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mircea_popescu: Namworld, weren't you namjies before and btcworld before that ?
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Oh, the many people whose departure made $100+ BTC possible << this. very very much this.
mircea_popescu: Goat owe me 3740.35 BTC. This is a serious scam and he is playing rich with MY money. 2012 I invested a lot in his Tygrr-bot. I thought it sounded like a cool arbitrage bot. It was hard to go profit and a lesser amount was lost to exchange failure.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: and if anyone has any office chair recommendations, shoot away! << aeron flux
mircea_popescu: dub: bitcoinpete: -assets official position is siding with big oil fyi << omg such a hater this guy
mircea_popescu: oh btw, fair warning : i got about two day/'s worth of logs backlog over here. prepare to be spammed to all hell.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: and quite possible the last << especially.
mircea_popescu: anyway, gave him a shot of romanian spirit, apparently the ukraine is fucked.
mircea_popescu: i just ran into a completely destroyed ukrainian in the elevator. i'm like "5th floor ?" he's all paranoid "how doid you know!!1"
mircea_popescu: nor is there room for human purpose, or human goals. kinda the point of bitcoin, after all. kinda why all the "equalitarian" coins and mental devices, and all the preoccupation with accessibility or w/e are so funny.
mircea_popescu: princessnell: economies are aggregations of human actions << and in that they become unhuman. basically a major point of that article is that this desperate clutching at straws, people trying to retain their people-relevance in economics is a little lulzy. there's no room for politics in economy.
mircea_popescu: moiety, ask him to take you next they do something in his area :D
mircea_popescu: princessnell: i think it's bizarre to call it non-teleological personally << this opens up a large debate as to whether life has purpose. i happen to hold that it doesnt, which informs the choice of vocabulary. it'll have to be translated (apolitic ?) to avoid linking that dependency in there.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: I also take issue with "perfect" << now we're getting to the knickers of it :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: penguirker is bog-slow << it's actually broken pankkake. it sometimes publishes 2nd article in list when the 1st shows in rss.
mircea_popescu: jurov: extract more absolute observations << a fool's errand << quite true, but also all of humanities is exactly this fool's errand. human condition, what.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, was transparently obvious what it was doing to anyone with two neurons to rub together neh ?
mircea_popescu: alternatively the polish guy, wywliam or what was it. dba numeristrade
mircea_popescu: also ask princessnell for tutoring, she's actually competent in this field.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i want to make sure i'm not inventing ideas someone else has already << the problem here is that you're looking at reading by the bookshelf, not by the book. there's an immense load and no directly obvious way to even systematize it. hayek tho may be a good start if you've not read him fully.
mircea_popescu: experience shows the most successvful (as measured by gross intake, of course) scams are never the intellectually respectable ones.
mircea_popescu: it's a case of "definitely reality is like our experience, because totally civilisaiton looks like it could have been built by people sitting in starbucks"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, they don't know wtf they're talking about
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i venture to guess that it is because the temptation to 'go retarded' (e.g. premine, insert 'egalitarian' crapola like demurrage, reward phriends, etc.) is overwhelming. << cattle lacks motivators outside of grass.
mircea_popescu: as if there is more reality to an identity than wot and keys. but anyway.
mircea_popescu: cluelessweek and all the other derps can move on to wonder about "the real identity" of the mystery buyer
mircea_popescu: most likely scenario, you'd just have a "myserious belgian buyer" soaking up 300% of Belgium's GDP each month and that'll be that
mircea_popescu: major stakes are regularly sold and bought in any equity, russia just sold it's satoshi stash of T bills and the same idiotic press isn't harping about how the T is dead
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: it could be near-death << such nonsense. he holds what, at most 9% of supply ? who the shit cares 9% of supply is sold off.
mircea_popescu: and renting instead of buying makes attacks cheaper <<< you had it earlier tho. if it's mined then more gear will mine more ; similarly, if it can be bought it can be rented. fwiw, fee simple is rent anyway. what bought.
mircea_popescu: devteams are the most irrelevant asset of any coin. that's why atc is doing so well, and all the bs coins with 100x to 10kx more dev time spent on them are going nowhere
mircea_popescu: pankkake: yeah, it is both a stupid intention, and an impossible goal asciilifeform Apocalyptic a dumbass core dev team is like a blessing of suck for a coin. not necessarily a good reason to discard the coin, definitely not a good reason to invest in it.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller:It's funny how it's far more productive to do business here than in #bitcoin-otc << it used to be funny, now it'd be shocking if it wasn't :p
mircea_popescu: had a discussion with gmaxwell a few days ago about ring signatures, and he agrees that it could be done in a kludgy way in BTC, but it's an unlikely thing to happen, so Monero will possibly carve out a nice niche among the darknet markets crowd << that's exactly right, it could perhaps be implemented but if it is it'll be a private extension.
mircea_popescu: they have these "going out of business, everything must go" shops
mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> i wish the miners would get in the WoT and sell directly to individuals like me with cash to send in the mail // some do << like most.
mircea_popescu: chetty: nothing wrong with that, but I always thought bitcoin was a she << i think that's the traditional view. Bitcoinia!
mircea_popescu: so my response to stan and BingoBoingo on trilema is... in moderaiton :D
mircea_popescu: benkay, maybe. tho how do oyu know it's a bull market in the first place ?
mircea_popescu: i gotta hand it to the mpex spook ux department : this setup i got here is eminently usable.