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mircea_popescu: independence is predicated on something other than being a redditor.
mircea_popescu: artifexd it's always encrypted, so what do you mean text ?
mircea_popescu: i guess ima have to bring an exchange online willy-nilly.
mircea_popescu: watch how in a few short months it won't be possible to buy bitcoin at any price.
mircea_popescu: something tells me they have nfi how to write a term sheet, and there's about 50-50 odds of the financer backing out.
mircea_popescu: when are they bringing the fractional reserve back up ?
mircea_popescu: "But what of it? How does this effect you? Well, it effects" affects you. afect is another name for sentiment. to affect is to cause an effect upon something. to effect, confusingly enough, is to cause the execution of something. so, you effect legislation, and that legislation affects people.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski "Their habitual attacks on forums is usually" << are.
mircea_popescu: except... there was that ALREADY carved there. easily 50 years old.
mircea_popescu: and i have this distinct memory of a kid being pissed of at some chick, and going to carve "X is a whore" in the wall
mircea_popescu: i went to school in this huge, what you'd call super-preppy thing.
mircea_popescu: "black on black violence in the ghetto is so and so!!1". fine. and white on white scamming in bitcoin is how ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i have no problem with dudes going "oh, blacks do all teh crime!!!" if that's what they believe, and start running off stats about it. big whoop. but it's funny how nobody happens to fucking noticing the OTHER stats.
mircea_popescu: you keep going. you'll run out before i'm done enumerating pasty ass.
mircea_popescu: what atlantic really means is "why are there so few black scammers in bitcoin, because that's all we know about anyway". and the reason couldn't possibly be "because they're just more honest than whitey"
mircea_popescu: whodda thought, you know, that NOT invoving an us company is better.
mircea_popescu: but i see whatcha mean. "not politically favoured, so not as well ironed out, so harder to use"
mircea_popescu: jurov well ok, by and large for any expectation it won't be possible to make "all" work. because anyone can anything, and well...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i guess that works out then, prolly a customer.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wasn't the actual breach prior to the 4th ?
mircea_popescu: checks against it as if it were verizon'd, no difference
mircea_popescu: would work for a bank, wouldn't work for a newspaper sort of thing ?
mircea_popescu: jurov so you mean, it only works for sessions where the user knows/trusts the source, as opposed to whatever, random drive-by publishing ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they also managed this situation where all the shit online carries a "5000 derps that don't really exist LIKE THIS"
mircea_popescu: jurov im curious to hear the self signed cert reasoning tbh.
mircea_popescu: obviously "one has no way of knowing" if a self signed cert is good. but if there's also a .asc on the server... i'd say it's a damned sight better than "Verizon certifies"
mircea_popescu: after all "self-signed" cert can be edged into proper gpg signed matter, and it's all good.
mircea_popescu: jurov: lots of derp tho << i kinda liked his piece tbh.
mircea_popescu: it's like making dogs blind to your fear by shaking uncontrollably.
mircea_popescu: as if irrelevance can ever be averted by this sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: TF can now claim relevance and victory by conceding practically every principle ever held dear in return for the privilege of rubber-stamping Google's initiative."
mircea_popescu: "The IETF, obviously fearing irrelevance, hastily "discovered" that the HTTP/1.1 protocol needed an update, and tasked a working group with preparing it on an unrealistically short schedule. This ruled out any basis for the new HTTP/2.0 other than the SPDY protocol. With only the most hideous of SPDY's warts removed, and all other attempts at improvement rejected as "not in scope," "too late," or "no consensus," the IE
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: it just pulls news stories from other websites and does blind word replacement on the articles, to make them seem original <<< there's a million of these.
mircea_popescu: ahhh the fact reddit is so in favour of this hardfork business is so great :D
mircea_popescu: "Piketty, some would say, is king. I say Piketty has shown, like Gibbon, what is possible. "
mircea_popescu: now is the theory here that what, the haxxor is using on bitbet the same address that nejc was using on bitbet prior to the "hack" ? because why ?
mircea_popescu: nejc/bitstamp crew allege that hacker somehow got into their system, stole privkeys for their addresses, AND THEN deleted their copies. magically. they were all online or something, who knows.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo cazalla here's a pretty good tip for qntra :