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mircea_popescu: TomServo i have nfi. bounce sure, teh future's an open book.
mircea_popescu: but no, he quit brokering many months before that, an' he we were sort-of working on a project but apparently never went anywhere.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate pankkake 1 some lols were head, meanwhile he left.
mircea_popescu: totally, this works, yeah. which is why nobody does it in practice o.O
mircea_popescu: looking at things from a distance always helps. "oh, you wish to tell me that if we make this bar so that anyone can come in and not pay a cover charge it'll be cooler ?"
mircea_popescu: no, but they've had "we know shit and we have economists" dev teams
mircea_popescu: if those things actually worked, they wouldn't have blown up.
mircea_popescu: anyway, "blocksize elasticity" and all the rest of the derpage is trying to turn bitcoin into whatever, xrp, nxt, whatever the hell.
mircea_popescu: which is what "if everything gives every which way you got postmodern us, ie, a mess." is saying.
mircea_popescu: yes, it has to work that way. some things gotta be fixed.
mircea_popescu: so far what i got from your position is, "curious how the market adjusts the price of the oil barrel, but not what a barrel consists of"
mircea_popescu: that'd be unrelated. can we discuss one thing at a time ?
mircea_popescu: this prolly warrants an in depth discussion. like what ?
mircea_popescu: if everything gives every which way you got postmodern us, ie, a mess.
mircea_popescu: gotta have some fixed points to have a working equilibrium
mircea_popescu: well, curious how the car moves forward, but not realy upward.
mircea_popescu: could have avoided being stupid in public by just asking.
mircea_popescu: the worst part of it being that you know, he KNOWS about this place.
mircea_popescu: what could possibly be wrong with infinite blocks . pdf
mircea_popescu: bounce anyway, it's kind-of amusing to me that the Krawisz fellow KNOWS about gavin's ideas to reduce block propagation from a function of size to a fixed value
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> i think it was somewhere between 20 and 40 << llol. isn't thiks true of like, 90% of all postage ever ?
mircea_popescu: what they opine as to how either of those should work, well... i'm a believer in free speech just as much as the next guy.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "In light of the foregoing, it should be clear that Mircea, not Gavin, is derping here." << the only thing that matters in there is that they understand who is setting the conversation and establishing the winners and losers
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> in the end, current regs already do apply <<< ahahah what ?
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> someone is sane? << apparently it's possible
mircea_popescu: anyway, im not playing this stupid game. he wants to ama, he can come here.
mircea_popescu: anyway, got a meeting. we can resume usgavin and the five fail dwarves discussion later.
mircea_popescu: bounce yup. which is why the "you seem to have omitted suckling my penis, son" is the right approach.
mircea_popescu: fucking shocking, 5 "actual" economists found that agree inflation is a good idea, and if anything is naturally uninflationary, adding it in is the tits.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves who knows, maybe they learn to not pdf.
mircea_popescu: anyway, seriously, gavin and "5 ~actual~ economists", this is the "are we all wrong" astroturf consensus he hopes to go on ?
mircea_popescu: if he doesn't make sure he knows any better first, that's the culpable act.
mircea_popescu: so, anyway. questions. "What makes you think getting the okay of five anon products of the US diploma mill has any bearing ? Bitcoin wasn't made by "economists"
mircea_popescu: an economist wants to be an economist, 6 months on the logs and tit pictures.
mircea_popescu: they didn't make bitcoin. they don't get to join later on and get a seat at the table.
mircea_popescu: and WE won't admit this theory where "econoimists" matter.
mircea_popescu: the problem here is that gavin is trying to paint the box for the discussion.
mircea_popescu: the problem here isn't that gavin is trying to fuck things up, because he won't succeed.
mircea_popescu: i couldn't care less if five popes signed on his stupidity.
mircea_popescu: because then he can give 5 names and make it look like he answered something.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves no. that is pushing things the wrong way.
mircea_popescu: nor could it, for structural reasons he's omitted to explain ?
mircea_popescu: never has it happened that more than 4 were in agreement on any piece of idiocy
mircea_popescu: because out of the fifty billion idiots that are nevertheless certified as economists by the us paper mill
mircea_popescu: bounce that's not even it. is he genuinely proposing that the bar for corectness is finding 5 "actual" economist sto agree,
mircea_popescu: "Why are you lying ?" is a good start. "Why are you acting as if Bitcoin were a USG project ? It's not, you are."
mircea_popescu: anyway, if anyone wants to ask gavin anything, you've got plenty of material in here.
mircea_popescu: perhaps we "just don't understand how the world works".
mircea_popescu: herpy-derp-a-derp, such a valid argument that is, really.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves amusingly, usgavin is pulling out the "your shit's not usg certified" card.
mircea_popescu: it may be fashionable AMONG IDIOTS, it's neither true nor important.
mircea_popescu: just as well you might be saying "the world wil not be sustainable if there's not more social justice"
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell DanielKrawisz "The real issue here is that Bitcoin is almost certainly not sustainable if the block size remains limited to 1 Mb. " << nobody agrees with this idiocy.
mircea_popescu: "Coin Brief is Your Open Source for Digital Currency News, and was formed in April 2014. Since that time it has quickly grown, and is becoming THE hub for digital currency news, information, and tools." ooookay ?
mircea_popescu: dude perspective's a bitch. it's almost like you can make no useful judgement about anything of note from having spent half a weekend in some rnadom town
mircea_popescu: well fuck me, maybe i was confusing one with the other
mircea_popescu: yeah, well, what bros say about women may or may not be indicative of women.
mircea_popescu: wtf, why else is she there ? to get out of the atlanta rain ?
mircea_popescu: "Alright chods, some of you could use some help on how to mack and succeed at parties. Mostly pledges do, but some bros could use a review. For anytime throughout the party… If you are standing by yourself at any point, YOU ARE OUTTA HERE!!! If you are talking to a brother of your pledge brothers when there are girls just standing around, YOU ARE OUTTA HERE!!!"