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mircea_popescu: there's certainly worse things than spending 30 years upstate.
mircea_popescu: why all this pretense like impalent is the summum malum ?
mircea_popescu: felipelalli the bitpay fireparty was exclusive to qntra for instance.
mircea_popescu: not like anbything prevents the man from putting an announcement on their client, "MP was right, I was wrong but too stupid to realise, sorry all!"
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> oh its going << all up to gavin at this point.
mircea_popescu: "hey honey, there's a hundred pounds of woman in there somewhere".
mircea_popescu: shockingly, this hard hitting journalist would be all in 3bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: "If you enjoyed this hard-hitting piece of investigative journalism, consider donating to" and some nonstandard btc address follows.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: "some guy setup a fake Tinder profile with some stock photos" << somehow i suspect you just defined that thing.
mircea_popescu: i dunno a prosecutor exists that woulnd't rather have any other task.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if all the bumbling to date was simply baiting "the people" into expensive failure.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: howly shit, they finally found the defense that's gonna hung the jury.
mircea_popescu: Back in 2013, a separate individual claiming to be Dread Pirate Roberts stated that he/she “didn’t start the Silk Road, my predecessor did.”
mircea_popescu: Dratel instead said that Ulbricht only ran Silk Road for “a few months” after he created it. Finding it “too stressful,” Ulbricht reportedly handed the website’s reins over to others. As a result, the defense argues that the government is prosecuting the wrong individual for building up a $1.2 billion black market, since Ulbricht is not Dread Pirate Roberts.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla> check out the cluelessness << lol poor guy.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> funny how little google and duckduckgo claim to know about al hayat and the islamic state report << that is all a coincidence that has nothing at all to do with what you *should* be knowing.
mircea_popescu: hey Adlai what's the most obscene, revolting and horrible hebrew swear you can think of ?
mircea_popescu: or to quote monty pythin, "this is the most outrageous miscarriage of justice since tuesday"
mircea_popescu: exactly the tsar's playbook, that resulted in one dead tsar holding in his arms one dead tsar baby.
mircea_popescu: Adlai both serving more to fan the flames than anything.
mircea_popescu: the saddest thing here being, of course, that the general expectation that the girl's sucking cock is entirely a 90s and after affair.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller can you imagine what the volunteer lines'd look like ?
mircea_popescu: Adlai lol you seriously blew your clearance because #b-a ?
mircea_popescu: that's what i'd do as minister of war i mean peace. fucking power suits. flamethrower in one arm, minigun in other, go for it.
mircea_popescu: if the us infantry had what's basically an android chassis, 3 or so meters tall...
mircea_popescu: it's so sad the us is wasting 1 trn to build the f35, instead of building fucking power suits.
mircea_popescu: some limit on universalizing money is better than none.
mircea_popescu: the only thing i like about honey as money is that it gives kids botulism.
mircea_popescu: but apples are nonsense as they never were value store.
mircea_popescu: Adlai why would you introduce a specific concept if you're not willing to introduce it rigurously ?
mircea_popescu: "we're powerless already in teh old system... mebbe this new thing worth a look ?"
mircea_popescu: the simplified model i'd readily think of being something more akin to "well currently, you people have some sort of control, based on contracts and fiat currency and so on. what we kids are doing is making an entirely new system of control, where you will be entirely powerless.
mircea_popescu: you'll notice discussions of the weather proceed socially on a simplified model.
mircea_popescu: seems there's other points to address first. but then again, im an asshole.
mircea_popescu: well you're never going to explain bitcoin from a dismissive position like that.
mircea_popescu: "for all the effort he's spent with me, i'd be pouring drinks if it weren't for my own work"
mircea_popescu: let them figure it out, eh ? if the 'first impression' is wrong, it's the impressee not the impressor that has to change.
mircea_popescu: you act as if the responsibility for idiocy is on the thing.
mircea_popescu: because to the common imbecile, all things are one thing and that's that.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, "violence in videogames" is EXACTLY That.
mircea_popescu: why aren't you explaining supreme court practice to them ?
mircea_popescu: of course it's important. everything they don't know is important.
mircea_popescu: if you're doing this, why not explain dungeons & dragons to random people ?
mircea_popescu: i don't go about bothering random folk about sumerian tablets, fascinating as they may be ?
mircea_popescu: i dun get why you think either conversation's at all productive ?