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mircea_popescu: learned helplessness. is what makes domestic animals domestic
mircea_popescu: you'll probablystill go to jail, but note that STILL in there.
mircea_popescu: never, ever, under any circumstances do what any agency tells you. not the sec, not the irs, not the judge, no one.
mircea_popescu: this is what your government exists for : to put you in prison, for life.
mircea_popescu: if you do what your government tells you to do you will end up with a life in prison sentence
mircea_popescu: anyway, the unfortunat experience of mr white, the fuckwit who listened to the usg, withdrew his charges against usg agents and is now serving 15 years should be very illuminating to every other us citizen
mircea_popescu: TomServo the best part is where they discuss how "a stiff sentence was appropriate" and then the sentence is... 4 years.
mircea_popescu: princessnell "Visions receive more attention than game plans. We know we want to “decentralize,” at least. Growing pains notwithstanding, the old ways simply will not do. Power corrupts, we are reminded from birth. The worst get on top, fewer learn later. Men are not angels but too many of them still run the world. No, our doomed synthetic seraphocracy must go." your prose needs better ligature.
mircea_popescu: now if only he liked himself, he could be done with all that.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well left todd a tell, curious what'll come of that.
mircea_popescu: course in my mind it's more like bitcoin-dev's johhny come lately attempt at making a bitcoin-assets without the ass in it
mircea_popescu: reading is not just techne is the problem. which is why there exists such a thing as the educated idiot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, not anyone could read anymore than anyone could magic.,
mircea_popescu: people derping about how "we" should live in a world without rape conveniently tend to not mention that rape is in fact the only cure to the particular mental disease that constitutes their powerbase.
mircea_popescu: '...what I find among the modern novices is that they do not feel the same way about the experts -- they want an expert-free world where their ignorance is not painful, where their inexperience is not used against them, where they get all the jokes, where nobody uses literary references that elude them, where every one of their ideas is accepted by their peers as just as novel as they think it is...' <<< quite exactly.
mircea_popescu: noobs and poor people are not allowed to have good tools.
mircea_popescu: the only way to establish which of the three is to be abundant with the last two
mircea_popescu: i ordinarily punish people for things they perceive are "well outside their control"
mircea_popescu: it encourages the mice to organise and clean up your kitchen
mircea_popescu: mike_c mind making the columns on your splendid tracker red and green ?
mircea_popescu: prolly best so far, because you can measure resistance etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the definityion of a fake is not being useful.
mircea_popescu: i think this problem is often misrepresented by all the young cocks starting new things.
mircea_popescu: more's the point, you've not had the benefit of manyyear's worth of having thought about what the people trying to fake it might have thought about
mircea_popescu: but maybe the reason that ive not found it is that your buying doesn't compare with 8 millenia of trying to defraud the currency
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones by hiring uglychicks to weart its tshirt ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake more of this fudingyou learned on btc forum i see.
mircea_popescu: in the hopes a clueless buyer will just think a ok it's what itis
mircea_popescu: jurov one of the more common finds when i review my spamtraps
mircea_popescu: paypal has this thing where govts prosecute its competition
mircea_popescu: mike_c trying to be paypal. except they won't be able to
mircea_popescu: it's unavoidable. commodified market, players are of no particular valu
mircea_popescu: you know, when i said the power rangers are too stupid to be on the internet and they said i'm just being evil, because they're about as smart as everyone else derping about "open source software" we were BOTH right
mircea_popescu: "allows man-in-the-middle attackers to trigger use of a zero-length master key"
mircea_popescu: "The biggest reason why the bug hasn’t been found for over 16 years is that code reviews were insufficient, especially from experts who had experiences with TLS/SSL implementation. "
mircea_popescu: so far the house is ahead, mike_c did the math recently.
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> but if they're bets are going to be a large portion of the gains/losses, it seems like investors would want to know what their history has been on the bets << you know investors can readily revbiew this as they're all published
mircea_popescu: i think your talking about bitbet is incidental to what it'll actually do.