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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the proggy is a misery to use; works very half-heartedly anywhere other than winblows; costs $maxint; and, more direly, is not especially actively maintained. but there is nothing remotely like an alternative, not even a 'distant second', nor is anyone (afaik) remotely contemplating the idea of making one.
mircea_popescu: i fail to see how it is a problem.
asciilifeform: but it's a problem, and anyone even casually involved in the field (of named example) is aware of it
mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of effects. it's a matter of causes.
asciilifeform: one can do a certain amount of 'suppression' just by being l33t enough
mircea_popescu: not a monopoly in any sense.
asciilifeform: it's a genuine monopoly, vs. usg derpopoly. as in, there is literally nothing that is fit to so much as lick the product's boots
mircea_popescu: it's only a monopoly by virtue of everyone else being retards
pete_dushenski: not a huge place afaik
asciilifeform: (he and his sales derps are notoriously hard to get a hold of. one of the smallest - moneywise - and simultaneously ill-behaved monopolies i know of!)
assbot: This is how it feels. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1DYMdvF )
mircea_popescu: apparently accountancy become a pretty good business in the us, past decade.
pete_dushenski: "what is the utility of a centimetre!"
pete_dushenski: i'm generous enough to propose that the value of a free and productive man is a bitcent
assbot: The value of a life. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1DYItud )
pete_dushenski: to which: http://www.contravex.com/2015/02/09/the-value-of-a-life/
mircea_popescu: all it has to do is make sure it's the best money. which it did. once that's done, utility is not a concern. you will work the blockchain if you have to do it by hand in dank cellars chained to the wall,
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what I don't get is why people are freaking out they will have to pay a lot of money to use the system?
mircea_popescu: at any rate, all this talk of "utility of bitcoin" can get fucked. it's a flimsy if doomed and in any case transparent attempt to frame the question in fiat terms.
thestringpuller: o look a pete_dushenski
pete_dushenski: the ones who can code a bit
asciilifeform: 'Ye Queene.—O' God's name, who hath favored us? Hath it come to pass yt a fart shall fart itself?'
mircea_popescu: except they don't have a source, somehow, magically ?
mircea_popescu: "It's largely engineers who think about it in terms of game theory. They think that if you have unlimited blocksize, then the cost of transactions will go to zero because there will always be a competitor that is willing to include transactions even if you're charging X. They believe this will cause a race to bottom and there won't be any incentive for miners to secure the network because they can't cover costs.
cazalla: nubbins`: incidentally, a guy i went to uni with, and whom i help get oriented on his first day in south korea, is now a straight-up major label pop star <<< western kpop stars exist?
mircea_popescu: is this like a blonde joke ?
nubbins`: incidentally, a guy i went to uni with, and whom i help get oriented on his first day in south korea, is now a straight-up major label pop star
nubbins`: it went down for a while, came back as "sexy losers"
mircea_popescu: english teacher ;likely thing for a foreigner there to do.
nubbins`: i can't recall the details, but i feel like at the time it was a sort of "english teacher overseas" thing
mircea_popescu: much in the way kids used to replace the "made by" strings in the old 8086 days with a hex editor.
mircea_popescu: in fact, as ridiculous as mormonism is, he is an exact copy. the cultural relationship between judaism and christianity is exactly the same as between christianity and mormonism : a barely literate lout ran off with a few pages and made his own, self-important "variant",
mircea_popescu: (so a bunch of idiot chicks are trying to write it, out of boring gender and race stories)
mircea_popescu: and yes, on top of that there's a web of commentary stretching out approx to the roman period.
asciilifeform: approx. the same size as a set of 'britannica.'
mircea_popescu: "oh, people mock us for being essentially jew torrent artists ? FINE. WRITE A CONTINUATION."
davout: danielpbarron: i heard gavin andresen wants to add a couple extra chapters to it, for moar adopshun
danielpbarron: in Bible terms, it's enough to "lay with" someone, or "know her," or "see her nakedness" ; not sure a condom would get in the way of those things
mircea_popescu: hey, technically a valid claim. all of europe exists as embezzled provinces of the roman empire.
ben_vulpes: it is all a bit silly.
danielpbarron: catholics freely admit that they don't follow the Bible, and that some guy with a funny hat can arbitrarily change the rules as he pleases
assbot: A True Church - Masturbation ... ( http://bit.ly/1A680Em )
danielpbarron: http://www.atruechurch.info/masturbation.html The sexual desire is a God given desire (Romans 11:36) and it is not evil in and of itself (Romans 14:14). Moreover, God has made a way for even those who are not married (male or female), or those who are away from their spouse (like a soldier at war), to at least somewhat satisfy the sexual drive via masturbation. It is oppressive to teach that such an act is against the will o
mircea_popescu: by the way, if ne1 here has a fetlife account, i finally moved over, drop me a line.
danielpbarron: even i briefly authored a web commic, although i don't think any copies of it remain anywhere
asciilifeform: is life. Quantity still has “a quality all its own.” Ten million dollars buys you a money printer, but ten dollars do not. Not even a proportionately-smaller one. Everyone who hopes to see some kind of democratizing influence in Bitcoin is gravely misguided: by some indications, the Bitcoin ecosystem is at least as “top heavy” as the world of meatspace finance.' << my ancient article
asciilifeform: davout: 'Yes, it was once the case that you had to be a financier to send an intact penny across the ocean. But the fact that Bitcoin enables you to do so does not turn you into a financier. Nobody cancelled “money makes money.” It would be rather like demanding that an asteroid should have the gravitational pull of Earth. The Third Rock From The Sun can hold an atmosphere and your piece of cosmic flotsam can’t. Such
mircea_popescu: i dunno. sent him a http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=16-01-2015#979042 no answer yet. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: one of those things only a mortician would know./
mircea_popescu: it's a fact that beards grow after death. i wonder if women lubricate through a similar process.
