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mircea_popescu: he's the guy you immitate at the table, if you don't know how to eat at the table and were told "just do what they do"
mircea_popescu: no, actually, the hype man is an outgrowth of the shill in 3 card monte and such games, which is what all african entertainment is descended from. he's there to give an anchor to the viewer to identify with, and immitate.
mircea_popescu: Discussing the role of the hype man in the book How to Rap, Royce da 5'9" describes how a hype man can contribute to a live performance: "a lot of my verses be so constant with the flow [that] I'd need somebody to help me."[4] Lateef adds: "You're gonna have to have somebody say something somewhere to give you a breath... usually it's just a matter of getting somebody to hit some line or some word in a line - that's al
mircea_popescu: oh. i thought either one of those gold chains or else cocaine
mircea_popescu: forthat matter, bitcoin magazine is just as active as it always was
mircea_popescu: stuff like the original blockchain inspector is still around.
mircea_popescu: they missed december. apple can miss. once. maybe. bitpay can't miss.
mircea_popescu: well dare i ask what the fraction of startups NOT ON EXPONENTIAL GROWTH CURVE that fail is ?
mircea_popescu: you know those stats that keep going 9x% of start-ups fail in the first bla bla ?
mircea_popescu: there's a ton of bitpay exceptionalism / captn of industry-ism flooding out of reddit. in point of fact, bitpay is a struggling start-up that missed the boat.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what's preventing you from doing it to start an antelope farm
mircea_popescu: "Gavin is, by and large, a mentally retarded doofus displaying a shocking amount of Dunning-Kruger syndrome in his assorted dabblings in economics and other hard fields."
mircea_popescu: sort-of like trying to calculate the path lightning will take
mircea_popescu: it's really hard to evaluate theoretically which is the practical avenue
mircea_popescu: course, the coinbase can't be spent for probably longer tha nthe chain will survive
mircea_popescu: "I thought the Bitrush team was crazy for offering free bitcoins... until they actually showed up in my Blockchain wallet. These guys are nuts. Take advantage of it before they come to their senses!"
mircea_popescu: "A friend told me Bitrush was giving away bitcoins and I thought, "What the hell!" I gave them my email and verified my account. Within 12 hours I received my first payout and have received many more since. Pretty nice of them and they even called me to make sure everything was going good for me. No one from any Bitcoin related company has ever called me before and I was amazed at the level of service for spending noth
mircea_popescu: you clever boy you thestringpuller. i was just writing as to the stupidity of that.
mircea_popescu: you know, doge dieing sucks because all these fucktards are now misrepresenting themsleves as involved with bitcoin
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin Needs a Viral Positive "Pay-it-forward" Campaign"
mircea_popescu: "o noes, bitcoin-assets didn't care, let's see if there's barely stable aspie boys somewhere else"
mircea_popescu: davout: it occurs to me that there's a rather trivial way to split gavincoins from bitcoins other than randomly attempting a double-spend, simply include some coinbase-tainted coins in your tx after the fork has occurred << this is true but it only works after you got some split.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fluffypony is that the derp that was hanging out here, aiming for publicity ?
mircea_popescu: was this the phantom one man "corporation" he funneled the donations through ?
mircea_popescu: " I think Theymos has done an awesome service for the community in turning the forum into something of an institution rather than not just pocking hte funds."
mircea_popescu: derp. it seems to me "exchanges" rarely survive a straight year.
mircea_popescu: "It seems to me the bitcoin exchanges and companies like Bitpay will have a large say in how this goes forward. "
mircea_popescu: and be heard because i was there to make the points, and the name calling.
mircea_popescu: let then better men make the same better points without the name calling,
mircea_popescu: "And now in practical terms : there once existed this thing called NeoBee. It pretended to be a Bitcoin business, but inasmuch as its purported CEO was not in #bitcoin-assets, it never stood a chance. This is a point oft neglected, but by far the best predictor of success or failure in the Bitcoin space : that channel is where the industry meets. If a purported business is not well represented in there, it is not well
mircea_popescu: it'll be the lulz of all time if d.bpay is the first derp to bite it.
mircea_popescu: kinda, yeah. fucking impossible to make poetrywork in nonflexional languages.
mircea_popescu: in romanian it's actually oyu know, like a poem, with rhyme and errything
mircea_popescu: i butchered it as far as everything but the imagery is concerned.
mircea_popescu: (ballerina kills herself after her novelist husband dies)
mircea_popescu: tbh pleb funerals prolly beat fancypants funerals. tho maybe that doesn't hold in fake-usia
mircea_popescu: is this because reddit is too young to have given much thought to funerals etc ?
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, im kinda blown away that the point that an eulogy's job is to illustrate how great the deceased was and how worthless the world by comparison is somehow controversial.