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mircea_popescu: you know alfie, back when i was writing for romanians in romanian it was easy
mircea_popescu: i suspect the deep driver there is "idiots" vs "enemies"
mircea_popescu: so listen ascii_field is it true sexpr were mostly copied from regexp ?
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE i'm fine now! weren't you going to do a dc at some point ? :D
mircea_popescu: (who the fuck told those women to wear overknee skirts, srsly now)
mircea_popescu: "11. Don't know a thing? No worries you are not alone, but that shouldn't stop you from blogging as it doesn't stop others, you can still make money just by blogging on topics that are interesting"
mircea_popescu: if you're working a boring dayjob and need that fantasy to get out of bed in the morning.
mircea_popescu: phf yeah, they exist like buenos aires night life exists.
mircea_popescu: how can these people be that retarded srsly ? dump random txn ? that's the plan ?
mircea_popescu: phf you know they supposedly have those torture hotels in tokyo
mircea_popescu: and if he just sat on the silver or w/e it was... but no matter.
mircea_popescu: "I listed my castle for sale. If I manage to flip now, even at a slight fiat loss, I would have gained 3x the bitcoins in a year. Decent trade, huh?"
mircea_popescu: just, not really as a hotel. pretty decent setting for a remake of diabolique tho
mircea_popescu: honestly i think the decrepit reality looks muchg better than the mcmanshion candy-cane photochop
mircea_popescu: as soon as they are ready, the reservation system and Bitcoin integration should be ready also.
mircea_popescu: how many of these throwaway items have we seen so far.
mircea_popescu: Deloitte to audit to BitEx.la Bitcoin exchange, the first of its kind in Argentina and possibly in the world for a market of Bitcoin << except a) it doesn't actually exist and b) all of the fucking nopes already, wtf.
mircea_popescu: would have been so fucking hard to submit and obey in 2013, rly.
mircea_popescu: the boat's still missed. but i gotta say it's fucking hysterical to obvserve the US as a society behaves collectively exactly like every ustard individually. haughty pretense at first, desperate flailing once it's too late.
mircea_popescu: Blythe Masters says US lags in blockchain use (ft.com) / Over $60 million in funding raised for bitcoin companies this week alone. / bla bla << "To sum up : what we have so far are a few millions invested in hopeless start-ups that have no talent, no business model, aren't solving a problem and generally speaking don't exist other than as a tag on an orange calling it a potato." /
http://trilema.com/2013/the-future-of- ☟︎ mircea_popescu: except no, gavin's scamcoin is not bitcoin, and no, vice is not news.
mircea_popescu: "Great Job, Everyone! Bitcoiners are DDoSing Bitcoin (motherboard.vice.com)"
mircea_popescu: so the list of places where obama can still show up consists of... fort meade ?
mircea_popescu can't readily figure out which of the two is more ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: The guidance advocates a ban on password strength meters, mandatory resets, and predictable combinations, instead encouraging brute force rate limiting and reduced access controls." << in other words, "password gimmicks don't work an we're back to ip bans, in a 100% reversal of the fecal consensus of 2005"
mircea_popescu: they should be flowing things the other way around ffs.
mircea_popescu: they lost 20bn in brand value for a few million in cash. and they have cash.
mircea_popescu: (wtf is this conflation of sales and ops going on at apple anyway)
mircea_popescu: who the fuck commodifies his premium product for boredom o may gawd
☟︎ mircea_popescu: omfg they did. ok, this is the dumbest move apple ever took, or could have taken. the only remainder value in the entire pointless entreprise was the perception of value. this is the texbook way to ruin perception of value : put them on a monthly installment, like fucking diapers.
mircea_popescu: in this context it was specifically re chillum's protests re security practices etc.
mircea_popescu: "this bear likes to fuck people ; you an tell it's horny by the red patch above its nose" IS a warning.
mircea_popescu: davout well that's the meaningful sense of the term when you're doing graph traversal and whatnot, cause it's where it starts. but in this context it seemed to me it'd rather mean , "clumps of satoshi available to be spent"
mircea_popescu: fucking horrid terminology, we really shouldn't be in a situation where input and outpuit means the same thing
mircea_popescu: and i suspect the coinbase count will be, going forward, one of the most important metrics of economic health.
mircea_popescu: by very definition, increased size = fragmentation of coinage.
mircea_popescu: ie, you'll never have that many legitimate txns that also consolidate. especially as the size opf bitcoin economy increases.
mircea_popescu: i think for a while gentmenan-ness will prevail and the consolidaitons will be mined in preference
mircea_popescu: we're, at least to my eyes, in the situation where we've built something against a sleeping rhino. once it gets up and moves, what happens ?
mircea_popescu: davout for sure not. but it does practically worek to keep tx large enough, and more importantly, coinbases few.