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mircea_popescu: and then wonder why is bitcoin so expensive since "nobody" buys it or holds it ?
mircea_popescu: then everyone can move on to doge or maxcoin or w/e scam du jour, much more adequate for their needs and abilities,
mircea_popescu: i honestly believe that from here to bitcoin being 50mn a piece, this channel will not nor needs not over 1k people active.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is limtied in supply, soon enough all the noobies will have no bitcoin at all, and problem solved.
mircea_popescu: because "dictionary" or whatever. which is fine, but also, killing them is the general goal of entropy.
mircea_popescu: it's just that some [mostly irrelevant] people have decided they don't want to apply the solutionb.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's not like the problem doesn't have a perfect solution alreayd.
mircea_popescu: on one hand, having a third party involved in any bitcoin transaction, in any way, is breaking the protocol. on the other hand, the pki/dns infrastructure is beyond rotten. tying it into any sort of live project is like taking a spleen off a rotting cadaver and putting it into someone's gut.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: looks like it comes up every year and nobody runs with it << because it's a fucking stupid idea.
mircea_popescu: BohemianHacks it would seem you made an objective statement, but perhaps we're stuck on different language spaces again.
mircea_popescu: same principle. don't use a public service of a large provider that has the power to survive you in the market.
mircea_popescu: Naphex: you could just use google pub dns servers, and place some trust on them, they support dnssec << myeah. some people learned the hard way why not trust linode. it cost them 40k btc or so, linode offered a half-apology and $50 in vouchers.
mircea_popescu: BohemianHacks: after you turn 18 cyber crime risk out weighs the reward, even if your morals dont stop you << well, my curiosity continues. how did you compute that ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell numeristrade you ever considered starting a blog ?
mircea_popescu: i think this Wywiał guy may be on track to write more than me.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: except it wasn't the dude that started/owned Dragon's Tale << that was a riot. tepi's face lol.
mircea_popescu: BohemianHacks you aware what the best description of this chan is, according to chan consensus so far ?
mircea_popescu: punkman im still waiting for the psychanalist to go into massive bitcoin exploratory expedxitions.
mircea_popescu: punkman pretty much. just like webpages "feel" like dictionaries.
mircea_popescu: meh shitty bait ozzie. how am i to restore world balance thus ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony yeah, i just maxed the pedantry scale did i ?
mircea_popescu: i don't know you well enough yet to actually care what you think for its own sake.
mircea_popescu: BohemianHacks im not trying to prove anything really, i'm just exploring where exactly we differ.
mircea_popescu: similarly today, the only thing the city poor / welfare bunnies fear is the 19th century capitalist
mircea_popescu: then the merchants stole it, because at the time the only thing the town merchant feared was the soldier, so he wanted to steal his stuff.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to continue the saga of the poor word "invest" : originally, it denoted the act of comitting your army to a siege. which was, expensive and dangerous a proceeding.
mircea_popescu: well sure, i guess in the sense of, "good dentistry" is what happens at the dentist's office, and plain dentistry is what happens at the bare
mircea_popescu: now, lotteries fail on b. and if you're not aware of this, it fails on a.
mircea_popescu: BohemianHacks you can't, for the following reason : in order for something t obe an investment, it requires two things. a) that you've done research and b) that the research indicates +EV.
mircea_popescu: this poor word invest. it happens to be a term of art in finance, of course, but it's been (recently, since the internet) been coopted as a colloquialism
mircea_popescu: BohemianHacks so i'm very curious, how did you proceed to come to the idea that mpex and cryptostocks are in any sense tyhe same thing, or in any way comparable ?
mircea_popescu: good cause i think many people don't. to judge by the banks etc at least.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony but that is the github of someone named thus.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony nickserv is not authoritative. freenode gives away names and chans that were abandoined.
mircea_popescu: BohemianHacks: So you like mpex over cryptostocks? << lol ok this shit's epic.
mircea_popescu: BohemianHacks: Pretty much, I tend to switch distros and clean up my harddrive tons << either that, or tend to try and social engineer off old dormant cool sounding nicks.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: that's bizarre << now you understand romania.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: but lots of people are obviously still on slow connections, which drags the average down << nope. you can't currently get anything under 100mbps even if you want to pay specifically for it. it's just not economical to maintain the old stuff.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: that makes me a sad panda << you can take solace in the knowledge that the thing is complete bs.
mircea_popescu: see who gets the furthest. "bob is so much further ahead of me" finally means something, geographically. etc.
mircea_popescu: you could have a million acres dedicated to this, like a sort of modern silicon valley / smarts farm. each accepted person gets his own line.
mircea_popescu: there's probably a yurting period one could observe over the duration of his life, if he had the freedom do live in a manner adequate to his own manner.
mircea_popescu: keep doing this. at any point you want something from the oild yurts, just go drag it to the current one. (never ever move stuff back tho, only forward)
mircea_popescu: when full, build a new one a little off, carry whatever pieces of the old one you wish.
mircea_popescu: i suspect this would be the ideal living arrangement for the true hardware engineer : much like a silkworm's. built a yurt roughly 10 body lengths in diameter, fill it with material slower.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: decimation: no oven. space constraints. perhaps in new flat. << you know stan, i hear 500 bucks buys one quite a few acres of open land in patagonia. and since it never rains... don't even really need a roof.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: folks expecting to play 'doom' on cardano will be disappointed. << you know back i nthe day one way to make the old impossible amiga games playable was to downclock the damned things
mircea_popescu: decimation: sounds like bureau-speak for "we hire idiots and they produce nothing" << bounce disagrees, argue with him, i'd like to watch. ty both :)
mircea_popescu: "unrealized damages" that is to say 'my eyesight was worth 100B, but now i have no eyes, therefore pay me 100B'? << exactly.
mircea_popescu: (this is a joke. based on "urbi et orbi", literally "to the town and to the globe")
mircea_popescu: well it does salut in it, which is pretty universal. and orbiversal.
mircea_popescu: i doubt the web has reached that deep into the classical antiquity yet/