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mircea_popescu: not that inadequate. iirc it's the leading cause of death in small children in the western world.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, spontaneous abortion is a thing, and obviously children inhabit some sort of continuum between that and adulthood, so...
mircea_popescu: i suppose on the surface "sudden infant death" seems insanity, as adults don't do anything like that.
mircea_popescu: eh from what i've heard, they convicted a buncha women for what actually was bona fide kids dying
mircea_popescu: otherwise we will never be able to answer this dilemma.
mircea_popescu: better get the pm request special powers to investigate the content of people clicks
mircea_popescu: i thought unemployed is "hasn't made 1mn clicks on fb stuff this month"
mircea_popescu: also leaves, bits of their own front yard, inept 6yo drawings on bits of wallpaper etc
mircea_popescu: that is actually a mexican sundae. except with cognac.
mircea_popescu: anyway - this is what the vanishing 1% intelligent gpu bitcoin miners did with their rigs.
mircea_popescu: punkman because a) when i first asked, their idea was "buy a mug" ; b) the link i finally fished out did not include any reference either i or fluffypony found (see it in logs) - they have A DIFFERENT unlinked page for this purpose
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field iirc the agreement was that it can go, as it serves no useful purpose nor has for a long time - but not a priority. we're atm working on getting the priorities in AND RUNNING
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> coffins for everyone involved with checkpoints? << this is necessarily true. bitcoin hardforked once.
mircea_popescu: i think that's gonna be the bitcoin thing - we're here to surprise you.
mircea_popescu: clarke wrote scifi. orwell wrote emofi. not the same thing at all.
mircea_popescu: the reason there's nothing left there but crooks is precisely that the onl;y deal available is "i try to steal as much as i can, if you catch me you get it and i take a vacation"
mircea_popescu: it's pretty automated as it is. look through wall street "prosecutions" sometime.
mircea_popescu: about half the people currently working there have this episode in their life, "give us all your money and we'll agree to not let you work for x years"
mircea_popescu: for the record, that system already exists, for wall street pencildicks.
mircea_popescu: i don't buy from paypal, you expect me to trade with your vending machine ? wtf is this, "free market the way we like it" ?
mircea_popescu: ie, it enforces a "must be this tall to ride" limit rather than allowing people to delude themselves about it
mircea_popescu: this is true. nevertheless, bitcoin is very elitist by its nature, which flows from this.
mircea_popescu: do you basically mean that bitcoin can not be held without tools, whereas gold can, or at least to a higher degree ?
mircea_popescu: most of the gold the spanish sent to spain ended up in london.
mircea_popescu: someone could steal your gold after you sent it just as well, what's that to do with the gold ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't get this distinction you propose. so "unlike the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, Gold seized immediately preserves its full exchange value.", what's this mean, that people paid less for faux Bitcoin the USMS was pretending to be selling than for faux Bitcoin pirate was pretending to be going to pay them ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field a magical toothpick works just as well for that purpose.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the part where the serbs were breaking nato codes is never given much airplay.
mircea_popescu: how about getting a picture of a whole keyboard rather than a key then
mircea_popescu: i doubt battery powered antenna is any weaker than mains powered antenna
mircea_popescu: tho i suspect the cheapo plastic bump kbds are a little quieter than the model ms
☟︎ mircea_popescu: worked so well, too. and it wasn't even too expensive!
mircea_popescu: oic. shame on them for hiring locally. there are some washington "civil servants" married to "entrepreneurs" that'd eagerly sell russia on the same process gavincoin used!
mircea_popescu: basically, he is very bad at everything he attempts, and attempts a lot of things at the same time.
mircea_popescu: finally, smoking in a steamy room also sucks. both because wet tobacco and because the steam-smoke mixture is like... ew.
mircea_popescu: or if there wasn't steam, which is the bane of every glasses wearer.
mircea_popescu: punkman ahaha someone should just replace the pics with pot and stuff, then republish it.
mircea_popescu is too meh over the entire ycombinator kaboodle to go look at hn.