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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.
mircea_popescu: that little shit gave sharapova a good run for her tits.
mircea_popescu: mike_c btw, the coffee shop i happenedto stop for my pasteleria today (which dubs itself as a "local de encuentro" and during the night time doubles as a whorehouse) just happened to run the match on a large screen
mircea_popescu: well i guess with all teh encouragement ima make more travel log posts
mircea_popescu: just how many of these social media sites did you get banned from ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, fun to see people on these very successful sites are lively debating solved problems in fain, years ago. makes my asshole swell.
mircea_popescu: The Reddit discussion model is completely oriented towards providing the fast food of news commentary, where your << missing 1st line
mircea_popescu: wow look at that : they actually understand what's wrong with the ~others~
mircea_popescu: h, and of course, no one but the people I responded to will ever read the things I wrote hours after the thread dropped off the front page."
mircea_popescu: I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I can easily follow 50+ page PHPbb threads that drag on for months or even years, or 4chan threads with hundreds of posts and more on the way every time you refresh, but a small conversation (in reality; I considered it huge by my HN standards) I had on here the other day with about 10 comments or so made my head spin. I wrote half the posts and it was still hard to follow! O
mircea_popescu: "enjoyment of the first look you take at a comment page is prioritized over active participation. That's great if you're trying to attach ads to pictures of cats, but if you're trying to have a real conversation, it just gets in the way. I can read, I don't need an algorithm to tell me which comments are notable and which ones are junk. If I see a troll post on any other site, I don't seize up and have an aneurism, I j
mircea_popescu: it's utterly dependent on you living in a boring environment. or in other words, if shunning works, your life sucks.
mircea_popescu: so i guess the kids in charge have some deep seated issues with this sort of passive-agressive nonsense.
mircea_popescu: dub actually the material i've seen included a lot of derping about how fucking horrible and psychologically blabla that is.
mircea_popescu: this dovetails neatly with "women don't have to do anything in particular to not get fucked"
mircea_popescu: anyway, gotta remember that Jeff Atwood is pretty fucking stupid.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo apparently make your pages load slowly because whoever cares about your site sucking
mircea_popescu: "i have talked to some people i won't name about some things i won't name but take my word on it that it's relevant, and they said my stupidity is entirely correct"
mircea_popescu: "That said, every community is different. I've personally talked to people in charge of large online communities – ones you probably participate in every day – and part of the reason those communities haven't broken down into utter chaos by now is because they secretly hellban and slowban their most problematic users. "
mircea_popescu: nobody can point to such a broken spot on the interwebs, but nevertheless the apparent abundance of such is why every lemming wears plaid.
mircea_popescu: yet each and every one will pass this bit of "oh, leaving behind the broken spot"
mircea_popescu: this is such an amusing thing, because of all the utterly meaningless forums out there pretending to be communities and deluding themselves as to their own relevancy, not a single one would admit it's a failure
mircea_popescu: "But in the absence of some system of law, the tiny minority of users out to do harm – intentionally or not – eventually drive out all the civil community members, leaving behind a lawless, chaotic badland."
mircea_popescu: so if you predicted it i send kako a btc, if not you do ?
mircea_popescu: can be a bet for charity. whole bet goes to b-a donation address
mircea_popescu: and it's been sticking ever since, irrespective of how stupid it is.
mircea_popescu: pure and simple, at some point in whatever, 1995, some derp with a blog/forum/platform came up with the idea of BANNING
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you wanna talk about nonsense items and the rotten paradigms they create and perpetuate ? teh banhammer. worse than risc.