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mircea_popescu: there's a thin sliver of romanians who wannabe us hipster liberals.
mircea_popescu: so a bunch of romanians found an ancient article in which i sliced a rabbit and are having aneurisms all over my comment section. kinda funnay to watch.
mircea_popescu: well if you got something materially relevant you can always get someone to up you, so, no need to panic
mircea_popescu: otherwise, anyone can invest a bitcent anywhere, hardly a qualifier.
mircea_popescu: because if he comes back with something like 10% i'll challenge him to prove it, after which rate him.
mircea_popescu: chairman_meow start with simpler stuff. what do you do ?
mircea_popescu: kinda curious what that guy that was going to do the math to show how weight is not sharp enough comes up with.
mircea_popescu: i spent some money trying to educate a bunch of idiots.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla apparently if id'd but untrusted guy pms assbot he gets the same message as if he weren't id'd.
mircea_popescu: "If individuals admit guilt & reach civil settlement w/ govt, they can't deduct costs from tax returns. Companies can" << true, and pretty epic
mircea_popescu: maybe kakobrekla can be arsed to make special error messages for each case. or maybe not. ha-ha!
mircea_popescu: but no, let's discuss nonsense instead of how fuckwit danny failed to enter the wot, then failed to heed when mp said get in the wot or i'll fuck you up, then got fucked up.
mircea_popescu: as if anyone gives a shit if danny brewster's daughter ends up in a snuff video or in cypriots have talent
mircea_popescu: but a bigger part of which being that when they go to shit, they can try to divert the discussion on unrelated emo topicsa
mircea_popescu: for many reasons, part of which being that the emotional fuckwits who "invest" with them react to such
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic except it works like this : scammers love to mention their kids/wives (anyone recall patrick harnett ?)
mircea_popescu: 'Mass abduction' at #Nigeria school- about 100 girls, likely by Boko Haram
mircea_popescu: bounce tbh biometrics was a thing of the 70s i thought. pretty much all sf of that decade had it, and by 90s it was in every action movie out there.
mircea_popescu: but you know... what now, make books that even people who won't learn the alphabet can read ?
mircea_popescu: whosoever can not use a computer, should not be using computers.
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> unless you believe user education is going to work and everyone is suddenly going to start using secure one-time passwords :-P << i just belive everyone who isn't is going to be relegated to the salt mines. why should every human qualify as a "user" ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony "password1234!" is ultra-secure << remember the 88seals88 and pokerseals etc pws ?
mircea_popescu: "I assure you our system is not fundamentally flawed, there are bugs and we try to find them before the customer."
mircea_popescu: you're on a 64 bit system, who the fuck is going to deposit enough dollars to take you out of maxint
mircea_popescu: if i were designing this it'd all be satoshi based, and your 19.99 dollars'd read as 1999000000
mircea_popescu: Naphex you know you should be using ints for bitcoin in the first place. wtf decimal bs is this
mircea_popescu: nanotube may help you with that, possibly also talk to tcatm (runs bitcoincharts)
mircea_popescu: "o hey, 200 years ago mark twain whom you've read though this place was pretty cool.
mircea_popescu: they'll be the 51th state of their respective local superpowers, and be used exactly like san francisco is used today
mircea_popescu: it has a history, but no future, just like england has a history, but no future.
mircea_popescu: dude holy shit. san francisco is barely fucking notable, what is this navel grazing crap.
mircea_popescu: "Today, the tech industry is apparently on track to destroy one of the world’s most valuable cultural treasures, San Francisco, "
mircea_popescu: bounce i would guess when it eventually sells it'll be something like 500k-1mn btc
mircea_popescu: wywialm many possible reasons. they had a number of local crises brewing for a long time, when your neighbour is arrested for unkempt yard is a good time to do a little lawn mowing in your own.
mircea_popescu: so while it wouldn't be alaksa per se, there's plenty of places it can be.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: their asian interests marginally exceed us and europe combined, for instance.