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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: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bnr_p_iCAAEWAYM.jpg
mircea_popescu: o, you made money supporting us in our darkest hour ? well fuck you.
mircea_popescu: exactly.
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: http://www.pwc.ch/news/en/12080/greece-capital-gains-tax-non-residents-gains-greek-bonds-immediate-action-required
mircea_popescu: nm, here it is
mircea_popescu: (ie, not directly linkable)
mircea_popescu: benkay it's in a pwc report.
mircea_popescu: benkay yah, nao i know.
mircea_popescu: retroactive
mircea_popescu: lawl. greece introduced a 33% tax on all capital gains on greek bonds between 2012 and 2013.
mircea_popescu: #rightdirection.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony hey, shitty interwebs but at least they paid for the airport to display related ads, right ?
mircea_popescu: i always thought it synonymous to bling.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i only coupla days ago found out what swag ACTUALLY means.
mircea_popescu: for the love of christ
mircea_popescu: !up Guest20412
mircea_popescu: o hai
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: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnsrPF-CMAA74VL.jpg
mircea_popescu: np.
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: probably, but why should i ?
mircea_popescu: http://www.alternet.org/weird-science-siberian-psychologists-caning-patients-buttocks-new-addiction-treatment
mircea_popescu: each new year.
mircea_popescu: HE has burst MY bubble. oh internets.
mircea_popescu: Redditor : Sorry to have burst your bubble.
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: well i dunno what it's doing nao.
mircea_popescu: actually, namecoin was ALSO doing something kind-of similar, but not really.
mircea_popescu: Naphex was making sometring of that ilk.
mircea_popescu: just a lotta people happen to have the keys is all.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, THIS connection is encrypted.
mircea_popescu: 1 reduces to 2.
mircea_popescu: a posterior, more like it.
mircea_popescu: !up toastee
mircea_popescu: benkay and random numers.
mircea_popescu: if not, she's retarded.
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: BingoBoingo lmao
mircea_popescu: it's a win win all arond rly.
mircea_popescu: and yes, it helps your blog get some nice sticky content, too.
mircea_popescu: cool.
mircea_popescu: pick a good one and stick to it.
mircea_popescu: up to you really. you're the manager.
mircea_popescu: (joe borrows from moe x.eur, promises to repay either in x.eur or else in settlement value)
mircea_popescu: plus people will be able to do soft futures on its basis
mircea_popescu: so therefore, published settlement price.
mircea_popescu: schelling point. needs to have the property of direct obviousness and no other.
mircea_popescu: just as much a card as any other.
mircea_popescu: so would everyone else. but why ?
mircea_popescu: it's pretty clear you're all getting out, right ?
mircea_popescu: they're 4c 5s 4d qh
mircea_popescu: that's what a schelling point is. suppose you're abudcted by aliens, with a bunch of other people you never saw in your life. the aliens put four cards face up in front of each of you, the same cards, and say yo ucan go if you all pick the same card
mircea_popescu: well these go in tandem
mircea_popescu: "i will pay joe 1.5 btc for this car on may 16th, provided x.eur settles under 0.03. otherwise, 1.2 btc"
mircea_popescu: it definitely can
mircea_popescu: just publish it. can be last trade even
mircea_popescu: well, yes. you're in a fine position to establish a signal settlement price.
mircea_popescu: davout so, you publishing the x.eur settlement anywhere ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony hopefully. you know ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony so ?
mircea_popescu: Naphex afaik linux rand calls mt_rand anyway
mircea_popescu: the rainbows off a 80mn wide space fit on any hdd ffs.
mircea_popescu: so basically any gpg key / wallet / anything ever generater on node.js could be cracked trivially, within hours.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo afaik that was never THAT narrow. 10^8, srsly ?
mircea_popescu: well so document it.
mircea_popescu: write this up, in mucho detail. i bet you all the shitty "paper wallet" js implementations rest on node.js
mircea_popescu: 80mn keyspace ? random generator ? le loll ?
mircea_popescu: hahaha
mircea_popescu: o.O
mircea_popescu: punkman http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-05-2014#673415 so nyah! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: more like a white knight's book.
mircea_popescu: this fucking "x will need to" replacement for "we would like for x to" is a riot.
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/hQa3WMO.jpg << what happened to "judy will have to stfu and IT a lot, maybe someone'll care to listen to her stupid shit" ?
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: mms error ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, gtg for nao
mircea_popescu: that rfc is confused lol
mircea_popescu: again, contradictory.
mircea_popescu: why should irc be charset aware
mircea_popescu: if i had to pick a bad example... wtf kludge is that
mircea_popescu: jesus christ
mircea_popescu: where sometimes is all the times.
mircea_popescu: that compound is self contradictory.
mircea_popescu: how is this including bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: Naphex so then they just made a bitcoin to usd gateway
mircea_popescu: decimation: it's sad that there's not mechanism for multicast on the general internet <<< god help us. lomic ?!
mircea_popescu: Naphex they can't integrate bitcoin, because i will never id to use it.
mircea_popescu: none of the "better" shit is worth two shits.
mircea_popescu: same exact thing can besaid of tcp/ip, or anything else that works.
mircea_popescu: decimation: IRC is kind of a creaky old protocol. it works, but it's like hitching a ride on a Cuban 1950's Ford truck <<< there are two kinds of protocols : the "creaky old" stuff which is good and the new shitty stuff which is bad.