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mircea_popescu: mgio_ there is recourse re the miner stuff. just, you didn't bother reading about it.
mircea_popescu: the way scammers work these days, they steal a little from a lot of muppets then give them a little of it back in exchange for forum shilling
mircea_popescu: "And the more you scam, the more fanboys you get - it's not that there is no incentive to be honest, it's that there is an incentive to be dishonest." methinks pankkake has it.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron don't forget the part where they fight EVIL FUDSTERS and my socks.
mircea_popescu: <dexx> how can i invest in knowledge? ;) << trilema credits :D
mircea_popescu: had you started reading here instead of derping on the "investor" forum you'd be a millionaire today.
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> can we have decentralized scam victims already so this stops << ahahaha best log of the week today
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> of course now neo was an "easily identifiable scam" << butofcourse :D
mircea_popescu: today, the attitude of tardstalk is quite the opposite
mircea_popescu: pankkake what's strangest to my eyes, really, is that in 2004 the attitude of piratebay was directly obvious to the average net denizen.
mircea_popescu: redirect it all you want, tomorrow any one of you can host it just as well.
mircea_popescu: no but this is the beauty of it. bitbet is... well... public.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` exactly like venezuela, you knoiw ? "we've reduced inequality, everyone has the same amt of toilet paper now"
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, as far as the forum is concerned, having made that bet proposition is good enough.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` indeed. i routinely meet 20somethings who have not actually tried ANYTHING the past decade.
mircea_popescu: this has resulted in a generationful of people who can do nothing but and nothing other than "convincingly" trying.
mircea_popescu: since about the 90s or so, basic us education has been filtering quite perversely : you get an a or a+ for succeeding at the task, usually an a or rarely a b "for effort" by delivering a credible simulacra of having tried, and an f or rarely a c for actually trying and failing.
mircea_popescu: while he does i wanna pontificate on the following theme :
mircea_popescu: "mp arrested for the crime of being mean to forum dwellers and bureaucrats"
mircea_popescu: the incidental that they can't afford food anyway notwithstanding
mircea_popescu: reminds me of the principled 20somethings that are on a diet
mircea_popescu: turned out the guy's budget was maybe .1 or something like that.
mircea_popescu: and there was some derpage about s.mpoe falling on the forum if i recall
mircea_popescu: thus if submitter places a 10btc bet he is in effect going "i'm not tryin' to mooch ya"
mircea_popescu: pLambert bitbet charges 1% of the pool, and puts .1 btc on the new bets.
mircea_popescu: "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla aha! i wish i remembered what it was supposed to be trading for back in 2012
mircea_popescu: o yeah, which reminds me, how is ven, the revolutionary currency of the internet nefario discovered somewhere ?
mircea_popescu: no secret service, no airforce one, no white house. go check into an 8ball motel.
mircea_popescu: but seriously, i tell you you can't have a new car and you close down the fucking parks in response ?
mircea_popescu: the only way out was toi have obama hung for the crows to peck at for two months, on capitol hill.
mircea_popescu: that was a test, it was failed, congress is going away.
mircea_popescu: not even the point that it failed, their attempt, but congressional dignity proved an empty word.
mircea_popescu: recently they tried to enforce the power of the purse and were made a mockery of for it.
mircea_popescu: congress lost most legislative power already, gradually.
mircea_popescu: You can’t stop all fraud. Some will get through your defenses. Currency exchange profit margins are too narrow to absorb much of it, so you need a healthy legitimate customer base across whom you can distribute those costs. As chargebacks come in, it’s tempting to focus entirely on eliminating fraud. Unfortunately, that focus inconveniences legitimate customers so much that they go elsewhere.
mircea_popescu: obviously clueless kids left to reproduce irl the emperor of flies circus going on in their head wouldn't know about it.
mircea_popescu: there's an excellent point about fraud management made by an actual competent person long ago
mircea_popescu: i think two unrelated convos became cojoined at the hip here
mircea_popescu: Urushiol "community" is made out of law specialists not math specialists :D
mircea_popescu: "how thick is a width of a meter ?" "dude dunno, as thick as the wind blowing may make it seem. otherwise, it's wide"
mircea_popescu: kinda what happens when you try to measure things by orthogonal measures.
mircea_popescu: pLambert or conversely, she is trying to promote her hubby, so selfless and your point fails.
mircea_popescu: lady macbeth dood, we're discussing women in politics here.
mircea_popescu: yea, i'm hoping assets makes the cliffnotes for me o.O
mircea_popescu: well how am i going to explain that if you don't know the play ;/
mircea_popescu: so take the lady out sometime, it's still a great play.
mircea_popescu: macbeth, the prototype, is not discussable in those terms for instance
mircea_popescu: pLambert not that many grandmothers in politics which was the general context
mircea_popescu: you probably wrote your thing in a notepad then pasted it in and submitted. that's 90% of what makes legitimate folks get called inhuman.