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mircea_popescu: and whether i do or not is
a matter of my own private and personal arbitrariety and nothing else.
mircea_popescu: zuckerberg does not. which is why i'm
a player and zuckerberg for all the press, is not.
mircea_popescu: something i can do, if i want. i can sell out mpoe stock and put
a 1bn dolar contract on obama's head.
mircea_popescu: it's
a cash out when he takes 1bn of facebook stock and gives it to support rebels ousting the us from the ukraine.
mircea_popescu: BigBitz also you will notice, taking 1bn of stock and lavisingh it upon some charity does empathically not constitute
a cash out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's
a reason only washed up nobodies
a la pierce and twinkletoss come derping around to be impaled on the fence pikes.
mircea_popescu: what btc revenue can you guarantee me today for
a 1bn usd investment in s.rig ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (nobody but me and perhaps half
a dozen other weirdos give
a flying fuck about usenet archive) << nonsense. history is history.
BigBitz: According to
a Facebook filing this week, Zuckerberg pulled the trigger on some 60 million shares worth of options at the end of last year, netting
a profit of about $3.3 billion. He immediately turned around and sold more than 41 million shares while turning over 18 million, worth almost $1 billion at the time, to his favorite charity, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
pete_dushenski: BigBitz: his resources are tied up in
a stock which he basically can't sell
BigBitz: I'm sure he could do
a 51% attack if he /really/ wanted. :)
assbot: Democracy vs. Aristocracy | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
mircea_popescu: in any case, the people who end up places because google are generally speaking they too young or too stupid to have
a populated mental space / bookmark list
mircea_popescu: if you dont, you know how to identify one, and google supplies
a raw list, like
a sort of research intern.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i know i treat teh backdoors as
a right...
pete_dushenski: "Google will begin using website encryption, or HTTPS, as
a ranking signal –
a move which should prompt website developers who have dragged their heels on increased security measures" << lulz
ben_vulpes: great thing about new server is that i can run it as hot as i want without some virtualization layer going "mmmm, that's
a little bit too hot. let's bork your input and ouput for
a bit."
pete_dushenski: and mr. ben_vulpes, as
a student of power, you should enjoy this most recent blog post
assbot: This Is The Bitcoin Empire. This Is The New Yasa | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
mircea_popescu: which lenin did not bother to get. he was arrested, and accused of lenining without
a license. this is the test above.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski tsar (who ruled by divine right) govt (which HAD the authority to exist as
a merely regulatory body) made
a leninlicense.
mircea_popescu: on one hand, one party risks being maintained by the other, at its expense, well in excess of 100 btc
a year, for
a while. on the other hand, that other party risks complete disolution.
mircea_popescu: the us may only exist as
a LAWFUL body, not as merely
a regulatory body.
mircea_popescu: Namworld i think you're missing
a major component here. what you describe, I can afford, the us can not.
Namworld: Regulating people usually involve punishment after the fact, since altering how the world works isn't really
a possibility.
Namworld:
http://trilema.com/2014/time-for-some-bitlicenses-of-our-own/ << Of course they can regulate anything. Regulating never prevented people from doing whatever they pleased, neither does it in this case. Regulating involves having sticks to deter non-compliance if discovered. Anyone can do that for anything, provided they got
a sufficient amount of sticks in the region they wish to regulate.
mircea_popescu: it attaches to the named. temujin had
a wife as an unborn ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski "2. Forbidden to ever make peace with
a monarch,
a prince or
a people who have not submitted." << definitely how it goes for bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: mike_c btw, perhaps
a link to promotion in wol faq/news ?
mircea_popescu: "We’ve completed our investigation of your unauthorized payment claim. As the payment was sent as part of
a billing agreement, it is considered to be an authorized payment. However, as
a courtesy to you, we have issued you
a refund for this transaction."
cazalla: clearly
a smart guy though, his leftism essay helped me to understand some of the frustration i feel towards leftist people but wasn't smart enough to figure out myself
BingoBoingo: Dr. K had
a problem. How to put his writing in front of as many people as possible. Maybe the reign of terror was more
a tool to that end than the writing
a tool to jsutify the terror.
cazalla: although none sustained
a reign of terror for as long as ted did
cazalla: i mean, some of the school shooters have
a higher kill/death ratio than him
cazalla: BingoBoingo, i know the quote and he's understandably upset but to jump to bombs even before angry letters might be
a bit much
BingoBoingo: re were too many people around my cabin so I decided I needed some peace. I went back to the plateau and when I got there I found they had put
a road right through the middle of it... You just can't imagine how upset I was. It was from that point on I decided that, rather than trying to acquire further wilderness skills, I would work on getting back at the system. Revenge."
