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mircea_popescu: quite decentralised. i bet the overstuck guy, w/e his name is, has no fucking idea what exactly "issuing shares on top of blockchain" really means.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile over at reality ranch, "11bet.org as the football quizzes website of the item, it is the key development direction to expand Website traffic, it will support many kind of virtual currencies to bet."
mircea_popescu: like, social media, naive email, what have you. it wouldn't surprise me if it turns out real gdp is in the low single digit %s of what it should be.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what the aggreegated loss to the world's gdp due to people using anything other than wot based systems to communicate comes to.
mircea_popescu: the bane of not having a wot-based filtering mechanism : you can't have means of contact
mircea_popescu: i thought you were actually setting up fonts and whatnot
mircea_popescu: im the only one that says "you don't know shit from ass" and actually means it, then ?
mircea_popescu: "Dr. Alice Weaver Flaherty is a neurologist known for her award-winning book about the neural basis of creativity titled the Midnight Disease."
mircea_popescu: i swear it's how the translator in my head goes, which is why i almost never discuss bitcoin with noobs.
mircea_popescu: "i don't want to know about umbrellas because i don't like rain. also, baths are better"
mircea_popescu: in what sort of sf universe does this hold true ? how would it ?
mircea_popescu: there's this incomprehensible (to me) tendency to approach non-bitcoin people as if they were somehow... i dunno, almost human.
mircea_popescu: Waxman and Geschwind were the first to describe hypergraphia. The patients they observed displayed extensively compulsive detailed writing, sometimes with literary creativity. The patients kept diaries, which some used to meticulously document minute details of their everyday activities, write poetry, or create lists. Case 1 of their study wrote lists of her relatives, her likes and dislikes, and the furniture in her a
mircea_popescu: well sure they will. this is unsurprising. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: so if people with millions and actual lawyers do this... why shouldn't some famished internet expert / seo master / etc
mircea_popescu: and they're quite happy to hate anyone who will show that difference, or they merely perceive as capable to
mircea_popescu: but that notwithstanding, inasmuch as they can't tell the difference between "it" and it they're quite happy
mircea_popescu: now they're part of "it". course the "it" they're part of is just the same thing they were part of before : a bunch of famished geeks dressing up for old lemons' pleasure
mircea_popescu: the vc circus is trying to turn bitcoin into "bitcoin", for their peace of mind
mircea_popescu: people trying to cope by bringing their "skills" into the new world.
mircea_popescu: i guess next year we get "make your own bitcoin foundation" websites.
mircea_popescu: even less argument can be had as to whether you're seeing any payment.
mircea_popescu: little argument can there be had as to whether his intention is genuine : it is.
mircea_popescu: like when average holesinpants tells you they'll "definitely pay up" by "the end of the week"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i think you have to bear in mind that definite statements made by poor people reflect their hopes, and no facts whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: also, should there be a "best mime" ? or do we just invite a bunch of us vcs and call it good ?
mircea_popescu: maybe a woman with generous DD teats dons a moustache or something
mircea_popescu: best mining rig constructed out of the largest number of distinct parts.
mircea_popescu: also, next conference i'm going to have the mpex awards. working list :
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla we need to put a TW: stuff in the chan topic.
mircea_popescu: benkay: how does anyone who's been a cto or a senior engineer of any quality not have the ten grand to throw at a good idea themselves? << shut up you don't understand the redditard. he COULD HAVE BEEN a cto. which is just the same OKAY ?
mircea_popescu: i thot he's the authority on all matters cryptonomical.
mircea_popescu: what's the score here, i didn't like ec stuff, never gave a reason, scheneier loved it, gave a lot of mumbo jumbo reasons ?
mircea_popescu: "Researchers at the Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherches en Informatique et ses Applications (CNRS/Université de Lorraine/Inria) and the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (CNRS/UPMC) have solved one aspect of the discrete logarithm problem." << dude gtfo, french crypto ?!
mircea_popescu: Vexual: I just read a deliciously accessible blog post by mp << i apologize humbly, humbly, deeply, and sincerely about the fork.
mircea_popescu: they must be putting something in their water over there.
mircea_popescu: remarkable how little exposure to the stock market europe has.