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mircea_popescu: nonsense. there is absolutely no reason to cater to idiocy.
mircea_popescu: look, your whole argument is based on the entirely insane proposition that "people could never know what an originating address is"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i was using the term people in the limited sense of "people in bitcoin", not in the general sense of "mouthbreather kept on life support by usg"
mircea_popescu: "we're a bitcoin company that's trying to make bitcoin work as badly as possible, and fail that as closely approximative of fiat as possible. because reasons. please invest."
mircea_popescu: but no, why not try and microsoft all over bitcoin and then wonder why people hate you.
mircea_popescu: yes, it would change, if "industry best practices" were aimed at best
mircea_popescu: decimation that's not even the problem. all those together ? worth half a watsapp.
mircea_popescu: and they won't be able to get out of it by aggitating the "us legislation" dog, nobody cares.
mircea_popescu: not really my problem, they'll learn some lessons in fragility once anyone gives enough of a shit.
mircea_popescu: and they BOTH did it, hurray for us-style "competition" ==== "industry best practices"
mircea_popescu: basically they picked a solution that fell out of the fail tree and hit every branch down
mircea_popescu: brothel1 : if you fail to spend in 10 minutes, there's a surcharge. brothel2 : if you fail to spend in 3 days, there's a... nevermind.
mircea_popescu: relying on a 10 minute interval when blocks are routinely a half hour, help me rwanda.
mircea_popescu: and supposedly these things hire engineers and have ceos and market value. psssssst
mircea_popescu: then you can just send 1 even for a .75 invoice if you absolutely must have it filled, and take .2whatever in change when it happens
mircea_popescu: "here is the address to pay to. if you pay in the next 10 minutes, you need to pay this much. if you don't and the price moves in your favour expect change in your originating address ; if it moves against you expect a new invoice generated for the difference"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the implication being that what exactly ? your weight is their fiat.
mircea_popescu: it's nice supporting foss authors and everything, but i doubt the guy can or would spend atc.
mircea_popescu: chalbersma suppose you just re-write it so it gives that to the highest ranking address.
mircea_popescu: yet there's a whole collection of reddit wailers derping about how bitbet is a scam and ty bitpay for having fixed your X error that cost me my business you're such a great company.
mircea_popescu: but i mean, bitbet works just fine without expiring addresses
mircea_popescu: someone has to explain to me why both coinbase (10 minute) and bitpay (15 minute) use this idiotic "expiring invoice" model.
mircea_popescu: mmm no. it's like 120g/mol. 1/3 of a mol, like 7 liters.
mircea_popescu: lethal dose is 45 grams, which is just about 1 mol, or ~22 liters of pure, unconstricted gas.
mircea_popescu: it is difficult to store, because if air gets to it they make phosgene and hcl ; however it can be trivially washed in a solution of baking soda, which removes the decomposition products safely.
mircea_popescu: by the way : chloroform can be trivially manufactured out of either acetone (nail polish remover) or ethanol through addition of chlorine bleach.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes how would you know ? you don't check people's peckers do you ?
mircea_popescu: actually a lot of men get off on not getting to get off frequently
mircea_popescu: anywhere between all and each and every last one of them.
mircea_popescu: there also little girls who get off on men with power.
mircea_popescu: generally, whenever someone complains whatever they complain about should be replaced by something that's about a degree of magnitude more likely to bother them personally.
mircea_popescu: seems to me "female" is a good substitution for "retarded" for the company of females that think retarded's retarded.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i srsly never met a us born/bred woman that had trouble with good chocolate.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform us "belgian" chocolates are pretty awful too.
mircea_popescu: why not go the other way wtf is with this puritan hate of pleasure and enjoyment for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: "TGI Friday's (often shortened to "Friday's" in most countries, previously stylized as "T.G.I. Friday's", and stylized "FRiDAY'S", or "T.G.I.s" in Ireland and the United Kingdom) is an American restaurant chain focusing on casual dining."
mircea_popescu: a bucket list being the list of things the assholes in question were hoping to do before i got to them.