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There's a lot of research into desalination, but it's pretty expensive. As tech improves and cost of water increases it'll become more viable, but for now it's more of a research field than a mass production one. Israel and Saudi arabia are much more reliant on desalination plants and are two...

60fps vs 30fps

I laughed most at superman saying, "So let me get this straight, he stole your microwave and you turned it off?"

I laughed, grimmlokk can suck it.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong: Coins are transferred via cryptography. Basically I have a coin and only I know its private key. I need the private key to transfer ownership to you. When I transfer ownership to you, a new private key is generated that only you know. This process is managed...

This picture is 100% correct and perfectly represents the true value of a mother and her contributions. Anyone who disagrees with it doesn't understand the hardest job in the world.

He's no engineer!

Too many people, too little natural water.

Definitely possible. Internet users have grandiose ideas of how the internet has transformed the world, so they're susceptible to believing that an internet-currency will be successful.

Are you talking about the makers of BTC or the unwashed masses of people buying BTC? Because the makers of BTC are very smart guys, but most people using it are just internet-savvy people, not necessary smart computer guys. Either way your point about economics/govt is a little irrelevant...

Should just stab Zombito in both eyes and burn them.

Yup.

Yeah I agree, that's one of the huge advantages of BTC and I think as transactions get easier and easier you're going to see this become very common. But a lot of pro-BTC people are hoping for much, much more from BTC. Many people believe it will eradicate government control over money supply...

If the global community switches to a deflationary currency like BTC, the big problems are that people are less willing to spend, less willing to take on debt, people are less able to pay debt and wages have to fall (which is very hard to do).

Gonna need an answer to this as well.

Are you sayign the convos at rerolled are not adult?!

Going to hop in this weekend. Who is interested in some organized PVP action?

Yeah a deflationary currency has all kinds of problems. That's actually one big reason I'm a little bearish on current cryptocurrency implementations. I'm so used to a currency that targets a 1-3% inflation rate that I don't understand how a widely adopted currency with a high deflation rate...

The deflation bit was the best. "Bitcoins are too good of an investment, too many people are losing money because they aren't buying bitcoin, we must therefore ban them!"

Yup. I looked into the same stuff. There's a huge difference between simulated diamonds, glass, CZ etc and real diamonds.

Every person and couple is different. I'm sure my wife would've been happy if I went out and bought her a ring and then totally surprised her with it. But if I did that I would get a fairly neutral/boring ring and I knew my wife wanted something different, unique and specific. So I had her...

Sen. Joe Manchin wants to ban bitcoins.

why is that a gif, lol.

The way I got my wife on board with moissanite vs diamond is I told her, "Let's go to a dept store and compare moissanite vs diamond. ... I'm only spending 2k USD on a ring. Here's a 2k USD diamond ring that's smaller than you want. Here's a 200USD moissanite ring that's of the same size. You...

There's no point in the last few months where increasingly dour news about mtgox has severely devalued the market. Now that mtgox is gone I think you'll see the same kind of shit pulled on other exchanges, but it'll probably be less severe and harder to do.

I don't have any decent pics of the actual ring, but here's the image my wife photoshopped together that we sent the jewelsmith to cast. Paying a professional to build a model of it, then cast the gold into a unique ring was the most expensive part, but I don't mind paying for unique stuff and...

Are any law enforcement doing that though? The federal government has the FBI, IRS and Secret Service to ensure that people are doing what they're supposed to with money, but are they even paying attention to BTC? It seems counter-productive for the federal government to spend any effort to...

We'll see. mtgox being fucked has been more or less accepted by the market for a few months now. Anytime an exchange/bank stops letting you withdraw for more than a day it's a hugely bad sign. I think if BTC fails it's because people have accepted its inherent flaws rather than mtgox ruining...

There's no model that can answer that for you. It's subjective. Moissanite is very similar to diamonds but has slightly different properties that make them their own stone. You have to see one for yourself and make the choice for yourself. For me, I chose to set a price for 1-4k USD for an...

Thanks for the explanation. I think the disagreement was because I was using the term wallet as in literally the wallet in the back of your pants, but the BTC community uses the word wallet as in the way you describe.

0. I wish I invested back when I started researching it, it's increased 1600% since then. edit: For full disclosure one of my index ETFs might have money in moissanite somehow, but I'm sure I have more than an order of magnitude more money in debeers.

Serious question: What's the difference? To me it's the same, MTGOX had unique access to the public/private key pairs.

VS2005 is the best I've used for C++ (and obviously C#). 2008 and 2010 are like VS2005 but with features I don't use, a carat I can't change the color of and a ton of delay with most operations (I've used it on about 5 different PCs). Eclipse is pretty good though, the best I've found for...

You don't have a wallet file. You gave it to mtgox for safekeeping. Someone crept in and stole it. If the people who lost hundreds or thousands of BTC because of mtgox kept their wallet in their own pocket (ex: encrypted on an external hard drive or encrypted on their google drive...) then...

I don't think rinthe is saying that regulation is unilaterally bad. I think he was saying it is not unilaterally good.

yup. It's slightly less hard, is more refractive and is birefringent. Additionally all the lab-created moissanite are nearly perfect, where as naturally created diamonds have a lot of variance in color, cut and clarity. You can get near-perfect diamonds, but you'll have to go through the process...

half off is a pretty good price. That number will inevitably drop, but it's much lower than when I looked at this a while ago.

That's the sinister part. My wife is well aware of both the value and the nature of her ring. However nearly everyone else who sees it assumes it's a diamond. We don't hide the fact it's moissanite (you can guys can imagine how insufferable I am when the diamonds topic comes up), but it never...