Topic: Peeps with serious cash and banking contacts just heard about bitcoin. (Read 3333 times)

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certainly everybody knows that satoshi nakamotos real name is satoshi nakamura

decentralized digital one at that.

Chemical engineering, for some strange reason.

The problem with Ray Kurzweil is he has a very poor comprehension of just how complex biological systems are, and how little we currently know about them. I think there was even a biologist interviewed for The Transcendant Man who said the same thing. I've read, and agree, that as much as 70% of published biology and social science data are false positives. We really are still flailing around in those fields.

Also, neuroscience has all the hot nerd girls for some reason. Probably marine biology too.

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I forget not everyone is as lucky as I am.

scarcity of hot nerds?

Meh, there are enough nerds that are emotionally stable and communicate well.
Stigmas are for weak people (rough translation from Hebrew, where this actually sounds good).

Fear of autistic spectrum offspring, I suppose?

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I don't get nerds that don't marry nerds.

My wife and I saw the Los Angeles premiere of Transcendent Man, and the subsequent Q&A with Kurzweil. Amazing stuff, it's part of the reason I'm a long-term bull. I justified the investment as "rent for our uploads". 

Do yourselves a favor and marry other nerds. There's nothing like a spouse who understands big picture stuff.

Nahhhh... it wasn't the subject matter that turned her off, she just doesn't enjoy documentaries.  And I don't really enjoy fiction.  We share many other common interests though.

srsly

Yes; I just watched the Transcendant Man a few... months ago.  I need to watch it again.  Can't put it on around my gf -- she thought it was "boring" 

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The singularity is near!
Have you ever read anything by Ray Kurzweil? If not, I highly recommend that you do.

Yes, about July 2009 I have messages in my sent items on gmail e-mailiing the developer of cclite (LETS like alternate currency system) trying to get it working but didn't find bitcoin on sourceforge because it didn't use the word "currency" once it its project description instead using "money" and "digital cash".  I had downloaded cclite from sourceforge while looking for alternate currency projects.

I was pretty much obsessed with alternate currencies (joined bartercard in Jan 2009) then looked for free and open source options after that and ending up starting a LETS trading system for my city called Perth-Exchange which was part of the CES LETS like systems. I was active on openmoney.ning.com and the community exchange ning website and I scoured the web for alternate currency systems looking at pages like the meta-currency project and money 2.0 and but somehow bitcoin slipped under my radar. I can even remember at one point in 2010 trying to wash pink house paint off my van that some girls had painted it with (took a VERY long time) and I was thinking that there was some sort of alternate currency I should be trying to get but I wasn't sure what that currency was called.

But the strangest thing is when I saw the message on slashdot that bitcoin had reached parity I remembered seeing it somewhere before I just can't remember exactly where and at what date. I have recently been searching for mentions of bitcoin on google between Jan 2009 and Jan 2010 and only a few obscure pages seem to come up. Mainly the original announcements on the cryptography mailing list and on the p2p foundations ning site. There was also possibly a usenet group comp.encryption.general that the originally PDF was posted to in 2008. I have since subscribed to the crypotraphy mailing list and setup google search to notify me when new pages with keywords about digital money and so on come up.

So now i'm fucked... missed the only chance i'll ever likely have of getting my own house as the cheapest ones cost about 350k here and I have no funding for the Rejuvepedia project and its spin-off project in-utero. These projects I have started to help foster open source radical life extension technology.

I have developed an unhealthy fascination with somehow going back in time and gently nudging myself on the shoulder and saying "psst search for digital cash on sourceforge" or  various other means that would have led to me getting into bitcoin early even stuff as ridiculous as google alerts for Wei dai's "bmoney" as this is something I *do* vaguely remember reading about. This includes going back to my old facebook discussions and photos from early 2009 and sending messages to myself telling me to get into bitcoin.

We already see the advantage of replacing human authority with technology evidenced with Bitcoin.  It is only a matter of time until technology further permeates our lives, so that our global "benevolent dictator" will not be cursed by the limitations of humanity.  The dictator may even be decentralized.

 This is where my sense of fairness ends; ME.

yes, but i think we would have had to actually buy the bitcoins for the skeptics b/c we just couldn't have allowed them to fall behind despite the fact that they would have refused to spend the time and money to upkeep those same computers and pay the electricity bills. they would've then paid us back i'm sure when the price hit $32.  come on, be fair.

The mind of the writer.

Where is this coming from?