asciilifeform: 'A key piece of evidence was Douglas’ wife’s testimony that when she called to report her husband coming home from work smelling like sex and alcohol, she was told “whatever happens on county property, in county time, is county business.”'
mircea_popescu: but economy is built on money and thus fungible. a bunch of small ones add up.
mike_c: that's a big one though.
mircea_popescu: one could never have made a bitcoin without a block reward. this, of course, means that we now have a promise to renege on. but i'm not about to start reneging on promises.
mircea_popescu: to a large degree, it was obvious that once we move from "inflation pays for it" to "you gotta pay for it" the "consumers have come to expect" were going to throw a shitfest.
mike_c: hehe, yeah, that was a good one
mircea_popescu: in this sense... ethereum will be a loss to people.
mircea_popescu: davout: never heard about it, but apparently they're putting bs&t to shame with a $400mn loss, sounds doubtful << yeah srsly, sounds like pure bs.
assbot: Logged on 09-02-2015 08:48:34; cazalla: gee what an afternoon, kid makes a run for it while changing his nappy, i end up covered in shit and then piss
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-02-2015#1013313 <<< i tell you, getting the girls only, and after a decade or two is the best policy. ☝︎
davout: today #b-a explains the fedoras thing
mircea_popescu: incidentally, my measure to resolve the "police violence" thing would be a) everyone with a mental issue must wear a funny hat.
mircea_popescu: anyway, people only should hide the fact that they have a mental ilness if they wish to get shot.
nubbins`: "I don't think that people should have to hide the fact that they have a mental illness," Cooper said.
nubbins`: and was put on prozac and diagnosed with a DISORDER
nubbins`: leaving aside the fact that the kid faked a SINGLE panic attack TWO YEARS AGO in order to get out of an exam
nubbins`: i think the kid is unsure as to whether the armed forces is a prison or a gang bang
nubbins`: also, who the fuck hates the name "jonathan" so much that they wanna change it? what a loser
nubbins`: kid's a natural soldier, just look at him
mircea_popescu: a pie a une manie : elle vole tout ce qui brille :D
nubbins`: generally numismatics are a poor way to invest money
mircea_popescu thinks this entire "numismatics as an investment" thing is not unlike the "my balcony garden as a tomato farm" thing, but hey.
nubbins`: incidentally, i have a 1.125oz Canadian numismatic piece from 2013 that I priced the other day... has increased in value by 50% since last summer o.O
nubbins`: it's the dirtiest coin i have, figured i'd pawn it off and replace with a nicer specimen
fluffypony: well that is quite a change from your last work :-P
Naphex: and a bitcoin exclusive. i'll keep it down low a bit until i get closer to launch date :D
mike_c: i just spit out a mouthful of coffee :D "mircea_popescu:it is ANOTHER discussion to propose that you pile all the donkeys on top of the camels and then throw the lot in the river"
Naphex: nothing much, working a lot lately
cazalla: davout, i think it's a bitcoin company in name only, fiat ponzi otherwise but there is so much conflicting info out there that qntra didn't publish anything as of yet
davout: never heard about it, but apparently they're putting bs&t to shame with a $400mn loss, sounds doubtful
cazalla: thestringpuller, "results in a complete loss of any pm’s I may have had open." <<< now it all makes sense!
cazalla: gee what an afternoon, kid makes a run for it while changing his nappy, i end up covered in shit and then piss ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 20:41:39; TheNewDeal: Anyone interested in a bitbet repurchase?
mircea_popescu: http://bash.bitcoin-assets.com/?quote=371 << b-a, cheaper than lsd!
mircea_popescu: attracts a particularly felonious type, too. there's this guy, who claimed he never worked with the secret police, then they found fiddy pounds worth of notes, at which point he declared that it was the patriotic duty of everyone to help the secret police!
mircea_popescu: and i come from a time and place where they had delatiune
mircea_popescu: rarely has it been the case that a man did a more thorough job of crushing himself before my eyes.
mircea_popescu: most starlets with youth fading, most inept actresses, most voiceless singers take refuge in scandal, because hey, "being controversial" is a good excuse to never consider if you're in fact any good.
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ben_vulpes: big blocks aren't a reality yet.
mircea_popescu: s a magnificent castle; for the greatest baron in the province ought to be the best lodged. Swine were intended to be eaten, therefore we eat pork all the year round: and they, who assert that everything is right, do not express themselves correctly; they should say that everything is best.""
danielpbarron: "The general rule about Bitcoin upgrades, therefore, is that upgrades which increase Bitcoin's value will be adopted and those which do not will not. Therefore, Bitcoin is not likely to be upgraded in ways which make it easier to regulate because that would decrease the value of the coins. Bitcoin might be upgraded in ways that make it more anonymous because a more anonymous coin would likely be more valuable. An upgrade whi
ascii_modem: i'm still at a loss re: who hoped to achieve what, exactly, by sending in the latest ninjaspamz3r
danielpbarron: i had a weird feeling about him leading up to this
mircea_popescu: you know thinking can't be a crime.
ascii_modem: gas distribution more reliable than electric... <<< no one has yet devised a way of attaching gas pipes to poles above ground. hence - reliable.
ascii_modem: mentioned at least half a dozen 'couldn't gets'
mircea_popescu: "We do not know what he would have said–it is just possible that the unprocurable pamphlet, 1601, would supply a clue but we may guess that it would have wrecked his reputation and reduced his income to reasonable proportions."