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mircea_popescu: if you look at it, typical she-brained dc staffer mental processes.
mircea_popescu: i guess it's really a comission of idiots, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: this is how much teh usg dimwit in charge of this project comprehends of these matters. fuckwit actually imagined that "the community" is stupid enough and the stupid enough part relevant enough to go for shit like this because... it says "the community" in it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo not likely, given the very low index of the comment in question
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ancient romanian joke : people trying to become cops are given an intelligence test, the geometric shapes and box with cutouts thing.
mircea_popescu: jurov: it's beneath them to concern with individual and personal key verification << yeah, because everyone wants to talk to people it can't even learn the name of. totally.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: then later "hey did you get my message?" << they don't have gribble where they live. because barbarians.
mircea_popescu: punkman: ben_vulpes: oic, they put everything in btcwire library, but btcd won't use it << bitwire is iirc todd's thing to make network move faster
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: TheNewDeal: the site has a profit motive in having big showdowns. in cash games it increases rake taken on the hand. << it's not just that. most poker players are idiots. they like to see the pretty pictures. makes them feel better about themselves.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: xanthyos whenever I played SWC I also suspected that good hands came too often << as long as they come equally often for everyone, i imagine the argument goes, this isn'tr cheating but promotion.
mircea_popescu: to put it another way : a century ago, back when university professors had the common decency to die aged 60ish, kids ended up with assistant professroships aged 20something, not 30+.
mircea_popescu: you know what pays for keeping 60yos around to be 80yo currently ?
mircea_popescu: dude i tell you... reviving sickly old farts sounds pretty fucking threatening.
mircea_popescu: in fact, any half-sane investor would back out once this mess is brought to their attention, seeing how the only thing coming out of it is a decade of litigation on his money.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i suspect Cavirtex is doing fundraising or such and wants to fuck over the real early angels << if this is true, the published announcement opens all the directors to pretty serious criminal liability, not to mention that any court would undo the "sale".
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: dvsdude dont worry about your chumphood, we all got chumped at some point << orly now :D
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: in making the election to accept $20 for a cab ride home, you will be deemed to not have been drugged and assaulted at my house last night << sounds legit.
mircea_popescu: dub: a bartender can't legally serve someone thats already drunk as fuck, a bank only has its own criteria << actualkly a bank also can't lend to the bankrupt, so...
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: blaming banks for bubble is like blaming bartenders for alcoholism << this has a lengthy tradition in the puritan world.
mircea_popescu: confucius sez : one is not a millionaire by day what is a million at night.
mircea_popescu has the great buenos aires trial of the enemies of freedom script half written already.
mircea_popescu: o, the notion that hearn survives the transfer of power is just ludicrous anyway.
mircea_popescu: people - reasonable, respectable people that is - need to stop engaqging that scumbag in conversation and simply insult him wherever he shows up.
mircea_popescu: this is why you don't want every dick and jane "participating". they fucking corrupt anything they participate in.
mircea_popescu: the problem with reddit is that a fucktarded audience gives incentive for fucktarded arguments from people who would otherwise shut up.
mircea_popescu: "o my house is burning, it's not reasonable to stop watching pokemon while putting the fire out"
mircea_popescu: fucking hell ? a) STILL with the "satoshi hairball" bs ? 5 years later ? b) it's not "Reasonable" ? it';s fucking mandatory.
mircea_popescu: "Satoshi created a hairball. It takes years sometimes to cleanup a codebase that has accumulated a lot of technical debt. It's not reasonable to just stop all feature development in the meantime."
mircea_popescu: cazalla: is price-to-income a good way of evaluating a housing bubble? << it's an indicator. tho it also reflects the center/periphery balance (ie, in any realm, the capital is cheapest and the fringes most expensive. that's where mining happens or w/e, higher risk adventuring. easier money, less boring people, higher risk so many explanations for larger rents)
mircea_popescu: he's not being tone deaf. teh usg wants to be able to take over bitcoin, is all.
mircea_popescu: "Mike's response to that concern included the idea that "the community" would "just" decide to delete UTXOs - that is freeze funds - by creating a chain fork. Not the first time he's suggesting freezing funds; I think he's being a bit tone deaf here..."
mircea_popescu: October) he said: "It would not have been accepted in 1945 that the UN should include tiny states whose only justification for existence is that their territory is no longer wanted by the colonial governments that supported them for years." The light dawns!
mircea_popescu: The problems of "majority rule" did not, of course, arise in America way back in 1776 since these sturdy pioneers evolved their own expedient for dealing with such matters. However, Mr. Goldberg, chief U.S. delegate to the UN, seems at last to be concerned over "majority rule"—at UN itself, where small, insignificant states are usurping the peace-keeping authority of the great powers. On the UN's 21st birthday (24th
mircea_popescu: " Americans probably now know less about Rhodesia than they do about the moon, which does not deter them from trying to impose on us the "solution" and resulting chaos they helped to entrench in the strife-torn Congo."
mircea_popescu: "107 Four former ministers accused of plotting against General Mobutu were hanged in Leopoldville's Grand Square before a Wembley-sized "gate" of 100,000 after being condemned at a 90-minute open-air "trial". No evidence was presented, no prosecution case made, there were no witnesses and the defendants had no counsel. There were also no protest marches in London, no sermon in St. Paul's, no letters to The Times, no de
mircea_popescu: That Rhodesian Africans actually assist their "oppressors" in hunting down terrorist would-be "liberators" refutes the lie that this is a land of turmoil and strife. There has, in fact, been more racial disturbance and bloodshed in Chicago or Los Angeles in a week than in Rhodesia in a year.
mircea_popescu: After a year of pressures, scorn, sanctions and diatribe, Rhodesia emerged more resolute in her will to survive, and with a more stable, stronger, and more dignified image (192) —an image gratuitously, though unintentionally, created for her by the failure of her would-be detractors. Mainspring of her stability lies in the deep reservoir of inter-racial goodwill.
mircea_popescu: The "talks" were resumed. Elsewhere in Africa things were about normal—for Africa. There was a coup here and there (140), Zambia committed transport hara-kiri (137), some lively Somali border skirmishing produced its quota of casualties, summary "justice" was administered in the Congo (107), and about 1,000 Ugandans were bumped off by Premier Obote (119)—nothing really serious enough to warrant the attention of a
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski amusingly, that's the premiere employment the locals get in the chinese colony towns. they ship whores in, but when it comes to sports local kids get the job.
mircea_popescu: "the measures that it'd take getting african americans to outcompete azns out of us tech colleges". heh. what measures, tell me ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: once again, the real reason is that the measures required to get the locals to work for you would be forbidden by usg << not so. the locals are just shitty stock.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: one wonders why enterprising individuals from civilized countries don't invade africa, clear out locals, and start a proper city-state << !s balls
mircea_popescu: i bet he would. jesus fuck these people, always ready with the wrong thing.
mircea_popescu: hearnright. i think that's the definition of a successful attack :) don't get me wrong. i'd like to see core restart itself if it crashes <<< riiight.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform main reason why the universality of the wot is such an important prerequisite for a livable world and general hapiness.
mircea_popescu: i suppose next in line, neobee for a different island. since it worked so well the first time.
mircea_popescu: hasn't keiser already tore himself a fifty asshole with his involvement in the icelandic coin scam ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski lol the funny thing about these idiots is that they keep copying... the broken models.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform doesn't astound me in the slightest. it actually makes me quite happy.