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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!!!"
mircea_popescu: wtf, wait a second, georgia tech is a major party school.
mircea_popescu: course it doesn't deal with cunt anymore except in the meta, but that's really okay for the demo.
mircea_popescu: they need stuff more like SOCIAL sciences, ie, talkradio. so they came up with this unfalsifiable version that's all yak, no actual anything.
mircea_popescu: well pua has a major disadvantage for your run of the mill usian : it's falsifiable, like a science.
mircea_popescu: libertardian hello brother. are you here to help me turn the tide and breach through the oppressive injustice these ancap redpiller types keep weaving ?
mircea_popescu: they are a science, and hardly worth the effort given that w/e, it's just bash quotes
mircea_popescu: Adlai: how about from now on, no btc-related company ever fills the "ceo" role <<< welcome to mpex in 2011 :)))
mircea_popescu: so as to what, cover a career built on a deserved reputation for insight under a pile of senile ridicule ?
mircea_popescu: With this tailwind working for us, Charlie and I hope!!!11
mircea_popescu: Could anyone really believe the earth was going to swallow up the incredible productive assets and unlimited human ingenuity existing in America?!?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: BUT the dynamism embedded in our market economy will continue to work its magic. America’s best days lie ahead.
mircea_popescu: education, work, everything the same. they don't buy shoes to have shoes, they buy shoes for the other people to see they got shoes.
mircea_popescu: *: Adlai isn't sure that, were he looking for a minister to perform a same-sex marriage, he'd want one who was only doing it under threat of incarceration << details, details. it's the united states of methodical hypocrisy anyway, they don't get married to be married, they get married to get the paperwork.
mircea_popescu: mod6 will be fined five ounces of lead and an ounce of ink
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and lemme guess, currently being workt on is assbot: House purchases on hold as real-time payment system goes offline - Telegraph ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the less of it he has to do, the more of it he can do, ya know ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla wanna write it up ? or... make the woman do it ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell kakobrekla here's your finders fee for the intel article
mircea_popescu: assbot: Intel Subsidiary Agrees to $750,000 Penalty for Unauthorized Encryption Exports << now that is news! got a BingoBoingo in da haus ?
mircea_popescu: i've never been sick for a week straight nor do i think it possible.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: in those 4 weeks I saw a doctor twice and a specialist once << fuck 4 weeks ? i'm throwing a conniption fit in the third motherfucking day
mircea_popescu: anyway, after the entire "we're built with security in mind from the ground up and also please everyone send btc to this address and we'll sort it out later" adventure, and then lying about it...
mircea_popescu: nah, just go to some people that aren't mp offer them .1 btc for whatever and you're in.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you know bloomberg terminals are still widely used. 50k or so i'd guess.
mircea_popescu: yeah. but i never really wrote about it because well... that'd be the end of days, mp mommy blogger.
mircea_popescu: TomServo are you setting me up ? yeah, i know, i got no kids bla bla. but i speak for the romanian school of psychology, pre 1990 god damn it. i know shit.