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mircea_popescu: small is easily imagined and medium is like kinda not so easily
mircea_popescu: a few dozen small and medium investors ? readding tarddit is funy at timmes
mircea_popescu: "It is a known fact that I personally opposed any proof of solvency, but agreed to conduct it for the sake of a few dozen small and medium investors."
mircea_popescu: "While preparing for the final audit results, a task we were working on for weeks now, our bitcoin wallet has been hacked and emptied, just after exchanging our fiat holdings within the exchanges to bitcoin and transferring our entire holdings to our wallet, in order to proof our solvency."
mircea_popescu: <jurov> aye it's one big fair << hence the preoccupation with "fairness"!!!11
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> probe reaction? see if sympathetic idiots appear? <<< will be valuable in future, those.
mircea_popescu: it seems reasonable that any degree given to any "protected minority" by any university with a quota programme should be discounted.
mircea_popescu: (incredible, incidentally, that people who supposedly invest resources into getting a degree aren't even bothering to mention the distinction between actual degrees and quota degrees)
mircea_popescu: listend here in the sense of "people who volunteer both ways", nothing else. not meaning to imply speer had a quota degree or that obama can use the noggin
mircea_popescu: who isn't a volunteer ? obama and herr speer both are volunteers.
mircea_popescu: if it were a hallucination it wouldn't be quite so evenly distributed ethnically and geographically.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not really. pain and a painful death are actually honorable.
mircea_popescu: no one actual cock could serve for this role, because it is to provide abject and complete humiliation.
mircea_popescu: so this time, they're chosing war and will have dishonor.
mircea_popescu: this time they figure the enemy is small and it may be overrun. it won't work, and they'll have to do a 180 and suck the cock.
mircea_popescu: that time they figured the enemy is big and it may be placated. it didn't work, originally, so they had to do a 180 and fight the war.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the situation is exactly the reverse of churchill's "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war."
mircea_popescu: that's useful regulation. everything else, as useful as piss.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> i think new regs on btc should amount to giving pre-existing institutions an avenue for entering the bitcoin fray << not helpful. the only helpful thing they can do is say "every financial institution of the fiat persuasion has six months to get mp's okay or lose its fiat license"
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> more generally, the article as far as I understands it sheds a negative light on "regulation", as reminded by the Romanian footnote, it mainly results in you being fucked << it just makes the point that regulation is the stricture of death. which it is
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> one man;s bad reg is another's good <<< not a matter of man here. that's why nature. why would anyone's opinion count in this discussion ?
mircea_popescu: yes, as implemented by socialists and in socialist states, it is always bad.
mircea_popescu: which is only visible because it diverges from nature.
mircea_popescu: the problem is that these days "regulation" is the name for the visible part of regulation
mircea_popescu: my point is that regulation is an essential function of life. your homeostasis is the result of regulation.
mircea_popescu: chetty do they get shot if they don't show up or how does it work ?
mircea_popescu: who wouldn't want to go into the world's arsehole to deal with a contagious viral disease that makes you puke blood ?!
mircea_popescu: what they'll do is bundle it with a ton more dollars and make us another gift down the road
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nah, that's the least bad part in all this
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic well but i mean, then obama doesn't regard executive orders as regulation mechanisms.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves and they have been warned that if they do do it, they're fucked.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic is this true of regulation say, b-a voice ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i agree the art of dancing with goats is necessary if you agree it doesn't include fucking them.
mircea_popescu: they made their choice. between bitcoin and fiat they chose fiat
mircea_popescu: derpy web based exchanges figure into it pretty much not at all.
mircea_popescu: <bounce> the chinese aren't more reliable, are they? <<< we don't fucking know.
mircea_popescu: nanotube well the recent "We will steal user's btc and deliver it to the usss" stuff is pretty much fucking the goat.
mircea_popescu: i don't envy you ppl trying to trade your cross or anything.
mircea_popescu: so you know, just because they're not quite as feckless as bitstamp, what's that do for anyone.
mircea_popescu: yes, but this "republicans are better than democrats" bs is neither rational nor something to ever consider.
mircea_popescu: Adlai im curious, did you figure that out from context or did you do suupportive reading ?
mircea_popescu: you admit they stole, but you claim they're not scammers because what again ?
mircea_popescu: "don't worry about fucking me, it's true i raped a girl last week but i washed all the blood off my cock so should be ok"
mircea_popescu: Adlai the thing is, the way the search is organised now, you click on the finds and it gives you the day's context
mircea_popescu: "<mircea_popescu> some derp pounced on some code he had no rights on, then had a public split with one of his co -conspirators (also well documented in public)"
mircea_popescu: BigBitz looky, either you do your own research or you follow someone
mircea_popescu: truth be told time is working against us on that score, we will have to somehow create a compendium
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves or maybe the same six months or who knows.
mircea_popescu: but that does nothing for your derpy "arguings" or w/e you think they are.