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BTC-Mining: or at least that's what I was stating until you interupted me to say that anything presented as
a fact is an opinion.
BTC-Mining: Well the whole argument was about how how presenting an opinion/guess as
a fact is bad if you didn't directly witness the fact, as it creates confusion for the listener.
mircea_popescu: well theymos is also an idiot. i was just using this as
a convenient example.
BTC-Mining: You can state the first as
a fact, and the second as
a proposition
mircea_popescu: i never claimed i saw the guy murder someone. i just claimed i saw
a murder.
BTC-Mining: But you saw
a body being carried out. As such you cannot claim that you saw the person carrying said body murdered someone. You can only guess or propose said person as the probable murderer.
mircea_popescu: there's never going to be
a workable version were we instantly understand what the other means just by reading the words
BTC-Mining: You could reasonably assume
a murder was committed.
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining for the same reason you decide you saw
a screen i decide i saw
a murder.
BTC-Mining: Yes. But that you decide to claim what you saw or not as
a body, you still can't say you witnessed
a murder.
mircea_popescu: fact of the matter is, knowledge is always assailable from
a purely nominalist perspective.
BTC-Mining: Eh... you'd want
a distance at which I'd claim or not claim to have seen something?
BTC-Mining: Because I can see it up close and I know it to be
a screen.
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining when you look at your computer do you see something that seems like
a screen
BTC-Mining: I'd probably report it stating I saw someone carrying what seemed like
a body out of
a house.
BTC-Mining: Okay... so assuming you didn't see what you think you saw and there was no body, you'd go around claiming
a murder?
mircea_popescu: now look. if i go into
a house with
a girl and come out with
a body
BTC-Mining: Acknowledging he might be using his own money, and that he just claimed he stole fund because he didn't think Nefario had the money for
a lawyer.
____Atlas_____: I am just finding it hard to be empathic towards someone who closed down
a mutually owned company without clear consent
BTC-Mining: There's
a reason the english language has words such as "could, might, guess, believe, think, etc."
BTC-Mining: Well the thing is, by formulating it as
a fact, one could believe theymos actually saw that funds were being moved away from the reserve.
mircea_popescu: you can write it any way you please, but unless it's "here's so and so and here's the proof" it ain't
a fact.
mircea_popescu: something's not
a fact by virtue of carrying
a "fact" tag given by the author.
BTC-Mining: Yes, but he hasn't stolen anything... the first claim by theymos was stating it as
a fact, when he was just speculating.
____Atlas_____: You see, this person is not interested in
a discussion rather
a social battle of sorts.
____Atlas_____: midnightmagic: I am here to have
a discussion and
a mixture of ideas.
midnightmagic: Mobs tend to have trouble operating in
a totalitarian regime where both the government and the people hate them in equal measure, and the death penalty takes basically one annoyed judge somewhere to point his finger and make half
a town disappear.
smickles: mircea_popescu: well, that day was my brother and sister's birthday. we had
a party
____Atlas_____: And how even the lowest form of life deserves wasted effort when it comes to crap on
a wikipedia page.
BTC-Mining: Eh, there's all sorts of levels of symptoms for such things. Sometimes you only get
a few if it's mild.
B0g4r7: He's get
a "flash from beyond", and knew that he had to bring it into being in the physical world.
B0g4r7: I saw
a doc on Tesla, and it said that's where
a lot of his ideas came from.
B0g4r7: It had that kind of
a thing, communication in
a dream.
____Atlas_____: Anecdotal evidence shows it happens to
a lot of people.
B0g4r7: "in
a world gone mad, sanity's no real sign of health"
____Atlas_____: "Glenn Beck raped and murdered
a little girl in 1999."
____Atlas_____: Then I get off and follow
a woman and she gives me her phone number
smickles: oh my, you ever get
a good wiff of balls and it smelled good?
B0g4r7: well, yeah, BTC was
a generalization.
smickles: B0g4r7: think nanobtc tho, with
a system like what we're talking about, the cost of bandwith drops to near zero
B0g4r7: Need some BTC? Put some storage and bandwidth to work running
a node and collect some.
B0g4r7: Wanna be sure your content's replicated and available? Pay
a few Satoshis.
B0g4r7: Run
a node, host content, get paid BTC.
B0g4r7:
A distributed FS, based on bittorrent-style p2p, incorporating BTC.
smickles: I want
a darknet where network nodes are automatically compensated in BTC for legit traffic
smickles: i'm going to make one of those arduino quadcopter drones and program it to find water, find
a good spot, drop in
a line, hook
a fish, and brink it back to me
B0g4r7:
A distributd redundant skynet is much more resiliant.
smickles: let's get elon musk to buy bitcoin
a sat-net
B0g4r7: Shouldn't be
a problem.
B0g4r7: I guess the atmosphere doesn't really extend but
a few miles up, no?
smickles: you can program them to pass off the server to an freshly charged one and return to
a recharging station
BTC-Mining: Make
a freakin' floating fortress you mean!
smickles: have
a series of drones keep the server airborn in internationaly territory
B0g4r7: or, as ppl have been saying
a lot, on tor.
BTC-Mining: He went drunk, or at least
a bit like goat.
markac: Generally used on internet forums, inb4 refers to
a user posting
a reply to
a message/topic "before" another user posts an obvious response. When used appropriately, inb4 is followed by
a word or shor
BTC-Mining: Sad thing tho, telling my curious relatives what I was doing and my numbers (I was making
a hefty profit trading on GLBSE with the constant price swings), kind of got them interested in it.
BTC-Mining:
A stock exchange going away/delisting assets does not void said assets.
BTC-Mining: Either non-publicly or moved to
a new exchange.
BTC-Mining: So if shares are still trading, I'd expect to get them back. Although it might be hard to find
a seller without GLBSE.
BTC-Mining: Yes, but it will be hard to set
a price for them to pay the 1% monthly for borrowing them to short.
mircea_popescu: That's
a real house in Ireland, owned by Frances Hackett, email "mccarthyfrances@gmail.com".
BTC-Mining: If issuers get
a list of holders, I get
a lot.
gribble: *BANG* Hey, who put
a blank in here?!
B0g4r7: Roulette's based on
a six-shooter?
gribble: Error: "guide" is not
a valid command.
gribble: Error: "guide" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: so nefario is giving theymos
a scammer tag on glbse.com
bitcoinbear: So they say they are returning funds right away, will we be able to log in and give
a bitcoin address?
pigeons: yeah i'd just send
a girl to your house
mircea_popescu: so
a combo of tor + whatever public libraries you have around should pretty much make you as anon as practically useful.
B0g4r7: That's
a chatty bot. It can't summarize?
pigeons: well using an unlinked key id is
a good idea you are right