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mircea_popescu: "if being rich doesn’t buy you freedom of speech, you’re rich in the wrong place and at the wrong time." << not bad.
mircea_popescu: "makes little difference to the tree which way the wind blows. all that matters is how strongly" sorta thing
mircea_popescu: i have no investment in your emotional investment. consequently, whether you wish or fear is all the same to me.it's merely the amplitude that interests, not the direction.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: has anyone in here ever floated the idea of bringing the WoT to twitter? << i dun think i'd want that really. but maybe a gpg-based ircitter may be interesting.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: is there a firm love for sha256 as an algo? << 512.
mircea_popescu: my current thinking is that any approach to economy that's not agent-agnostic is nonsense.
mircea_popescu: same thing here, everyone with a keyboard figures he could be picking the music, why not.
mircea_popescu: look, you've seen kids play ? all the kids aspire to be the kid that picks what game they all play.
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada what do people know. they also say "abstinence only sex ed" and stuff.
mircea_popescu: mike_c indeed you were :p but i was saying he's an asshole, not clueless. which i do believe is what happened there, he started trying to be pr-asshole and ended up losing focus and just spilling.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : bitcoin's constant dfif growth is a major driver of inflation (more coins / unit time than designed = inflation), and that acts as a price depressant.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, there's exactly one failure mode of a coin, and that is, no buy side.
mircea_popescu: in other words, "woman, i know you love the kid, now let him crack his fucking skull open. we'll mend him afterwards, IF he manages."
mircea_popescu: i mean, this coiuld marghinally be an argument if there were like, merchants, doing txn, being disrupted. but the average txn per block is like... 0.8 or something
mircea_popescu: remember that "Resilience" is just another way of saying "not giving a shit".
mircea_popescu: so in short, i don't think it's a bad idea if thats how you want to spend your time, but i do think it doesn't do much either way.
mircea_popescu: a single day on xtc there were like 30k blocks traded.
mircea_popescu: "profit is taken" is nonsense. the huge flood mines what, 50 blocks ? 500 ? what profit is there to be taken,
mircea_popescu: mike_c actually i think the variations in hashing are great. -2/3 isn't too impressive, and every al;tcoin goes through this scenario.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: outrageous viewpoints are more engaging! (see trilema) << what, the outrage is wholly user contributed.
mircea_popescu: yeah i c. as you perhaps guessed, i'm a log interpreter not compiler.
mircea_popescu: bounce:where was that piece about quantum-proofing bitcoin? it's apparently doable << dude srsly. quantum proofing is not doable.
mircea_popescu: i think i probably formed more llcs than anyone in bitcoin has had sex partners, and probably in more jurisdictions than these folks have travelled.
mircea_popescu: my argument here is that he fails to meet even the lowest common denominator.
mircea_popescu: polimedia was started 2007. got an amir reg from prior ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: "Amir Taaki is listed by Forbes as one of the top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 in 2014" << how the fuck's that kid an entrepreneur lol
mircea_popescu: one of the better cocksuckers i know used to live there pre-rescue.
mircea_popescu: the20year: Not here at least it seems << dude you're becoming an exercise in squandered youth. shoulda gotten in the wot like you know, 6 months ago or w/e.
mircea_popescu: what is with these fuckwits! it's like an entire new circle of strange broke last year, the "thoughht leaders"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: Christian Papathanasiou is "widely considered a UK thought leader" << does this guy aspire to overtake Dr. Foreskin ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: EVERYONE should start one and claim there's is the only TRUE one << start them in scotland, make every logics professor happy.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: there's a widget for calculating cum ROI across any timespan on there << I lolled. because cum ROI is lolzy.
mircea_popescu: joecool judging by the property values, it's somewhere between kenya and utah
mircea_popescu: mike_c is like never on anymore, he's almost like a guy with a day job and 3 side projects + a small kid or something.
mircea_popescu: ohio is like, figthing wisconsin to the death in this derpiest state competition
mircea_popescu: fluffypony but that was my point. if you think something's interesting you gotta be able to explain it :)
mircea_popescu: so that's everyone then, i will be publishing the f.mpif 1st statement tonight.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kakobrekla am i correct in assuming panacea s.mpif investment is 50.0 may 1st ?
mircea_popescu: or are we of the persuasion now that laws need just be made, and teh populace will just swallow whatever they happen to be /
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves:is bitcoin money? yes is it property? yes << and who the fuck would accept such laws ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves wait, you dumped the girl because she took it in the ass ?! dude you're wrapped up too tight.
mircea_popescu: hey, what was btc-e's first altcoin scam thing called ? i forget, was it novacoin ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves "honey, all that trouble i went to so you could have a bloodied pecker and make me hurt... show some appreciaiton."
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i knew chicks like that. "saving themselves for marriage". kinda pervy imo
mircea_popescu: plenty of countries around the world you can get a virginity cert off any gp.