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artifexd: Maybe it should be renamed to Marvin
artifexd: BingoBoingo: Did you write that? ;)
artifexd: That article is the top result for "goddamn stupidest thing bitcoin"
artifexd: and a gun to scare you off your phone is the height of idiocy.
artifexd: urthermore, putting bitcoins on your phone is probably the goddamn stupidest thing that I've ever heard of. Bitcoins are going to be the world's reserve currency4, and as such fated to rise to prices per coin that dwarf even the outlandish Winklevoss' most media-hungry "predictions". To leave such a precious commodity within reach of anyone with a USB cable5
artifexd: Yep. I was looking for this paragraph:
artifexd: benkay: I'm trying to find an article that I think you wrote. In the article the statement "Storing bitcoins on a phone is the god damned stupidest fucking thing evar." Or something to that effect. Do you remember that?
artifexd: Speaking of which, last sale was at 170. Geez...
artifexd: Kinda heavy but also empowering
artifexd: Do you remember the first time somebody gave you real responsibility? "Don't let me down, kid." type stuff.
artifexd: Anyway, time to put the existential crisis on hold and get some work done before bed.
artifexd: Because, seriously, who the fuck am I?
artifexd: And yet, every time I talk, he gives me the time of day. When I question him, he responds reasonably. I guess that encourages me to treat him as an equal.
artifexd: Here, mircea and I should not exist in the same caste. I'm just a normal dude. He's a Romanian Billionare. WITH A B! I can conceive of no reason that someone that high up the food chain would give two shits about what I think or why I think it.
artifexd: When I was in the Navy, lower ranked officers were nothing special, but even lower enlisted (like myself) didn't have conversations with the Captains and Admirals. There was the understanding that they were "people" just like us (meaning the enlisted folk), but their concerns and our concerns didn't overlap enough to allow for everyday conversation. There
artifexd: Or rather, that I have access to the same information he does.
artifexd: I think my (possible?) mistake is in thinking that he has access to the same information as the rest of us (specifically, me). He may have more people to pour over it and analyze it, but the raw information is available.
artifexd: Unless his "I got my own nsa" statement was not a joke and was actually a comment on his research team.
artifexd: Sure. But there's nothing other than "Because I said so".
artifexd: Without inside knowledge, how could you verify it? The only information that actually links to the miner is the coinbase script and I haven't seen any scripts with "Mined by US GSA" in them.
artifexd: If it is an educated guess, that's cool. What I'm asking is whether you have any independently verifiable proof that governments are mining? (Like, verifiable by someone like, you know, me)
artifexd: How do you know that governments are mining, much less which governments and to what degree?
artifexd: It's a veritable rate-fest in here.
artifexd: ;;rate mircea_popescu 2 Teaches me shit
artifexd: Would the other half be that numbers can be molested to demonstrate whatever whack theory the molester wants to demonstrate?
artifexd: ;;rate mircea_popescu 1 Teaches me shit even when he's wrong
artifexd: graphsketch.com << That's going into my bookmark list. I resorted to some silly site where I had to take screenshots and upload them to imgur.
artifexd: Random formulas aside, I do understand your point that any growing trend can be fitted to match any other growing trend if you futz with the scales enough.
artifexd: Verification of mircea_popescu theory failed.
artifexd: I guess if you shift it, it could fit.
artifexd: ;;rate kakobrekla 1 Runs assbot
artifexd: ;;rate kakobrekla 1 Runs assbot
artifexd: Ah. WOT rating total. Current would be 137:123
artifexd: Ok. Still... what is it about?
artifexd: <mircea_popescu> kakobrekla 137 : 92 << What's that about?
artifexd: The point is to, eventually, increase the signal to noise ratio.
artifexd: kakobrekla: What is that bug? For, you know, science.
artifexd: Hmm... no self-pwning possible anymore.
artifexd: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:aca8c3b4fedadc86aa1bbfe5fe456d92d8526d3b3a40225231aafe17
artifexd: assbot queries gribble for your ident status and gettrust relation to assbot.
artifexd: @jy-p> it's a nice little bullshit trick that is used by people who don't get their work done
artifexd: mircea_popescu: I'm starting to understand why you like these guys. Here's a quote that I find particularly compelling:
artifexd: So... gmaxwell is harassing the conformal guys about how they developed btcd. It comes across as so... I don't know... petty.
artifexd: I use them for my day to day cell phone. Some people have issues. They have been good to me in my area. Of course, so has Comcast.
artifexd: asciilifeform: Sprint still sells unlimited (not "unlimited") data and their network continues to get better. It might be worthwhile to recheck Sprint's coverage of your area.
artifexd: Hmm... nickserv won't let me change my nick to ┗(°0°)┛
artifexd: Ok. I was wondering about if someone gets rated, such that he/she can self-voice, and then turns out to be an asshat, will unrating them remove their self-voicing ability.
artifexd: Is the wot chain examined once and cached forever (or X amount of time) or each time someone issues an up command?
artifexd: But you didn't like that one could be revoiced by others thus becoming vulnerable to devoicing by others?
artifexd: benkay is already voiced so I can't up him, right?
artifexd: Seems like it is working fine.