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mircea_popescu: just because something has btc IN it doesn';t make it btc-that something.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that would then not be a btc atm. it would be a satanic usg attack on btc.
mircea_popescu: if you can make items that can';t be traced back to you, you've satisfied the rape requirement i detailed yest.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will go to jail for unauthorised explosive device.
mircea_popescu: aml/kyc is a fundamental component of the current order. you can't annul it just like that.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, you;re basically saying that drugs aren;t illegal everywhere, such as chicago shooting district.
mircea_popescu: once you get big it'll change suddenly, and with little explanation.
mircea_popescu: the only reason random shithole allows you to do really obnoxious shit is that random shithole is small and dumb.
mircea_popescu: if you break that, might as well just walk into the police station and start shooting randomly.
mircea_popescu: yes. in order to have a bitcoin atm, you must break aml/kyc.
mircea_popescu: the kind of threat model when where you intend to break the laws of whatever lord, you'd better have better arms than him.
mircea_popescu: dise. but so what ? i can have this shop foreclosed on, can i not ?
mircea_popescu: you plan to make this thing out of magic fabric that only reveals itself to true believers and people it'd like to fuck ?
mircea_popescu: just because you don't see it yourself doesn't mean either that it's not there nor that you can make your own.
mircea_popescu: all the other atms in the world are inside an invisible fortress.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i still don't get what do you think will prevent me from simply walking in, taking your atm and leaving.
mircea_popescu: "Why We Need a Foundation" << wrong question. who's "we" and more importantly, why we don't need another scam run by vesseness ?
mircea_popescu: NOW i realise the fucking bubbles were done in ms paint.
mircea_popescu: so i am sitting here with a glass of mineral water. it's a tall, about 12 oz glass. on it, some black bubbles as decor. i've had it for a while.
mircea_popescu: well they must be the only people on the planet who don't by now
mircea_popescu: But the median debt, $1,350, is still pretty substantial, she adds. who the fuck carwes what the median is. jesus.
mircea_popescu: nevermind, i'm not interested in what these doods have to say anymore.
mircea_popescu: Researchers relied on a random sample of 7 million people with data reported to the credit bureaus in 2013 to estimate what share of the 220 million Americans with credit files have debts in collection.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves textbook exercise in how to devalue a market to the point you can no longer survive in it.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves : "The report analyzed 2013 credit data from TransUnion to calculate how many Americans were falling behind on their bills. It looked at how many people had non-mortgage bills, such as credit card bills, child support payments and medical bills, that are so past due that the account has since been closed and placed in collections."
mircea_popescu: btw asciilifeform, re our discussion yest. im toying with the idea of putting together a bulk of russian "dark whateveritwas" writings and having them translated.
mircea_popescu: the article conveniently doesn't report the average debt per 77 mn.
mircea_popescu: "About 77 million Americans have a debt in collections, a new report finds."
mircea_popescu: assbot: A third of consumers with credit files had debts in collections last year - The Washington Post << clearly the economy's recovering o.O
mircea_popescu: and heuristics are incantations, but they don't summon me.
mircea_popescu: except, of course, if you're one of the sort of vain fucktards bitcoin's been blessed with. too good to obey, too fucking stupid to boil water.
mircea_popescu: cazalla said "well, that too but they were warned". to this i said, "a nod is as good as a wink". as in, it shouldn't really take much warning that when a cock is going in and out of your butt, you're being fucked.
mircea_popescu: especially should the bat belabour under the delusion it;'s batman.
mircea_popescu: putting the excess population by satoshi prophecy at about 6bn
mircea_popescu: maybe the point was to make bitcoin so that every person has one.
mircea_popescu: because, again, bitcoin is not here for the people, bitcoin is here for the elite.
mircea_popescu: the point is for bitcoin to be as powerful as possible.
mircea_popescu: the point is not for some random fuckwits to "have a chance".
mircea_popescu: that's silly. asics are a major building block in our power. the only reason we're still fighting today is that we had asics in time.
mircea_popescu: check out vessenes being a complete and utter fucktard
mircea_popescu: the only way to do this is long after we've defeated everyone.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> (in which case, what kind of fortress could possibly suffice) << hence the rape comment.
mircea_popescu: in any event it's a fortressy thing to do. "here is money for the taking. take it only like so, or else you die"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: an atm requires a fortress... << to house the mechanism itself? or, its owner? << yes.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier the problem is what do you do to preven tit from being attacked ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Yeah, Idiocracy being cruel doens't necessarily mean it is untrue <<< kinda meh slapsticky nonsense imo, but hey.
mircea_popescu: (no, not THAT one, this one, but what the hell's the difference)
mircea_popescu: the20year1 only incidentally. but principally , bitcoin serves the elite.
mircea_popescu: so for these considerations, it makes about as much sense to talk of bitcoin atms as it makes sense to talk of using wet matches to shoot down Mars.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, an atm is addressed to and aims to serve the public. bitcoin does not.
mircea_popescu: specifically : an atm requires a fortress. we have not yet built the fortress. when we do, you will know we have, because i will kidnap a number of "world leaders" wives and daughters to be publicly raped there as to make the fucking point that in fact it IS a fortress.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: justusranvier my idea at least is that an atm is the most fucktarded idea one could come up with.
mircea_popescu: he's someone's something, which also neatly explains why they put one of the few dea agents with a functioning brain on the case, and spent so much time and effort on it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: parallel construction; snore. << indeed. that idiot had no business no way and no means doing so many columbia flights.
mircea_popescu: jurov: good. would be 0.5BTC okay for both? i'll then add "sponsored by CoinBr" stuff << cool beanz
mircea_popescu: jurov: there may be one global, but there will always be plenty of local ones, often with contradicting information << now this i see.
mircea_popescu: mike_c the rest of snl is not there yet. sort-of how the aliens with a telephone are half sesame street.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, see, historically idiocy was falsifiable, but since it met this retarded civilisation of safety...
mircea_popescu: i fucking can't to, it feels like all the idiot kids that i flunked in philosophy class ran off and made blogs.