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greenspan_fan: so for instance in bitcoin (and other currency) you can look to r/bitcoin for
a community that is generally really homogeneous and has strong beliefs one way or the other
mircea_popescu: see, many aspire to be
a bitcoin jesus, but this guy actually has enough insight.
mircea_popescu: You are the 98%, you are totally without any access to the machinery of power and worse, much worse, you plug yourselves into the machinery of media and become
a slave.
mircea_popescu: "Marching gets our message out." No it doesn't, it gets CNN's message out. "We don't watch CNN, we use the internet." Yet given the infinity of the internet you still surf the same 5 websites, looking for and finding exactly what you want, like
a baby playing peekaboo in
a mirror over and over and over and over and over and over and...
greenspan_fan: "So I decided to try again, I told myself that there was going to be porn at the end of it, took off my pants, and watched. No, I didn't go back to the theatre; fortunately, the major studios have joined together and created
a website called "The Pirate Bay" which allows you to watch
a movie for free before you decide if you want to buy it from Amazon for 4 bucks"
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan you know what this has
a lot in common with ?
mircea_popescu: the road was
a lot wetter during rain than during drought, too.
mircea_popescu: The system not only pays poor people, it employs lots and lots of almost poor people. I'm not saying this is
a good thing, or
a desirable thing, I am simply stating
a fact. Some of these are direct government jobs (e.g. staff down at the SSI office) and some are pretend private sector jobs. If you're
a psychiatrist at an inner city clinic, you may think you're an independent contractor, but you're really working for Th
mircea_popescu: works before you spew nonsense to your local Fox affiliate. "Hi, this is Bill from Cleveland, and I blame liberals." Son of
a bitch, why didn't I think of that.
mircea_popescu: I'm guessing that this probably upsets people, on both sides of an imaginary political divide that only took 40 years to perfect. Thanks TV! Certainly I have my own opinions, but it doesn't matter what I think, what matters is what is. This is the system. If you think you can effect
a huge social overhaul then feel free to vote for Hope And Change and ongoing Afghanistan deployments, otherwise understand how it
greenspan_fan: git add -
A;git commit -m "YOLO"; git push origin master --force
greenspan_fan: here's
a great way to solve version control problems
mircea_popescu: "One of these is Soma. The drug we all know and love. The other is
a drug called Meprobamate also known as Miltown/Equanil for those of you who are close to retiring. See
a similarity? Are you old guys out there chuckling? "
mircea_popescu: Prometh with Codeine will no longer taste like ghettofab syrupy purple, it will taste like how all cough syrups should taste, like goat anus. They aren’t meant to fucking mix with Sprite and enjoyed after
a long night of fucking your bitches and collecting taxpayer-funded benefits; they are meant to be choked down because you’ll do anything to get rid of that fucking cough.
nubbins`: what this boils down to is that
a well-educated populace is
a populace that abuses high quality drugs
mircea_popescu: wait wait, "I have been paid by
a member of this board and high value shareholder within the NeoBee security."
nubbins`: occasionally, but not often, it's accompanied by
a story about how such-and-such
a brand gives them
a rash, etc
nubbins`: certain brands of ritalin are apparently better for snorting than others; the tell-tale sign of abuse is when
a customer at the pharmacy asks what brand of ritalin they carry
nubbins`: it lights you up like
a fucking christmas tree.
mircea_popescu: ok, did i snort too much or is this
a little... strange ?
nubbins`: there's
a big shortage of ritalin in canada right now
nubbins`: so
a friend of mine works at
a pharmacy
mircea_popescu: it also is related to gmaxwell's fat girlfriend breaking
a segway or was it amir taaki that broke the segway or what the fuck was that
mircea_popescu: it was later unearthed he had an entire opus written about being
a gay whore and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: butccoin is actually
a good entry point for that old drama.
mircea_popescu: and the original bitcoin jesus recommended quite strongly
a wallet service called mybitcoin
mircea_popescu: just in case you ever wondered how bitcoin got the early reputation of being
a toy for the tards.
mircea_popescu: he was
a bit of
a pedo, and ran his own tv show out of some ny studio
mircea_popescu: for they too young to get the reference : rarity was
a notorious troll in 2011
nubbins`: i guess he wrote that in
a text editor and then pasted it, hey?
