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Mm... The day when America dedicates a traditional harvest festival to celebrate the time the Pilgrims allegedly invited a local tribe to feast with them when they had too much food to deal with, kicking off centuries of genocide and the theft of nearly an entire continent.

And the day Israel and International Judaism celebrates candle oil that burned for 8 nights in a row. But it's only celebrated in such a festive way because they feel the need to compete with the harvest and holiday season (a central component being Christmas, a pagan winter solstice holiday that Christianity lies about to pretend they're celebrating Jesus's birthday).

We're really just celebrating the economy!

Happy Thanksgiving! Chag Sameach!

At 11/28/13 01:43 PM, poxpower wrote: Oh, lost 30$ in the last couple hours :p
LET THE CRASH BEGIN

Gains $20 over the next 6 and then plummets.

ironically this looks more like a recipe for disaster

--supergandhi64

At 11/27/13 10:27 PM, Xenomit wrote: I saw IBM and didn't even pay any attention to it, I just assumed it was something about the company itself, and I have no idea who 9 is and didn't feel like googling it

1. Kanye West
--- A creative genius who uses his fame to stay relevant to his fan base while breaking the glass ceiling and tearing down conventional barriers.
2. Vladimir Putin
--- A political leadership genius who has strengthened Russia on the world stage despite the utter collapse of the previous government while also working to bridge several cultures within his own nation and using strategic corruption.
3. Bill Gates
--- Do I need to explain this one? He's not only using billions of dollars that he earned by accelerating the economy, transforming culture, and playing a good hand at capitalism to eradicate polio and finance development, but he has convinced other billionaires to do the same.
4. IBM Watson
--- A cognitive computing system which dethroned Ken Jennings at the age of 6, graduated medical school at age 8, and is currently applying for jobs in education, finance, medicine, search optimization, customer service, and even fashion.
5. Paris Hilton
--- A woman who used her trust fund, looks, and sexuality to influence American culture to a high degree. Her entire life is a warning to rich capitalists who would otherwise blindly sign their bank accounts over to their spoiled children.
6. Terrence Tao
--- A math genius with a recorded 230 IQ who is the youngest person to have collaborated with Paul Erdos.
7. Stephen Hawking
--- A physics, astrophysics, and theoretical physics genius who has been relegated to a wheelchair since his days at Oxford, yet managed to claim international fame for the theories he developed while surviving decades longer than his doctors had anticipated.
8. Raymond Kurzweil
--- A visionary inventor, theoretician, and public speaker who has transformed the way many people view death, the language barrier, and the progress of technology.
9. Tianhe-2
--- A supercomputer in China which runs at 33.86 PFLOPS
10. Brian Greene
--- I just like this guy. M Theory isn't entirely his, but he did a lot to educate the the English-speaking world about it from 2000-2010.

At 11/27/13 09:03 PM, Xenomit wrote:

At 11/27/13 09:02 PM, 24901miles wrote: I can think of a few geniuses

1. Kanye West
2. Vladimir Putin
5. Paris Hilton

What?

What what? You have a problem with 1, 2, and 5... But 4 and 9 are OK?

At 11/27/13 09:59 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: You're making too much sense, Miles.

Phlouque chreem po mortilob znefgrik quorllig sawluy T mil peor dovv.

At 11/27/13 09:39 PM, Gagsy wrote:

At 11/27/13 08:37 PM, 24901miles wrote:

4. If you do something creepy on Reddit (Google Violentacrez) people will ruin your life for it.

Why is this in the negative list.

Because Violtentacrez is responsible for wrecking the public perception of Reddit by inviting people to take pictures of young women without their consent.

And because ShitRedditSays is responsible for destroying the Violentacrez's life just because he expressed his sexuality online and invited other people to do the same, while they completely ignore subreddits which make a game of gawking at attractive men and never speak a bad word about misandrists.

At 11/27/13 09:19 PM, i-am-ghey wrote: ps Jews are the smartest people in the world on average.

Do you have a good comprehensive source on this which isn't doused in ethical rhetoric?

I can think of a few geniuses

1. Kanye West
2. Vladimir Putin
3. Bill Gates
4. IBM Watson
5. Paris Hilton
6. Terrence Tao
7. Stephen Hawking
8. Raymond Kurzweil
9. Tianhe-2
10. Brian Green

At 11/27/13 08:10 PM, Nor wrote:

At 11/27/13 07:36 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: See, Miles gets it because he actually looked beyond the front page. If your experience with Reddit is nothing but bad, it's probably your fault.

