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mircea_popescu: i gotta find this quote of myself, not enough self fellatio today.
mircea_popescu: ip addresses seems to be the manner to connect via tcp/ip neh ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c a mechanism made by someone not in wot doesn't really exist.
mircea_popescu: this, in particular, is a good discussion of macroeconomics, something you rarely see in english
mircea_popescu: sure, that';s the general idea, have all the magic strings in a file somewhere.
mircea_popescu: if the king can pay nobles for their service in "heraldics" he will do so. and issue and issue and issue until there's more crowns than the estucheon can hold.
mircea_popescu: giving voice to anyone that asks has its disadvantages.
mircea_popescu: if sex were merit based how do you explain masturbation ?
mircea_popescu: so "i have all this love to give" vs "i need to get laid" ?
mircea_popescu: i know i want a new internet too. who knew dilma got it
mircea_popescu: there was also a case in ww1 when the romanian general was put in command of all the german units and so on.
mircea_popescu: (one of the rare cases when a romanian was supreme commander of the russian troops in any war theater)
mircea_popescu: then later in ww2, romanian army went all the way to stalingrad, raping and pillaging with the germans, then got beaten back, went over to like, prague, and then after the war there was all that "sociailism" thingee/
mircea_popescu: anyway, the turks mowed them down, and so the commanding officer sent the romanian kind a "plz save us telegram'. so the romanian army moved in, beat back the turks, took some impossible redoubts, lost like a third of the men and that was that.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well, romania as a sovereign nation was mostly constructed around this event where the czar declared war on the turks on the fumes of imagining himself like the germans, and buying the british propaganda about the "dead man of europe". the turks were the origina lrhodesia.
mircea_popescu: heh. most everyone in romania was in teh projects coupla decades ago
mircea_popescu: how do you feel about that ? i got a few ancestors that were killed by teh turks and teh russians.
mircea_popescu: stress test the system, as it were. see what happens when there's i dunno, 500k pps ddos, but not from wordpress to me.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Exploiting the Robocaller Gap - Global Guerrillas << speaking of this ben_vulpes, how about a site where people can get bitcoin for reading messages on the screen, then autodial them into say 5k different emergency zones across the us.
mircea_popescu: just exactly what do you think this lynching business is :D
mircea_popescu: show up with a blue one then, mess with everyone's head.
mircea_popescu: heh. so bring a girl, and go "don't lynch me, take her instead" then run.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: i'd go if they didn't still lynch negroes << who does ?!
mircea_popescu: the film's unwatchable except for a kevin spacey monologue
mircea_popescu: there's a pretty fucking bad film about three stooges that conspire to kill their bosses.
mircea_popescu: im sure some rubber chicken on a beach will solve all this!
mircea_popescu: then those people lose morale and start coming to me with the stories, which hurts "everyone", which is to say : the scammers ; their friends.
mircea_popescu: which is true, it isn't. the us is built on a corporate culture of empty pretense and outright fraud. course they tend to stick together.
mircea_popescu: then those people want to express their outrage. sometimes they do. then they get letters from the idiot "management" about how THIS IS NOT OUR CORPORATE CULTURE
mircea_popescu: jurov: "Another example is that some CEOs fear to attack known scams in public because..." lol so they will attack them privately? << they have a serious strategic problem : employees are normally decent, intelligent human beings they're raping.
mircea_popescu: i know they told you there's no difference. they lied.
mircea_popescu: yo fenton, miss tits what's her name didn't manage, and she had the tits. this is not how you do it, seriously, pretending like you matter works in whoredom, not in finance.
mircea_popescu: "Organized by Bruce Fenton of the Bitcoin Association and Atlantic Financial, participants in the first annual Satoshi Roundtable include top executives from companies such as Blockchain, BitGo, BitPesa, Chain, ChangeTip, Coinapult and MegaBigPower, as well as noted VCs in the space such as Erik Voorhees and Roger Ver."
mircea_popescu: they're just being inclusive to all climates while working with technology to resolve the problems of the future.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Oh people are now ripping off MP's conference format << lmao buncha wanna-bes. what fucking elite ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL: If you know what you are doing << most of rural transylvania still makes its own moonshine. most still operators spend the three days it takes entirely drunk.
mircea_popescu: punkman: you can distill grapes, plus they are useful for other things << great anal beads
mircea_popescu: its already a 33GB download ,imagine that increasing exponentially ,nobodys going to download it all when it exceeds 100GB but i suppose we could all use "lite wallets " etc but that would also weaken the network if most people were using multibit etc"
mircea_popescu: everyone doesnt need the last 6-7 years of history ,there must be some way to let new users download the most recent portion without the previous 6 years or just the headers instead of every entire block etc
mircea_popescu: i think it would be a big mistake to put higher fees on higher tx amounts and i would vote against it ,raise the block size if necessary and prune the blockchain is a better idea imo
mircea_popescu: "one of the unique and beneficial attributes of btc is you can send someone a 50 cent tip or a million dollars for almost nothing in transaction fees
mircea_popescu: and all txn over 1k are free because fuck you that side doo.
mircea_popescu: how about all txn under 1 BTC are excised 99 bitcents fee because fuck you, go be poor in massachussetts ?
mircea_popescu: the one thing poor people will NOT give up except with their life is "you got money gimme"
mircea_popescu: "Or would you prefer to introduce sliding scale fee structure (higher tx amount - higher fee)?"
mircea_popescu: as if that's how the world works, old men get what they want for wanting it.
mircea_popescu: basically, one less explored point of usgavin's interest with the fork is to cripple the politically revolutionary side of bitcoin. obviously if bitcoin can't be bitcoin then the replacement of plain contracts with gpg-contracts will at least be hindered.
mircea_popescu: Why? Because if you are giving somebody one million dollars for something, you almost certainly have built up real-world trust, and probably have a longstanding relationship, signed contracts, etc etc."
mircea_popescu: "I'd suggest you go research existing high-value-payment networks and see what typical fees are for multi-million dollar transactions. FEDWIRE is running at 6 transactions per second, average transaction value over $6million, with fees per transaction UNDER ONE DOLLAR.
mircea_popescu: "Also, I used to read their logs on IRC, and there was a guy called 'pankkake' (also in btctalk) who seems to have vanished. I think its because they disagreed regarding the fork thing, so if anyone could share the light on his views, that'd be interesting too since I used to value his thoughts." <<< wasn't that over the systemd fork of linux !?
mircea_popescu: saying no to idiots is hardly enough merit to rename things, we'll end up with weekly renamings if this is how things work.
mircea_popescu: (MP standing for Mircea Popescu.. - dam he must be so thrilled having the 'basic' bitcoin renamed after him XD) << no, actually, i'd rather it just be called bitcoin. which is what it is.