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decimation: from that eth blog announcement (I'm reading pete's blog): " The remaining 1500 BTC will be sent to
a wallet controlled by ??V, our development arm, and will be used to establish our sites in Berlin and Amsterdam and begin hiring developers;"
mircea_popescu: it's more like
a reverberation of the constantine emperors "holy host" approach to battle.
mircea_popescu: the norman period warlord is not exactly
a might makes right stand.
justusranvier: Well "good" would be, "don't be
a warlord". Since he'd already decided to adopt the "might makes right" standard of ethics by being in that profession, he would have been better off staying consistent.
mircea_popescu: had you known which is evil and which is good, you could have saved
a lot of headache.
justusranvier: Moral of the story: If you're going to be
a good person or an evil person, at least put in some reasonable effortwhichever option you choose.
justusranvier: Had the protagonist had simply been ruthless and calculating about getting what he wanted, he could have done so without provoking
a revolt. If he had decided to do the right thing, he'd have kept it in his pants and avoided the entire crisis.
justusranvier: It's
a story about how sitting on the fence is the worst possible outcome.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier well the problem is... he couldn't have. this is like saying "usg could have fixed btc in 2010, saved
a lot of 2014-16 headaches"
justusranvier: Still, they needed his permission to get married. Means he could have denied it and saved
a lot of death and property destruction.
mircea_popescu: people who are fundamentally right get misrepresented as being utterly wrong because science progresses generally within
a paradigm
justusranvier: The love interest gets married to
a guy who she grew up with in the same house. Warlord refuses to allow the marriage on the grounds of incest. Problem averted.
justusranvier: Funny thing about The Warlord is the younger brother is made out to be
a villian and Charleton Heston made out to be heroic, however the younger brother is right every step of the way.
godovo: Timisoara is
a good place, too
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: The Warlord is
a rather obscure movie. I'm surprised to see that reference.
godovo: or
a window into how west will look like (financially) in
a few years?
mircea_popescu: i pay in cash, get the vat back as
a kickback, it's wunderbar.
justusranvier: I've heard that in general people there are
a lot less squeemish about routing around bad government policy via black markets.
mircea_popescu: by this scale,
a week in new york is
a week in hell, the circle of horn rape
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: We'd get punchbowls,
a handle of gin, and mix with Orange Juice and Rainbow Sherbet
justusranvier: But for sure, the people who've lived there
a while have gone through adversity. They've had
a currency crash every decade or so.
TheNewDeal: today marks
a glorius occasion, which is one to get in below my cost average
TheNewDeal: hmph. I'm
a regular derp and I'm just beginning
justusranvier: godovo: When the masses in the G7 countries experience
a level of adversity compared to that of, for example, Argentina you won't need to explain to them why Bitcoin is important any more.
mircea_popescu: in richard's words, "there's
a mass that follows me because it follows anything that moves."
mircea_popescu: godovo> so can't this be considered
a pathetic attempt?
gribble: The answer is
a resounding no.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: for people who're used to keeping hundreds of thousands of dollars at the broker and uncomfortable with their own computer security it's
a not unreasonable position.
justusranvier: There might not be
a unified "they" all acting with
a single purpose
justusranvier: pete_dushenski: Right, and it hasn't even been
a year yet. Too soon to start panicking.
justusranvier: Do you have ADD or something? Zoom out, switch to
a log scale, and be patient.
BingoBoingo: The current market shit seems to be an effort to make "paper" BTC
a thing like it was at Gox, and well, cycles repeat themselves
pete_dushenski: but that would be rather out of sorts for
a nation who imagines themselves the most powerful and important in the world
godovo: so can't this be considered
a pathetic attempt?
pete_dushenski: but not before we all write
a few more articles, sweat
a few more bullets, and watch as the salvos wizz by
assbot: The Bitcoin Dumping Charade | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
pete_dushenski: "Australian law firm Clayton Utz has developed
a smartphone app for companies facing dawn raids on their offices from police, antitrust and securities regulators, and tax officers."
mircea_popescu: (but if you want lulz at
a party, ask local girl to say "lavalle qui rit")
mthreat: there's
a "Loyola Lane" in Austi
mircea_popescu: ahahhah if this style becomes
a thing where one's known as Chris, Lord Mthreat or Juraj, Lord Jurov it'll be the lol of all time.
mthreat: Elton John is
a lord, too, right?
mircea_popescu: "I'd have to grow
a moustache and get all kinds of robes and lotions and I'd need
a new bedspread and new ... "
mthreat: I'll have to buy
a funny hat, or something
mthreat: I just found out I'm
a lord
mircea_popescu: for
a moment i imagined pete_dushenski's rebecca's name actually is becker. for maximal lulz.
