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mircea_popescu: "We’ve seen the criticisms from a certain IRC channel where he and the site is being put down for trying to raise some capital."
mircea_popescu: "In the spirit of being open and transparent (a guiding principal of this site and our editorial policies), I am adding this note to this story and taking full responsibility that I have failed our readers and offering my most sincere apologies."
mircea_popescu: i'm going to be a barber and ima peel everyone bloody today ;/
mircea_popescu: i have an idea, let's all call ourselves things we aren't and then do a shitty job of it.
mircea_popescu: not put up a note to insulate himsefl from them. this is like... antiprofessional.
mircea_popescu: an editor's job is to EDIT, which means protect the fucking copywriters from their own idiocy
mircea_popescu: Brendon has since resigned on his own accord after realizing from countless emails of concerned readers that this was seen as an “attempt to grab money via guilt”. While this was not his intention he has since realized that it could be seen that way by many readers and independently felt he needed to go back and better hone his skills at this time.
mircea_popescu: Editors Note from Mike: I am adding this note after this piece is published to state that this is a personal opinion piece from Brendon.
mircea_popescu: "Here, Quantrill took up a job in the lumberyards, unloading timber from rail cars. One night while working the late shift, he shot a man to death. Authorities briefly arrested Quantrill, who claimed self-defense. Since there were no eyewitnesses and the victim was a stranger who knew no one in town, William was set free."
mircea_popescu: fluffypony he was here earlier too. what's he doing these days ?
mircea_popescu: assbot: usagi +v failed; L1: 0, L2: -5 << this is kinda lulzy.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but the attacks come mostly from the police.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony yeah the original was a more or less adult dude. acct may have been sold i hear.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: i had a diablo blog doing 1m uniques a month and it was fine on $20 month vps << that's pretty impressive for the vps.
mircea_popescu: he;'s just buttsore that google indexes trilema better than newscorp.
mircea_popescu: i mean asciilifeform needs it to prop up his "competence behind the incompetence" theory, but otherwise in practice it's not observed.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if that's particularly contemplated. whenever asciilifeform uses that i just replace with "secret agents"
mircea_popescu: well i imagine asciilifeform's theory is that snowden is kosher while i gave manning as an example of not.
mircea_popescu: well if it makes you feel better i have a lot of disdain for romanians too.
mircea_popescu: (and i didn't think much of english speakers back in 2010, either.)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: If you're going to really be the best MP scholar you can be, you need to be able to tackle the Romanian writings << sorry folks. i didn't do it on purpose, i just had nfi we'll end up here.
mircea_popescu: and that way i won't have to put you back on ignore either.
mircea_popescu: the advice is to stfu and read. which is hopefull what yu've been doing the past year or so
mircea_popescu: <usagi> Well Bingo it's true I am eccentric. I am pretty sure a lot of people think i'm nuts. But dangerous? I'm just asking what the deal is with that one <<< you massively overestimate your own ability, and then derp about it in an unconvincing but ceaseless manner which entraps the more idiotic bystanders.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: I mean the 1992 LA riots only really lasted what, six days? << how long do you think a town will burn.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Tonight, /hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash cops have: * Tear-gassed an 8-year old * Driven a truck through a crowd * Threatened to kill a reporter on air << that shit still going strong huh.
mircea_popescu: <usagi> yeah and I'm not a tomato lol (relevance?) << check it out kako. tomato is not a scammer either!
mircea_popescu: nothing's changed since 2011 but the knowledge gap. much deeper nao.
mircea_popescu: <usagi> But MP kept shitting all over GLBSE. Maybe he knew something, maybe he didn't, back then we didn't really know << i knew things the lot of you didn't before it was even cool.
mircea_popescu: im not discussing the millions of txn that get misfired on the ccs.
mircea_popescu: that's an infinity of orders of magnitude better, or as many as you can count. flaws in bitcoin my left foot.
mircea_popescu: total btc payments that didn't go where they were supposed to or got lost to date ? 0.
mircea_popescu: here's an element of risk : visa misplaces something to the tune of 1k payments EACH MONTH.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, bitcoin is flawless and nobody needs to do anything whatsoever
mircea_popescu: mad props for reducing the whole story to the familiar form of the ron paul debate tho. "the flaws in bitcoin" and "people do things"
mircea_popescu: "i have no trust in government and anything not the government is mean and bad."
mircea_popescu: "i like saying that racism is bad to try and score chicks and i hate niggers and spics."
mircea_popescu: his faith in govt is 0% yet things not in the govt add a huge element of risk.
mircea_popescu: "My trust in government is roughly 0% ... the problem is my faith in people and companies to get over their fear of government and change the status quo is also 0%. For that reason, even if the flaws in Bitcoin could be resolved, the fact that it exists outside of the government's control of the financial sector adds a huge element of risk. "
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal> is A Wealth of Nations a good read? << not bad.
mircea_popescu: exactly a la neobee and it's take over cypruss paper-only revolution.
mircea_popescu: i would submit they're past their prime and the what has already been heard of them is the most that'll ever be heard of them.
mircea_popescu: cazalla "People like Vitalek who spout off at the mouth are going in the wrong direction and taking you with them, making themselves richer and you poorer in the process." what's more, the you+them sum is also poorer. but yeah.
mircea_popescu: this is why you split codebases into things a person can handle.
mircea_popescu: <midnightmagic> ehh.. a brainstorming group of people can generate and then refine, an idea faster than a singular person working alone if the idea is complex. << statement doth not equal proof.
mircea_popescu: two are usually plenty, just gotta find the right two.
mircea_popescu: no noteworthy advance in cryptography has ever - in three thousand recorded years - the work of a group of five people, let alone ten
mircea_popescu: losing sight of this basic concept is part of what makes the power rangers so retarded.
mircea_popescu: cooperation is the bane of small anything. the reason afghanistan is stil a state whereas the united kingdom is a us dependency has everything to do with the mutual hostility of small groups of afghans. that aside, very little creative work is required or indeed desired in this soup.