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bounce: it is
a problem if, say, kansas or ohio judges order domains seized from overseas companies that do things perfectly legal there
nubbins`: tbh seizing domains is such
a non-problem
jborkl: Texas, the state has
a robin hood theory
nubbins`: pLambert: so mp gets rendered, bitbet.us shows
a DoJ logo. what now?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu trying things isn't required. i have
a CS degree even though i only made two working programs during the course of my degree
mircea_popescu: this has resulted in
a generationful of people who can do nothing but and nothing other than "convincingly" trying.
mircea_popescu: since about the 90s or so, basic us education has been filtering quite perversely : you get an
a or
a+ for succeeding at the task, usually an
a or rarely
a b "for effort" by delivering
a credible simulacra of having tried, and an f or rarely
a c for actually trying and failing.
pLambert: but it might be useful to bet on yes, cause who knows what will happen to mpex investments if mp gets arrested, sort of
a hedge?
mircea_popescu: reminds me of the principled 20somethings that are on
a diet
nubbins`: pLambert: also, the btctalk crowd who would love to see MP extradited also probably would never send
a single satoshi to bitbet, purely on principle
mircea_popescu: thus if submitter places
a 10btc bet he is in effect going "i'm not tryin' to mooch ya"
nubbins`: pLambert "Consider submitting with substantial paid wager" is
a common rejection reason. not sure if there's
a cut-and-dry minimum, but i've seen bets with 0.0x btc on either side
pLambert: "Rejection reason: If you're going to play the cool internet cat, go get some BTC, then submit your retardation with paid wager." How much do you need to bet to get
a bitbet accepted?
mircea_popescu: "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but
a walking shadow,
a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is
a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing."
mircea_popescu: but seriously, i tell you you can't have
a new car and you close down the fucking parks in response ?
mircea_popescu: that was
a test, it was failed, congress is going away.
mircea_popescu: recently they tried to enforce the power of the purse and were made
a mockery of for it.
bounce: you know, discering
a signal, framing, all that jazz
mircea_popescu: You can’t stop all fraud. Some will get through your defenses. Currency exchange profit margins are too narrow to absorb much of it, so you need
a healthy legitimate customer base across whom you can distribute those costs. As chargebacks come in, it’s tempting to focus entirely on eliminating fraud. Unfortunately, that focus inconveniences legitimate customers so much that they go elsewhere.
Urushiol: pLambert: it will give you
a max though
mike_c: bitbet has certainly published
a lot of their addresses by now. hopefully they have good RNG!
mircea_popescu: "how thick is
a width of
a meter ?" "dude dunno, as thick as the wind blowing may make it seem. otherwise, it's wide"
mike_c: sorry,
a specific set of keys
mike_c: asciilifeform: i believe i've heard you talk about this before, but i can't remember the specifics. If I generated and published say 20,000 adddresses out of
a single wallet do you think I am leaking anything that would significantly hurt the security of that wallet?
pLambert: wikipedia "Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes
a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of arrogance, madness, and dea
truffles: just post him
a google link dood
mircea_popescu: so take the lady out sometime, it's still
a great play.
pLambert: yes, I saw MacBeth, but it was
a long time ago
pLambert: but you can probably find
a nice dichotomy in any group using selfish/selfless criterion
pLambert: hmm, not sure why it didn't work before, I had follwed
a link out of the -asset logs, would that affect anything?
mircea_popescu: you probably wrote your thing in
a notepad then pasted it in and submitted. that's 90% of what makes legitimate folks get called inhuman.
mircea_popescu: things are going to come to
a head tho, much like venezuela's internal debate.
mircea_popescu: theres going to be
a landslide dem president with
a 2/3+ teaparty majority house and senate
pLambert: I don't think Paul is going to pick
a VP who has
a record of calling him
a "wacko bird"
antephialtic: hillary would pick
a white dude. someone from the midwest or south.
antephialtic: rand paul's VP would be
a safe establishment pick. Something like paul ryan. Maybe even John McCain
mircea_popescu: just try again, but make sure you use
a fresh copy of
a page, and count to 5 before submitting
pLambert: basically, I was saying I look forward to
a Hillary/M Obama vs Rand Paul/Justin Amash debate. in many more words
dignork: pLambert, there is
a capcha on
a page, did you solve it?
pLambert: mircea_popescu: I just tried to post
a comment on trilema, it says it only accepts comments from humans, what did I do wrong?
mircea_popescu: which had
a weak footing but meanwhile anchored itself in family care through the mediation of pseudo-healthcare (ie psychology)
Mats_cd03: in some places in asia, notably china, its popular for the moneyed to pay others to sit their duration of
a prison sentence
mircea_popescu: running
a jail was the way to put yourself on the map, see ?
mircea_popescu: bounce the jail filling is not
a goal of the justice dept.
bounce: no convicts -> empty jails. doesn't appear to be
a goal of the system. though it could be, I'll give you that. though not in
a country where the culture prescribes conflicts must be about people.
a conviction is an outcome of such
a conflict.
pankkake: if I was
a girl, I would have been
a prostitute
bounce: aaron schwarz is
a good illustration where the DoJ deliberately went for it only it backfired. though apparently hasn't backfired enough.
bounce: ie they're
a way to wriggle past bill shock (where the bill is the sentence as well as the rest of the cost) while at the same time allowing the "justice" department to show they're worth their money by "producing" convicts
Mats_cd03: the average prosecutor can only manage n trials at any time in
a jurisdiction
bounce: nah. they're more of an extortionate fix to
a "justice" system with too many overly vague overly broad criminal laws
Mats_cd03: e.g.
a flag officer under courts martial gets
a jury of his peers (other flag officers - generals)
bounce: though I may well be misremembering. what
a jury needs at
a military trial is
a bit of fridge logic.
bounce: wasn't it "
a few good men" where the hot shot lawyer guy urged to keep the nigger because of his nicely shined shoes?
bounce: I don't really see
a difference here, except much less continuity
bounce: to every ceasar there's
a bunch of fscktards and even more mediocre guys holding down the place
mike_c: ;;later tell turbo_ac100 i think it is quite reasonable. i was presenting it as
a good example of how to get rated.
nubbins`: st. john's being
a city of less than 200k people, two of the jurors were excused because their sons played soccer with the prosecutor's son
mircea_popescu: each side stipulates
a crock of shit as fact and they go from there.
mircea_popescu: someone should conduct
a study of "how many times did the prosecution claim hitman to try and get
a tough case past the jury"
mircea_popescu: "Kochanski’s botched transcripts include the 2010 mortgage-fraud trial of Aaron Hand, who was also convicted of trying to hire
a hit man to take out
a witness against him."
nubbins`: mircea_popescu more common here is to have
a full liquor store attached to the grocery store
ozbot: t.
A.T.u. - Yugoslavia - YouTube
mircea_popescu: they had
a "things she said" one, i dun recall the yugoslavia bit