299200+ entries in 0.092s
mircea_popescu: anyone bored enough to extract the footnote in question from chapter 17, lemmeknow. i got a log to read.
mircea_popescu: and it's funny what actually plays the role of fiat-denominated investment in most cases.
mircea_popescu: this being the main reason. people get so emotionally invested in their fiat-denominated holdings they simply can't adapt.
mircea_popescu: i doubt thinking of those people in collective terms is very sensible, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: this'd be a fine example of the strawman in question. you imagine this is a meaningful question, but it isn't.
mircea_popescu: what i am saying is that you can never have something meanginful to say about a culture from outside of it.
mircea_popescu: so you can do it discreetly if ego wound avoidance is such a priority.
mircea_popescu: no, but should you wish to actually learn about bitcoin, this channel is here.
mircea_popescu: you're not about to tell me what my argument is, now is it ?
mircea_popescu: my actual argument is that you're captive in a mostly meanginless structure, and that it's a shame, basically.
mircea_popescu: well now look. so do you understand the wot or don't you.
mircea_popescu: you aren't yet enough of a something to be insultable im affraid.
mircea_popescu: well, i suppose the way to reference it in your system would be "the wot games".
mircea_popescu: now, whether this session helped or didn't is unclear, but at least i tried.
mircea_popescu: and i left it because it was apparent to me that you don't, on your own, possess the intellectual means to comprehend the problem.
mircea_popescu: i left a comment on an article that pingbacked my article,
mircea_popescu: this is pretty much the gist of the problem. get interested in bitcoin or get used to not being taken seriously, i guess.
mircea_popescu: right. so if you're not interested in bitcoin, why should i care what you wrote down somewhere ?
mircea_popescu: this is readily reducible to the problem of "i have a very high wot score". it's not the number. it's the identity.
mircea_popescu: i don't think you understand how this works. things need a source to exist.
mircea_popescu: if the book had no author i definitely wouildn't read it.
mircea_popescu: Great Chain of Numbers: A Guide to Smart Contracts, Smart Property and Trustless Asset Management
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol arguably i make a living blogging these days, so who's to know anymore.
mircea_popescu: and as to the earlier point : there is no such thing as "legal ones" re bitcoin companies. there's bitcoin companies, and then there's fiat companies that try to make a buck off bitcoin
mircea_popescu: okay, i'll have to fix that article, no scholar environmental or otherwise.
mircea_popescu: Timothy Swanson Timothy Swanson is an American economics scholar specializing in environmental governance, ... << is this you ?
mircea_popescu: you think this is somehow more respectable than "evironment scholar" ?
mircea_popescu: looky : i've been fran kto you. now, can i get a frank answer to what exactly it is you do, for a living ?
mircea_popescu: now, i may well have misunderstood you. so, what do you do ?
mircea_popescu: i scored you. the difference here is that in order to attack you we'd have to share something. we do not.
mircea_popescu: which is why the stuff yo usay is lulzy to people here, but not to you.
mircea_popescu: you're stuck working with strawmen whether you want to or not.
mircea_popescu: the problem is that you don't klnow me, and by extension bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: you don't get to say how these debates work. again, because bitcoin.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: however, this will positively never happen. bitcoin will just ruin academia as you know it and that's that.
mircea_popescu: so. inasmuch as you wish to continue, on the general expectation that bitcoin will eventually conform to your worldview, you're more than welcome to it.
mircea_popescu: i would know if it were or if it weren't. you, however, wouldn't.
mircea_popescu: now, if you want to talk about my think, and i say you're stupid, this can not be waved aside by you claiming it's an ad hominem.
mircea_popescu: you may generously represent yourself as equal to all people, myself included. this however is false : i am a major player in a major revolution. you are practically nobody, or if we're charitable a minor player in a lengthy tradition, if we are again charitable and consider the us derpage somehow related to european academia as a human thought adventure.
mircea_popescu: ok, let me explain to you why your "ad hominem" approach is broken.
mircea_popescu: they knoe each other, they trust each other, escrow is not the problem.
mircea_popescu: in general, people trade otc as in, otc. major players
mircea_popescu: bitcointrader_ an escrow service does any deal, what difference does it make to it.
mircea_popescu: !reg "Who should be the derpiest" and it gives you an index, then !vote 1224543 herpy and it tallies "herpy" +1
mircea_popescu: jborkl this suggests a ready expansion to Jason's bot. it could hold propositions for voting, like a gpg-poll thing.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal guy has a tenuous grasp on facts. which, for an outsider, i guess is laudable.
mircea_popescu: jborkl "most satoshi-like individual that's not acually satoshi"
mircea_popescu: left the guy a comment to come here, not approved yet, but anyway, if he shows up someone voice him