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mircea_popescu: "so i contributed some equity" "to whom ?" "to someone" "so what do you want ?" "a share of the profit" "of whom ?!" "of someone"
mircea_popescu: holy shit. the ipo of an anon entity ? logic just got knotted into a pretzel and ate itself.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: I imagine we'll fill the wiki with important points over time << as stan'd say, i can also see another scenario, where the wiki is still where it's now, a decade later.
mircea_popescu: the best error, like the best entropy, is the result of a different approach than culture.
mircea_popescu: see, specialisation refines and improves the quality of one's corectness.
mircea_popescu: no psyop in the world can compile disinfo of the level ignorance & stupidity can.
mircea_popescu: at which point you're suddenly afraid to let them use metal objects on your soft bit.
mircea_popescu: it's as if you were a woman, and visited gynecologists monthly, until one day when you discovered they decided football was part of gynecology, and then kept running into one another on the field like drunk sperms.
mircea_popescu: and the way he goers about it makes one fucking petrified of these folks' general competence and ability as displayed at the daily business of their chosen field.
mircea_popescu puts on his metaphysician hat. JorgePasada nothing that necessarily is could be scary, necessarily
mircea_popescu: but in the 80s i recall it being somewhat of a big deal
mircea_popescu: i must admit i never looked at one since 2005 or w/e it moved
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, i was thinking, o look what cryptologia publishes now.
mircea_popescu: he has an entire list of derp there. "On Subversive Miner Strategies and Block Withholding Attack in Bitcoin Digital Currency"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some random dood aspiring to academia, i had his page somewhere.
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada well you know, if one can't reach eventual intellectual consistency through logical means, the only method available is not asking questions.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: eventually, i see fewer people walking into bitcoin (and assets) like they own the place << kinda what i'm trying to get with the trouting various clueless twits a la courtois. "it ain't yo momma's btc, yo! show some respek!"
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if we inhabit a theoretical topological construct rather than irl.
mircea_popescu: the mystery lemma of -assets is that no matter in what asshole of the world any one assetteer lives, there's at least one that lives within visiting distance.
mircea_popescu: yes, this is true, money changers didn't traditionally run like banks.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yeah ideally the wiki should end up a sort of short story of all the blawgs.
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> pankkake: eventual consistency, within 3 weeks! << for all the beating eventual consistency gets, the sad secret elephant in the room is that all business in the history of business for the past 1k years has been of the eventual consistency types. what do you think double entry accounting is.
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> "King Dragon @The1KingDragon Security Professional, CEO CryptoRush" << FUCK YOU. he's a KING dragon.
mircea_popescu: and depends what your interest is. my mention was something to the effect of, "some frenchie took the pseudo-statistics that yielded the golf club pattern in climate pseudo-science and applied it to pseudo-economics"
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> so it solves everything. twice. << 8 lines bashed. omfg i spilled. bwahahahaha
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> haven't these guys given up already ? << i was kinda surprised myself.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> that gap is unbridgeable. ask hanbot. << hanbot teh bridge builder. in full leather regalia and with three whips and twoi lashes in each hand.
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> besides the various forms of writing an address, I guess there are RIPEMD-160 collisions? << a ripemd-160 collision that'd make two diff bitcoin addresses out of one key is kinda improbable even theoretically tho
mircea_popescu: self-lubricating assholes and uvula orgasms could be a reality inside Maude, why not.
mircea_popescu: 10mn rubles mean you've not been drinking enough for a while.
mircea_popescu: lol gawker going nuts. sure it will. 10 mn btc means a scary shitload of alot.
mircea_popescu: "the idea of "ten million dollars" really need to start meaning something again."
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nah, i suspect it's a cognate of arrender
mircea_popescu: it waited 3 centuries, it'll wait out your cell battery too :D
mircea_popescu: so, beautiful the story and whoever hears it, beautiful the people that tell it, beautiful land that won't forget, beautiful michela that won't... yield ?
mircea_popescu: hey fluffypony "Bella 'sta storia e chi la sente, bella la gente ca la racconta, bella la terra ca nun sâ scorda, bella Michela ca nun s'arrènne."
mircea_popescu: you can also ask about that, what's the plan, once the uk starts asking questions they move it to panama ?
mircea_popescu: they ran off top the uk because the us le was starting to ask questions
mircea_popescu: dude what the fuck have i been sayinbg for a year over here already!
mircea_popescu: is this because he wants to prevent the public from discovering how he's been embezziling the donations ?
mircea_popescu: does he think it's ok to be both the treasurer and the exec of a foundation ?
mircea_popescu: if he didn't pocket any why does he refuse to allow the foundation to publish its books ?
mircea_popescu: did all the payment end up in the foundation or did he pocket some ?
mircea_popescu: was he aware bfl is using the bf logo to scam users ? did he agree to be paid to help with this ?
mircea_popescu: did he spend the money on booze, like every single other bitcoin foundaton plat member to date ?
mircea_popescu: you got your own head neh ? you get the idea, ask it until you get an answer
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i wonder if matonis actually does get the custom-tailored award thing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just a guess i suspect. the processors weren't hot enough to smoke.
mircea_popescu: Naphex this wasn't a front problem, the front was fine all through
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete's reuse address article making some hay on twitter it seems
mircea_popescu: Naphex i have had so many things happen for mpex that i never had happen before i couldn't begin to tel lyou
mircea_popescu: anyway. seems a bios chip smoked out. this is what redundancy is for, carry on.