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mircea_popescu: phf if you peruse the thing it's obvious where it's at, the 10 dollars or less bin.
mircea_popescu: worst day in teh history of reddit, when it turns out that service closure WASNT scam.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter i've yet to hear someone go "i'm not sending anything to derpy webwallet / webexchange / webusgtronism because htey don't gpg sign the address"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: somehow, nobody has found it their life's mission to badger everyone into the dust for this, however.
mircea_popescu: everyone else is "well this is what we print on the screen" and that's that.
mircea_popescu: mpex being, today as it was when it got started, exactly the ONLY bitcoin service doing this.
mircea_popescu: apparently, i'm discovering, this is an entire market vertical, "young women + illegal sex". usually school setting, always some sort of lawsuit as to rape, corruption, what have you.
mircea_popescu: i already had my sammich, doing a review of wild things, of all things. anyone saw it ?
mircea_popescu: copumpkin excuse me while i strawman you into a convenient position for the benefit of the kids.
mircea_popescu: (news at 11, you'll still have to talk to people, ipad or no ipad.)
mircea_popescu: this is neither universally the solution, nor any sort of mystical geek messiah.
mircea_popescu: tech is a tool. yes, there are very good places where making things work by the cold equations makes sense.
mircea_popescu: occasionally reared its head around bitbet, "oh, you should do it so -and -so provably". met with the universal "fuck you, there's no way out of trust." which, obviously, instructed those who it instructed and washed off the rest.
mircea_popescu: this particular fashion is more antiquated than disco.
mircea_popescu: it's dead and buried by now, under a pile of ridicule.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic the chief problem here is that time has gone by and left copumpkin behind. he's still in this lulzy 2012 where bitcoin was a geek thing and the fashion of believing "technology will supplant humans" went unchallenged, in their own circles.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform while it's true that the otr as implemented for say irc is dubious at best, his point remains :
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic the only legal proceeding contemplated will go on here. anyone seeking justice in the new world must have a wot presence.
mircea_popescu: mpex is very carefully designed with various such tradeoffs considered, an' i think i've done enough free consulting on the topic for one day.
mircea_popescu: the occurence of things that can't happen always takes place in april.
mircea_popescu: of course i wasn't thinking of pig iron, rather, one of the fiberglass / ceramic sorta things with high magnetic dust included.
mircea_popescu: not even so expensive, given that iron is crazy like that.
mircea_popescu: i'd have thought nicely made wheel out of paramagnetic alloy ; then vary a field.
mircea_popescu: it's not illegal until you actually try to make an arrest or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo re lafond's article - iirc you can buy surplus cruisers ; as well as various knick-knacks like body armor from afficionado stores (here they're called cotillon stores).
mircea_popescu: nobody asked you to do your stat process in the same way you do other processes.
mircea_popescu: the stat is a single item. these are separable for reasons.
mircea_popescu: you can sign any amount of withdrawals you want for any arbitrary funds you don't have. it proves exactly nothing.
mircea_popescu: all possible views that don't conform can take a hike.
mircea_popescu: mpex is made to serve a certain view on this world, not all possible views.
mircea_popescu: such as for instance in divorce proceedings, or whatever the fuck.
mircea_popescu: and so we go through this a coupla times and then i go you know what, just register a deed already, this is getting ridiculous
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, reddit/bitcoin apparently mass-downvoting the story of bitbet NOT being a scam ?
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as you get your stat signed and timestamped, you should be fine.
mircea_popescu: this "that's fine" device, lolz. what's it supposed to accomplish ? you can't set aside what i say.
mircea_popescu: there's degrees there. the guarantee you're offered is that you won't be losing your balance ; not that you won't have orders lost.
mircea_popescu: and there's no inefficiency in the system as it is, for it is simple. the inefficiency begins once you expect to have a 2nd "superior" channel on top of the slips. which will then have to be managed.
mircea_popescu: a) "too late" for what ; b) if there's an old slip of yours, it either has an address that was paid in it or not. if it does, then it doens't matter ; if it doesn't, you have a claim.
mircea_popescu: it'll be too late for what ? i have your signed slip, it's what it is.
mircea_popescu: not so sure that is good practice, general or otherwise.
mircea_popescu: maybe the new bash works by searching for "fucking bash"
mircea_popescu: well, fuck you. my teleomers lengthen by watching others shorten, just like my cock gets hard by watching women spend each other.
mircea_popescu: you should, at least in fucking principle, get infinitely better results by just picking all the easy fruits and normalizing everyone's head to fucking semblance of sanity.
mircea_popescu: much like independence is deliberately not taught to girl-cows in agrarian societies, sanity is deliverately anti-taught to smart kids in socialism. so what ?
mircea_popescu: but the problem here to my eyes is that there really is no motherfucking reason for the meta-brain to act like if made of plasticine. really, figuring out the memory hole effect is THAT hard ?