BingoBoingo: pankkake> even #bitcoin-assets isn't named #mircea_popescu << #Kako_Chat would be
a nice name for
a channel
shovel_boss: mircea_popescu, mate can i post
a channel name here
los_pantalones: perhaps i'll merge them as it becomes clearer to me but it seemed like
a cheap option to do it this way
los_pantalones: ok well there are very well defined IP ownership clauses in my contract and i just thought this made sense as
a starting point
los_pantalones: yes yes, but when i'm acting on their behalf am i acting as
a sovereign entity?
los_pantalones: i have
a personal one, attached to my activities outside of work
mircea_popescu: however, in practice, one quickly discovers that value accumulates, and
a signature or
a btc address is more like
a domain name than even
a domain name.
mircea_popescu: who knows, maybe next time they open the books,
a baron is you :D
justusranvier: I did. Thanks. Do I get
a castle or something now? Vassals?
mircea_popescu: but just as long as there's
a clear delineation of risk, and you undertake the risk of ethereum not going anywhere, we can prolly hammer something out
justusranvier: The theory is it's
a laundring operation of the exact form use by politial campain fundraising
justusranvier: I heard
a theory about Ethereum which I'm not sure has been floated here before.
mircea_popescu: i made
a model, it's been linked
a few times, lemme find it
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell RagnarDanneskjol had you reg'd with
a gpg address like respectable folk i would now have everything I need to send you an email. wtf am i going to do with
a bitcoin address ?
mircea_popescu: in romanian it sounds like it were "Piss's", if Piss were
a restaurant or something
mircea_popescu: in other news, turns out laurina is
a major brand on birth control pills.
mircea_popescu: this is less than unemployment benefits, by almost
a degree of magnitude.
mircea_popescu: they were promised irresponsibility without consequence and
a shot at megaupside, DANG IT!!!!
mircea_popescu: que "i'm such
a jerk, and history coming to bite one in the ass is so unfair, and what sort of usg democracy is this where responsibility exists!!1"
mircea_popescu: ima just go !s "you're
a famous failure nao, bitch. deal with it." and all the greybeards will chuckle privately.
BingoBoingo: lol, I'll let him wonder. Some lessons sting more with
a few years of hindsight.
pete_dushenski: "Try to see it from
a police officer’s point of view: You may be unarmed, but you’re also black"
assbot:
A travel agent just gave me back my money and said that he didnt feel comfortable with booking my flight. No federal interference here!
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A gribble: Error: "bc,diff" is not
a valid command.
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A HeySteve: I believe they pre-register
a lot of commercially desirable names, like for medicines, vehicles and probably other stuff
kdomanski: it's sweet how they linked to
a "research article"
HeySteve: kdomanski I remember an MP article on that stuff, conclusion being that
a unique address is better
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ben_vulpes: punkman: are you active on the forums? would you post
a link to
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Seems like it now, but... Still
a few months left
assbot:
A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: Attack of the Week: Triple Handshakes (3Shake)
assbot:
A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: What's the matter with PGP?
wywialm: Poland is on the frontier, but any pro-regional tendencies are almost nonexistent. moreover it is
a very hard nation to administer and russians when they were stronger did not risk running it on their own
wywialm: yeah, that would be
a good shot,
a independence + rather leftist political climate
wywialm: true, yet the russian media also add
a lot of propaganda and russian population seems to be much more susceptible
RagnarDanneskjol: Sure, but I think there are approval times, limits, etc. They want to send me
a large retainer fee [10k] like yesterday, and I want to have them to learn it the right way
RagnarDanneskjol: yea - Im sure they have some go-to network that most folks use - All i know of is Bobby Lee. I have
a client who needs to pay me
a retainer and they are new to all this so need to figure it out for them, show them the ropes, but I got no clue