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mircea_popescu: “We were stunned by the allegations which served to negatively impact our business in this exciting and evolving financial category,” said Josh Garza, CEO of GAW. “However, we appreciate the outpouring of support by a community that is behind what we are doing as pioneers in the cryptocurrency market; in short, they simply didn’t believe it.”
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski understand : building a building costs to the tune of a bn or a few.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski anything past ~20 years is not necessarily going to come in your favour.
mircea_popescu: maybe there's no private market in the sense that there's no bitcoin stock market ?
mircea_popescu: banks refinance at about 0.2% anything under .3% is ok but over that is being greedy.
mircea_popescu: hm, i guess actually you might not have the luxury to tell them to gtfo
mircea_popescu: what is this, fucking retail ? we're all jews, right ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell phillipsjk you can't reason on any topic on the rotten basis of socialist propaganda.
mircea_popescu: decimation: bezzlar lending rates keep dropping because 'oh noes deflation' <<< if you can take an immense loan denominated in usd and at a fixed rate, to purchase anything tangible you should do so right now.
mircea_popescu: everyone has savings, and they save in gold ? wtf is this bs.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benjamindees seven billion people have no savings.
mircea_popescu: also there, " Bitcoin can be so complicated at times that even I have problems getting all the facts."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tomorrow'll be fine, but yes, now is the time on sprockets where you let the little guys fuck by themselves a while.
mircea_popescu: YOU ARE CONFUSING PEOPLE!! the problem we are solving is not a problem which is why it should be solved!!!1
mircea_popescu: That number isn't true as it assumes we will immediately be processing 84k transactions per block which isn't going to happen."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski seriously, someone argued that "he prices of commodity-based fuels, which are traded in deep, liquid markets, also tend to be more volatile than those of renewables, for which there tend to be no separate markets" ?
mircea_popescu: supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the wot, not some farcical fencing ceremony...
mircea_popescu: i tell you, blond inch tall figurines drawn on a EGA screen waving about swords are no basis for a financial system.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how this'd practically be stuff like tax filings, court can and does ask the irs for that.
mircea_popescu: mats "private persons" in II excludes corporations. but otherwise, anything that one communicated to another is fair game.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Collaborator was also one of the first, notorious BTC GPU miners << who was this again ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: at the minimum, it was a 'spare' in case of a catastrophic break in sha2 << on this we agree. meanwhile that problem seems to have navigated away
mircea_popescu: The sad irony? It wasn't old or overdone when they did it. But the things it created were so brilliant and popular, they became woven into the fabric of that show's genre. They ended up being taken for granted, copied and endlessly repeated. Although they often began by saying something new, they in turn became the status quo.
mircea_popescu: There are certain shows that you can safely assume most people have seen. These shows were considered fantastic when they first aired. Now, however, these shows have a Hype Backlash curse on them. Whenever we watch them, we'll cry, "That is so old" or "That is so overdone".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i mean, i get it, it's become scarcely distinguishable from other pumpcoinz << know teh seinfeld effect ?
mircea_popescu: they;'re not unidirectional sort of problerms like the factorisation problem is.
mircea_popescu: about as easy to go either way, towards past or future
mircea_popescu: cazalla: he's just the first iteration of garza <<< this angle i can definitely see.
mircea_popescu: and then we give nooby kids with undegrad "business" and "governance" degrees a hard time for their self-reported "experience"
mircea_popescu: just... so many ideas, it's like reading 3 centuries worth of old gray lady.
mircea_popescu: this is like... b-a logs are so substantial they dilate the perception of time.
mircea_popescu: i thought it was much much longer ago than fucken march last.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i once suggested, semi-seriously, a proofofworkfunktion based on cellular automata << i recall our discussing this, in the very logs! years ago!
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski rickles is easily one of the greatest comedians who ever lived
mircea_popescu: in other news, one doesn't hate you for the things about you that make you great, one hates you for the things about you that make his shit no longer work.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this, rather than 'open'-whatever in the abstract, is why redmond declared total war on linux << quite.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: i was just wondering if a random tails user was aware of that sort of thing, or if they just downloaded it because freetalklive mentioned it << you know the answer to that q.
mircea_popescu: i hope they had a new york clause in their contract, and griesa gets to judge it
mircea_popescu: cazalla: but i think we've also refined the type of content we publish << i guess that's gonna keep getting redefined, iut's what living things do.
mircea_popescu: teward now you can assbot voice, send !up in pm then !v its string
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.teward.1:fc509d9d4b7e9bcc7fa8f0b03ff66507e9f975b04b153a5a7b45e4bdf99a6b31