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mircea_popescu: decimation that is happenstance, arriving from the very haphazard manner in which abstraction works out of the group of power rangers
mircea_popescu: a fire affects everything, related or not. this is more like cancer : it affects the victim, but not the chasir he sits on or the op fucking them in the ass.
mircea_popescu: the other is the consensus that allows for transactions to be accepted as valid.
mircea_popescu: one is the consensus that allows for new blocks to be mined.
mircea_popescu: decimation contrary to what superficially is being claimed, bitcoin really consists of two consensuses.
mircea_popescu: anyway, so this entire "abuse", "racism" whatever libertard bullshit / paralegal paralogistic construction is finally reaching that necessary point in its evolution where it mostly consumes itself.
mircea_popescu: i thought the "coredevs" left because the guy grew up and the girl grew fat
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea why anyone'd put up with it for five minutes.
mircea_popescu: these fucking imbecile children of their imbecile mothers already. oh, college is too hard for you ? let's change the admission criteria! you wanna start a business but you're as dumb as fuckinmg rocks ? that's ok, start a blog instead. you wanna be a hacker too ? fine, fine, just edit some pronouns in other people's githubs.
mircea_popescu: let her grow an ass like kim, make pics and come back.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't get it. why are we thinking some ex-gf of some failed gofundme capitalist is famous or something ?
mircea_popescu: then went nutso with one of the "libertarian island" things which smells a lot like scam.
mircea_popescu: what, srsly ? that's one of pop culture's most notable artefacts!
mircea_popescu: to the point it was pretty much comedic. they didn't TRY to do it. but they did it all the damned time
mircea_popescu: this is known to medical practitioners since forever. russia's newbie statesmen (commies ) stepped in it with extreme regularity
mircea_popescu: that's the problem, what appears on the surface as doing one thing ends up doing the exact opposite when very complex systems are involved.
mircea_popescu: <undata> this social media thing I think has created the notion that identity is a matter of self-definition << has little to do with social media tho. it's more an outgrowth of the "civil rights" movement.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> asciilifeform [..] << You have an absurdly gross overestimation of the standards for Boyscout badges << i dunno dude, i never got the "all girlscout nookies" one.
mircea_popescu: well... best business practices security an' errything.
mircea_popescu: only thing missing being, mickey doesn't put on the sorcerer's hat to go to some conference
mircea_popescu: "i have never seen it do anything else before" and "who could have predicted"
mircea_popescu: it will fill any shape and any volume we draw for it. because it must. because... god willed it!
mircea_popescu: and cryptographic security oozes out of the ether and miners are just this abstraction getting in the way of the ooze.
mircea_popescu: people who imagine endlessness is a natural phenomena need to spend less time cooped up in their rooms, dreaming up shit.
mircea_popescu: "Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this justice a gift on my daughter's wedding day."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. they made women and children dependent on a man.
mircea_popescu: wtf is this, derpy guy going to hansa agent in riga cca 1315, "hello this is my very valuable small river rock, how can i send it to london ???"
mircea_popescu: people whose budget is $50 have NO BUSINESS trying to maintain trading networks that span continents.
mircea_popescu: What are more safe alternatives in U.S. to fix our problem? (We can't afford losing our last $50) << this.
mircea_popescu: so for people needing a hundred bucks moved, it's hell on earth.
mircea_popescu: that said, remittances in the us are a total nightmare, because a) the us is principally insane and b) the entrenched interests of current processors work against the customers.
mircea_popescu: so, spare me the reddit nonsense. bitcoin, money, and good stuff aren't for poor people.
mircea_popescu: and exactly nobody would ever know, exactly how the foregoing episode is known specifically and exclusively because i chose to share it.
mircea_popescu: i could, if i were so inclined, finance a nuclear programme or pay for some murders in this manner.
mircea_popescu: jurov for what it's worth, here's my experience with bitcoin remittances : i sent btc to otc correspondents, ordered wires sent out to the hk account of my local agent, who has paid me dollars, in cash, in argentina. the entire process took less than what it takes to get a letter of credit, and significantly less than what international trade normally settles in.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is r/buttcoin/ level understanding of bitcoin, for srs.
mircea_popescu: "<gavinandresen> My point is the point of Bitcoin is I can make a transaction to anybody in the world" << uhh.... if this is the point of bitcoin then bitcoin has at all points been so far offpoint it's a wonder it's still here.
mircea_popescu: davout: i'm more of classical music and jazz guy << i knew there was a reason i liked you!
mircea_popescu: but in this sense, a scenario where gavin has gay sex with midgets can also be constructed. so let's put him in prison for it,
mircea_popescu: obviously, a scenario where block congestion is a real problem may be constructed. it may even, in principle happen.
mircea_popescu: davout it's really a very complex problem, "what to do".
mircea_popescu: anyone that's not read buffett's post mortem on that venture, once "block size was removed", really has no business participating in this conversation.