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mircea_popescu: note that for it to be accepted in the discussion, it must exist prior to the event, not merely be constructed ex post facto as a contrapositive.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eh, privacy is overrated. especially in old age.
mircea_popescu: apparently EVERYONE ELSE should. preferably, starting wit hthe civil service.
mircea_popescu: "If they continue imprisoning their betters the result is going to be technically savvy warlords."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform shipment of small women from southeast asia ?
mircea_popescu: "Chrisopher Serna (archived) was sentenced to 50 years in prison by a Florida court for cutting off his girlfriend's head and sticking it on a pole."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wow check it out, woman betrayed teh pakistani ring!
mircea_popescu: well, in cases which are essentially this to begin with...
mircea_popescu: "Danish Syed (archived) was sentenced to 18 months in prison for helping his half brother move to Pakistan." o.O
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if you can find someone like this, it'll usually be a paralegal.
mircea_popescu: they can buy either 0 shares of any stock or no less than 0 contracts in any future.
mircea_popescu: yeah, because they were going to. all bought on the generous pay their prestigious position with the times allows them.
mircea_popescu: fresh off a community college course in "introduction to journalism" from wichita ?
mircea_popescu: williamdunne yeah that's exactly the sort of thing. what clueless derp would think of the press bias in these terms ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo afaik it's just a hard working guy that is completely misguided as to what constitutes business etc.
mircea_popescu: this is broadly true, but much like the guy with the red stapler, that vast majority doesn't actually take the time and effort to prop conde nast's numbers while derping
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo -otc has all teh "relevancy" one could ever wish for.
mircea_popescu: and that goes to the rest of you fuckheads. 1) i know who all of you are. this because your overlords can't keep secrets worth a shit. 2) my people are intangible or you get fucked.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.cusipzzz.-10:7efb49656c3c4fe3426e105cd84804e418313f0ad96ac8ae211f55148c7a83cf
mircea_popescu: !rate cusipzzz -10 ex-bitcoin merchant, meanwhile indicted over money laundering and released provisionally with an understanding that he'll use his supposed clout in the Bitcoin community in exchange for "lenience", whatever that may mean.
mircea_popescu: nothing one can do accidentally or untinentionally can ever be as bad as the deliberate, calculated poison the officers of the court masquerading as "defense counsel" put forth.
mircea_popescu: whenever anyone tells you that fucktarded "he who represents himself has a fool for a client", do remember : at least it won't be as bad as the silk road defense.
mircea_popescu: is perhaps the major-est failure in known legal history.
mircea_popescu: whereas the rest of the derps are essentially going on a "holy shit something we never heard of before- BURN THE WITHCq!1"
mircea_popescu: and to point out that the only person being helpful to the community in that room is the accused,
mircea_popescu: that the defense failed to call out the moral-panic powered prosecution
mircea_popescu: random commentator on internets has an excewllent point
mircea_popescu: "As I've written before, Silk Road was undoubtedly a net positive for the health, safety, and liberty of most of its customers and sellers. "
mircea_popescu: once something gains legal relevance, there's no way to keep it from becoming severed.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, cazalla and i : bringing wtf to fb normies since a while ago.
mircea_popescu: that is the point. to fall from grace there must be a grace first. there isn't.
mircea_popescu: is it related to his tooth brushing habits ? is it a function of being loose with women ?
mircea_popescu: check it out alfie, guy is starving in the street. good enough yet ? :D
☟︎ mircea_popescu: notwithstanding you can make a steel sword and behead someone
mircea_popescu: the idea is, that e coli is commensal or symbiotic, depending on your perspective, whereas salmonella is pathogenic
mircea_popescu: decimation very unfair contrast, this. e coli is natural gut fauna. salmonella is never found in healthy humans.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne and the part they didn't sell because their own agents stole ? removed that too ?
mircea_popescu: honestly, if i was seriously contemplating living in the us, i'd seriously consider getting a life sentence. that way they're stuck paying for it all
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what do you suppose is the difference between this life in prison and that life in prison anyway ? not like he was gonna buy himself a house.
mircea_popescu: they got money burnin holes in their pockets absolutely must buy guy's meal and doctor visits.
mircea_popescu: i think ima start "tit 1337" investigations of random people nao.
mircea_popescu: "Kipnis was not allowed to have an attorney present during her interview with Title IX investigators, she writes, but she was allowed to bring along another faculty member as a "support person" provided that the person she brought did not speak. That support person later discussed Kipnis' situation at a "Faculty Senate" meeting—and has subsequently been accused of, yes, committing a Title IX violation."
mircea_popescu: one can always spin up an arbitrary number of spammy txn.
mircea_popescu: imagine the "stress test" if the blocks ACTUALLY WERE 20mb.
mircea_popescu: spending anything out of it makes BOTH the little you spent and the 999.x remainder NEW coinbases.
mircea_popescu: the beauty of this being that if you have say 1000btc in one chunk
mircea_popescu: gotta give people enough room to fail, otherwise people can't be good.
mircea_popescu: the idea being, ifsomeone absuses it we just negrate him.
mircea_popescu: gheorghe gheorghiu dej went from common criminal to head of romanian state in a decade