Duffer1: I wonder if they need
a consultant, I accept bitcoin
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 yes, the irony of the situation is that really, there's
a lot of work to do
Duffer1: SEC if you're here there's
a guy named Ken Slaughter operating somewhere in the U.S. midwest in desperate need of your attentions
ThickAsThieves: maybe
a bitbet "Bitcoin Apostles Sacrificed" At least 12 Bitcoin Talking Heads Get Charged in 2014
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you know, if i wanted
a larger harem i'd enlarge my harem.
Duffer1: so are they going to offer you
a job then MP?
ThickAsThieves: <dexX7> well, tat came up with the idea initially, if i remember correctly /// was
a guess between me and Occam
Duffer1: that's part of my question yesterday, can there physically exist
a bureaucracy capable of "regulating" bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: being
a bureaucrat is all about following
a fucking script, which is exactly antithetical to the situation they find themselves in.
mircea_popescu: now they're stuck somehow dealing with quite obvious fraud
a la mtgox while somehow satisfying the demands of patently insane eastern european dudes with no interest in their internal problems
Duffer1: did blockchain buy it or is that
a partnership?
Duffer1: i look forward to the SEC comedy hour, have they set
a date/time MP?
mircea_popescu: water, proably.
a more awkward thing i don't remember.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the sec, just like any other us or non us, governmental or non governmental agency needs to get used to the idea that bitcoin is
a thing, and they need to work with it.
nubbins`: gives you an excuse to wear
a suit
mircea_popescu: ve not been in
a court for
a while anyway, kinda getting to miss it.
mircea_popescu: fraud is
a crime in romania, this wasn't too hard to prove really
nubbins`: that's hardly even
a crime here. previous record for harshest punishment was
a $200 fine.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: they extradited
a canadian national
a couple of years ago who mailed marijuana seeds from canada to the usa
nubbins`: hm, would the verb be "intradite" in that sense? is that even
a word?
nubbins`: anyway, point is that if the usa wants to extradite someone from
a foreign country and provides even
a tenuous reason for doing so, there's no reason to think said country won't comply
Korbman: anybody from the US get
a call from the SEC today / recently?
☟︎ benkay: asciilifeform: my limited intel sez flir's having
a hard time
bitcoinpete: speaking of the fed, mircea_popescu, I've been looking for that line in the logs about the world having its Zimbabwe moment from 2010-2014 and not even knowing it. That's classic. Do you remember when it was or have
a link?
benkay: yeah gosh doesn't she know bitcoin is
a people power movement?
Jere_Jones: Wow. Extrapolating that to absurd means you could destroy every single bitcoin. The blockchain could have
a grand total of 0 satoshis spendable.
jurov: lol mining such blocks would be
a good way to rile everyone up
Jere_Jones: ConnectBlock is the function that verifies
a block. It only ensures that the value out of the first transaction is not greater than
a calculated value. One would expect 0 to not be greater than.
pankkake: you can already make
a block with 0 now
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones my question is different. will blocks with
a 0 miner fee be accepted as valid ?
Jere_Jones: mircea_popescu I've looked at the code that calculates the max coinbase out and it does indeed calculate
a subsidy of 0 for blocks 6930000 and greater. I can explain it line by line if you like.
mircea_popescu: so apparently
a "lnp specialist" is what they call phonewhores
mircea_popescu: what the holy shit is
a "LNP Specialist " supposed to be
benkay: Apocalyptic: of course, saying "you don't deserve your coins" yields
a quick ticket to the edge of the desert
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what'd happen ? there'd suddenly be
a stringent need for regulation
benkay: Apocalyptic: i'm
a bit of
a pariah among locals in bitcoin right now due to the glee i exhibited over the past 4 months in their demise. my only consolation is that the derps will turn over, as they do here. it just seems to be slower around here, mostly i think 'cause people lack any sort of hustle in these parts.
benkay: went over like
a charm