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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.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile it's a lot more complicated, they also peg to the euro, they also peg to a russian synthetic-currency derived out of energy holdings,
mircea_popescu: chinese banks were built that way briefly in the 70s, i would guess.
mircea_popescu: "china takes over alaska administration, in consideration of debts owed by us government"
mircea_popescu: china holding us debt is no sort of statement of confidence in the usg, quite the contrary, it's a claim on its asshole.
mircea_popescu: banks reduce to their shareholders, and foreign sovereigns don't count
mircea_popescu: wywialm we were talking fo the {1%, 99%} set I thought
mircea_popescu: wywialm actually the exposure to treasuries is mostly pension funds.
mircea_popescu: and the people that matter are the 1%, not the average fucktard on reddit/the metro.
mircea_popescu: wywialm this is why i made my linearity objeciton. it won't collapse because of "cracks". it will collapse because all the people that matter are fucking sick of it.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is ycombinator involved in everything unsavoury.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony so basically it sells you gmail protection services ? the spam racket ?
mircea_popescu: is this vuscan fellow the son of the oil factory vuscan, with the 3 victims traffic accident ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony srsly ? wtf does it do ? i was just deriding it yest.
mircea_popescu: Naphex you'll prolly have to point out to your boss you're doing more marketing/pr than anyone there.
mircea_popescu: the us can collapse in all of two weeks, as tech stands today.
mircea_popescu: <wywialm> maybe the key difference is the time - and gradual nature << they didn't have the press. which is why it took longer. ussr didn't have the internet, which is why it took so damned long.
mircea_popescu: <wywialm> ...but it's hard for me to believe that us is the first in line << it's the first in line of the set {US}
mircea_popescu: little better available in training devices in any craft than "failure examination"
mircea_popescu: bounce as a "map the rot" project this is probably valuable even if it gets no direct results.
mircea_popescu: lol ok, well, if you elide nots it'll become hard to follow :D
mircea_popescu: bounce so you don't see where linearity is in "linear regression" ?
mircea_popescu: bounce here : "like inspecting a building for structural problems or a pipe or aeroplane for hairline cracks or, well, you know. only on the country level. roads, utilities, but also government, how much and what kinds of corruption, that sort of thing. map it out."
mircea_popescu: Naphex aite send me mail from its domain i'll give you a 1 rating
mircea_popescu: wywialm us collapse = usg collapse. what else ? not like kansas will fall off the map or something.
mircea_popescu: bounce i think your methodology is broken, in that it assumes a sort of linear scalability. broken government is not akin to broken windows.
mircea_popescu: so whose was the idea to print the cert ? horea vuscan's ?
mircea_popescu: Naphex so what exactly is your function at this btcxchange thing ?
mircea_popescu: wywialm same way it was possible in the case of the ussr, i guess.