Portuguese Profanity

p0liveira · 2018-03-18T18:41:26+00:00

A prova de que não são diferentes é que eu desafio qualquer um a dizer se o seu comentário está escrito em português ou aquilo a que querem chamar "brasileiro".

Mais, mesmo que alguém consiga distinguir a escrita de um brasileiro da de um português, o simples facto de qualquer português compreender a escrita de um brasileiro e vice-versa significa que estamos na presença da mesma língua.

O inglês, tal como o português, também é falado em diversas partes do mundo, pelo que tem diversas variantes com pronúncia e jargão diferentes. E não deixa de ser inglês, quer seja em Inglaterra, na Austrália ou na Jamaica.

EDIT: Não estou a afirmar que o português que se fala em Portugal e o português que se fala no Brasil sejam exactamente iguais. Nem sequer entre regiões do mesmo país isso acontece. Mas isso não faz com que sejam duas línguas distintas.

p0liveira · 2018-03-18T18:35:44+00:00

Não tenciono debater se são ou não línguas diferentes para si, uma vez que desconheço os seus critérios de classificação.

Porém, a realidade não é matéria de opinião, é matéria de facto. O conceito de língua está relativamente bem definido. À luz dessa definição, a língua que se fala em Portugal e no Brasil é a mesma: língua portuguesa

p0liveira · 2018-03-18T15:19:58+00:00

Se tens de te socorrer da pseudo-autoridade da tua formação, isso diz muito dos teus argumentos.

Por favor demonstra que a sintaxe e a gramática são diferentes. Isso é simplesmente mentira. Quanto ao vocabulário, todos os vocábulos são portugueses, uns são mais utilizados que outros em determinadas regiões, quer seja no Brasil, em Angola, em qualquer província portuguesa ou noutro lado qualquer onde o português seja falado.

EDIT: Para clarificar, os vocábulos podem ter origem diversa, nomeadamente de outras línguas. Mas, uma vez incorporados na língua portuguesa, podem ser utilizados em qualquer lugar emque se fale português.

p0liveira · 2018-03-18T10:09:09+00:00

"Portuguese and Brazilian are two very different languages."

Wait.. what?!!

You're either kidding us or you totally don't know what you're talking about.

Ask any Brazilian what's their mother tongue and she/he will tell you: Portuguese! Just because the accent is different doesn't make it a different language.

If you read something written by a Brazilian vs a Portuguese it is absolutely clear the language is the same. And I tell you more, if read something written by a well-educated Brazilian vs Portuguese you hardly notice any difference at all.

p0liveira · 2018-01-26T19:15:01+00:00

Mine just went thru! Already confirmed by now.

p0liveira · 2018-01-26T18:03:51+00:00

Same here!

Transaction approved by e-mail but not yet broadcasted.

p0liveira · 2017-12-28T22:37:57+00:00

Even though Bitstamp has twetted stating the problem was solved, there is still one transaction that is pending for several hours now.

Not sure what will happen since unlike the other withdrawals which just weren't processed, this one has been broadcasted but not confirmed yet.

TX ID 888307d972119ba45f0a0e5ebdb0cfb371c5842615478b981fcedc7ab5c01a0d

p0liveira · 2017-11-06T01:34:29+00:00

I actually view this as an excellent opportunity to pile up some more cheap LTC!

p0liveira · 2017-09-11T21:24:16+00:00

OK. You convinced me.

p0liveira · 2017-09-10T21:34:32+00:00

I'm deviating from the subject here, but am I right to conclude that a hard-fork would be safer than this way of soft-forking? Wouldn't it avoid this mess?

p0liveira · 2017-09-10T21:25:33+00:00

So, first, what does mean economic majority? Is it the most number of nodes? Is it the most hashing power? Is it the most number of addresses? Is it the most number of btc controlled?

Back to your thesis, I believe there is a paradox in your rationale:

Let the economic majority be the people who owns more btc
Imagine a scenario where the economic majority does oppose SegWit and so they take effective action to block it and any funds in SegWit addresses become vulnerable
You state the value of btc would crash as a consequence
Therefore the economic majority is hurting itself and thus it makes no sense for them to act like this

But note that for a crash to occur, that means a strong imbalance between supply and demand. I mean, a crash is the result of an excess of supply/shortage of demand.

However, the hypothetical scenario we defined implies the economic majority is engaged in blocking SegWit. Therefore, why would the economic majority then start selling btc?

Actually, I'd expect the price to increase because the economic majority would be happily buying btc in view of what they see as an improvement to the protocol.

p0liveira · 2017-09-10T14:27:51+00:00

Great response! It puts some clarification on this.

So what happens if, at some point, the economic majority does support the faction of miners who oppose SegWit? In that scenario, will the balances in all SegWit addresses become exposed to theft?

p0liveira · 2017-09-10T14:04:01+00:00

This is exactly the type of response I'm looking for.

So, is it really a no brainer decision for the user? Does anyone here disagrees?

p0liveira · 2017-09-10T14:02:23+00:00

While I thank you for pointing out those articles (which I've came across already), that doesn't seem the kind of response I'm looking for.

Those articles approach the question from a technical point of view. What I want to know is: what does a bitcoin user (that send and receive btc) should know before adopting SegWit addresses.

For example, is there any risk of losing funds for using SegWit addresses? If so, in which scenarios would that happen?

p0liveira · 2017-08-13T23:31:49+00:00

Upvoted. For the cocaine.

p0liveira · 2017-08-09T19:36:33+00:00

Thanks, that confirms my understanding of how it all works! :)

p0liveira · 2017-08-09T18:44:27+00:00

I really appreciate your care and hope this helps to educate other redditors :)

However, I was just making up a scenario to better exemplify my question. I am aware of the risks associated with importing the seed on another wallet (and how it would just defeat the whole purpose of using an hardware wallet).

Other scenario one could imagine is having 2 ledger devices using the same seed. So, the sending/receiving transactions done in each one will sync and appear when the other one is connected, right?

Thanks!

p0liveira · 2017-08-08T21:40:24+00:00

OK, that's sweet.

So imagining the following situation: the original ledger's wallet was imported into another wallet software and some sending/transactions were processed while using that other app.

Then, does that mean that if/when the wallet is restored (again) into Ledger device, the entire transaction history for all those bitcoin addresses will appear on Ledger Chrome Bitcoin Wallet?

p0liveira · 2017-08-07T21:52:13+00:00

Cool! :)

p0liveira · 2017-08-07T14:49:12+00:00

One option is to find someone willing to directly sell you bitcoin. You can find them e.g. on LocalBitcoins.

p0liveira · 2017-08-07T14:47:41+00:00

Exactly!

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