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mircea_popescu: except
the idiots blurred out her eyes, making
the whole
thing look INCREDIBLYT dirty.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, idiot local glossmag had pic of i forget which celeb and her 11 or so yo daughter. who was, fitting for a child
that age in summer,
topless.
mircea_popescu: if
they weren't on efnet i might even have dropped in for a hi.
mats: i did also notice he's a big fan of
the 'qntra is slashdot repost' line
a111: Logged on 2016-06-05 17:05 asciilifeform: 'We are building an anonymous,
taxable payment system using modern cryptography. Customers will use
traditional money
transfers
to send money
to a digital Exchange and in return receive (anonymized) digital cash. Customers can use
this digital cash
to anonymously pay Merchants. Merchants can redeem
the digital cash for
traditional money at
the digital Exchange. As Merchants are not anonymous,
they can be
taxed, enabling income or sal
mircea_popescu: there was actually a
ton of
this saccharine bs in
the period.
BingoBoingo eventually will get it proper hosting and just convert site
to a static archived
thing
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "(Visited 38
times, 1 visits
today)" holy shit
that's a sad fate for an otherwise entertainingly (if superficially) penned piece.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-05 15:26 asciilifeform: observe how nobody's about
to legalize
the performance dopes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you
take enough
to notice you
thereby
took enough
to affect memory!
mircea_popescu: "It’s generally a mistake
to let
twitchy nerds get
their paws on statistical data." <<
BingoBoingo: One can not soak
the brain in solvents without solving some brain!
mircea_popescu: there's a fundamental, perhaps "not visible" in some lights line
that distinguishes
the college
twerps who KNOW what
they did from
the college
twerps who need someone else
to
tell
them what
they did.
mircea_popescu: this is also a large portion of why i'm so nonplussed by
theoretical "improvements"
mircea_popescu: hence all
the "drugs will make
things better".
the ONE
thing all psychoactives have in common is a destruction of identity
through fucking up memory.
mircea_popescu: but it's certainly quite deep.
the vermin doesn't merely aim
to a comfortable existence, but more importantly
to a memory-less situation.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: also a nice bastadization of "you can be anything" with "if you want something
the whole universe coelhospires for it
to happen"
mircea_popescu: the naive "i connected
to one, should be good rite???"
thing dun work since late 90s
mircea_popescu: gotta maintain numerous connections and compare
the various lies
mircea_popescu: in fairness, using google is not unlike using
the bitcoin network.
mircea_popescu: pretty much everyone with a visible anything gets a
ton of
these
mircea_popescu: The penalties
that can be adjudged against you due
to your reckless and knowing violation of
the aforementioned act, and my privacy rights under
the California Constitution,
the highest law in
the land for any one person living in
the State of California, are very high.
mircea_popescu: As I informed Mr. [redacted],
there are
treatises between
the Nations of
the United States and yours, I believe, Norway, which mandate compliance with
the California State and Federal privacy laws respectively.
mircea_popescu: This week, due
to your GNAA postings, I just suffered
the loss of an important job opportunity, and contract because an individual obtained
the private parts I had not intended for hand distribution. After
the irc error I wrote several people on
that chat ridiculed me.
mircea_popescu: i would like you
to delete
this dangerous material from
the interweb and google.
mircea_popescu: i want
to say
that i followed some instructions provided in
this website and ended up holding an unmentionable part in my hand.
ben_vulpes: "in
this webinar, i will
teach you how
to hold your dick."
ben_vulpes: read as
though you were implying i lived off setting ircd's up for folks.
BingoBoingo: Phun Phact, soybeans bleed red when you cut
their roots
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (in usa,
this is
typically not nyooz, recall
the missouri governor -
typically a whole president has
to get plugged before it is nyooz) << Auditor, would have been governor
mircea_popescu: how many unknown hillary clintons will have
to paint
the sidewalk before usg admits defeat and goes
to licking selected boots ?
mircea_popescu: apparently a warning ain't enough. which... hey,
the beatings can definitely continue.
mircea_popescu: sean smith could be you
today, and WILL be you
tomorrow, yo!
mircea_popescu: it protected
the people involved in its various wars, from iraq
to bitcoin, ever so grandiosely well. it even managed
to protect its ground installations in say libya, or for
that matter ethereum...
mircea_popescu: they believe
they'll get pensions, so why wouldn't
they believe
the usg will somehow, magically, protect
them and
their families.
mircea_popescu: supposedly
this luft will protect
them. somehow. who knows.
mircea_popescu: also it should probably be noted
that what worries
them isn't "attacking police officer", but
the very
tmrs-esque "attack government drone"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo subject
to enhance penalties as "hate" crimes. << missed a d
mircea_popescu: they somehow fail
to grasp
this a) has al ong history of being
tried which b) never failed
to produce
the opposite effect.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: are you familiar with MPEx CDO? And how
the derpage was so bad it was like a 60% default rate.
thestringpuller: That was probably
the case for people scamming usagi, which is what it boiled down
to. Usagi issued insurance against people who were exposed
to pirate (insured
their debts),
then collected it into risk
trenches (A, B and C) of descending risk. he did 0 underwriting, and was overconfident. So all
the people who
told him
they weren't exposed
to pirate were.
thestringpuller: can insurance even exist in bitcoin yet without devolving into Usagi antics?
the liability it
too high
to insure bitcoin with bitcoin. and insuring bitcoin with fiat isn't insurance.