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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.
mircea_popescu: what she means when she says things like " she did not really know this part/the client thing in that much detail" is simply that well... she didn't have to rewrite it three-four times yet
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic you know that theory that past a certain level of stupidity the two are indistinguishable yes ?
mircea_popescu: i think the loot code was rewritten fully about four times. this doesn't count all the times it got partially rewritten.
mircea_popescu: jurov haha ask chetty sometime how many times this redo completely already happened :D
mircea_popescu: and complain about how the speed of light is unfair and the camera view should be less made out of straight lines.
mircea_popescu: and when the fuck did "hacker" news turn into pink collar support group already. if you don't like working with the people that make the things you like to use, go webcam.
mircea_popescu: the entire trade is predicated on "in the contest between what's right and what's pleasant - i pick the pleasant"
mircea_popescu: anyone who values "personal relationships" / "people themselves" / whatever other feel good idiotarianism over "abstract rules" / "technical" / blabla is ipso facto an idiot.
mircea_popescu: anyway, funny how slavic spanish is. i suppose it's due to them both starting with s.
mircea_popescu: dja mean "no mas" = not any more, or do you mean nema, as in, none ? :D
mircea_popescu: wife not being much of a whore is a little like husband not being much of a soldier.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform whores make the only sort of wife worth having tho.
mircea_popescu: from the logs, at some random point he just shows up, logs in and fills my buffers.
mircea_popescu: the latter. there's two different things killing you if you try too many times.
mircea_popescu: nazi[onal] socialism being, of course, just another socialism.
mircea_popescu: "The problem, of course, is that this is also the United Kingdom in the world we live in right now."
mircea_popescu: check it out, idiots imagine everything that happens is by idiots, about idiots, for idiots.
mircea_popescu: "With its subversive political allegory - including a terrorist as the leading man - and clear-cut leftist sensibilities, V for Vendetta is the kind of movie that the conservative right will have a field day with."
mircea_popescu: o noes, the bare legs of some rural wench. england prevails!
mircea_popescu: "Councillor Karen Danczuk, wife of Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon, has been tweeting selfies that show her cleavage. The 31-year-old councillor for Kingsway, who also runs a deli with her husband, has uploaded photos of her cleavage in a bikini and another of her bare legs."