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mircea_popescu: i think the last guy that tried to do anything substantial was reagan. maybe nixon.
mircea_popescu: dub: you have a Guiding Hand whose system elects temporary emperors in a way designed to obfuscate it from the herd << emperors my foot. pretty much all the president can do is mispronounce for the camera and be made a laughingstock of.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: I consider that a decent step forward << lol gotta work
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mega-lol. nato world tired of living? << from what i gather a little bit of epidemic doesn't look so bad up top. nice profits for pharma, might even get the country outta recession.
mircea_popescu: he's almost ninjashogun level, the way he goes everywhere, trying a pass or two of the same spun content.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: excuse my ignorance, but cant the node cost problem be solved simply by running pay-node businesses? << zipf problem.
mircea_popescu: Daniel_Krawisz: Me neither. I would rather see the block size go up. If that creates a crisis of not enough full notes, then people are going to do something about that pretty quick I'd guess. <<< yeah, sure they will. specifically, sink the bitcoin lite resulting from the fork and sticking to the original.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i really trust him with 6 but motherfucker is already leading. << bwahahaha WAY AHEAD
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i wouldnt give 10 to my mother << you don't know her like we do :D
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: down for a minute and i get complaints. << depending on the recipient's age, going down for one minute may be all it takes.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic judges commonly view through defendants corporate structrurings, if those are intended to mask the real interests in the case.
mircea_popescu: if there's ever a need for illustration of the concept of total trust, and it's pointlessness - that's it
mircea_popescu: i like how danielpbarron is -30 on the wot and +5 to assbot
mircea_popescu: these people are out of a parody i swear. every single day. EVERY SINGLE DAY there's a "protest" in buenos aires. bout a hundred or so people gather (50 or so being the same throughout), drum the same tune on perhaps he same drums. each day.
mircea_popescu: or it could just be called calgon and also fix your washing machine.
mircea_popescu: anyway, she needn't worry : the third party company is where the siphoned funds are headed. the foundation is just the scamming public front.
mircea_popescu: yeah well chief derp didn't sound as exciting to the prospective candidate
mircea_popescu: bounce that feels like it should have a titty in there.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: Note that it's ironic that I actually made this purchase by mistake because I thought the "Deposit" button meant , yknow, depositing funds, not exchanging currencies. Your system of dollarifying all numbers is obnoxious. Let people type in bitcoin amounts and understand it as a separate currency. You're just confusing things." <<< they're not JUST confusing things.
mircea_popescu: that's what motherfucking careers are : lines of work where you can do what you please.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves or stop calling "a career" menial, servant jobs which don't afford you being with your family.
mircea_popescu: shut up and embrace it. when we want porn, you do porn. when porridge is fashionable you make porrige and if sandwiches come into fashion you make sandwiches. wtf is this.
mircea_popescu: these self-righteous cunts. it's porn when other women do it, amirite ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: how is XBT better ? << it's great in that it gives btc the occasion to show the entire iso process the door.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: No need for a symbol. BTC is fine. People build friendly 'nugh interfaces with BTC << yeahy but then how would vessenes' scam ring issue "press releases" about things and stuff ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: it looks like a B getting probed analy <<< would you prefer an octopus ?
mircea_popescu: assbot: Press Release October 7, 2014: Bitcoin Foundation Financial Standards Working Group Leads the Way for Mainstream Bitcoin Adoption | The Bitcoin Foundation << they really should stop competing with the onion.
mircea_popescu: dub: assets is gop sponsored chan << yeah, but the great old party in question is the guelph.
mircea_popescu: they;re one of the lenders, but! i gotta say they parlayed very little into a whole lot. they don't actually have enough btc on hand to justify a 30mn grant.
mircea_popescu: i guess I should make a little infographic while at it.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: be a real writer and write from Androad with autocorrect << so much win
mircea_popescu: apparently Live Free or Die Hard (2007) was one of the first films to use the sticks.
mircea_popescu: for a bunch of experts that use excel, the controlling factor is to make sure the story's believable.
mircea_popescu: nobody really knows the intricate details of your own "dawn of time" history but you
mircea_popescu: you see why this is not the sort of thing another could help with Azelphur. check the secret keyring ? maybe is there a pinentry involved that fails silently ?
mircea_popescu: all it takes is a little time and a coupla determined people.
mircea_popescu: it takes precious little luck for the woodchpper to grind a whole forrest.
mircea_popescu: every current usg employee is in direct danger of starvation, once they reach old age. better make some good friends and suck up to the fambly, because the usg won't be here to pick up their tabs.
mircea_popescu: but anyone else... who cares if the bill comes due just as you're due for pension payments? hm ?
mircea_popescu: bounce depending on one's age, i wouldn't put much stock in that. i suppose septuagenarians have good cause to be disinterested on these grounds.
mircea_popescu: yes, but practically the delusions of the players aren't relevant.
mircea_popescu: assbot: 7th Heaven Dad Stephen Collins Taped Confessing to Child Sex Abuse <<< holy shit omfg no wai!!1
mircea_popescu: if questioned, no matter what the sops say, it's still a loss.
mircea_popescu: the embarassment of havcing to answer to it makes it a loss already.
mircea_popescu: and that n is pretty fuckingly scary high, what with the heartbleed headshot and all the other outlays generously handed out by la serenissima.