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mircea_popescu: otherwise, markets are by definition centralized. this is what they do : they centralize trade. you wish decentralized, stick to barter.
mircea_popescu: every[one,twerp,clueless derp,idiot,internet dog] thinks this is how it goes. and you hear about it, because [somehow] they have all the time in the world to tell you it is so.
mircea_popescu: "market" and "decentralized" go together like "great guy with a great sense of humor that will treat you with the respect you deserve" and "a lot of sex"
mircea_popescu: they're brits, see ? "to have asked in the first place"
mircea_popescu: and then when they cave and get in the wot, negrating them, of course.
mircea_popescu: up to and including surrounding holdsouts houses with monkeys in combat armor, killing their wives and bitches in no particular order and then impersonating them over the loudspeaker.
mircea_popescu: trinque the requirement for people to be in the wot to use it ain't never going away. but the pressure to actually get in said wot is ever mounting.
mircea_popescu: 29F5BC967632415AB9836DB63E452A7A2A00DEC1 << i misreads that
mircea_popescu: and to use the most apropriate expression for this, which happens to be in romanian, "atita le si trebe'"
mircea_popescu: other direction ? you kidding man, not shot as much as a bb round this way.
mircea_popescu: trinque incidentally, re midnightmagic's question, i don't recall the format. was it the deeds get concatenated with \n as aseparator, sha512'd and that's the pubkey for the spend ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that "cops shot white people so it's not a crime" thing, re katrina.
mircea_popescu: this may be the most outrageous perversion of justice yet.
mircea_popescu: check it out. it wasn't actually even proven or anything. just, narratively reconstructed ex post facto
mircea_popescu: "Perricone’s and later First United States Attorney and Chief of the Office’s Criminal Division Jan Mann’s identities were uncovered by forensic comparison of their characteristic writing styles in the online comments and in court filings. The forensic expert in question had previously assisted the FBI in identifying the Unabomber."
mircea_popescu: so that if no one is talented this crop we appoint one to tbe "most likely to be talented" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the man who digs into an untenable position may be well intended, but he is still not a talented commander.
mircea_popescu: he's not nearly the strategic mind he masturbares himself over.
mircea_popescu: and i don't mean code work. intellectual work altogether.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in terms of actual work done, rms is not that far behind
mircea_popescu: you are then fighting wqith the stupid to opress the smart.
mircea_popescu: if you are not fighting with the smart people to opress the stupid,
mircea_popescu: i dun know how to put it plainer than : the war is between smart people and stupid people.
mircea_popescu: i'm going to donate to him right after i'm done donating to vessenes.
mircea_popescu: idiots aren't truly idiots unless they stay unaware of their idiocy throughout.
mircea_popescu: and now ? where's the letter going "i was a fucking imbecile to sign with the usg!!11"
mircea_popescu: oh he knew so much better then, and "of course" this and that.
mircea_popescu: derp made a deal, sold out the thing, a decade later is out on his ass.
mircea_popescu: just in case any of the friends of scammer&idiot club need to know after a few years why they're blacklisted.
mircea_popescu: ftr pantera capital = Ron Glantz Director of Research ; Matt Gorham Trader ; Jed McCaleb Venture Partner ; Dan Morehead CEO ; Paul Veradittakit Vice President ; Steve Waterhouse Partner
mircea_popescu: dude check it out lmao. the hamplanet transgenderderpatron is investing in bitcoin nao
mircea_popescu: and we want the fed to change regulations because they're getting in the way of paying our employee
mircea_popescu: you don't see "diversity is inherently good so we've hired a fbi most wanted guy"
mircea_popescu: what's never going to be good is hiring some inept crowd followrs. they're gay, don't you know, because they saw it on tv.
mircea_popescu: trinque ironically enough, ACTUAL diversity WOULD be inherently good.
mircea_popescu: but yers, for as long as you delude yourself into needing permission, guess what.
mircea_popescu: this is an essenmtial ingredient of all action. you have to, in some degree, in some shape, somewhere, not give a fuck.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the end of social media will come exactly like how nobody could have predicted it by reading a 2014 trilema article.
mircea_popescu: "I want the average redditor to understand that when he interacts with a screen name, he is not interracting with a person."
mircea_popescu: so now we're going to spin as "it's not rape if we wilfully spread for mp's will" ? mmmmkay.
mircea_popescu: he could have just accepted it then. but no, idiots gotta derp first.
mircea_popescu: This will be useful for the Bitcoin network first and foremost, because Gavin is, by and large, a mentally retarded doofus displaying a shocking amount of Dunning-Kruger syndrome in his assorted dabblings in economics and other hard fields."
mircea_popescu: maybe if they lay traps or something. otherwise it's like turkeys chasing coughars.
mircea_popescu: i dun know how exactly a buncha pakistani would catch up to a russian she-hound.
mircea_popescu: they also don't have much the pakistani couldn't get at home.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right, because they'd have gone to russia instead.