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mircea_popescu: motive in english roughly works like casus in "casus belli"
mircea_popescu: i do not know there is anyone more incompetent alive today than people posing as lawyers for the us federal bureaucracy.
mircea_popescu: When the target of satire complains that it is defamatory, the relevant question is whether the satire can reasonably be taken as a statement of fact about its subject. Dr. Berkley, by saying that "of course" the satirical articles do not reflect the actual words of the subjects, has just proclaimed that the satire he is complaining about cannot be taken as a statement of fact.
mircea_popescu: "Of course Dr. White did not in fact participate in the interview and Dr. Koob did not write the letter attributed to him."
mircea_popescu: Berkley — who signs his letter "Dale D. Berkley, Ph.D., J.D."2 — begins by pre-refuting his own point:
mircea_popescu: rithm: i'll pay good bitcoin for a -assets tshirt << pinging nubbins ?
mircea_popescu: half hour later he was just about done introducing monotony when the bell rang
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's really difficult to take very intelligent people through a set itinerary. when challenged to prove cbs some other kid started with set theory.
mircea_popescu: (for people readng at home, cbs = cauchy-buniakowski-schwartz, a major stepping stone in liniar algebra/analysis)
mircea_popescu: so that term I used a "all obtuse angles are straight angles" lemma. blazed through the geometry section with it.
mircea_popescu: came up with, you may use any lemma you can, if asked after the paper, demonstrate at the blackboard. but if you can't, you get an F no matter what's in yoru thesis. hoping to shut us up.
mircea_popescu: we were superadvanced math class, and so the teacher getting bored of all the constant "but may we use CBS to prove this ?" "no" "Why the fuck not!"
mircea_popescu: here's an anecdote : back when i was in school tho, we did this "thesis paper" each trimester, which accounted for half the grade, in select subjects.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: Chrome was freezing so i went to uninstall it and i think i unistalled the whole os ui << MP on ubuntu fresh install. "Why the shit does this have internet ? Take it out". Ubuntu proceeds to mark everything as "to be uninstalled", all the way up to the kernel. Why ? BECAUSE FUCKTARDS MARK EVERYTHING AS A DEPENDENCY.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: Your website is faster than 97% of all tested websites compared to 86% for bcoinnews.com , yet news get 99/100 and bitbet 83 << because it's not scored by performance, it's scored by you doing what they want you to do.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I'd rather not say to protect the guilty - he mismanaged stuff badly after that and the whole thing spiralled into recklessness and infamy << the company you keep.
mircea_popescu: mike_c now we only need bitcoinagility, bitcoinstrength, bitcoinendurance and bitcoinintelligence
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: "compare it to the known losses of non scammor companies" <<ya, not sure if there are any of these around << you could count the 2012 mpex cdos i guess.
mircea_popescu: mike_c prev bump was 10%. and this does get increasingly hard as time goes by, too
mircea_popescu: there's obviously a nonzero chance that bitcoin has a -50% diff event during its lifetime. i wonder if it'll also be during our lifetime.
mircea_popescu: but there's just no way it makes 5.2bn gains in 2-3 periods.
mircea_popescu: helpfully omits to link gpg key. likely does not even know what that is or why it'd be relevant.
mircea_popescu: "We have used PGP/GPG for long years before Bitcoin paper was written."
mircea_popescu: o, you made money supporting us in our darkest hour ? well fuck you.
mircea_popescu: wtf is wrong with these people, if you're gonna put it on the web anyway, why dick around with emails.
mircea_popescu: lawl. greece introduced a 33% tax on all capital gains on greek bonds between 2012 and 2013.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony hey, shitty interwebs but at least they paid for the airport to display related ads, right ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i only coupla days ago found out what swag ACTUALLY means.
mircea_popescu: did little miss boring get the best atm of the year award or whatever it was ?
mircea_popescu: so wasn't tat supposed to liveblog some lolfest or it hasn't started yet or what ?
mircea_popescu: so far this isn't proceeding well on either of the two scores.
mircea_popescu: i only up yuou because i don't recall your name and figure maybe you have something to actually say
mircea_popescu: Me : Only a noob could think this is an actual explanation. Most if not all diff propositions were upsets.
mircea_popescu: Redditor : Much simpler explanation : the proposition target was way off-market (100%). Nothing to be won by betting on the clear outcome.
mircea_popescu: Me : Bla bla bla diff bets bla bla bla evil socialists!
mircea_popescu: actually, namecoin was ALSO doing something kind-of similar, but not really.
mircea_popescu: used to be one of my top ways to judge a girl : go to her bathroom, see if the shampoo is resting "upside down"
mircea_popescu: motherfucker! who came up with the retarded idea of making shampoo bottle caps not straight
mircea_popescu: lmao there's a belgium whale now, buying up all the Ts russia is dumping. hahaha
mircea_popescu: and yes, it helps your blog get some nice sticky content, too.
mircea_popescu: (joe borrows from moe x.eur, promises to repay either in x.eur or else in settlement value)