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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
mircea_popescu: "o no we must do the bio insert IT IS HOW WRITING IS DONE!11!"
mircea_popescu: "Phil Schiller, Apple's longtime senior vice president of worldwide marketing5, is waiting for me when I arrive at Building 3 at the company's Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino, California on an unusually warm fall day." motherfucker these idiots.
mircea_popescu: so here's something for alf : "Through much of their history US finishing schools emphasized education in the social graces and de-emphasized scholarship: society encouraged a polished young lady to hide her intellectual prowess for fear of frightening away suitors. For instance Miss Porter's School in 1843 advertised itself as Miss Porter's Finishing School for Young Ladies—even though its founder was a noted schola
☟︎ mircea_popescu: holy shit, check it out, mp's "you don't own your own sex bits" is older than europe!
mircea_popescu: if anyone was fucktarded enough to buy into the scam on its final phase, i would like to meet them.
mircea_popescu: Ethereum (ETH) $ 0.748576 (-24.18 %) 0.00152907 BTC (-39.43 %)
mircea_popescu: consultant @ nothing in particular, doesn't really look the right age range for this nuttery.
mircea_popescu: goldbug too lol. funny. "Consultant - Gold & Silver Analyst - Gold Standard, International Monetary System, Precious Metals, Currencies, Geopolitics, Macroeconomics"
mircea_popescu: shinohai popescu is like the most common romanian name.
mircea_popescu: so wait... i made a few hundred million while i was sleeping ?
mircea_popescu: trinque this is a gnarly thing that's been being worked on for a while.
mircea_popescu: solrodar the problem with precedent and rule based systems is that you don't know what will happen until it actually happens. i would guess what would happen here would be the bet gets cancelled and so the nos get their btc back too, and perhaps the ability of bet starter to create that clause gets curtailed.
mircea_popescu: god i hate bucharest. just looking at that picture... brrrrr. but unrelatedly, if you lived behind one of those front windows, and there was a protest at night like that, wouldn't you fuck the woman for the camera ?
mircea_popescu: sort-of like a dilbert reader going by "colombo" or some equally ridiculous shit.
mircea_popescu: shinohai here's the problem : explain to me that you are defending "traditional marriage" aka "between a man or a woman" ~for the principle of the thing~ but not at the same time "traditional marriage" aka "the husband can take it whenever he feels like". they're both the same thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fluffypony mmyeah, some cattle got burned so now they want the mayor in prison. because logically, that's what matters. when teh politruks set the whole country on fire nobody gave a shit, but god help you if some moos get run over.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Tennessee man charged with raping wife in church parking lot: ‘I am your husband, I can get it anytime I want’ << kinda what "the traditional marriage" institution means innit.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: soo, re mpex : the trouble has been identified, i'm pretty sure. will be fixed and then tested etc, i expect mpex back before the weekend.
mircea_popescu: "i have an idea", sez buterin, "let's print and sell eth! it's almost as good as tax and spend!"
mircea_popescu: who fucks them ? who feeds them ? and most importantly : why ?
mircea_popescu: "While that’s a big deal for the U.S. industry and the people it employs, it doesn’t mean much for global supplies. Alcoa’s decision to eliminate 503,000 metric tons of smelting capacity accounts for about 31 percent of the U.S. total for primary aluminum, but less than one percent of the global total, according to Harbor."
mircea_popescu: <robotnum1> so how many of you are short at this moment? << i would be surprised if anyone is short btc.