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December LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of December?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

5 8.20%

John Kelly

3 4.92%

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

2 3.28%

Rex Tillerson

25 40.98%

Jared Kushner

17 27.87%

Hope Hicks

1 1.64%

Gary Cohn

3 4.92%

Ryan Zinke

0 0%

Rod Rosenstein

5 8.20%

Write-in

0 0%

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12-12-2017 , 03:26 PM

#426

champstark

aka starkwired

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 14,838

Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Bitcoin fees are skyrocketing

Story from yesterday. Includes garph.

This is interesting and one of the reasons why Bitcoin is clearly not the long-term answer.

12-12-2017 , 03:28 PM

#427

Trolly McTrollson

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 36,747

Mailing a check is faster and cheaper than this cryptocoin shizz.

12-12-2017 , 03:33 PM

#428

goofyballer

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Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 70,719

Quote:

Originally Posted by champstark

So it was a some Bitcoin that you mined years ago? Not sure why a fee there would matter much to the average user--99.9999999% of all users are not mining coins any longer.

Not sure if this changes the calculus at all but I don't think it has anything to do with "mining" them (technically I participated in a mining pool so someone paid me bitcoins for my computation time with the expectation that my participation would help them mine bitcoins), it's more because of the fact that I acquired the bitcoins in several smaller transactions. Aggregating several smaller transactions into a new one takes up more space on the blockchain, so anyone sending bitcoins in this manner would have this problem I think. If you just receive BTC at one point in one transaction and send out that same amount or less of BTC later, that would be less expensive to process.

12-12-2017 , 04:32 PM

#429

bobman0330

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Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 24,234

Now that it's possible to short bitcoin, my profound belief in the efficient markets hypothesis is at war with my profound belief that bitcoin is a giant insane bubble.

12-12-2017 , 10:25 PM

#430

dth123451

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Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 15,502

Dennis Hastert update!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...212-story.html

12-12-2017 , 10:41 PM

#431

Huehuecoyotl

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Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 29,257

He's running. After Moore anything is possible.

12-13-2017 , 03:28 AM

#432

yeSpiff

old hand

Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 1,313

12-13-2017 , 04:17 AM

#433

yeSpiff

old hand

Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 1,313

The amount of adrenalin riding a snowmobile at night in a snowstorm is just ridiculous.

12-13-2017 , 04:45 AM

#434

markksman

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Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 20,921

Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

I can't find an article on this.

I assume this was the guy in the documentary I saw about this a couple of months ago.

Was an absolutely fantastic one too. Will get the title in a minute.

EDIT: Icarus. Great film. You don't get suspenseful plot lines in documentaries too often.

Very good documentary.

12-13-2017 , 11:57 AM

#435

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

12-13-2017 , 01:01 PM

#436

lycosid

veteran

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 2,806

I assume Omarosa never made the survivor poll because it's a free space?

12-13-2017 , 01:04 PM

#437

stinkubus

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 4,422

She had a non-existent public profile. Whatever she actually did for the administration she'll probably take to her grave. Why would anyone think about her?

12-13-2017 , 01:33 PM

#438

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

A+ including Hannity in the Apprentice contestants.

12-13-2017 , 03:18 PM

#439

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

The hits just keep on coming.

12-13-2017 , 04:13 PM

#440

Max Cut

Guest

Posts: n/a

https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/s...25240129441792

it's problem

12-13-2017 , 04:24 PM

#441

stinkubus

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 4,422

Were the fake comments supportive of the repeal?

12-13-2017 , 04:27 PM

#442

OneEyedPoker

grinder

Join Date: Feb 2017 Posts: 569

Quote:

Originally Posted by stinkubus

Were the fake comments supportive of the repeal?

When the analysis was first done there was a tweet that showed common phrases that located fake comments and most/all identified fake comments were supportive of the repeal

12-13-2017 , 05:21 PM

#443

TheNewT50

adept

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 1,009

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneEyedPoker

When the analysis was first done there was a tweet that showed common phrases that located fake comments and most/all identified fake comments were supportive of the repeal

Right. A lot of the comments are canned comments from real people clicking "Contact FCC" type buttons and stuff. But then there were masses more than were generated by bots, and they figured out how to trace them.

On The Media podcast's December 1 episode interviews someone who's an expert in this, and explains how it went down and how they found out about it.

12-13-2017 , 06:04 PM

#444

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,097

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...3b344492f2?m3a

HuffPo got the Daily Stormer style guide lol

12-13-2017 , 07:20 PM

#445

Huehuecoyotl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...3b344492f2?m3a

HuffPo got the Daily Stormer style guide lol

Quote:

As always there is a larger aim here: to humanize inhumanity. And meanwhile, he exhorts his writers to dehumanize their opponents — dehumanize them, he writes, “to the point where people are ready to laugh at their deaths.”

Quote:

The constant line-toeing and the deliberate muddying of intentions and meaning can have a dizzying effect, especially for media outlets that aren’t used to grappling with such bad actors. Anglin knows this, and he is doing everything in his power to exploit it.

Remember this style guide the next time an alt-righter says something so hammily outrageous that you begin to doubt its sincerity. This is by design. The Daily Stormer and other groups like it want you to be unsure if you should take them seriously. Andrew Anglin wants you to think he’s just a troll, that he’s spouting incendiary crap for no other reason than to get a rise out of you. Remember that the irony and the coy misdirection are all in service of tricking people into following him on his path toward a white supremacist state. This is what he believes.

In other words, there are no ironic Nazis, just Nazis who know to obfuscate by using irony.

12-13-2017 , 07:37 PM

#446

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

12-13-2017 , 08:11 PM

#447

13ball

Carpal \'Tunnel

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

In other words, there are no ironic Nazis, just Nazis who know to obfuscate by using irony.

Foldn has multiple 1,500 word posts that beg to differ.

12-13-2017 , 10:37 PM

#448

uDevil

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It's not exactly It's a Wonderful Life.

Quote:

A Kentucky state representative accused of molesting a teenage girl has committed suicide, according to WDRB.com in Louisville.

Rep. Dan Johnson, a Republican, reportedly shot and killed himself on a bridge in Mt. Washington, Ky. The gun was recovered by police, according to WDRB.

The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting published an expose on Monday detailing allegations that Johnson forced himself on a 17-year-old friend of his daughter after a New Year's Eve Party in 2012.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/364...gations-report

12-13-2017 , 11:21 PM

#449

uDevil

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I don't like that NASA does this, but I have to admit it makes me pay attention.

Quote:

NASA has announced a media teleconference set to take place at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, December 14. The agency says the purpose of the event, which will stream live via the NASA website, is to reveal a new Kepler discovery. According to the announcement, the researchers used machine learning techniques developed by Google to draw new knowledge from data collected by the craft.

https://futurism.com/nasa-hosting-co...net-discovery/

12-13-2017 , 11:25 PM

#450

Huehuecoyotl

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 29,257

Quote:

Originally Posted by uDevil

It's not exactly It's a Wonderful Life.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/364...gations-report

If you want to read the long form that led up to him killing himself here it is.

http://longcon.kycir.org

He's pretty much what Trump would be without starting out with millions of dollars, a small time liar and con man who through multiple institutional failures gained political power. It's a crazy story

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