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mircea_popescu: think about that solipsist heaven. a one man diesel attack sub.
mircea_popescu: more importantly (and somewhat secretly) : they're one man subs.
mircea_popescu: apparently much easier to make it silent, whereas the nuke ones can not
mircea_popescu: speaking of which : the diesel sub is making a major comeback
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as you accept bitcoin as a desktop garden under a lcd backed monitor, one can, does.
mircea_popescu: destroy land/wealth equivalency << this is gone , actually, which is why i rent.
mircea_popescu: im kinda waiting for the twinks to get bored of being irrelevant, get upset and threaten to sue everyone else for using their invention.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: or say, go and fix RuBisCO, world's most inefficient enzyme << it's not its fault! hard fucking shit!
mircea_popescu: do we have any reason to suspect bitcoin will bring about by and large more prosperous societies in the sense of people affording better friends ?
mircea_popescu: or mebbe some knew but the group as a whole got desperate enough.
mircea_popescu: but i guess i was giving the bright financial minds on the other side of the tug rope undue credit for being absolutely intelligent so as to know.
mircea_popescu: the problem being that going the other way is a) unduly expensive and b) shockingly ineffectual.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: so you can only miss the chance to sell 10k 3 times or something? << that was going the other way.
mircea_popescu: mike_c yeah i imagine tomorrow will be teh day of mourning for teh would be manipulateurs.
mircea_popescu: jurov well sitll planning to have it online this month.
mircea_popescu: dude i leave for a day and where is the two digit bitcoin!
mircea_popescu: he did also sort-of maintain employment in the interval, so w/e.
mircea_popescu: i duinno that he did ever make any money, i highyl doubt it. he did go to some personal trouble to try and cover for the various potholes he made, at some point even selling (or claiming to ?) his guitar
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you may have the best roi of all the hollywood majors.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal he was a small, very vocal, very entertaining player.
mircea_popescu: they all traded with each other, often on bizarre terms, which'd make any judge simply lump everything together in disregard of any veils.
mircea_popescu: part of the problem is that the guy run his affairs cca 2012 as if they were fantasy baseball. buncha names/identities with no substantial business existence or raison d'etre, making the thing difficult to remember or sanely structure historically.
mircea_popescu: well, his relevancy came at a very late point. he had been making noises for a long time, but nobdy paid attention for an equally long time.
mircea_popescu: consider the situaiton where a bunch of people actually believed the earth is flat at some point
mircea_popescu: i know it looks impossible in retrospect, but it was the fact at the time.
mircea_popescu: plenty of people ACTUALLY believed a) pirate is a bright ceo etc
mircea_popescu: this because you know, merchant adoption is so important for a coin and all that.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there's been a block with a transaction in it since may.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal well it's got 1.7th perm from now on, plus whatever other people throw at it, so im guessing a 5 to 10 th rate going forward is probably its level
mircea_popescu: fluffypony are you aiming to ask "will blockr.io be shut down integrally or will the atc part somehow magically survive" or do you aim to ask "will atc implement blockchain culling like the btc does"
mircea_popescu: (more likle, the implication is you're from the us, and thus mate once for a lyftyme)
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal well maybe the implication is you only used it on their best friends.
mircea_popescu: more so for the other man part than for the spider web part, god knows how that works.
mircea_popescu: but perhaps the implication is that it'd be icky to use another man's spider web condom
mircea_popescu: "then when it finally went through his face light up "you just gotta know how to work these treknologies"
mircea_popescu: sad that the story fails to include a "he mumbled god dangit while kicking the machine a couple of times"
mircea_popescu: people here have shit like i dunno, laser cutters all over their kitchen. so... you're in good company
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> <X-Rob> I normally just reinvest into hardware. // this strategy is bound to fail << i think he pretty much said he enjoys the tinkering aspect. so from his pov it's perfect, put some money in, letting it run itself out. bitcoin, the very complex and realistic online mmorpg/mud
mircea_popescu: it's like "dudes if you don't make the world friendlier to stupid people i'll stab myself in the eye"
mircea_popescu: the reality in the field is exactly opposite : i can dump porn pics all day and it'll stil be more important for bitcoin than tim swanson';s "books".
mircea_popescu: +r is based on this imbecilic theory that the content matters and the people do not.
mircea_popescu: heck, even the bureaucracy understood it eventually. hence no iraq 51st state
mircea_popescu: people understand it's fucking stupid to undertake administering a shithole.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the thing is, both the chinese and the russians are run by people.
mircea_popescu: as the compatriots said twenty years ago, Azi in Timisoara, Miine'n Ferguson, MO.