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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 31 too huh. i notice something strange here, brb while i write it up.
mircea_popescu: and so on and so forth, gavin's spoken to "economists" that agree with him except meanwhile they turn out to not exist and he has the support of business except all that business can't get a hundred bitcoin together. in which sense, it is obviously a subsection of the tardstalk forum - those guys got like 1k together to give marquardt so he could leave council housing.
mircea_popescu: ethereum was going to be the bees knees for sure definitely absolutely. it even raised a shitton of btc, allegedly. except... not. not at all, not a little bit.
mircea_popescu: funny how the buterin waterfal works. there's allegedly all these usg "companies" with "millions" in their coffers that have "investors" and whanot. meanwhile nobody can be arsed to buy any amount of their stock at a 50% to 90% discount. for like...a year now.
mircea_popescu: all these imaginary bitcoin businesses and so on that supposedly support him could make a pretty penny bettinbg for the thing they allegedly support at 11:1.
mircea_popescu: they're going to spin and deny and pretend nothing happened.
mircea_popescu: we're going to charge particular ineptitude, and employ ridicule
mircea_popescu: yes yes. in any case, mtgox ended exactly the way faux gpg, or system d, or gavincoin, or the sec or the fbi are gonna end
mircea_popescu: the woman that is the state yields eventually, once squeezed enough. not before.
mircea_popescu: if they can, they'll just fgill it with straw and keep pretending.
mircea_popescu: but think of it this way : never, in the history of tyhe world, did ~they~ ever destroy anything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform coinbase is definitely on the chopping block.
mircea_popescu: there is not enough bakshees to pass up the chain, because bitcoin is not fiat. they need > 9k% to be satisfied.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the latter. the former only exists in imagination.
mircea_popescu: if you have a deal that says she walks without any money or children, it'll be thrown out.
mircea_popescu: similarly, it can perhaps be argued successfully that the romans had better "social sciences" in the weaponized, political sense
mircea_popescu: i propose to you that for an army of archers, plate armor is much more than our current ceramic plating and woven nylons.
mircea_popescu: and if zenon's arrow in flight discussion is not exactly the latter...
mircea_popescu: out of the crooked timber of humanity, no THE thing was ever made.
mircea_popescu: note that i am not proposing for civilisation to go away
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a very poor excuse for not coming up with better scams.
mircea_popescu: all yes in this pile. all no in that pile. end of story.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the one true differential between lords and peons is the answer to the simple question
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform doesn't that sound like something to discontinue on general principle ?
mircea_popescu: most of them are necessarily unemployable in the real world
mircea_popescu: and they'd hit on the hot blonde, if they could be sure of same.
mircea_popescu: think about that. it's like being in a bar where you hate everyone to the point you wouldnt buy them a drink.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the one important point in all this is - even the people on govt team don't like other people on govt team enough to go partners.
mircea_popescu: what do you suppose ten-twenty twerps can do with enough money to buy isis a humvee each ?
mircea_popescu: the notion that an entire hierarchy would manage to split it into bits... heh.
mircea_popescu: it's shocking enough that one dea agent defected over about 1 year's nominal pay.
mircea_popescu is rooting for him, gavin and that radioshow derp getting together and starting a wallet site or something.
mircea_popescu: "this person is charged with being more powerful than we like to see."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not that far off, it is after all the argument they brought before australian courts against austian dotcom kid. or for that matter in swiss courts against belgian dude.
mircea_popescu: decimation or that old money is doomed, today as much as 2015 bc
mircea_popescu: just... fucking usg numbers. they make as much sense as a pancake rabbit with a peanut on its head
mircea_popescu: oh help me rwanda. some shithead is willing to pay 90% of his networth to some fucktard whose feelings got hurt ?
mircea_popescu: e entered Congress in 1987 with a net worth of no more than $270,000 and then exited worth somewhere between $4 million and $17 million [...] alleged, unspecified “past misconduct” against an unnamed person to whom he agreed to pay $3.5 million to keep concealed.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo read the piece, it's like kindergartners wrote it. not a single fact in there.
mircea_popescu: decimation the reporting on that thing is perhaps the best example of how confused "science news" works.
mircea_popescu: trinque this entire bullshit "defenses" conceptualization. as if you know, it's tower defense, and you gotta upgrade the fire mage tower.
mircea_popescu: (if anyone's not yet tried this - do. the master form of the twin study jew thing)
mircea_popescu: ima think about this while playing go with people who are also thinking about this, how's that.
mircea_popescu: let's stick to considering things that have a shot at making sense.
mircea_popescu: practically, this might put a dent in dice type services, in the sense that it'd slow them down by ~10 minutes
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> in general i favour the principle of 'if it cannot be verified RIGHT NOW, it is garbage' << i agree with the wisdom of this, for the reasons stated.