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Hollandse nieuwe is not prepared with brine. Don't know what that page is going on about. Also, brine denatures protein as well so it's less raw than ...

We don't eat raw herring in the Netherlands. We do celebrate the new fatty herring each spring. Its intestins are removed but its pancreas remains, wh...

It's been recommended to me by friends whose judgment I trust and who have been there. So I'd go.

from what I've heard Fes is one of the more interesting cities but I haven't been there.

You're right. #8 could still be interpreted as just related to the trading of futures but paragraph 9 is even clearer on this in the settlement box.

What? Then it isn't a future. What do you think is being traded on CME? It's perfectly normal futures are bought and margin is settled in USD but at t...

I agree with all this and I had an intuitive understanding as for the first time since I follow the US elections I didn't try to predict it despite th...

I don't know what the fuss is about. I lived through the 80s.

Those are compelling arguments to me but I wonder what a typical republican thinks of them.

Bitcoin has had these kind of swings before so we'll see. In any case, ownership of bitcoins is very concentrated with a few players. I suspect somebo...

Really? Did you just try to paint trump as an honest person? And even if he were honest (and I do like honest people), that's still not the right meas...

Correctness in language use is a matter of correspondence with reality. Or use in itself and convention, or whatever other theory you'd like to adhere...

No, but I make a sweet potato mash with all-spice once in a while. Lovely combination with lamb stew.

So now you're moving the goal posts because at no point did you assume the possibility by, for instance, saying: "meditation could move one closer to ...

Open a dictionary, try using language on an everyday basis. No faith involved. Although admittedly your language use is getting increasingly idiosyncr...

The only conclusion to be taken from the above is that you did assume the existence of God, otherwise the question wasn't silly. In which case you wer...

I'll take this personal attack and your failure to answer the question as an admission that your earlier points were silly.

Oh so, you're not actually getting closer to God, since he doesn't exist but you're just calling it that?

You're begging the question as you already assumed the existence of God and go from there. Since I don't accept the premise, the argument is unnecessa...

Why not? All theists have is tradition, a couple of anecdotes and a few books as proof. And of course faith. Mustn't forget that one. In light of the ...

You might have, I'm not familiar with your posts on the subject. On it's own the sentence is meaningless and not something I can really respond to. Pe...

I am a raised Catholic. I've already set out above what I think about transubstantiation. And obviously I'm not going by faith at all. After you named...

Yeah, so right now you're talking to an atheist so starting out like this is just begging the question to me. Let's not shall we?

But you do agree a government backed crypto currency is s possibility?

Only a philosopher will ask. 23 pages on transubstantiation and nothing happened. We can pin a link to this thread next to the word "useless" and let ...

This is the type of nonsense I'd like to avoid and I'll probably quit this thread soon. Equating and conflating faith to the point it becomes meaningl...

I suspect the balance of bitcoin transferred on the debit card gets a haircut that they feel comfortable with to cover any market risk they might run ...

He doesn't care as VISA guarantees the settlement of the payment.

Yeah, nice value judgment. :-* Of course people have faith and they have religious experiences. Yet neither faith nor religious experiences have anyth...

That would be boring and not the issue in this specific thread. Suffice is to say that stones in the shape of wheels existed before the wheel was inve...

Any payment done with bitcoin takes a while to be processed and it takes too long compared to the possibility for instant payments that we'll have soo...

This doesn't refute any of the points but I really don't care to go in depth into these things. It's sufficient that I consider them great for the arg...

That's just selection bias. I'm not a fan of institutionalised religion or faith as evidence of things unseen. But here's a list of wonderful things t...

But Bitcoin isn't instant; it's ridiculously slow and I understand Litecoin and Ehterium are faster, but it's still slow compared to instant payments ...

You're reversing it though. An argument is giving reasons for a specific idea or theory and you were talking about arguing against belief. It's genera...

Exactly. A good point to stop talking then and move on.

That IS cool because it's one of my biggest gripes.

There is no arguing against faith as it isn't reasonable to begin with based as it is on unfalsifiable assumptions. It's why I never substantively par...

God is, assuming he exists, a useless ambiguous cunt who "moves in mysterious ways" but not so mysterious as to allow the powers that be to use his "w...

Facts are whatever transubstantiating Christians name them to be.

@"Baden"Nothing beats my flogging behaviour.

Alright, I'm calling that one. ;) 2026 or possibly sooner. Remember, it's only an engineering problem now so it's pretty close.

I second this except don't use an ebook but write it in the margins of a real book yourself. It will stick much better. The rest is immersion.

Probably. Also, I don't see how people could cash out easily with market caps at levels we're currently seeing. I can sell a couple of million in Dutc...

It isn't. I can't find the article at the moment but I read in a university paper it won't be. They made a change or will make a change as a result bu...

I think people need to back off on this subject (moderator behaviour, alleged discrimination against conservative posters) because a) people's opinion...

Because it's hard to explain. Just read the original white paper: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Also, I'm not investing a dime until ...

Yup, that one. Dark is the lesser of the two. And in German.

Those were Netflix series.

Fine fine, inadmissible evidence then.