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mircea_popescu: fluffypony it's not even that, lol. i'm not making a judgement based on how the twerp presents itself. this is more like, "you're not famous, go away", but for a much better definition of famous. "people i care about heard of you."
mircea_popescu: it's funny, what a few decades of "everyone else is your supporting cast" has done to joe blow.
mircea_popescu: "just pray, madam, that the russians don't do to you and your daughters anything like"
mircea_popescu: famously, the returning, defeated nazis said the same thing.
mircea_popescu: i thought they're just pulling a great gatsby / jerry seifeld, and just storing them
mircea_popescu: saudi arabia actually can fly all those planes it was collecting ?!
mircea_popescu: cnn moving into the wordsalad humor racket. reddit turf.
mircea_popescu: he total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00021372
mircea_popescu: <mod6> once I have these guys << hanbot how about you help with that effort ?
mircea_popescu: not to my knowledge risky for anyone else, except, of course, as far as the presence of the former impels.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bdsm is very risky for the single, naive/retarded female. it is almost as risky for the single, ideologically captive male.
mircea_popescu: why not as an example of why you shouldn't go around without one ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron what was that company that was "under fire" for something or other to do with gay marriage, ended up with booming sales ?
mircea_popescu: "a bunch of fat slobs with too much time on their hands and a govt-subsidized internet connection are mashing keyboards" ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, "We always used condoms before, and we both agreed he's only going to fuck my ass now that we're married. We both love the symbolism — I'll be shitting out his weak sperm while superior black men's seed will soak into my womb as nature intended."
mircea_popescu: the LAST thing i want is all the idiots buzzing around IN PLANES.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if only that guy with the younger queen of spades gf had had the sense to do this, you know ? "hey, i just own the team. go fire my racism guy if you don';t like my being racist"
mircea_popescu: because that's totally how the mob works, "hey, i don't owe you money, that was my other personality / sister / neighbour"
mircea_popescu: now... to answer this you're telling me that you wouldn't be doing the planting directly ? what difference does it make.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, ~IF~ you do get some tomatoes to grow, they are yours.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the first place, and may or may not be inhabited by poisonous alien flying earthworms.
mircea_popescu: so, you wish to grow tomatoes. you can either grow tomatoes on land owned by old man KYC, who offers the following deal : "you may [pretend like] you're growing tomatoes here, provided you suck my cock for longer than you derp in the garden, and if any tomatoes grow up you owe me twice as many tomatoes on top of those tomatoes", or you could grow them on unrelated land. which may or may not be able to grow tomatoes in
mircea_popescu: nothing changes. let's work an example to get what we mean.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, lawsky has his own guy that bribed him to do it, and whoever else has whoever else, and none of those schmucks is you.
mircea_popescu: quite. and exactly the same with kyc. if you implement the us rules, you're stuck working for the us. it probably doesn't want you to be doing this, and consequently, you are only allowed to "do it" if you don't actually do it, and for as long as you bring money from home.
mircea_popescu: prolly end up richer than me. or dead, whichever comes first.
mircea_popescu: if you're serious about this, go to a country that's not part of the usg, run a proper exchange. no kyc/bs.
mircea_popescu: taking shit from b-a log and pretending like your "expert" economists finally figured it out a month later is one thing. taking code and backporting it is harder to deny.
mircea_popescu: odds of that are low, seeing how a) they're too stupid-proud to do it and b) we got better shit to do than maintain dead forks.
mircea_popescu: they have a solid tradition of covering old shit that;s starting to stink with freshly laid shit.
mircea_popescu: davout has it. testnet is about as useful to testing bitcoin as it is to testing litecoin.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo fwiw i think he's smoking corn cobbs. srsly, if some woman needs me to walk everywhere with her i dun want anything to do with her. learn to kungfu.
mircea_popescu: * jurov proposes opening D.GBTC to close the circle :DDD << i would, if i didn't know in advance that the entire charade is entirely outside of any sort of economical considerations.
mircea_popescu: the woman's sin ? she just... didn't think very much of random teenagers. this, terribru sin for the teenagers in question.
mircea_popescu: we got along great. i think might have been my favourite teacher.
mircea_popescu fondly recalls elena dragos. woman was a bit of a famous thing in cluj at the time. an entire year, 180ish students HATED the woman.
mircea_popescu: also the fact that each of his legs is longer than the other.
mircea_popescu: exactly. which is the biggest problem for the touchy-feely types. absolutely HORRID people can make exceptional teachers
mircea_popescu: X is responsible to passing the right data, not to "passing the right data in the right internal context"
mircea_popescu: Y will take it, in its own context, and do something with it.
mircea_popescu: think of it as separate machines. what the meaning of data is in X, as it passes it to Y, matters little for Y. and vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: there's not even any possible relation between the two, is the thing.
mircea_popescu: the one thing redditards dedicate their lives to avoiding.
mircea_popescu: at some point, once you discover that X isn't a proper master, nor Y nor Z, the realisation is forcibly dawned on you that perhaps you just suck.
mircea_popescu: "A kid comes into a boxing gym. Your job as a coach is to discourage him so that he quits early on and does not waste your time."
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it's only a progression to somewhere sometimes.
mircea_popescu: anymore than you can establish if bits are code or data.