The same could be said with 4chan tho.
The same could be said with any site.
I think they are both pretty crap tbh, I dont care for them

It's really not the same. Reddit is a link aggregator which is 100% customizable, and the ranking algorithm is what makes it powerful. There is always something new. Parallel to that is a comment section, and in it there is always someone who is educated on the subject or has experience with whatever, and there are millions of users from all different walks of life. Funny people, clever and creative people, etc. Unlike forums (like the one we're on and basically all forums tbqh) the moderation is mostly unobtrusive and the mod-wannabe popularity contest is nonexistent. Not much drama; it's nice.

Also, people have made millions of dollars by gaming the system in AdviceAnimals, written scripts which were picked up for Hollywood films (Rome Sweet Rome), and made a living from entrepreneurial or investment advice. It's pretty cool.

On the negative:
1. When a link is popular in /r/all, the number of people sending requests to the servers can crash the site being linked to. Reddit kiss of death.
2. Or it can crash Reddit, which is what happened when B. Obama did an AMA.
3. There are a lot of people who down vote comments they disagree with, even if they're good comments, making it necessary to switch to View Controversial a lot.
4. If you do something creepy on Reddit (Google Violentacrez) people will ruin your life for it.
5. If you do something stupid (Google Euphoric Atheist) people will ruin your self-esteem for it.
6. People lie and manipulate others in the comments all the fucking time. Demand evidence.

At 11/27/13 07:19 PM, Vinnyy wrote: Reddit is full of memes and other stuff that people might find interest in. That's more than I can say for 4chan.

Ugh no. The memes are the bad part. If Reddit eliminated AdviceAnimals, ShitRedditSays, and all the 'satire circle jerk' subs, the site would be perfect.

At 11/27/13 07:15 PM, Gumburd wrote: filter out a few keywords and subreddits and it's not so bad!

Or you could just unsub from:
Adviceanimals
Funny
gifs
Atheism

And sub to:
Anything you're interested in
The entire SFW porn network
Perfectloops

Why not both?

haha just kidding 4chan is for retarded tweens

At 11/27/13 05:25 PM, Feoric wrote:

At 11/27/13 05:01 PM, 24901miles wrote: Speculating based on education and intuition isn't the same as knowing what will happen unless you have a track record of being right about calculable trends, Nate Silver.

I've made similar posts in other threads about bitcoin on this site right up to the last selloff in February.

OK, so you've made the exact same 'it's not going to work out' post that evrry single person who never profits from market volatility makes every single time a new financial product starts to rise.

Please link those posts, we can line it up to the timestamps on bitcoin histories, and test your batting average.

Regardless of whatever education and intuition I may have, I'd be curious to see if you can explain to me why "this time it's different." Explain to me how the hockey stick shaped price growth for bitcoins is completely rational and is a rare exception to the speculative bubble trend that it follows to a tee.

This is the exact same 'hockey stick growth' and legion of 'all-knowing economists' who crawl out of the woodwork every time someone mentions Supply and Demand. It happened in Aug 2012. We saw it in February. We're seeing it in November. Who says we won't see another in October 2014? Or a steady growth?

At 11/27/13 04:32 PM, Feoric wrote: I'm not pretending I know where it'll end up. I know it's due for another market correction. That's all.

Speculating based on education and intuition isn't the same as knowing what will happen unless you have a track record of being right about calculable trends, Nate Silver.

At 11/27/13 04:19 PM, poxpower wrote: This graph is scary considering how irrelevant and small Virgin Galactic is in the grand scheme of things.
Imagine that spike if Itunes and Mastercard started accepting Bitcoin...

I don't think that's going to happen. They would launch their own cryptocurrency or buy up a competitor (like ZeroCoin or LightCoin).

At 11/26/13 07:49 PM, Xenomit wrote:

It's going to hit $1000 within weeks, 2 top. It's going explode, like every bubble, but not now.
When it explodes, you can then invest and wait for another bigger bubble to come. It's all patient game, my friend.

I'm gonna laugh my ass off when you lose all your money

Post: Exhibit A

At 11/27/13 04:13 PM, Xenomit wrote: Is that supposed to dispute anything or something

Between 07:49 PM last night and 4:13 PM today, @MadFedora gained over $150 value per bitcoin he owns.

At 11/27/13 03:58 PM, Xenomit wrote:

At 11/27/13 03:53 PM, Feoric wrote: If anyone thinks this is a display of a stable healthy currency then by all means let the market eat you alive due to your naivete.

About time someone else with a bit of common sense stepped in here

OK dokey.

At 11/27/13 03:08 PM, Psycho666 wrote: Unfortunately, for me, I said the same tired shit you say now. So I get no early retirement, and I missed the boat, just like you.

Exactly. There was a thread about this in General about 2-3 years ago when the exchange rate was a lot lower (Bitcoin Charts can't be accessed right now because the entire worldwide media is trying to visit the site lol) I think the price was about $2USD for 1BTC.

Six months ago it was $200USD for 1BTC.
Now it's $1000USD for 1BTC.

