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mircea_popescu: <moriarty> mircea_popescu, UK, sorry to disappoint you in not being able to introduce fine latinas << nah it was because i was just laughing my ass off at this "galt's gulch" disaster.
mircea_popescu: moriarty possibly because you didn't make a fortune large enough :)
mircea_popescu: moriarty not the point to make a one liner, it's like chess. you construct his argument by asking me questions or w/e other discursive procedure you favour.
mircea_popescu: bounce that bit seems contradictory. how can you coerce the entrenched ?
mircea_popescu: moriarty yeah he's the guy who spent 2012 insisting bitcoin can't survive, then started a bitcoin kiler of his own which we kiled
mircea_popescu: well no, which is why celebrating traitors a la lincoln as some sort of national heroes is so mind boggling.
mircea_popescu: moriarty yeah but i mean, you can construct his argument and bring it at me see what happens
mircea_popescu: let the us not be a federation of states but a marketplace of states.
mircea_popescu: bounce the original idea of "voting with feet" as implemented in the us is exactly that.
mircea_popescu: o look, xmj still derping around on the basis of his 3 year experience. hai babee, how goes.
mircea_popescu: s a fundamentally self defeating, socialist-driving approach.
mircea_popescu: you can't possibly allow change on the grounds of marketplace success like that.
mircea_popescu: well yes you know ? suppose zig ziglar sells a lot of books, and starts his own university, where he teaches kids words like "fail" don't exist.
mircea_popescu: well i implement it wherever i can. seen the economy and sociology articles ?
mircea_popescu: there's one language, it's purely conventional, this makes education purely arbitrary to begin with.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, i believe "free market" education to be plainly idiotic.
mircea_popescu: so apparently reddit libertarians have a freenode channel. ##austrians
mircea_popescu: meh apparently #b4056df6691f8dc72e56302ddad345d65fead3ead9299609a826e2344eb63aa4 can't be a channel name.
mircea_popescu: what else ? a stash of gold is not "govt gives you permission" ? 300 bucks in a wallet ?
mircea_popescu: in general the more liquid an asset is, the more likely requisitioned. land is hard to carry so often left with it's alleged owner.
mircea_popescu: ugs can survive a coupla weeks with a dead currency ; currency can survive about five minutes with a dead usg on whose faith and credit it is based.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: its okay, i have faith the usg will mismanage itself into oblivion long before the dollar fails from due course << this is like hoping the heart will cease functioning long before the liver gives in. in reality, they're so interconnected their demise is a cvasi-simultaneous event willy-nilly.
mircea_popescu: decimation: if you find a mob who is all derping the same thing, is it a conspiracy or organic knowledge discovery? <<< it's the internet :D
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: like gox decoupled from stamp << pretty much
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: i for one would buy thousands of btc if it went to 0.3, and im sure many in this channel would too. it'd hasten the demise of some common enemies << thousands, srsly ?
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03:it just occurred to me how much of a fight btc is going to be in for with the usd over the next decade < duh :)
mircea_popescu: so yes bitbet is sitting on something like 30 btc in unrealised fees that will come in during the next ~6 months
mircea_popescu: that threat alone is enough to prevent successful adoption.
mircea_popescu: should idiocy a la tcg actually arrive to critical mass
mircea_popescu: anyway, an easily overlooked point about bitcoin is that it's well proven we can make terrorist computers
mircea_popescu: roughly the same as following marker iodine through a body.
mircea_popescu: decimation if you're into humint, follow where the employees "let off" go.
mircea_popescu: every fucking thing is dead. an hour and 0 content except for btc-pricetalk which is 100% derpage overdrive
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know the story with the guy hired to make the best church ever
mircea_popescu: bonus points for strategically covering behind purse pic.
mircea_popescu: us chick in a car with a stud that outruns the cops, she has something to bitch about.
mircea_popescu: i remember seeing films which thought 1mn dollars was a fabulous reward
mircea_popescu: <dub> like apple user doesnt secretly want her nude selfies leaked online << you mean the photoshopped nudies hackers obsessed with her made ?
mircea_popescu: <mthreat> That's the problem with double bottoms... they always look like double bottoms at first. << word.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what's going on there, miner down ? or we on invisible pool ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> bfl assets seized << all pointers seem to indicate the forum post is a prank.
mircea_popescu: you can trivially distill ethanol, what's this grade busness ?
mircea_popescu: why are all the dudes in the (stock i presume ?) coinfire illustration fat