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Topic: What are some lessons that you've learned the hard way? (Read 1484 times)

hero member
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There are no lessons, only experiences that become a part of you.
jr. member
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Life is completely meaningless and rudderless: The pain endured trying to please certain institutions and people was in vain.

(ie on here 24/7???)
How do you think I make my living? This place helps my Gox score incredibly.
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The old may be wiser but the young are usually more clever
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Life is completely meaningless and rudderless: The pain endured trying to please certain institutions and people was in vain.

Life is as meaningful as you make it, you however, seems to live a fairly meaningless life (ie on here 24/7???) Sorry to be harsh, but if you dont want to be a depressed emo all your life you gotta get out there and try living.
legendary
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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
The following quote. And anybody honest with themselves should learn from it if they're making the same mistakes.

~Bruno~
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My job is to uncover the truth and be unwavering, even in the light of louder voices and big business.

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Re: the slogan currently set in your profile:
"My job is to uncover the truth and be unwavering, even in the light of louder voices and big business."

The CliffsNotes response: You are doing this self-appointed job badly. The way you have been posting anything you find as a 'stream of consciousness' without much filtering, but with interpretation by you, needs to stop.

The Long Response:

Just restricting this analysis to your recent posts about LFCity, what I find fascinating about your choice of sources, is that instead of linking to the small number of high quality articles available on the web, you concentrated on the trashy, deliberately misleading posts spewed in several places during 2002-2005 by disinfo agent 'Witchdoc' AKA 'Simon Jester' AKA 'uppity' (AKA several other aliases).

However, having lurked here at Bitcointalk for a few months, and getting a feel for how this place has been developing, unfortunately it's not surprising.

Applying the old joke to this board: Bitcointalk posters require no physical fitness program. Everyone gets enough exercise jumping to conclusions, flying off the handle, knifing friends in the back, dodging responsibility and pushing their luck.

1. Your current 'stream of consciousness' style makes it difficult to sift valid information from the irrelevant or most worrying of all, the unproven and false.

2. Reposting user-generated content from other boards without understanding - or perhaps caring about - the difference between alleged facts and checked out facts, but with the addition of your own interpretation, will get you into all kinds of trouble (both reputational and legal).

Those who use open-source intelligence understand the difference between alleged and checked out facts, and set a high bar to ensure that 'raw' alleged facts are not published.

3. The Bitcointalk community is toxic enough as it is, without adding libellous materials from other places, or making new posts that due to the carelessness with which they have been constructed, make them afresh, and even mint new libellous assertions.

You have already stated false things in this thread. They are not only false but are likely to cause provable harm.

In my next post I will point out your specific libels in more detail. How you (and the board moderators) are going to deal with cleaning up afterwards is the subject for later discussion, i.e. simply deleting the original posts is probably not the correct way to deal with it.
jr. member
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Life is completely meaningless and rudderless: The pain endured trying to please certain institutions and people was in vain.
hero member
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The only thing more painful than being a husband is being a father.

No way...
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Fight fire with photos.
Always backup your data, on your computer, your phone, everything, multiple times and multiple places. I believe the rule of thumb is two onsite and one offsite.
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If the snow is yellow don't eat it.  Cry
sr. member
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How the hell do you gamble on a fart? Do I have to take this literally? .. Wait!  I don't wanna know.

"It will be silent"
"It won't smell"
"It will be dry"

Young or lucky one, your time shall come.

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Only trust yourself, you are the only one in the world who won't fuck you over.

"We have met the enemy and he is us."


+1
sr. member
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Police - Never stir the fuckers up.
legendary
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Let the chips fall where they may.
Hacking is bad
As the OP says, Citation Needed

What I learned the hard way: With a bicycle it is possible to have a single-vehicle crash with the ground.
steps to reproduce:
  • Learn the counter steering techinque.
  • Take a turn a high speed with your inside pedal low to the ground.
  • When you find yourself upright again (after a pedal strike), use counter-steering to force the bike back into a lean instead of braking.
  • When you pedal strikes the ground a second time, the front wheel and fork will fold.
  • I escaped major injury by letting go of the bike, doing a summersault (with a half twist?), landing on my feet and catching the bike before it hit me in the face. YMMV.
hero member
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Coke is very addictive, but I prefer Pepsi Smiley
hero member
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Hacking is bad
edit: How to no get caught: http://www.slideshare.net/grugq/opsec-for-hackers
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No mater how much you practice treating people as you wish to be treated someone is always ready to take advantage and try and screw you over  Sad
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How the hell do you gamble on a fart? Do I have to take this literally? .. Wait!  I don't wanna know.

"It will be silent"
"It won't smell"
"It will be dry"

Young or lucky one, your time shall come.

---

Only trust yourself, you are the only one in the world who won't fuck you over.

"We have met the enemy and he is us."
hero member
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Merit: 500
Fight fire with photos.
Only trust yourself, you are the only one in the world who won't fuck you over.

In my experience, I'd say this is for the most part true. However, I have let myself down plenty of times.
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I'm not smarter than you, and you are not smarter than me. We are simply different.

+1. Nujabes has a song all about that. I ain't better than you, i just think different".

As for me, Its usually a good idea not to try to rub noses with a grumpy dog. 6 year old me learned the hard way with a dog tooth through his lip.
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Bitcoin = Money for the people, by the people.
Only trust yourself, you are the only one in the world who won't fuck you over.
legendary
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I'm not smarter than you, and you are not smarter than me. We are simply different.
Ass licking works.
Whatever you are up to, given that you put in enought resources and time, you will reach it. The question is, was it worth it?
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