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mircea_popescu: however, it only speaks volumes to those capable to listen.
mircea_popescu: it speaks volumes as to his own perceived value of his own "opinions" which he doesn;'t actually hold.
mircea_popescu: guy saw an opportunity to check off thisparticular thing without actually doing it, and took it.
mircea_popescu: yeah derp claimed he can't come because he's got a lunch engagement, then found out that so do i so he suddenly could.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: pity conformal isn't better known. << how so? << they did all sorts of things for "the community" to be able to use their own stuff, which the community isn't doing because... well i guess more because lazy and stupid, but hey.
mircea_popescu: reason to not "drive adoption" to idiots / poor people / etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the 2nd is particularly pernicious because of the "good enough" approach. "what do you mean bitcoin transactions can't be used to identify anything ? here's a list of derps we know for a fact, they're 50% of the blockchain spam"
mircea_popescu: Adlai the exchange has no margin in an indefensible market and makes no money.
mircea_popescu: at this point listing them on mpex should yield what, 25% of equity. because it'd definitely increase their market value by that much.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it just has to do with, if a bunch of nodes wake up and find you...
mircea_popescu: i have what the dorks refer to "Fat pipes" on a number of nodes and they still get saturated on occasion.
mircea_popescu: jurov: now i have 40/40 , but back when i had 10mbit uplink, bitcoind sometimes saturated it << this is an universal experience.
mircea_popescu: and yes, a socialist state can only be run as a prison or as an insane asylum. because socialism is insanity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform where by 20th c state we mean, one of those insane constructions where everyone is equal.
mircea_popescu: felipelalli: but I also found too aggressive the numbers of Gavin. And why do you guys hate Gavin? << you will benefit from reading the logs, also googling "site:trilema.com gavin" might help.
mircea_popescu: chetty: <<< reading various stuffs here on the great blockchain 'fix', I wonder whatever happened to "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" <<< "everyone wants to be a developer" happened. and "everyone should get what they want" also happened.
mircea_popescu: the theoretical theory was that "Bitcoin is all nerds anyway" and so any old junk should stick.,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform subtlety is expensive. political competence especially so.
mircea_popescu: point in case of this matter, once gavin is questioned as to why exactly he wants to do x, and he immediately and seamlessly moves into "oh, so what's the right value, so you want to do X' ??" it is clear that he is not in fact interested in what he claims to discuss
mircea_popescu: and by the incredible tenacity they put into keeping it that way'
mircea_popescu: they're trivially identified in the field by the shockingly unhelpful nature of their helpings,
mircea_popescu: that they're "investing", that they wiosh to "drive adoption", that generally they're only trying to help.
mircea_popescu: davout there's a large chunk of facetious asshats who hate bitcoin just as much as the next guy whose unearned position it threatens. but they figure they get further with a spoonfull of honey than a barrel of vinegar, and so will make this sort of claim.
mircea_popescu: because it is a sort of insanity that can not readily be grasped from outside.
mircea_popescu: davout have you spent any time in teh us corporate environment ?
mircea_popescu: assbot: The-Feminist-Software-Foundation/ToleranUX << lmao this shit better be parodic.
mircea_popescu: not a matter of chumpness tho. suppose dude rings your doorbell dressed as a car mechanic. "yes ?" "hello i'm the pizza delivery". "you don't seem to have any pizza ?" "ha-ha! fooled you! i'm only SAYING im pizza delivery"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this assumes they are what they claim to be.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with humility if pride just means you lose money.
mircea_popescu: maybe it's time they fold and just take their subervient place in the ecosystem ?
mircea_popescu: mostly because bitcoin does not reward their "get big fast" pump and dump scam.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, VCs have been doing appalingly poorly in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Under Mark Karpeles bitcoin did 3,000,000%. Under VC capital, merchant adoption, bitcoin bowl it did -80%. : Bitcoin << that post has a core of point in it. if it weren't wrapped in redditard retardation / karpeles bs, it'd almost be worth making.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: lifted from deviant art and shutterstock << are the da starving artists going to get a cut of the 14k ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: their demos are stupid though << yeah they had no idea how to sell that thing.
mircea_popescu: davout bicopulation is what that deer in the middle's doin'. ain't me!
mircea_popescu: punkman: "For one thing, doctors were upset because Semmelweis' hypothesis << yup that's a recurring topic here.
mircea_popescu: a well. i guess bravery is not a silicon valley virtue.
mircea_popescu: haha wait, soi he had a lunch meeting except once i also had one his was cancelled ?
mircea_popescu: nothing about your own intellect, experience, competence or otherwise merit justifies me even knowing your fucking name. you're nobody in the plainest sense, i can throw a rock in any town in america and probably hit two of you!
mircea_popescu: hey gavin ? YOU ARE GETTING A FREE RIDE. you're pretty much the only one. you're a middling software engineer that is STILL leeching some historical happenstance.,
mircea_popescu: that's what "free ride" is now. having built value over time is a "free ride"
mircea_popescu: "I’m waiting for somebody to notice us greedy early adopters get a free ride on transaction fees and complain....."
mircea_popescu: there's two kind of idiots in this world : the retrograde, and the paygrade.
mircea_popescu: well, tell him he has a chance to be heard, and learn exactly why he is wrong and generally grow as a person.
mircea_popescu: seems kinda bizarre gavin still pretends like he's had a public discussion about this but so far has not quite got his courage up enough to bring his hairball of non sequiturs, wild jumps and logic holes over here.
mircea_popescu: davout yeah but why should you be spared the sort of idiocy living there.
mircea_popescu: davout "Votre commentaire est en attente de validation." lmao.
mircea_popescu: stop pretending like you can push walls around and go take your ritalin.
mircea_popescu: you are ill qualified to as much as change a fucking version in the bvlocks, let alone the database.
mircea_popescu: "i want to tear down this wall". "why ?" "it opresses me". "the wall keeps the outside out" "OH SO YOU ARE SAYING WE SHOULD PUSH IT FURTYHER IN ?"
mircea_popescu: "<gavinandresen> Ah— so you’re saying we should decrease the 1MB limit, so there are higher fees and miners make more money?"