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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check it out : that guy wanted the stuarts, this guy is "return of kings", mayhap there's soemthing here.
mircea_popescu: "Without a CEO in charge of the currency or anyone to subpoena, how do you control the bitcoin economy? The law is designed to deal with centralized institutions in which identifiable managers are deemed responsible for an organization's conduct."
mircea_popescu: yo yellen! at least gavin has the ballsack to carefully come here when i'm not around, you know ?
mircea_popescu: soo... their inept influence agents got murdered by a guy we won't name, and so we won't name the thing they were try9ing to influence either ?
mircea_popescu: "During a conference call with reporters Monday, Fed staffers were asked why the paper made no mention of Bitcoin. They responded by saying that they plan to monitor developments with digital currency, and that later, as those technologies mature, regulators will possibly have a different strategy."
mircea_popescu: assbot: Bitcoin and the dangerous fantasy of ‘apolitical’ money <<< title has a point. there is no such thing as "apolitical" money. bitcoin is quite very political.
mircea_popescu: but in other news, i've had actual sysadmins thank me for the tip. made my fucking day. danke davout :D
mircea_popescu: let the smart ones find their own way in, and if there's a grand total of three of them worldwide that'll be fine.
mircea_popescu: so dear stupid women : the best thing you can do for women in tech is STAYING THE FUCK AWAY FROM IT.
mircea_popescu: as more an' more cases of idiot women "in tech" blowing things up float to the surface like as many turds, the actual women in actual tech have increasingly more problems they don't actually need.
mircea_popescu: except it turns out she actually fucked up the embargo, and the coordinated release became uncoordinated half hour after her stupid foot in her dumber mouth.
mircea_popescu: except it turns out that she's just doing pr, and wasn't actually involved in the tech
mircea_popescu: so i find that veronique chick as the first source of the ghost vulnerability, im all about to go into a rand as to how see, THIS is the sort of actual women in actual tech
mircea_popescu: veronique Loquet - AL'X Communication vloquet at alx-communication.com << she found it.
mircea_popescu: mats: i am disappointed the snow is not piled higher. this is not the apocalypse i was promised! << usg makes a habit to overpromise and underdeliver.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you want to hang someone for the horrible state of publishing and/or us business culture these days, she's as good as anyone.
mircea_popescu: speaking of the derps behind the derpage : "Sara Miller McCune was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Manhattan. She was international president of B'nai B'rith Girls at the age of 19, and has spoken of the importance of tzedakah."
mircea_popescu: "We don't mess with anybody. All we want to do is play games, share healthy ideas. We don't try to influence the government or what's happening in Cuba ... We do the right thing and they let us keep at it."
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i do not know enough about koch to say < i do. he's old. this is a game for men, not for codgers.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'progressives' like to trot out examples of 'the people of the past could not buy an ipNohe for any price' << except current folk can not get stuff like... tomatoes, for any price.
mircea_popescu: (the college professor also makes intellectual sense, but the current day implementation has nothing to do with the thing that makes sense - "why is he a professor ? " "because all these people know him, respect him and wish to be his studends" vs "why are you his student ?" "because hes the professor"
mircea_popescu: that's kinda how the notion of the central banker was born. it does make economic / financial sense.
mircea_popescu: generaly confidence crises can be unwound by a party universally trusted that's techniocally competent
mircea_popescu: decimation> j.p. morgan singlehandly bailed out banking ca. 1907 << nah, it was more like teh mp effect.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'the actual rich' as a monolithic whole is, i dare say, a fictional trope as well << what, and i suppose the island of beautiful women doens't exist, either ?!
mircea_popescu: like a discussion among 12 yo boys about what makes women sluts.
mircea_popescu: shut up and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the whole piece is a neat summary of just how idiotic the demo is.
mircea_popescu: yeah but the problem is still exposed : to live like one pleases specifically can not carry a rider of time limited.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that is where we differ. i would live like no man, and i would impale anyone trying.
mircea_popescu: mats: its hilarious that anyone wanted to pay so much as 1mn for blockchain.info << you are thinking money as in, someone earned / saved these. that's not what's happening there : they're spending money that was simply created by yellen / conjured up by accounting fraud / etc.
mircea_popescu: so the problem here is thjat some peniless tramp gave himself a lordship that he then couldn't finance ?
mircea_popescu: seems a lot more productive. the exiled russian thinkers did pretty good in ny. a lot better, at any rate, than the nysu "professors"
mircea_popescu: because back then the average american understood himself as a peniless tramp, that's fortunate to even be allowed in europe at all.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but not typical. << so much bs. looky here : henry miller did just fine, bumming bowls of soup.
mircea_popescu: so, if "cultured man" is some sort of scholarly gentleman, then one needs some rather commonly available books.
mircea_popescu: rethorical question, not for they present, but for the absent if avid readers.
mircea_popescu: by the way : is the vc circus of the belief that the well proven, on the courthouse record, role of one of the "big four" accounting companies in asset inflation and bubble pumping has been forgotten ?
mircea_popescu: generally, the sort of overgrown boy that doesn't shoot his own horse is in no position to pick anything. woman picks like at the fair.
mircea_popescu: odds are, woman decided to have children, his choice was whether to pay a lawyer AND the woman orjust the woman.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i doubt the man decided anything in there.
mircea_popescu: i thought we were discussing an abstract model of "the cultured man"
mircea_popescu: this entire discussion is about 50k worth of wood pulp ?!
mircea_popescu: most of the women i pick up manage to live their lives and pay their rents without any dotcom gifts or "speculation".
mircea_popescu: reading that whole site's never been a bad use of anyone's time
mircea_popescu: "So it is inevitable that a deal will be struck by August 2, because that deal doesn't actually mean anything. This a is husband and wife arguing about rebalancing the household budget, each pretending they aren't going to pay the electric until he's agreed to cut back on beer and she's agreed not to be such a bitch. Whether they do it or not is irrelevant, the electric's still getting paid. The electric always gets
mircea_popescu: well i only paid attention for a shoirt time and late on