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mircea_popescu: it is customarily shown by a) substantial assets and b) family ties.
mircea_popescu: that's always been there, for foreigners, which people who renounce a citizenship become.
mircea_popescu: this guy was never sober. literally. you know what i mean, that drunk functionality of the hardcore ukrainian ?
mircea_popescu: so when i first landed here i kept a hotel room for about a week. my across the hall neighbour was this ukrainian dude. we met in the elevator and well, at the time the ukr stuff was just blowing up and so i was curious, and he was as happy as anything to speak to someone... wise.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lemme tell you a story that will illustrate this point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform people aren't as fixated on things anglos are fixated on here.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller doing anything out of the ordinary carries a higher sentence than everything else in there, you've not noticed yet ?
mircea_popescu: you know, the original somethingawful/buttcoin threads about how bitcoiners are mentally retarded didn't come out of pure malice. they came out of the simple fact of the matter : the early people involved are struggling with severe mental disabilities.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that there's anything but comic relief in keeping track of ver's activities.
mircea_popescu: except he did that at a time when they were worth cents to the dollar, and they're long gone.
mircea_popescu: also, the passports in question don't ever cost that much. he's pulling a kakobrekla's car trick on the value of bitcoin that could have been. by the same measure, his donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the scam foundation.
mircea_popescu: for the record, for the unassuming individual capable of normal socialisation (ie, score a gf if one wants a gf) about 1k usd a year is plenty in argentina.
mircea_popescu: obviously, he was being his usual retarded self, only younger.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy claims he was shremed and it's all okay.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's been discussed even in log a few times.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, that's all the excitement i can take for today. later fellow cultists!
mircea_popescu: minute an' a fucking half of full automatic fire, flames half meter high for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: cazalla ok, well, here's some ideas : his ears would be bleeding ; his arms'd have fallen off as he holds that thing wrongly ; the heat transferred to the barrel is probably enough to melt it ; he's fired more bullet weight than the child.
mircea_popescu: fucking derp from the lumber yard, you know, here's my machinegun drill. i drill all day with it. lalala.
mircea_popescu: that thing, WITH AN ATENUATOR EVEN!!! is probably jammed to shit by now
mircea_popescu: what is this, for people who never discarged a weapon /
mircea_popescu: this in case anyone wonders why i "have to" call gavin an idiot. same reason you have to beat the donkey. only way it groks.
mircea_popescu: i did leave them a splendid link to that great scene in miller's crossing, but i guess when you're an idiot it's easy to miss the more subtle messages.
mircea_popescu: but i somehow don't like to think we're being opposed by people this thick.
mircea_popescu: it is marginally possible everyone in his handler's office is retarded enough to not have seen this coming, of course.
mircea_popescu: otherwise he literally will not be able to protect the scamchain.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, fork block has to go in before end of march is what my numbers show.
mircea_popescu: 1k txn is ~ 400kb. that means with a 800kb block that merely creating a 1k 1btc txn bundle will guarantee 50% separation on gavincoin chain.
mircea_popescu: 338019 731.52 338018 731.55 338017 731.62 338016 731.5 << last 4
mircea_popescu: and if he had a year, do you think he'd have spent xmas and new year's "filling his hdd with blocks" while i was on vacation ?
mircea_popescu: he's prolly aiming for putting it in by february, but won't actually have the tech resources to do it and rather than risk a total humiliatory blowout delay it to march
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, they don't have the time. gavin has to force it through rapidly, before blocks actually start regularly overflowing 1mn, because that's his only chance to get pools surrepetitiously mining v3 blocks while gavincoins not being massively doublespent.
mircea_popescu: journalism is about collecting facts and giving the parties the *opportunity* to comment. they don't want to take it, silence belies guilt.
mircea_popescu: cazalla if you get enough of those together, that list + a "we don't wanna say" from bp/cb is good enough.
mircea_popescu: didn't coinbase recently change its tos to run up credit reports on users ?
mircea_popescu: add all the usg-side businesses together, see what you get. lotta hope, lotta hype, no receipts.
mircea_popescu: and mpex didn't hjave to sponsor no ball game for it ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo here's a simple fact : bitpay made what, 1% of less than 12mn in december ? that comes to... half what mpex made ?
mircea_popescu: if anyone's really bored feel free to look into the code.
mircea_popescu: and something tells me the new "optimized tx fee" code fingerprints the hell out of wallets/users.
mircea_popescu: "The IsStandard() rules have been almost completely removed for P2SH redemption scripts"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "The block index database will now hold headers for which no block is stored on disk, which earlier versions won't support."
mircea_popescu: errything's getting done eventually. pretty much the only certainty of teh open model.
mircea_popescu: o data... de mai multe ori... caci ce pot fi aceste garduri, decit cazute foste scari, decit cazute, foste garduri.
mircea_popescu: a mix not unlike "paralegal work, some pr, copywriting and sucking cock tied naked to bridges"
mircea_popescu: ah, the drama of building a new world with hands and however you call that little thing they mix mortar in
mircea_popescu: then undata brain will be like "fuck that irl django, the asleep django' smuch better. must sleep moar."
mircea_popescu: tell her i said she should finger your butthole when you do that.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: WolfGoethe: Have you been watching the longs in the interim since MP stripped your voice? / WolfGoethe: nope, coding a new btc escrow market < goes straight to bash