What's next? Hell, we could be talking about the "good old days when bitcoin was worth a thousand" when it hits a million dollars per coin.

At 11/27/13 02:38 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: there are plenty of TOR stores that us Bitcoin and you can get all kinds of crazy shit.

Right. There are also legal places to use bitcoins, like delicatessens in Manhattan, random stores that have decided to accept bitcoins, and Virgin Galactic. Decentralized cryptocurrency is here to stay, and it's only going to grow in popularity as time wears on.

At 11/27/13 01:57 PM, SneakyGameBoy wrote: Yeah I just bought a old PS2 at a garage sale for the nostalgia. Yeeeeeah I'm really stuck in the past...maybe I should be more of a updated person because PC is the way to go with gaming today. If you're playing Xbox or Playstation or even a Nintendo console kill yourselfs because that's exactly what I'm going to do in the next 10 seconds. I am not worthy for the PC master race and I have failed them to truly learn their ways superiority. (jk let people buy whatever the fuck they want)

Cool. It takes five seconds to download a PS2 emulator, but it's nice that you helped someone clean out their attic and paid for their lunch.

At 11/27/13 01:33 PM, eliteknightofastora wrote: now you only need a good pc game which is almost none

All games would be launched directly to PC if it weren't for this stupid tradition of buying video game consoles. Instead, we have to wait for hackers to circumvent DRM and port them illegally. How many PC games have ever been ported to a new generation console without development contracts? Oh, that's right: NONE, because of the invasive DRM procedures.

Bitcoin hit $1000 this morning.

At 11/27/13 01:52 PM, Xenomit wrote: Am I the only person here who knows even a little bit about the economy

It's not based on nothing, it's based on cryptography.

D0wn 2 DA m0derashun!

Fire that pow4!!!

Fucc da syztim!!!!!

Newgrounds is my teenage shame.

I like to wallow in it.

I suppose yours (fawning over a baby rapist) is a bit worse than mine (being retarded on the internet).

At 11/26/13 10:08 PM, kazumazkan wrote:

FILTHY CONSOLE GAMERS

pc gaming fucking elitist give me fucking headaches.

I wasn't trying to offend anybody. Sorry.

At 11/26/13 09:02 PM, poxpower wrote: I think that's the downfall of bitcoin vs, say, gold. You can't create your own "gold" as a currency equal to existing Gold in rarity / quality but you can create an identical mining system to bitcoin and only slightly tweak it and as long as people adopt that, then bitcoin collapses, though I'd imagine there would be exchange rates between coins? I have no idea. [removed some] Also not sure if quantum computing would break bitcoin wipe open, creating a massive boon in mining production... though that'd probably happen over the span of a few years so you could prepare.

You kind of replied to a large idea here, but I think I got a sense of one aspect of Bitcoin which you might not be aware of.

There is a limit to the number of new bitcoins which are created, and new bitcoins are only created when a "mining operation" cracks encryption. Every time the encryption is cracked, it gets tougher to crack the next hash. So even if we had a huge mining operation, it would just make bitcoin more secure. You would spend a lot of money to outperform existing mining operations, making it tougher to make any money.

ignore this:

[note to future self: deleted something about quantum computing and PvNP here]

At 11/26/13 07:39 PM, tox wrote: why dont we use digital money?

We do. All banks are mostly digital, all transactions are done using secure and encrypted channels on the internet, backed by a very complex financial system that I know little-to-nothing about and would not be able to describe accurately.

At 11/26/13 07:21 PM, Xenomit wrote:

At 11/26/13 07:20 PM, 24901miles wrote: Worse.

Dude, if there's anyone on the planet that you could tell something freaky about yourself, it's me

Dude, it's worse than anything I could ever confide to a pervert such as yourself. It's my deepest, darkest secret... Hidden by a vault of lies, anguish, secrecy, and shrouded in a jungle of red herrings, guarded by ancient lords of the darkness whose names I dare not speak.

At 11/26/13 07:18 PM, Xenomit wrote: It's digital currency that you have to pay for with real currency

Does no one else fully understand how retarded you would have to be to actually invest in bitcoin

tell that to this guy

The wallet system is completely secure. All you do it buy some bitcoins, sit on them a couple years, and exchange them for cash after a news corp publishes something that raises public awareness.

I mean, it's like legalized theft. For every person who wins at bit coin, there are a few hundred losers... But whatever.

At 11/26/13 07:15 PM, Xenomit wrote:

At 11/26/13 07:13 PM, 24901miles wrote: I was going to but... Um... One of the recommendations is very awkward (and I was sure I had kept that category out of earshot of Google). It's something I want no one to know about.

So. Yeah. Posting here so everyone else who had that happen can feel my pain.

Animal mating videos?

Worse.