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mircea_popescu: do they send out "mr schmukersson will impulsively fuck mrs schmukersson thursday, august 15th around 7:12 pm, your presence is kindly solicited" spam too ?
mircea_popescu: dub: this is an invite but i've had pre-invites before << wtf is this invite to invite, ask to ask, meta bullshit anyway ?
mircea_popescu: <dub> idk, I recall a theory that abnormally high iodine levels in the japanese contributes to their well above average longevity << fukushima makes sense nao.
mircea_popescu: <dub> not that I would want to go back << omg #bitcoin-extradition
mircea_popescu: "If this ASIC mambo jumbo goes forward then I think BTC is as "good" as PayPal or the Bank of England." (forum communitard, 2012).
mircea_popescu: btw, since i've been reading my old romanian bitcoin articles, landed on some gems. anyone remembers vladimir's asic ?
mircea_popescu: i happen to be party to the first and oldest actually executed short, incidentally. you ever saw it ?
mircea_popescu: the aliens might land five minutes later and declare that anyone can have super hot alien blowjobs for a eth each
mircea_popescu: if you buy a future and the thing fails there's many ways to put it, but they all boil down to "you're screwed".
mircea_popescu: in any case, one generally buys a future if they expect the thing to work well, not to fail.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, it'd be an explicit clause limiting such cases, obv.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier amusingly, in that case the contract'd be void.
mircea_popescu: canada hasn't had a good musician since cohen visited and the us...
mircea_popescu: im not sure if shitty contemporary bands should be given 10k in grants to derp quietly in a corner at their craft or just be medicated worth 10k for possesion.
mircea_popescu: mike_c stop opposing progress and an end to oppression.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` wow socialist utopia. was the album actually made ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo those kids go for mbas, new cars and bumps off teenage asscracks.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` anyway, the only way to do this is, make the whole studio, force-sign the bands, work them like slaves.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo there exist no indie bands which can afford a 10 btc expenditure on life saving surgery
mircea_popescu: the last existing top hat factory was destroyed in a family dispute coupla decades ago
mircea_popescu: nubbins` but srsly, if you can get a vynil press you can sell to all the hippies
mircea_popescu: nubbins` this is like, groupthink. no fresh perspectives allowed here.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla's idea goes a long way towards that. "3k, cause they're prepaid"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ok, how many do you figure you'll make and on what basis do you so figure ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo seeing how well the current stuff works, they can just patent borax glass and give that to people.
mircea_popescu: psychoactive lithium is not complex enough. progress is complexity, to oppose complexification is to be antisocial and terrorist.
mircea_popescu: we're trying to build a great future here and you gotta throw simple element wrenches into the windows
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo stop opposing research and job creating funding in research and SCIENCE and global warming.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla there's one in romania and i think somewhere in serbia ? or maybe it was albania
mircea_popescu: honestly, i'd be kinda loath to take bites out of china.
mircea_popescu: they even market all these miracle-curing sulphurous mineral waters.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic but i mean... salt is salt, right ? it forms deposits, acertain way. why labour intensive ?
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic it's not "salt scraped off forced labouring prisoners sweat" or something is it
mircea_popescu: i never got into chinese. sushi i like, indian lamb i like, but chinese... hm. what's it even for.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` lawyer is a noun. get it ? A NOUN. you don't want it to sue you.,
mircea_popescu: copumpkin lol, lol, but how about you go count female heads in otc and here ? just for lulz.
mircea_popescu: it's going to do great things in novel ways just as soon as someone does it.
mircea_popescu: not the sort of thing that really needs to be read by too many people anyway.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> What was Hearn's nick? << i don't recall he ever managing to figure out the gpg arcana. i imagine he'll first have to implement a google code version, that doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: which shouldn't be surprising : anyone can be a very ambitious failed painter or w/e mediocrity.
mircea_popescu: much like the life of andreas derpopowhatever, except two years earlier
mircea_popescu: this is a dispute where a consumate gofer (ie, gmaxwell) is trying to veer their naivity into some sort of political relevance for himself, gets called out and then stomped out.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, this isn't in any sense a dispute pitting flaming social justice warriors and other braindamaged kids trying to make the world "liberal" a la copumpkin against cold hard reality.
mircea_popescu: obviously the fact that time has meanwhile proven my points doesn't in any sense help.
mircea_popescu: benkay o, i don't imagine his recent derpage has any substance to it, merely him trying his best at crafting effectual calumny.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo a whole btc. not a succession of 5.997 2.997 etc etc.
mircea_popescu: mike_c in this case, the only significant amount of btc is in the hands of the idiots trying to fraudulently prop an ipo scam visible from the moon, in some sort of misplaced delusion of legal immunity.
mircea_popescu: mike_c right, because nobody with any btc reads the logs, or reddit, or twitter.
mircea_popescu: o wait, they're all sent off the same software which simply substracts the same mining fee from the txn ?
mircea_popescu: lol so people bought >1k btc worth of ethereum at 2k each btc , instead of buying 1k btc worth of ethereum at 5k each btc ?