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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and if cca 280k this choickes to, what do we do ? what's heron sense say ?
mircea_popescu: "all internet security is a slow, half-assed, dubious reimplementation of gossipd. pity gossipd itself doesn't exist yet."
mircea_popescu: in the great internet battle pitting idiots against trolls... the trolls are winning.
mircea_popescu: cazalla anything shoul work ok really, get whatever's accessible.
mircea_popescu: "My understanding is a lot of heavily weighted entities in the ecosystem already support Gavin's proposed course."
mircea_popescu: funny how this wasn't a consideration before, because "unanimous."
mircea_popescu: lmao @forum. it has NOW discovered the importance of stuff.
mircea_popescu: "A sampling of 30% of average forum users isn't the same as 30% of the community, and certainly not the ecosystem. In reality individual users and organizations carry different weight. At the end of the day people who believe in Bitcoin (and invest their money into it) will do what they can to protect that value. The fork which has the most economic value will be the one most likely to survive with confidence of those
mircea_popescu: mayb someone should tell him fluffypony was actually looking to payu someone to do this ?
mircea_popescu: impossibru. who outside of cazalla and anyone thinking could have predicted this!
mircea_popescu: they'd roast the vanishingly small african community if those dudes didn't run so fasty.
mircea_popescu: they come read you the meat riot and sedition acts and then start shooting
mircea_popescu: mod6 it is not legal in argentina to convene more than six people outside of the presence of roasted meat.
mircea_popescu: not in the sense of, women. in the sense of, mindboggling challenges.
mircea_popescu: hey, i didn't tell you to spend all day typing ruby or w/e you do. boost.
mircea_popescu: go out all over portland and date until you find a funny woman.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you'd better come up wioth good shit, i already have some fucking killers for you mr.
mircea_popescu: btw ben_vulpes im thinking, at first conference dinner... we have roast party ?
mircea_popescu: cjc if you're in assbot's wot, you get to voice yourself. if not, people who are can voice you in half hour chunks.
mircea_popescu: (doctors don't sleep either. allegedly for different reasons._)
mircea_popescu: there's more to money than just getting five thousand people to send you ten bux.
mircea_popescu: there was recently a problem with a nsa infiltration that's still being "investigated".
mircea_popescu: seems to me kinda drifting without rudder, hoping it won't meet any serious icebergs.
mircea_popescu: cjc since you've apparently been around for a while : any merit to teh rumous of freenode slowly going to shit ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that is actually the theory i've "come up with" myself.
mircea_popescu: cjc read the logs, linked in topic. there's a search function too.
mircea_popescu: not really linked it, which is weird mfa sorta behaviour.
mircea_popescu: qntra and derivatives totally dominates teh discussion.
mircea_popescu: heh. the first part is true, obviously. not so sure about the 2nd. bitcoin is after all based on drama and lulz.
mircea_popescu: "Now i see. Gavin announced chaos and drama to the press because he himself intends to create it. He gets a 30% veto and still wants to proceed. It's gonna rip. I just switched to Litecoin."