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• Re: LTB editing should be de-centralised

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  Posted on August 16, 2014 at 11:49 PM
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• Re: LTB editing should be de-centralised

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  Posted on August 16, 2014 at 11:48 PM
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• Re: [SUBMISSIONS EDITORS WANTED][5,000LTBc per column]

  @nk1tz Hi @rotalumis, I have time to contribute to editing and would like a chance to be part of the editing staff. Trello username: nk1tz

  Thanks! Please bear in mind that I'm still working through the list of earlier applicants. It is time-intensive to train people and get them started, so it might take a while for me to get to you.

  Posted on August 14, 2014 at 1:41 PM
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• Re: Richard Boase and his Kenya Experiance

  @therealtwig

  It is depressing until you realize that change takes time and until you come to terms with the fact that, for all your great ideas and best intentions, you're lucky if you make a tiny dent of an improvement in the lives of people in whatever time you spend there. I think this feeling is typical when you go into a region for the first time without quite knowing what to expect.

  When I was in Guatemala, I eventually accepted that I was probably going to benefit more from the experience than the people I was working with. At that point, you just decide to forge ahead and do your thing without great expectations, and learn to be happy with whatever you achieve.

  Money is an enabler, but money without education serves for little. I've seen friends risk their lives to cross over through the Mexican desert to the US, work hard there, return home, spend their earnings on building a house or buying a pick-up truck (the dream) and then repeat the whole process. This, rather than try to set up a little shop, buy a few cows, or do something with the money that would give them a comfortable income in return for all that risk.

  Another thing you learn out there is that there's much more to life than poverty or riches. People in these countries often have a happiness and joy of life, despite all their troubles, that is very rare in the developed world. No matter how poor, they welcome you into their homes and share what little they have in a way we would probably never do with a total stranger, let alone one from the other side of the world. My big concern is that just dropping money on people can have the same ruining effect that winning the lottery has on westerners.

  On another occasion, a backpacking trip to Morocco, we ran into a large group of children inside a poor kasbah who crowded around us, jumping up and down, asking for pages out of my daughter's copy book and some crayons. When you see the delight in their eyes at receiving a single sheet of paper and a crayon each, you begin to wonder if these people are not actually richer than us in some way because of their ability to fully enjoy what little they have. Again, it makes you worry that you could be causing more harm than good by interfering drastically.

  Progress has to be gradual, because people need time to assimilate and adjust. We're used to waving our magic wallets and having things happen just like that, and so it can be depressing at first when it doesn't work out that way.

  Posted on August 7, 2014 at 4:48 AM
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• Re: Richard Boase and his Kenya Experiance

  I think Bitcoin adoption in countries like Kenya will start with better-off people and trickle down like other technologies do. As Richard Boase found out, it probably won't start with the poorest of the poor because they have other priorities.

  One way to get people started could to help them export the things they produce to other countries in exchange for BTC, which they then sell off to cover their needs. More than the money as such, the focus has to be on the new opportunities available. When there are enough people using Bitcoin, they will start using it among themselves.

  I know it's easy to comment in hindsight, but the investment idea struck me as an odd thing to expect of people who are living from hand to mouth. When we were giving out free coffee plants to Guatemalan farmers to replace their less lucrative corn crops, they only accepted them because they could plant corn in between the spaces during the three years it took for the first coffee crop.

  Posted on August 6, 2014 at 4:12 PM
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• Re: Editors' Communication Thread

  @mdw

  Noted. Though it would still be the same workflow to write straight text and add the formatting in Markdown.

  Posted on August 4, 2014 at 5:08 AM
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• Re: Editors' Communication Thread

  @bcohen

  Pasting from Google Docs into the wysiwyg editor creates all sorts of issues with the formatting that are not easy to fix afterwards because the HTML you end up with is horrendous at best. I personally would like to phase out the wysiwyg editor at some point. The Markdown editor we are currently using on the site seems to be planning to add wysiwyg functionality.

  In the meantime (and until I get hold of a good external Markdown editor), I'm composing the Markdown directly in Google Docs. It's quite straightforward once you get used to it. You have to watch out for special characters like smart/curly quotes and em dashes, though, because they won't show up and need to be replaced by the regular versions.

  Posted on August 4, 2014 at 4:50 AM
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• Re: Forum Layout

  @hugty Sure. I guess we don't have a "move topic" here yet. ; )

  We do. Next time just @notify me, Adam or Cryptonaut.

  Posted on August 1, 2014 at 5:26 PM
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• Re: Ho to verify your address [ Free ]

  Right! Makes perfect sense.

  Posted on August 1, 2014 at 7:32 AM
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• Re: Ho to verify your address [ Free ]

  @adam To verify my addresses I sent .00001, worked really fast.

  Mine was literally instantaneous. Clicked "send", switched to the verify page and it said "verified". Looks like there's some LTB voodoo I don't know about. Or I just got lucky. ;) The transaction hasn't even updated yet on Counterwallet.

  Posted on August 1, 2014 at 7:27 AM
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