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mircea_popescu: <kuzetsa> assbot: you're a bad idea << if you'd have read the logs you'd know there was some derp in chan earlier dropping links to leech ips to ddos people.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> opera is a vastly superior browser <<< i been sayin'.
mircea_popescu: they'd make great soviet bureaucrats, if only there existed a soviet soyuz for them to run into the ground.
mircea_popescu: all things considered, i would say this is a reasonable summary of the business acumen of your average argentinian.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding actual gold use is 1% or less of the metal in circulation, and usually less than production.
mircea_popescu: adlai those are mostly in india, and they have a huge problem keeping supplies up
mircea_popescu: it's like the proposition that there's an open market in police work. no, there isn't, not for as long as an agent steals any of it that it feels like and torches the efforts of anyone else.
mircea_popescu: still, been in teh army and can speak chinese by 22 ? you're way ahead of teh curve.
mircea_popescu: that's pretty young. i thought we had a coupla teens tho.
mircea_popescu: "market discipline" being you know, just this boogaboo to scare argentina with
mircea_popescu: and so the scammers of all stripes and colors, under the high patronage of the united states government, keep doing great business.
mircea_popescu: other than that, germany is always happy to think that a claim, no matter how unlikely, to "its gold" is more valuable to it than blowing the scam open.
mircea_popescu: in the entire history of that fucking thing, there's like, one case where the "i'll pay a little sometime when i can" thing blew up, and that was when mpoe-pr prosecuted harnett's "bank
mircea_popescu: decimation here's the thing with scammers, in bitcoin or otherwise : to the chump, a "claim" is worth as much as it can be pretended into being worth. and so, to chump-germany or to random tardstalk "investor", it is actually better to credit the scammer ("oh, they'll repay eventually) than to enforce the loss.
mircea_popescu: you srsly just went "we'll see how it goes for employees, maybe 50 btc in danny's wallet is a great thing for them" ?
mircea_popescu: except bitcoin makes it plainly obvious in its stupidity.
mircea_popescu: so it works EXACTLY the same, they're just doing what they're used to
mircea_popescu: (you see this money in "your" 401k in my wallet ? it's yours i promise!)
mircea_popescu: people are just doing what they're used to, and then they're surprised when it doesn't work. it didn't work before, either, but hey, still in denial about that part.
mircea_popescu: adlai: "He is also in possession of personal bitcoins of two employees (~50 bitcoins)" how do things go this far wrong? << it's called "shut up and take my money". aka, people are uncannily inept.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: i wonder if im the youngest asset-er << how old are you ?
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: the tricky part is speaking it, i often sub in canto words by abusing tones and i don't realize im doing it << dude's got some problems i can scarcely imagine.
mircea_popescu: scam ddos, it does nothing by itself, it just hopes and prays maybe someone gives a shit so that the "countermeasures" actually do some damage.
mircea_popescu: i mean i'm tempted to ban ll and psychouroboros just so i don't have to watch three lines per hour or w/e.
mircea_popescu: not like we want the sort of noobs it filters out anyways.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla dude this ratpoison business is making join/part swarm literally 300% worse. just turn it off, it ain't worth it.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: imma buy some buttcoins << a man with a plan.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: well. i mean, you can pickle and ferment anything, but i doubt regular cabbage would be any good <<< are you fucking kidding me ? regular cabbage, without none of this fish sauce crap, is THE THING.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Fuck your superfood shit. You know what's a read superfood? Lard. Much energy to mass ratio. << every cockroach's favorite food, too.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i wonder if it walks like as well << now we know how slovenia makes its politicians. people just take walking, talking shits.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> turkey was good, especially since i didn't have to cook it. << best turkey.
mircea_popescu: diametric: anyone have a recommendation on a vps provider that accepts bitcoin and isn't a scam? << nope. this is an oft recurring problem, nobody wants to make one already. for what, a year ? three ?
mircea_popescu: diametric: decimation: pretty much whats been happening for the last few days << freenode (and irc generally) isn't exactly a paragon of predictable behaviour
mircea_popescu: adlai: you don't need every transaction << you're an expert now ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol people love to herd. you should see teh argentines, it's like their favourite passtime, form a queue.
mircea_popescu: jesus sitting in the safe confines of over here one readily forgets just how fucktarded teh outside world is.
mircea_popescu: i've been looking for reasons to ditch freenode for like a year.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla mebbe if you ignore it it goes away, and the room average iq jumps a coupla points.
mircea_popescu: diametric guy's a kid in a basement. if it's going to be something it's going to be some sort of very cheap, high leverage, poor control something. syn, wordpress pignbacks, stuff like that.
mircea_popescu: diametric maybe you're not logging what needs to be logging ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, for #b-a irc, an idea would be to have moderation for joins/parts.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate Anduck -1 random idiot, keeps waking up talking.