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mircea_popescu: im starting to suspect buterin is actually a manufactured identity.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Ah, lawyer backed off from needing an expert in Bitcoin after I posted rates. << how much did you post ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: with this kind of design it's trivial to turn end over end and stop extremely quickly. <<< someone's fascinated with dragonflies.
mircea_popescu: isn't jp-4 the thing that gets a lot of static if it flows ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: master bitcoin repository repository is currently at 295000 << bitcoin ovopository ?
mircea_popescu: On average, experts charge significantly more for their time while testifying at trial and deposition than their time while conducting file reviews and preparing. The average hourly fee for all experts was $385 for in-court testimony, $353 for depositions and $254 for file reviews and preparation. The average hourly fee for trial testimony is 52% higher than the average hourly fee for file reviews and preparation.
mircea_popescu: Expert Witness Fees for Trial, File Review and Depositions
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: So, a lawyer is inquiring what my hourly rate is as an expert witness... What does everyone else charge? << go for 40. too low you won't seem that expert. too high they'll just get antonoderp.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Comming from Transylvania I'm sure mircea_popescu has experience slaughtering vampires with sunlight << actually vampires are your friends.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:they almost certainly laboured under an illusion of one kind or another. << that illusion is "money"
mircea_popescu: i only played civ 1, but nukes were a splendid tool to destory ships
mircea_popescu: actually i think it's related to forcing whiny nerds to defend their fucking civ1 cities,
mircea_popescu: “While the videos at issue in this litigation do not in my opinion depict any improper treatment of the detainees, but rather the lawful, humane and appropriate interaction between guards and detainees,” wrote U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Sinclair Harris, “persons and entities hostile to the United States and its detention of enemy belligerents at Guantánamo Bay are likely to think otherwise.”
mircea_popescu: isn't this the guy that's active on like twitter and stuff ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno that there's something chilling me on bitcoin as much as all these idiots "driving adoption" in their idiotarian ways.
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin tipping sees giant growth: ChangeTip exceeds 10,000 tips in bla bla.
mircea_popescu: and of course diiorio and the rest of that scammer group.
mircea_popescu: dude holy shit already. how much derpage can this one dude sprout.
mircea_popescu: The following people work to set the direction of C4 and the standards against which cryptocurrency professionals are measured:
mircea_popescu: The CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4) establishes cryptocurrency standards that help ensure a balance of openness & privacy, security & usability, and trust & decentralization.
mircea_popescu: seriously, "certified bitcoin professional" ?! professional whats ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the difference between us here is that you seem to include the margin. i say there's no margin included.
mircea_popescu: what's all teh "ironic" trend if not, you know, "i'm meta-er than you ha!"
mircea_popescu: the only reason hipsters have moved on to bikes is that they're meta cars
mircea_popescu: what's more socially acceptable than playing the farmer on facebook ?
mircea_popescu: ask some chick if she wants to get laid ? o but... not meta enough!
mircea_popescu: you're not "supposed to" beat your own kids. you're supposed to... "be better than that". and do it ? indirectly! ha! win.
mircea_popescu: but if you look at it, pretty much all effort goes towards meta.
mircea_popescu: but a state with economic involvement and the custody of the currency is like...
mircea_popescu: this'd work fine in practice for as long as the martian contraption owner didn't also have a cock
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not sure if you've noticed, but the movement is AWAY from direct sense, towards meta.
mircea_popescu: they've got the opportunity to send their kids to college :D
mircea_popescu: this is true tho. numerically : the poor used to have 0.8 opportunity, and the rich 0.75