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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i imagine the point was to humiliate through the low bar.
mircea_popescu: "by not specifying otherwise multiple times and using these prefab expressions"
mircea_popescu: if you look at it, so fucking weird what burns these people.
mircea_popescu: "oh look, what mp said back in october when he was being nice about it is a lot easier to follow than what he's saying now, once the fuckwits in question ignored the polite approach. isn't it mp's fault that gavin is an idiot!"
mircea_popescu: "[EDIT] There is an explanation of the possible problem with increasing the block size in the comment section here Gavin Andresen Proposes Scalability Roadmap and Hardfork, which is much more informative that Mr Popsescu's own vindictive rambling."
mircea_popescu: "Not the least of my reasons is that Mircea Popescu seems to be a thoroughly dislikeable, arrogant, smug, elitist and condescending chap. He makes every disagreement a personal dispute between his own superior intellect and the stupid idiots that are not him. His attitude towards Andresen, the public, the poor and the residents of Mali is despicable."
mircea_popescu: ah this rape will be like... the sweetest rape in the history of that generally sweet article.
mircea_popescu: "[EDIT2] I've never seen so much stupidty concentrated in the same space as so much unpleasantness since I was in high school. Even if Popescu and his friends are right, they deserve to be left on a fork and lose all their precious play-money. This is why I usually avoid reading anything non-technical about Bitcoin. I'm going back to that policy, the pain was not worth the Quora credits."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: hint: its not the nick, its the channels. << he got you there [/\/\/\]
mircea_popescu: not like it should dent the budget of the greatest country in the world anyway, got 1 trn to spend on imaginary planes.
mircea_popescu: generally prosecutor has little option, going through with it costs more before the thing even gets to a jury.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: 30 years proposed by a prosecutor is often 2-3 years by the time one has to report to jail. << well, how's that plea bargain supposed to go, "oh, so you're offering 3 meals a day and free housing, over 30 years that's about 350k give or take. pay me say 175`000.00 in one lump up front and i might let the charges go".
mircea_popescu: TomServo yeah i dunno how good that gribble estimate is.
mircea_popescu: here's a thought : F35 Program cost US$1.0165 trillion (projected). Trident program cost $39.546 billion (to date)
mircea_popescu: TomServo: Curious, block 338710 had only 1 transaction (the new coins) - is that common? << empty blocks used to make up 10-20% of the chain a year or so ago.
mircea_popescu: no, ineffectively the same thing. i'd actually support that "ban"
mircea_popescu: "oh hai guise, we move to san francisco to halp with the price supression pls to take us moar srs"
mircea_popescu: supposedly the only form of psychotherapy that works. takes a while tho.
mircea_popescu: so far it;'s a lot more predictive-dialectic. "this is what you will say, and this is why you will be saying it, and this is how you'll respond to the previous statement, and this is why you did that, and this is how..."
mircea_popescu: reminds me of a much older but quite central asciilifeform point : "These fools have been handed a technology so clever, so disruptive and revolutionary, that the rulers of the world would have to fully unmask themselves as ruthless tyrants in order to suppress it, — or give up their thrones on their own free will — if it were used correctly, that is."
mircea_popescu: this adventure makes it quite obvious how the entire libertard political machine is intended to function. sort-of like, it ran into a ravine, now it's suspended, ands you can walk under it safely and admire all the pistons and whatnot without much risk.
mircea_popescu: only time a redditor said something sane on reddit this week was when he was rewriting a trilema paragraph.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> i dont see how those lists help with anything << re that.
mircea_popescu: cazalla basically, "he lied, but it's okay". "he lied, but it's okay". "he lied, but it's okay". "he lied, but it's okay". "he lied, but it's okay". "he lied, but it's okay". "he lied, but it's okay". "he lied, but it's okay". "he lied, but it's okay". "he lied, but it's okay".
mircea_popescu: i never really was too hip on it. if peopel ask, sure, tell em things, answer q's. but the sort of blind "o look what new gadget i got" thing they do... meh. it only creates more idiots for mpoe-pr to claw at.
mircea_popescu: i fucked nigerians. i never fucked bitcoiners. kako's rule holds.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform insure ensure assure, affect, effect, infect etc. just outside of the redditard's literacy bubble.
mircea_popescu: srsly, how confused do you need to be to imagine mixing works in a dedicated mixing place.
mircea_popescu: "The Essential Role of Mixing Services: BitMixer Processes 25K BTC per Month (Interview and Step-by-Step Guide Included)"
mircea_popescu: i keep saying the boo boo about the us, but srsly, the uk is like idi amin's uganda compared.
mircea_popescu: basically "open government 2.0" cameroon wants to ban end to end encryption
mircea_popescu: is it obvious why this is retarded or do i have to make a part 3 of "why gavin followers are dumb" list ?
mircea_popescu: Everyone not on Gavin's side on this all act like low / zero fee transactions just disappear into the ether. They most certainly do not. If (when) the average block size exceeds 1MB these lower fee transactions will overrun the entire system. Servers running bitcoind will start swapping to disk instead of using memory. At that point the entire network would go down."
mircea_popescu: "I don't understand why this is difficult to understand and literally I've said this three times in the past couple of days.
mircea_popescu: o, bitpay fails miserably on adoption ? CLEARLY WE WERE RIGHT!!! ADOPTION MATTERS!
mircea_popescu: "Demand for Bitcoin is not inelastic. Raise the price of using Bitcoin enough, and demand will decline. Right now, the primary reason people use Bitcoin is not its security. That's a nice benefit, but most users use it because it's cheap, and has the largest network of users, merchants, exchanges, etc. The affordability and number of users shouldn't be compromised for security. In fact, doing so will inevitably cause s
mircea_popescu: a narrative completely divorced from anything is rare, no ?
mircea_popescu: apparently, teh wot is going to be attacked next, because yeah, totally, when you fail in everything you do the logical step is to do more things :D
mircea_popescu: some informative original research, fresh from marquardt : "According to Mike Hearn, Satoshi even planned on creating a reputation system integrated with the Bitcoin client that would use the number of blocks you'd individually solved as part of a system to prevent scammers from creating infinitely many accounts."