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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?"
mircea_popescu: not in the sense where some vcs come on later, pat us on the head, give each a car and wipe us out.
mircea_popescu: it CERTAINLY has no value as a bitcoin development paradigm, because well... BITCOIN IS NOT FOR SALE.
mircea_popescu: maybe this has merits as a website develoipment paradigm
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : the vc circus has created an entire culture of these idiots. "grow fast make no money sell out"
mircea_popescu: "The fundamental pain point here, is that Gavin insists on everyone being able to get in, instead of allowing a sane transaction fee market to emerge, by letting the blocks actually fill-up."
mircea_popescu: i dun like so much about my eyes how they miss things :D
mircea_popescu: davout i don't like so much about your blog the fact there's no clear mention of the date.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla it's btcjam : if you don't simply forget all about your website account, you can always just not pay later on.
mircea_popescu: yeah, totally need more adoption so the various scammers with bootstrap websites can burn more noobs.
mircea_popescu: this is doubtful, but i'll let asciilifeform argue it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't know any fat hunters. i know precious few slender fishermen.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller monolitic c at least had some rationale back in 1980. but c++ is not c, and for that matter the year's not 1980 either
mircea_popescu: "oh i have 50 btc in a wallet somewhere, i contributed 5000 lines of code to bitcoin core that will have to be taken out later at considerable expense and i go to all th conferences if some scammer is paying the airfare (coach)"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yeah, and they all work because 4. none of these derps actually matters in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: roughly in the position of a hunting party that's out there building sandcastles and collecting flowers.
mircea_popescu: apparently they'll want to change bitcoin to gavincoin 1:1 later on, but they don't want to change it at a 25% discount today.
mircea_popescu: jesus sifting from all these offline messages left by people who believe enough in the gavincoin to want to buy it for .75 bitcoins each.
mircea_popescu: wholla lotta dumb in his funny looking head otherwise.
mircea_popescu: except for no particular reason the check was against a signed value (the very careful part), which inadvertently reduced a scarce resource
mircea_popescu: sometime in 2012 an uncontroversial fork was put in, so that sometime in 2013 blocks are mined with version 2 instead of version 1.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like the man who gets drenched in volcanic eruptions every single week, worrying about meteors falling.
mircea_popescu: and yet the "uncertaininty" is generated by imaginary problems. not by this.
mircea_popescu: usually not that big. sometimes fucking ridiculous (like the one time when they changed versioning)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, gavin's top priority is... you've guessed it.