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Or you can go with what he said: "The best place, to me, was the largest remnant of this plateau that dates from the tertiary age. It's kind of rolling country, not flat, and when you get to the edge of it you find these ravines that cut very steeply in to cliff-like drop-offs and there was even
a waterfall there. It was about
a two days' hike from my cabin. That was the best spot until the summer of 1983. That summer the
thickasthieves: i dont think bitpay cares about TBF beyond it's ability to serve as
a tool to its own ends
BingoBoingo: Bitpay puts in
a lot of Dev, but... How many foundation seats connect to them?
rithm: looks like
a seat of beats headphones
fluffypony: well at least he has
a nice retirement annuity now
gribble: Error: ";;ticker" is not
a valid command.
rithm: more than
a car, less than
a castle
pankkake: shouldn't the Bitcoin icon be
a bubble too?
rithm: zookoo's triangle should've had
a privkey backup in it somewhere :|
fluffypony: yeah but the triangle refers to
a centralised naming authority, so only decentralised in that sense
thickasthieves: and even
a decentralized network is centralized itself
fluffypony: since even
a Bitcoin address can be memorised if you're so inclined
fluffypony: wrt naming systems I suppose it's
a degee
fluffypony: I was going to say that with Zooko's triangle it was believed that
a naming system couldn't be simultaneously human-meaningful, decentralised, and secure (you had to pick 2)
fluffypony: it's fine - you just jumped the gun
a little, lol
xmj: i have not received one application from
a female FreeBSD systems administrator
thickasthieves: fluffypony it seems to make 3 properties that aren't exclusively linked or equally related and paint them in
a triangle
thickasthieves: keeping in mind this is
a post from
a guy complaining he has 9 messaging apps wor whatever all using icons that make too much sense to him
fluffypony: otherwise I'd drive
a Land Rover Defender
BingoBoingo_: Isn't it weird that people want super detailed and incredibly specific information when we label
a bad idea
a bad idea, yet they take light teasing super seriously and start writing off people's opinions immediately...
fluffypony: not only that, but if you're on the same wifi as
a user you can just poison their arp cache so you can mitm, sslstrip, and voila
pankkake: funny that rushwallet thing, coindesk makes it news but I found
a 1-year old announcement on reddit
Vexual: thats
a trade center from long way back
xmj: fluffypony: I have the first customer asking if I can give'm
a quote.
Vexual: lets us hop in
a thing and go totunisia
Vexual: wait, you got
a dollar for the jukebox?
pete_dushenski: That was in the morning, then this afternoon was mainly pillaging, though there was
a bit of bloodshed around half four. What sort of day have you had?"
pete_dushenski: "How...how's the work going... dear?" she yelped miserably. The soldier shook her. "Put some affection into it!" he roared. She sobbed again. "How...how's the work going... dear?" she yelped miserably again, but this time with
a kind of pathetic pout at the end. The mighty Khan sighed. "Oh, not too bad I suppose," he said in
a world weary tone. "We swept through Manchuria
a bit and spilt quite
a lot of blood there.
mircea_popescu: what are the odds that someone cracked
a good joke/compliment jsut as the flash went off ?
pete_dushenski: ^just stumbled across
a very interesting looking math blog, for those so inclined
pete_dushenski: "There isn’t, nor is there going to be
a way, manner, instrument or device through which to protect the passive from the active."
assbot:
A very unfair perspective. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
RebeccaBitcoin: none of these were achieved: revenge, orgasm, college degree,
a really hot dude's phone #
RebeccaBitcoin: "Bullshit" with Penn & Teller about reparations:
a good episode about that in America
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yes - that's what Malema pushed for, and it's one of the things that eventually got him booted from the ANC, because even they believe it's
a stupid idea
mircea_popescu: somehow i don't see this education angle too much. seems it's more
a case of, "let's take the land and maybe white people will just pay us to be black"