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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."
mircea_popescu: gotta make trilema moar appealing to the derp generation.
mircea_popescu: brb, writing "here's five old tshirt types you'll find at hot topic" article
mircea_popescu: assbot: 5 Cryptocurrency Caricatures You'll Meet on r/Bitcoin - CoinDesk << so coindesk is at the gizmodo/mashable/demand media "stale meme list" phase of post-shark-jumping ?
mircea_popescu: fine. i blame them, their stupid fathers & bovine mothers, the fucking gooses masquerading as "educators" in a ten mile radius
mircea_popescu: she definitely seems to think that's what she's getting, the other end of "lul what can we make her do ? shoe on head ?"
mircea_popescu: which aren't particularly sexy, the whole sport is, "let's humiliate / torture her"
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many of the online derps got their start/education on camwhore sites
mircea_popescu: the woman with the kickstarter makes an excellent point.
mircea_popescu: enough? Do you feel you got your due? That you were able to violate my privacy and dignity enough to feel I'm worthy of ten pathetic dollars? Less than a damned movie and popcorn?"
mircea_popescu: nsparent do you want it? Do you want to know that one of the reasons I am very private about connecting my pen names is because the man who raped me enjoys making fake profiles and friending me every few years, just to get off on sending me a message and getting blocked? Do you want to hear how I shake all over and panic and relive everything he did to me when that happens? Does that do it for you? Is that transparent
mircea_popescu: "4. You don't deserve to know any of that. It's none of your business. I invited my readers to chip in on a project--or not. I did not invite you to worm your nose into every aspect of my life, hunt down pictures of my home, call me names, or tell me I was worthless, arrogant, greedy, and undeserving. But you want to rip me bare and expose how awful you're sure I am. I get it, you want me transparent. How much more tra
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well yeah, obviously. however, teh prison people try and prevent stuff like you know, perfectly private comms.
mircea_popescu: if it were, all drug lords / mafia kingpins would be in jail, offloading the cost of their security to the state, while they kept at their biz.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: you need to get one of those cardanos. << lol it wouldn't be legal.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: works here << new sort of imperceptible ddos.
mircea_popescu: but an airgap is not a semiconductor. the technical argument can be brougth that obviously semiconductors insulate
mircea_popescu: it doesn't work on electric flux, but "communication" flux
mircea_popescu: a diode is exactly this : current goes one way but not the other.
mircea_popescu: i meant, your directional, or message-aware or otherwise "airgap" is a semiconductor in the flux
mircea_popescu: like a diode yeah. conceivably. not what an airgap is toh
mircea_popescu: davout for all you know the internet is already automatically airgapped to all hell.