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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.
« on: January 28, 2014, 04:49:57 AM »
Would you stone a guy for picking up sticks on a Saturday?

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Mathjax support
« on: January 28, 2014, 04:43:19 AM »
Also, this is when a thread should be locked.
It is indeed. This thread has been thoroughly and utterly markjo'd.

Markjo, please refrain from derailing S&C threads.

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Technology & Information / Re: C++
« on: January 27, 2014, 01:39:49 PM »
I would also recommend a scripting language as your first language. My first real programming language was Java, and while Parsifal is likely to shoot me for saying this, if you don't want to work with a scripting language, Java is very easy to pick up. If you want to work in Visual Studio, C# is near-identical to Java in syntax, and is also fairly newbie-friendly.

I would advise against C or C++ as one's first language, because in my opinion a beginner programmer should be guided by hand a bit, and oh God does C(++) not do that. On the other hand, if you start with C++ and survive its shittiness, there's pretty much nothing that can stop you after that.

C(++) will do exactly what you tell it to do, without questioning anything. If you tell it to read memory that it shouldn't be reading, it'll read it. If you tell it to write to it, it'll try writing to it (and probably crash in the process). It will let you accidentally overwrite a completely unrelated variable if you write to the nth position in an n-size array, and it won't tell you that you're doing it. None of those things are too bad to someone that already has programming experience, but I would seriously not want to deal with that as a starter.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Mathjax support
« on: January 27, 2014, 01:33:10 PM »
%5Csqrt%5Be%5D%7Be%7D

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Technology & Information / Re: C++
« on: January 27, 2014, 12:46:00 AM »
I also hate C++, but I'm reasonably good at other object-oriented languages, which should make me more than good enough to help a C++ beginner.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls
« on: January 26, 2014, 05:20:33 PM »
Linkage? It doesn't seem to be uploaded by them anymore.
She got rid of it because it led to her receiving death threats from angry video game guys. I have a backup of something like the first half of it (the "good" bits, before she gets some understanding of the game). I'll upload it and post a link in a moment.

EDIT: Here's what I have: http://omgomg.eu/ijustinep2. Sadly, the rest of the playthrough may be lost forevermore, unless someone hax YouTube or convinces iJ to make it available again. The whole thing was 57 parts.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls
« on: January 26, 2014, 02:11:11 PM »
The point is that being good at video games should surely be something of a prerequisite to playing video games for a living.
Clearly you haven't seen iJustine's legendary Portal 2 playthrough.

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Another Polish immigrant nest.  :-\
>implying I associate with Polish immigrants

If you started mining I doubt those 10 people would enjoy splitting the bill.
Yes, but I also don't know them, so lol. I already run an electric heater because I couldn't get them to agree on a sensible central heating policy, which obviously collectively costs us more than heating the entire house.

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I'm not dead set on Bitcoin, no. A major issue for me is that I currently don't have a desktop, so I can either go for one of those magical tiny boxes people seem to be advertising a lot, or build a desktop from scratch. The latter is something I plan to do at some point anyway, but I'd like to make it good, and I keep spending money on silly things like replacing my broken laptop or flying to other continents.

http://tag.wonderhowto.com/bypass-electric-meter/
I share a house with 10 people, and we split the bill evenly.

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They take pre-orders for miners, mine with them, and then ship them to you when they're no longer profitable. It took a year and a half for people (not paid media outlets) to receive their miners. Anyone who asked about it or complained was instantly banned on their forums. You'll get your miner from them, as soon as it stops making them money. Buying something from Butterfly Labs is like investing in them indefinitely with no returns. They also don't offer refunds.
All right. Suppose I wanted to get some sort of entry-level miner rig. Where do I look?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.
« on: January 25, 2014, 02:17:32 PM »
From what I understand, Americans did that for about 30 yrs as a cleanliness measure, but no longer do so much any more.
I can't claim to be certain of this, but as far as I know it's still a thing. Perhaps the Americans in this thread could weigh in?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.
« on: January 25, 2014, 12:47:44 PM »
Getting circumcised differentiated us then & now from those not of the Covenant.
Don't basically all American males get circumcised? A fair few people from Islamic countries that I know have also been circumcised. It doesn't seem to differentiate you at all, unless all you care about is being different from Europeans.

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I wouldn't base anything on Butterfly Labs, considering its a well known scam among the Bitcoin community.
I'm curious. I've once seen a review of one of their miners on ArsTechnica and it seemed like it did exactly what it said on the box, with the specs they claimed. Why, or in what way, are they a scam?

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The Silk Road closed. So I hear.
It's only been down for a couple of days after the seizure.

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They used to be good for buying guns, drugs and whores. No more. :(
Why?

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This would have been great in the people doing stupid things thread.
FINE GEEZ.

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The match itself was comedy. Man Utd ended up losing to Sunderland on penalties and of the 10 taken, only 3 went in.
Better call the whambulance. HAHAHA, GET IT?

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As far as I can tell BitCoin uses the algorithmic mining to control the flow of BitCoins into the market, thus producing a stable and viable currency.
"Stable" is not what I'd call it. Those fluctuations, man.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Atheism vs. religion
« on: January 23, 2014, 01:19:19 AM »
No, but I don't have to like it.
You don't have to... but why don't you?

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