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mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.artizan.1:2e61c9028b68fdb12bbd0e1e5e0c1f076aa4f82140e58aad9c03e4344929e4e7
mircea_popescu: and e stands for eulora. but could also be like in email.
mircea_popescu: not like there's all that much ELSE to do with bitcoin anyway
mircea_popescu: "The failure of the GOP and the conservative movement, to the extent one exists in the United States, to police their ranks for con artists like Glenn Beck out to fleece their rank has lead to this." // "The success of sympathy conmen like Glenn Beck or Donald Trump enjoy fleecing the angry-socialist flock makes one wonder whether the GOP even exists in any meaningful sense."
mircea_popescu: "the word "collectible" is attached the coins" << samne problem. good idea but the writing...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "The anger of the base directed at anything: socialism, political correctness, brown people, etc; which they feel is giving them an unfair shake. This demographic also carries a substantial number of people among them who have traits that make them readily victimized for con artists." missing a verb, no idea what's going on at the end and prolly 50% too many words
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, major pump and dump. it's in the logs if not on trilema./
mircea_popescu: well yes, in principle anyone left holding "a very slow, unreliable and expensive visa run by idiots" is definitionally a bagholder.
mircea_popescu: eh for crying out loud. so what, i can only buy, in your model ? or not even ?
mircea_popescu: looky : i said divesting, and you're not going to obtain clarification or further infos about it no matter how it gets turned around.
mircea_popescu: i dunno... trade it for ethereum. support what's the fatass' name, with the "consensus" bullcrap ? huey something ?
mircea_popescu: i have nfi. my money'd be on something stupid, really.
mircea_popescu: of fucking course ? do it faster next time ? what ? either you take shorter than there's time or longer. tnd.
mircea_popescu: engineering consistently presents management with two options : a) either shit takes forever or b) well now there's no pistol.
mircea_popescu: omaigerd. what the fuck did you expect was going to happen.
mircea_popescu: well - i thought you didn't like the father pistols, and shouldn't you be thankful this one's dislodging ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform big difference between "me" and "we" in this point.
mircea_popescu: so there's really no call for dramatics, in my own mind. gotta do all the work one can as well as one can and see what tomorrow brings.
mircea_popescu: mod6 even if - and consider i'm speaking of a purely cartoon view of reality, merely for illustration purposes - even if trbf "misses the boat" and instead dilligently focuses on fixing satoshi code, and three years later the "winner" of july competition falls on sword that trbf actually fouind and fixed, the relative position of trbf in the world has not suffered one iota.
mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure we actually took a single walk around the whole item
mircea_popescu: rather than figure the marketing plan before the thing's even vapour.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform then how about you make the thing and once it's made we figure out the marketing plan,
mircea_popescu: don't tell me we're in any imminent danger of selling cardanos ?!
mircea_popescu: how do you know what you were doing helped kill hitlker and how do you know it doesn't no mo.
mircea_popescu: how is feb 5th differfent from march 5th ? there's a pile of shitty code implementing sort-of kinda badly a concept, that's being extracted to light.
mircea_popescu: what do you expect changed with trb ? you weren't doing it to get rich, were you ? you weren't doing it for redditettes to throw their panties at you, were you ?
mircea_popescu: (i'm not porposing you have a lot - merely poking fun at the rounding process you prolly use regardless)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it made sense. but note that it was principally the irc chan that sold me.
mircea_popescu: this particular system, for instance, i've been running for a while now on a half dozen long etc hosts, i don't even notice.
mircea_popescu: note that my interest in computers is, these days, ~strictly predicated on trb.
mircea_popescu: i'm more interested in slavegirls and icecream, but sure.
mircea_popescu: soviet world had it's own free subset ; much like the 1984 world has its free subset. the people running the black market that orwell does not even wish to consider.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck did you imagine the various items and pillars to build a coherent world-envelloping system come to me so easily ? i'm not coming up with fucking wot-economy and pgp-corporations and all this de novo, i'm just applying to pre-existing items!
mircea_popescu: without these things ~free world accessible to arbitrary $fortune~ is a dream.
mircea_popescu: you know - i did geographically dispersed honest commerce long before bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: which, inasmuch as it's philosophical, doesn't really get touched by phenomena.
mircea_popescu: best i can see both these items sit on the same philosophical foundation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dawg, portofolios get adjusted all the time in response to market conditions, whadda ya want.
mircea_popescu: in general "what to do" has been a foremost topic in everyone's head for days now, i would imagine.
mircea_popescu: we at the very least achieve a very useful head of a mongoloid on a stick for the education of future retarded children of (principally) asian mothers,
mircea_popescu: so : by breaking the capital investment of the current idiots that had the unmitigated audacity to meet and the breathtaking stupidity to not only admit it, but bring it like some sort of value in public, like the mongoloid children proud of his fingerpainting works in his own shit
mircea_popescu: wherein ACTUALY MINERS are centralized, pools are irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: and the degree of brokedness bitcoin experiences now, post-cartelization (an event which we'd more or less date as occuring either in degrees or at some point between the high-s fork and march trhe 3rd)
mircea_popescu: but anyway - there's a substantial difference between the degree of brokedness bitcoin experienced between 2010 and about 2013ish, where imbecile independent miners nevertheless gave their vote blank to "pool" operators (mcuh like idiot shareholders let the various brokers to vote for them)
mircea_popescu: ah, that post was made in a happier time, a more innocent time.
mircea_popescu: no nefariousness need be involved for people to fuck up grandiosely.
mircea_popescu: "these idiots were given an opportunity, and they figured running the rigs as efficiently as possible is everything that may ever matter."
mircea_popescu: anyway. in my personal scoreboard, this is chalked down as one of those grand disasters of stupidity. exactly in line with an older article of yours,
mircea_popescu: nobody in the us has done a spot of work in about fifty years.
mircea_popescu: it ended, long ago, various 2nd hand leaders a la putin now and again go to kick the once-great, currently ridiculous loser.
mircea_popescu: they have no power, no influence, no impact and no credibility.