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mircea_popescu: HeySteve sure, if you find people willing to post videos on themselves on your blog, you may have something.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay` "Quixotic damn mission. There are years of fraudulent insanity buried in that forum, and after two weeks of cataloging the madness had to take the project out back and shoot it in the head for fear I'd come down with whatever disease is infecting the brains of those who seek to throw their hard-won bitcoins at unknown entities across the internet. " << that then makes two for you eh ?
mircea_popescu: that's akin to the matter of finding a girl that menstruates pearls.
mircea_popescu: the difference'd be that while the bank cam can be used in court, random joe blow does not get a copy
mircea_popescu: yes well there's a difference between a bank and a coffee shop.
mircea_popescu: want a fiat stock exchange as clean as mpex, gotta put in as much work as mpex does.
mircea_popescu: the founders, the angels, the board members, the vcs that signed sheets.
mircea_popescu: and the ny da needs to step up and slap charges on everyone involved.
mircea_popescu: no. the sec needs to step up and have the shit delisted,
mircea_popescu: yes. including the parts of the world where airbnb domiciles.
mircea_popescu: which results in 3829 people staying there over 3 years.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony how about you sublet half a duplex to some schmuck
mircea_popescu: if ycombinator is allowed to do this, why aren't the crime families ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck heard of this, "build an alleged business on explicitly and directly requiring people to break the law, require them to not talk about it and then list on the nyse"
mircea_popescu: that the SEC is not probing it simply speaks of how the SEC is more of an instrument of private interest than any sort of justice.
mircea_popescu: between the "you gotta break your lease to use our site" and the "you can't talk to your customers as per our rules", the whole thing should be illegal.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay` "I rapidly came to understand that the space compromised of people working on Bitcoin" you mean comprised ?
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ funny cause i had just written an article about exactly this
mircea_popescu: the guys ended up spending all their time being awkward.
mircea_popescu: benkay well after the first coupla hours of awkward, the chicks loved it, cause apparently it's more comfortable.
mircea_popescu: the settlement included guys having to always split the drinks tab among themselves.
mircea_popescu: the guys thought it puts too much power in the hands of womenz and it basiclaly sucks and is opressive.
mircea_popescu: funny story : at one particular workplace we actually had topless day. buncha young people, the guys thought it was great.
mircea_popescu: we'd be better off allowing violence, from the schoolyard all the way to the workplace, than having this diffuse "everyone hates everyone" sort of poison floating about.
mircea_popescu: on it goes. you gotta have people in the loop or it ain't a thing.
mircea_popescu: sex without people is masturbation. finance without people is also known as crisis.
mircea_popescu: law without people degenerates into the us sort of national-socialism.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this constant tendency to abstract people out of life is a sickness by now.
mircea_popescu: give her $100 to buy fishnet stockings, watch her come back with a purse and batteries.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking, this is kind-of how plenty of women do shopping today anywya
mircea_popescu: "go to buy shoes. come back three hours later with a half cup made out of tin foil and something that looks like a mouse with no buttons"
mircea_popescu: a sort more palatable to the modern religious mind, which as you stated, works on the " Grand Designers will come up with Cool Shit" faith
mircea_popescu: jurov has it. the entire thing is a restatement of the perpetuum mobile,
mircea_popescu: yeah, this is exactly the problem we're discussing. you don't understand the subject, but you do have convictions as to what works and how, and what the future will bring.
mircea_popescu: so i buy some shit from you. i send it to an addy where you have a sig and i have a sig and we must both sign for you to get paid ?
mircea_popescu: "when trust becomes a product of data instead of a product of human decision making." << srsly, this is nonsense fluffy
mircea_popescu: benkay our bitlordity's black, cold heart is warmed by your sentiments.
mircea_popescu: after you deleted it, you can no longer delete it anymore.
mircea_popescu: kanzure yes. before you deleted it, you can delete it.
mircea_popescu: this is the nonsense at work here, a sort of tech worship.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the fundamental flaw is the naive expectation for tech to work by intself and in of itself.
mircea_popescu: like the purpose of myspace/linkedin etc is advertising and "user data"
mircea_popescu: benkay the purpose of a stock exchange is major and ceo.
mircea_popescu: nothing stopped yahoo from recruiting their ceo on linkedin
mircea_popescu: nothing's stopping people from using myspace to organise major concerts,
mircea_popescu: jurov exactly the way myspace went. servers no purpose, has no utility. its entire lifetime is its endgame
mircea_popescu: just one of the many problems with "distributed" shits
mircea_popescu: like i go... pls to pay me back 100 btc. you say well... you ain't got 100 btc. how do you know i don't ?
mircea_popescu: but i mean... at any point you must somehow know the maximum im allowed to withdraw