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MisterE: whats's
a good non-Win bot?
mircea_popescu: Then he told Nakamoto he'd accepted an invitation to speak at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. "I hope that by talking directly to them and, more importantly, listening to their questions/concerns, they will think of Bitcoin the way I do - as
a just-plain-better, more efficient, less-subject-to-political-whims money," he said. "Not as an all-powerful black-market tool that will be used by anarchists to ove
nubbins`: responsible enough to publish
a photo of the guy's home, with number visible
ozbot: As
a European this is how I imagine Americans have breakfast - Imgur
gribble: You rated user Vandroiy on Sat Sep 1 23:00:35 2012, with
a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: Risked 5k of his own bitcoins to help
a bunch of forum retards see the light..
mircea_popescu: that's all it's there for. costs the rest of us
a prett ypenny, too
mircea_popescu: i guess that's why the sec claiming the current price is
a good thing
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu:
a lot of early people quit
reeses_: what
a sad amount, though :-)
mircea_popescu: some people buy in at
a little over 2, some people sell out at
a little under 2, life goes on.
kakobrekla: they had
a fail and had to manually fix it thats why its not in the standard orphaned blocks page
mircea_popescu: if you go "block 200344, here's the hash (from block 200344') and here's the txn, from block 200344" you got
a problem
dexX7: maybe blockchain receives the complete blocks from it's backend in some way and had
a small blackout while post-processing and adding the txs to their db ... well, who knows. they seem to be aware though.
dexX7:
a discarded block would have another hash
mircea_popescu: this would necessarily result in them listing
a different set of txns from the actual set as found on the actual chain
mircea_popescu: if
a service like blockchain.info goes down (ie, stops listening to the chain) it may end up with the impression
a meanwhile discarded block is still valid
mircea_popescu: the validity of
a block is not established until later. which is what orphans and chain reorgs are.
dexX7: true, people were complaining about strange behavior for
a few days now
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic but on the topic of making
a name for oneself, know who tried that ?
a certain dr. gleason. he tried to make
a name for himself as not being
a contemptible piece of shit. he was convicted, eventually, and then killed himself.
reeses_: I love that he claims
a ccie and ccna and doesn't know what ccie stands for
chetty: ha, hasn't been
a free market in ideas for
a very long time
mircea_popescu: chetty presumably the free market still exists in the us, both financially and with regard to ideas, so such an academic would "make
a name for himself"
midnightmagic: Anyway, just pointing it out. If you have access to
a research institute with fulltext, you should check it out. It's really fascinating and, for me at least, counter-intuitive.
midnightmagic: Yeeaaahh.. no. Sure it's
a motivator. I'm just saying it's not the most effective.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic nobody is going t omake
a name for themselves in the current us showing that not beating kids is
a wrong thing.
midnightmagic: Else someone else trying to make
a name for themselves comes along and destroys it.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic only in uncontrolled environments. in controlled environments, fear is
a motivator exactly for education.
mircea_popescu: basically you're externalising
a cost. when "kids get beaten" subset A1 gets actually beaten and subset A2 learns from their experience.
midnightmagic: fear is not the most effective motivation. fear is not
a direct motivator, it is
a motivator to game the cease of fear.
chetty: fear is
a wonderful motivation
mircea_popescu: but as an exercise : consider whether you're randomly lumping together beating children with simple abuse, as
a sort of strawman argument.
mircea_popescu: we can move on to discussing how temperatures form
a golf club pattern next
mircea_popescu: that is oral culture at its finest. this guy is not part of contemporaneity, or even modernity. he finds himself in
a roughly feudal time. back before literacy.
BingoBoingo: Only in Bitcoin-exile is such
a thing possible
BingoBoingo: Well in this case I know
a wife was active. My wife was missing. I however do not know that any wife of mine was involved with any of these activities.
BingoBoingo: Especially since BTC taint is not
a thing.
BingoBoingo: I know
a bunch of -assets people's Bitbet payout addresses and this bettor isn't obviously one.
copumpkin: it doesn't trump that I have to get up for work in
a few hours and need my beauty sleep
copumpkin: mircea_popescu: I'm not opposed to it, but am not in
a huge rush to spend my time on it either :) and would rather it be done in
a formal setting so someone else can take care of summarizing/transcribing it :P
mircea_popescu: copumpkin the usual benefit.
a furthering of human knowledge on
a topic.
BingoBoingo: copumpkin: DO
a writeup in the next couple weeks, GPG sign it
mircea_popescu: if that does happen, this write-up will be
a great thing to have.
mircea_popescu: copumpkin you're in
a very good position because you have the skill and the experience.
mircea_popescu: how about you make
a full length treatment of the whole thing, with notes ?
copumpkin: mircea_popescu: I dunno, there were several pretty awkward moments when it was clear he'd been caught in
a lie
mircea_popescu: it's like you sign up to be
a chiropractor, and you end up sent to practice in the loony bin
mircea_popescu: "Pirate: And when I find that information, I will give you the updated information and show you that this was not
a Ponzi scam. Just give me time. I promise you."
BingoBoingo: Oh, the reasons I found
a drive through miracle maker for my disorderly conduct misdemeanor, allegedly
copumpkin: and the guy is getting the SEC to drive him there in
a car cause he doesn't have
a car anymore
mircea_popescu: (ie, there's an absolute lowest limit
a judge'll allow for self-critting idiocy, otherwise anyone from the inner cities would be doing >9k years)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I knew it, but not in
a court filing.
mircea_popescu:
A: Because it wasn't on there. It wasn't on this database or on this website. It was tracked through
a - what was that - not Sales Force. I can't remember the name of the website. It was something we just worked out together. And it has
a lot of his transactions. This account looks mostly like my stuff.
mircea_popescu:
A: I guess Gigavps, but it wasn't on Bitcoin Savings & Trust.
mircea_popescu:
A: Just an account used for basically his own lending account. They borrow coins real quickly to make cash transactions and stuff.
mircea_popescu:
A: Yes. And he had
a separate account that was
a hidden account.
mircea_popescu: Q: Next account, Gigavps, is this
a true and accurate reflection of Gigavps' account history with Bitcoin Savings & Trust from on or about April 3rd, 2012 through on or about August 22, 2012 ?
mircea_popescu: whatever you do to your resume it can't end up worse than that exchange expert guy from
a while back
mircea_popescu: but generally speaking, the dice model is the engine that can power
a lot of cool applications down the road.
mircea_popescu: tbh i think dices have
a future, but as backing for other services. they're currently exposed to the general public becaus e whatever, we're in the pdp and vax days over here.
mircea_popescu: this is actually
a bit of
a problem, people can sit down at their computer drunk as fuck and think hye, gamble my whole wallet on dice!
moiety: you need
a subscribing list
benkay: not to imply you yourself are
a thick sucker
moiety: but but you can buy
a gold username!
BingoBoingo: Eh, in about 8 hours I'm driving 200 miles for
a decent lunch. Well, maybe
a bit more than 8 hours from nao. Depends how long I am passed out.
moiety: how has there been
a webz cat i didn't know about :o
benkay: okay i get it mircea_popescu
a penny from every human on earth makes for pathological everything
Duffer1: i can't agree this time, this is
a special kind of fail
benkay: If you are not in
a desire to spit at me, you may even let your neighbor/friend or anyone to utilize the service and spit at me.
Duffer1: it's an ipo for
a pyramid scam that's also
a futures bond and
a cult
BingoBoingo: As
a mentioned
a while ago the best reason to bet on an outcome is to make the watching it more enjoyable