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mircea_popescu: i'm sure that's how they got it. not from random usg tendrils washing billions in "advertising".
mircea_popescu: it's some old dude apparently living in costa rica (which he invented), telling the world truths in centered lines. "Yes, in case you didn't know it Facebook is a HUGE Blogging Platform and it earns Facebook Billions of Dollars !In fact Facebook generated $217.00 every second, 24hrs a day during 2013. And they Earned that money from You Blogging!"
mircea_popescu: but i think ima stop listening to people who don't have what i want (tits)
mircea_popescu: up until they run into one of the people that go by the principle that "if i see you armed you're dead."
mircea_popescu: "oh, cars don't even have buggywhips!!11 CARS HAVE FAILED!11"
mircea_popescu: reading mike hearn is like reading timecube without the humor, writing skill, grounding in reality, variety and aesthetic appreciation.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, i have yet to see a tx that cost 0.1 btc fixed fee, which is what wires cost. for the other, credit cards are UNIVERSALY MORE EXPENSIVE THAN WIRES.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: " but it’s now common to be asked to pay more to miners than a credit card would charge."
mircea_popescu: anyway, i thought you meant you wanted to use it or something.
mircea_popescu: should that happen, which seems improbable, i'll just... fish another one ?
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> You say that now, but tomorrow circumstances will demand it or something. << wait, wut ?!
mircea_popescu: sort-of how philosophy is studied both historically and thematically. the log is historical, but there should prolly be a thematic repository
mircea_popescu: in my mind at least, "summary" has merged much closer to re-threadify.
mircea_popescu: PeterL the script looks ok i have nfi how it could put out the output you show.
mircea_popescu: for there is no such thing as defeat, as alf correctly observes. but there is such thing as victory.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i'm short a woman currently, so how about you lot get busy making some replacements.
mircea_popescu: you'll sit there on a mass grave with a million corpses in it, and alternatively piss inside and go "no defeat here"
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag you won't see any actual defeat no matter what happened.
mircea_popescu: anyone remember "twobitidiot" ? no, because today it's "toomim brothers". bla bla, whatevs.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, expect him to show up in system-d or whatever. "grounded in business reality"
mircea_popescu: in the sense that nytimes only publishes the faux accounts of SOME scammers, rather than all scammers.
mircea_popescu: pirate was like "o bitcoin will now fail". that garza idiot ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what did you expect him to do, "i am an abject failure that decided to go up against better men, who first warned me and then turned me inside out like a glove" ?
mircea_popescu: but the fact that they can't keep their oh-so-precious "state secrets" from the republic bothers them immensely.
mircea_popescu: yeah BingoBoingo qntra gotta run a piece setting "nathaniel popper" straight.
mircea_popescu: he was a prominent mole, ever since the original forkattack.
mircea_popescu: asshat didn't "become disillusioned", and he was never a prominent "leader".
mircea_popescu: " Mr. Hearn, until recently one of the most prominent leaders of the Bitcoin project, became so disillusioned that in December he sold the few hundred Bitcoins he had left and quietly took a job at a new start-up."
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.brg444.1:e5228957700a2b4a678420cfa4c0c73e7da1d5781f10ae355c84bc5871eb6b1b
mircea_popescu: "Two years ago, Mr. Hearn quit a cushy programming job at Google’s Swiss headquarters" << dude gtfo, cushy gofer job.
mircea_popescu: as if your don't undertstanding is an extenuating circumstance, that somehow makes anything better, like salt and blowing up the whites.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag it is, but not just. the nonsense is in fact so pervasive that when someone does something horrible ~and it matters not at all what it is ~ the first, the automatic, the one true psychological defense is... "you don't understand"
mircea_popescu: i suspect that at the root of the complexity-seeking behaviours is the deeply internalized if very infantile fear that if others understand what you did they won't respect you for doing it. because hey, 5yo doesn't understand what parents do.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the former's all removal. much like our work on bitcoin pore.
mircea_popescu: and disciplines of the ass, such as being a sumo wrestler.
mircea_popescu: there's a major difference between disciplines of the mind, such as NOT BEING STUPID
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag you have to know tho. in the time it takes most women to suck at their amorous life, they could make themselves into quite respectable slavegirls. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: perhaps the biggest matzah ball hanging over the heads of all this well meaning & naive "foss" thing is the sheer disinclination of the kids to do research.