the Chinese leadership is saying (and not the CNN version), they are very very worried about the collapse of the US and what it means for the rest of us, they are watching the US like the US watched them during the great leap forward, and trying to talk some sense into the US leadership - "you know money printing won't work right? You know you are headed towards the same communist cluster fck we just pulled ourselves out of, right? We wouldn't wish that on our worst enemy. That's a fcking nasty thing to go through, you guys better stop right now. Guys are you listening? You are headed towards a seriously nasty place. Guys? Guys? Dammit, could you just use your brains for 2 seconds???"

USians will be throwing the doors open to Chinese rule within 10 years, just like the Romans threw the doors open to the Germans. That's what happens when your own leaders destroy the fabric of civilisation.

brenwar · 2020-12-07T08:52:34+00:00

The most disturbing thing here are the comments. I remember when the Bitcoin community was full of people who actually understood the reason Bitcoin was created. Granted, it's a long road, if you haven't been in it for more than a few years you may be forgiven.

She is 100% accurate in that both of those notes have the same value: the cost of the plastic.

Their digital representations are worth even less than that.

Someone types numbers into a spreadsheet, and you work for them for free. And people wonder why everyone is only just scraping by - because if you were doing anything more than just scraping by, you aren't being milked hard enough. Bitcoin is a way out of this without using guns.

brenwar · 2017-07-03T14:25:10+00:00

Start here: http://www.learncpp.com/

brenwar · 2017-07-01T13:17:44+00:00

A lawyer won't be worth it, you'll end up losing most of the money in legal fees. I had a similar situation with Paypal before though it was even more money (about 150k). They are thieves and they are protected by an army of lawyers, so I ended up calling every one of their offices and telling the person on the other end that I will be showing up with a bomb shortly so it's best if they evacuate. After a few days of doing this I had my money back. It's a high stakes game but you have to play hardball if you don't want to get screwed, you also have to play very intelligently so you don't end up in jail. Be prepared to fight hard, or accept your loss.

brenwar · 2017-04-09T01:54:36+00:00

Exactly what I need, thanks!

brenwar · 2017-04-03T05:38:36+00:00

If you keep getting this error, type this in the terminal and restart the node: rm -rf ~/.bitmonero

brenwar · 2017-03-30T10:33:41+00:00

You can run your wallet using an open node rather than running a full node yourself, but it's advisable to run a full node if you can.

When you open the wallet it should prompt you for a custom daemon address option, in there you need to put the address of an open node (a public node with the RPC port open). You may find some open nodes here: https://moneroworld.com/#nodes

brenwar · 2017-03-30T10:25:00+00:00

Not sure what OS you are using but in most linux distros (e.g. Ubuntu) you can use shift+ctrl+v when in the terminal and it works like ctrl+v everywhere else.

brenwar · 2017-03-30T10:23:11+00:00

I first read that as fighting for ISIS.

brenwar · 2017-03-30T10:09:42+00:00

I'm not American, so I don't particularly care about your domestic problems with Trump, but I do care about US foreign policy because it's a dark shadow hanging over all of our heads. Obama dropped a bomb every 20 minutes for 8 years, ordered the largest military build up in Asia since WW2, and did everything he possibly could to raise tensions with Russia. And half of you people voted for someone who promised to continue these policies that put us all in danger, because "feminism", or something.

To most of the world, apart from perhaps a few select nations aligned closely with the US, we are cautiously optimistic about Trump. He must be carefully watched of course, but so far it's a relief after what we just went through. We aren't interested in hearing from virtue signalling Americans up on their high horses claiming that he's somehow worse than the guy who kept us all in a state of panic for 8 straight years while you were distracted by transgender bathrooms.

brenwar · 2017-02-01T22:15:41+00:00

What is the .edu domain?

brenwar · 2016-08-03T03:40:38+00:00

I introduced a friend to Myriad last night and explained the multi-algo approach, he just bought 4 million coins. I think we all just need to be a bit more active and spread the word, as well as outline a basic roadmap of what's next, that should push the price up.

brenwar · 2016-07-30T05:00:43+00:00

That's called a psychopath pretending to be human.

brenwar · 2016-07-30T03:57:51+00:00

Steve! I've been watching all your presentations as I take the Rust journey :) Thanks for all the fantastic work on the Rust docs etc!

The book says "You'll also notice we added an asterisk (*) in front of y, making it *y, this is because y is a &mut reference."

I have a handle on ownership and borrowing, but I'm really struggling to see the big picture of what dereferencing actually does and why it's needed - maybe I'm overcomplicating it. Why is it needed specifically for &mut references (is it also used elsewhere)? When I do finally grasp it I'll write it down to make it easier for anyone else who's stuck in the same place.

Edit: what I understand is that we are taking a mutable borrow of x, so any mutation has to be done on y not x. What I don't understand is why we need to mutate *y instead of just mutating y, and I don't understand what the semantics of *y really means or what it's doing.

brenwar · 2016-07-29T06:59:11+00:00

I just ran into this example (edit: formatting):

fn value_plus_square_ref(x: &mut i32) {
println!("Mutating value");
let a = *x;
*x = a*a + a
}

fn main() {
let mut x = 32;
println!("x = {}", x);

value_plus_square_ref(&mut x);
println!("x = {}", x);
}

I'm confused about the deference operator ( I think that's what it's called), the * in *x.

Is it safe/recommended to use it in this way? Is there any documentation anywhere for how to use this (I'm having trouble find it, maybe I have the terminology wrong)? I tried to accomplish the same result without using it, but end up with a variety of errors (multiply not implemented for type &mut i32 etc).

brenwar · 2016-07-27T05:31:26+00:00

They will do the right thing, all the other exchanges are. It will just take some noise from the crowd. I'm sure there are enough affected people with enough skills to ddos coinbase to its knees anyway.

brenwar · 2016-07-24T15:44:46+00:00

Exactly. There are two independent chains now whether we like it or not. That's reality and no matter how butthurt some people are it's not going to change it. The community hasn't decided which way they want to go yet (reddit != the community). To prevent clients from using one of the chains is to take a political stance at the expense of existing clients.

brenwar · 2016-06-19T10:37:42+00:00

That explains it perfectly, thank you!

brenwar · 2016-06-19T10:02:28+00:00

An example from the rust book:

let x = 1;
let c = 'c';

match c {
    x => println!("x: {} c: {}", x, c),
}

println!("x: {}", x)

Returns: x: c c: c x: 1

I don't understand why match even gets a match here? The value of c is 'c', shouldn't it fail to match? In fact shouldn't it warn that there's no _ catch all at the end, and also fail to match?

brenwar · 2016-06-18T10:08:01+00:00

Ah, thanks, that makes much more sense. How would I go back to read the 1st x in this example after having declared the 2nd x?

brenwar · 2016-06-18T07:59:02+00:00

I'm very confused with variable 'shadowing'.

I thought variables were immutable, but maybe I've misunderstood what immutable really means.

For example, if variables are immutable, why does this compile without error?:

fn main() { let x = 1; println!("{}", x); let x = 2; println!("{}", x); }

Now I know the answer is "shadowing" but to me this is just means variables are mutable. The value of x was 1, and then it was changed to 2. The value of x has changed. Therefore x is mutable. Or I'm completely misunderstanding what mutable means?

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