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mircea_popescu: "Roger Ver, another early bitcoin adopter, believes he was victimized by the same person the week before the Finney family was swatted. That’s when someone using the names Nitrous and Savaged hacked into Ver’s email accounts and demanded that he cough up 37 bitcoins"
mircea_popescu: davout: kakobrekla: the question now is *what* is almost complete :D << wot capabilit yintegration into assbot!
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: I may have missed it in the logs, but is someone explicitly working on an assbot with gribble functionality or are we going to wait for wotnet / gossipd? << kakobrekla has been, for a while now
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: note however, the /average/ number of classes a year is 14. << i expect it's just a shortcut to pay them better.
mircea_popescu: a jury of honest, intelligent men who had not heard of the case they were called to try—but in our day of telegraphs and newspapers his plan compels us to swear in juries composed of fools and rascals, because the system rigidly excludes honest men and men of brains."
mircea_popescu: t would prove the most ingenious and infallible agency for defeating justice that human wisdom could contrive. For how could he imagine that we simpletons would go on using his jury plan after circumstances had stripped it of its usefulness, any more than he could imagine that we would go on using his candle-clock after we had invented chronometers? In his day news could not travel fast, and hence he could easily find
mircea_popescu: "The men who murdered Virginia's original twenty-six cemetery-occupants were never punished. Why? Because Alfred the Great, when he invented trial by jury and knew that he had admirably framed it to secure justice in his age of the world, was not aware that in the nineteenth century the condition of things would be so entirely changed that unless he rose from the grave and altered the jury plan to meet the emergency, i
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the fact that i can't tell if you're straight or sarcastic is telling
mircea_popescu: apparently one admin was actually undercover agent, the official story now goes
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski funny how scoopbot dies half hour before you come in lol
mircea_popescu: this was immediately and universally applied to what was perceived as a silly and pompous notion of the minority in question.
mircea_popescu: the source of the double r in writing is that right at the time gypsies decided to yet again rename in the early 90s, there was circulating on romanian TV a reading of a caragiale novel (romani verzi) mocking a very nutty sort of nationalism current in his time, that was being read in a particularrrrr manerrrr by a certain comedian.
mircea_popescu: "Sometimes, rom and romani are spelled with a double r, i.e., rrom and rromani. In this case rr is used to represent the phoneme /ʀ/ (also written as ř and rh), which in some Romani dialects has remained different from the one written with a single r. " << actually, this is incorrect.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony they're more often fat than ugly, to put a... fine point on it.
mircea_popescu: if a shit suddenly farts, is it shittier than before it farted ?
mircea_popescu: get a busted lip, bust out 50 qntra articles in a rage.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: My venom sacks are still sore trendign towards empty << it finally dawned on me what cazalla wanted with domme chicks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: microshit wireless kbd crypts with xor. << OTP ? :D
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: and now you found out that altcoin extremist are also bad ? << dude... you people are so hard to troll i swear. what sort of a cult are we running here out of this much internet savvy and genre savvy and whatnot! i think we're supposed to fall over backwards every time some random lolcow wanders in and says something nice.
mircea_popescu: artifexd: <BingoBoingo> A gossipd-net of keyservers would be divine << I like it << kinda how it has to work anyway
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: add keyserver to the list of things la serenissima wants its own of, eh? << heh sure, eventually.
mircea_popescu: ahh that felt like a most worldchanging dump i just took.
mircea_popescu: it's the universal superlative by now. world changing novels and toothpaste, cars and fruit juicers, politicians and nail polish.
mircea_popescu: wht's this obsession with changing the world anyway ? very insecure people.
mircea_popescu: "And it’s increasingly a place where we, and our New York colleagues and owners, host artists, founders, CEOs, and advertisers." splendid :
mircea_popescu: "Please. WIRED is no longer a pirate ship. It’s the home of world-changing journalism."
mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately, too often the place where we do that important work looks, at best, like a dorm room."
mircea_popescu: anx says "the order engine has turned off. please try again later."
mircea_popescu: check it out yo! all the broke ass niggers at the ritzy club entrance have a quarter between them!
mircea_popescu: and the fact that 5k idiots worth together a restaurant meal are left out is somehow BITCOIN's problem.
mircea_popescu: swift costs 50 bux to send, but bitcoin should do it for 20 cents.
mircea_popescu: total fees, .5 btc. for 5k txn. so we wanna do it at 0.1 bitcent per tx. because why the fuck not, right ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo check out the megaspam right under that lol
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> no prizes for guessing why. << usual management cluelessness
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (what rng? ring oscillator jitter, with sha1 whitening.) <<< better than many
mircea_popescu: the key to escaping from usg is not caring about usg issues ; the key to not caring about usg issues is escaping from usg.
mircea_popescu: etc etc. there's this large pile of mental viral load they're currently carrying, so as to do essentiually what the power rangers want bitcoin to do : play cozy with TITB.
mircea_popescu: yes, you can turn down commits that change he to her. if women get upset, that's because the women in question are stupid and they don't belong in tech ; yes you can use proprietary code. if anyone doesn't like it, anyone can suck a free bag of dicks ;
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and That Would Be Wrong (tm) <<< i think doing away with FOSS shared idiocy will be the greatest bitcoin contribution to the movement.
mircea_popescu: maybe whioever made it was so proud of it ... he had to
mircea_popescu: i'm going through a phase atm something like "fuck this shit, i need a non-pc router like i need an ipad."