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mircea_popescu: aite. nothing wrong with putting the many warts in the log, either
mircea_popescu: you're not trying to argue that gpg is to be replaced are you ?
mircea_popescu: and so the westerners are too petrified by the double whammy, and can't operate themselves.
mircea_popescu: here's a tidbit : all "named" banks actually operate under license, separately. because the chinese will strangle you if you actually send info over.
mircea_popescu: (but ftr, china is land of the freedom. they actually and specifically do not do any of the aml bs.)
mircea_popescu: i love it, really. it's basically a tax on supermarkets.
mircea_popescu: incomprehensibly, a few people still use the supermarkets.
mircea_popescu: supermarkets here want to see id for cash payments over ~100 dollars. everyone else pays you a discount because well, they don't actually report/pay the tax.
mircea_popescu: could get "caught" in a "sting" for selling a used fridge for 525 dollars
mircea_popescu: then shrem met some derp at a bar and they came up with a plan which consisted of shrem not noticing the derp is doing the opposite
mircea_popescu: shrem registered as a money transmitter, and named himself as the agent in charge of making sure ustardation is implemented.
mircea_popescu: how many degrees of separation is this ? didja sign a promise to the usg to police the blockchain ?
mircea_popescu: derp conspired with some other derp to break the very promises he made in writing to the usg!
mircea_popescu: do you program like this too ? "fuck knows what this function does but the name seems to have the right number of vowels" ?
mircea_popescu: well looky here! why are you using things you don't know!
mircea_popescu: do you actually know what happened there and deliberately misrepresent or do you just use in your thought process things you understand at fishwrap level ?
mircea_popescu: (rthere should be an office to approve usage of names for purposes, consisting of a clerk with a REJECTED stamp)
mircea_popescu: g whatever stupid shit, because they can no longer protest.
mircea_popescu: anyway, in the general, this is the closed form life equation of people doing something worthwhile : they have a terrible time as kids because their parents are idiots ; they get fucking stampeded as adults, because people are lazy ; they get all the accolades, moneys and bitches when they're old, because it doesn't do anything for them anymore (thus it's finally safe) ; once they're dead they get to be the face sellin
mircea_popescu: as v.i.lenin said, people who get involved in revolutions best learn to like prison food.
mircea_popescu: the "thread" isn't a thread nor does it make it any clearer. what magic talismans are you asking of ?
mircea_popescu: you're a weirdo, so my money's on you going for "sex crimes".
mircea_popescu: treasonous nsa subdirectorate head got done for "killing people" the [meanwhile deceased] chief of police killed.
mircea_popescu: if you care, then the argument is why do you care about this but not thatr, and sooner or later you won't notice one.
mircea_popescu: the best thing you can do for it is to get the pogo ready to go.
mircea_popescu: anyway, why are we even discussing the nlocktime thing ? lot of version 4 blocks or what ?
mircea_popescu: which is why the republic doesn't (and currently shouldn't) be a place.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i fail to see it as anything other than john smithing.
mircea_popescu: the solutions proposed aren't very good, but this does not make the problem go away
mircea_popescu: re the peter todd nlocktime derpage : there exists a perfectly legitimate problem with anchoring bitcoin time to political time.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: next i'm gonna read about how the us mattered scientifically at some point in its history ?
mircea_popescu: hey, i like that. aspie[rational]. it describes so very much, from the bayesian pseudoscientards to web analytics derps.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares what derpy popcollar aspie[rational] mba does or doesn't do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a) no depressed is ever logical ; b) no depressed ever admits to this.
mircea_popescu: we're miserable and things must not change so we stay that way!
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform equally depressed on ups AND downs, probably to nobody's great surprise <<< and this ISN'T a psycological defense!
mircea_popescu: "True, and disingenous. Truly disingenous. They absolutely are "taking responsibility" for the whole stack, but in the opposite direction of that Moldbuggian notion of the modern bureaucracy dissolving both authority and responsibility across the whole organization. Apple's working quite well to gather the mantle of authority around themselves while avoiding any responsibility at all for the work that they produce."
mircea_popescu: the narcs are definitely going to be running mexico going forward.
mircea_popescu: "George Bush was one of these people as well. An intimate of his machine once described his public behavior to me, the long and short of which is that the man is excellent at regurgitating that which had been said to him or that he'd heard, and to stitch together a pastiche that can pass for creative conversation, but largely unable to cook up his own output." << sounds like ivy league.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i have nfi what the 1st note says. can you explain the intended meaning ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i can't fucking read this gunk. /me skips to footnotes, in perhaps the first occurence this century of that once-prevalent approach