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mircea_popescu: benkay eh, he can't argue everything simultaneously. first let him you know... introduce it.
mircea_popescu: and in this space, fucking up is extremely easy. just ask danny.
mircea_popescu: a 18yo that fucks up is losing his key for all time. you're risking a lot more than the 50yo, who already fucked the girls, drank the meads, got bored.
mircea_popescu: a 50yo that fucks up is therefore losing his key for ages 51-70 or w/e
mircea_popescu: you the 17yo italian guy with fileyy / 360box game hacks ?
mircea_popescu: tg2 anyway, you can take the message upstairs. "guy actually said you either play ball or he buries you, it seems improbable but he does have a history of doing exactly that."
mircea_popescu: many children, many people with no training or much understanding, lot of hype.
mircea_popescu: afaik there was this longstanding theory that erik is betting with himself. i never could see any proof for it, people were welcome to find it etc.
mircea_popescu: we give bitcoin to the russian-ec or to the chinese-ec or to the cyprus-ec
mircea_popescu: they wanna take a crap all over it, no big deal really.
mircea_popescu: tough tits for them. i was not kidding when i said their future is at stake. it is.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves such fucktards with this bs. just won't learn will they.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, they get a pitchfork mob going, and i'll have to hire a security detail around the shop.
mircea_popescu: hopefully they find someone in new york whose brain works and they patch it up.
mircea_popescu: eventually shop owner calls the special down syndrome kid number to have the kid removed from the premises.
mircea_popescu: shop owner goes hey! if you want to buy sometrhing, go like this, if you want to borrow something, go like this
mircea_popescu: the simile would be a down syndrome kid walking into a shop going GLEEEERHRHRHR!!
mircea_popescu: tg2 we never got to know what they actually wanted because they could never figure how to express themselves.
mircea_popescu: otherwise kakobrekla asciilifeform etc could comment on it
mircea_popescu: there's no process. mpex shares hold no voting rights. nobody asks your opinion on how the comp is run.
mircea_popescu: "o, i'm not racist, it's just how i run my forum which is mine"
mircea_popescu: dude get out. if you're running sportstalk.org and ban all discussions of all white players you're going to be drawn and quartered.
mircea_popescu: "n 1994 Crichton became the only creative artist ever to have works simultaneously charting at No. 1 in television, film, and book sales"
mircea_popescu: i have no idea. why would these derps run a bitcoin forum ?
mircea_popescu: well maybe you should run a catholic choir nambla local group then ?
mircea_popescu: Namworld it claims to be. peoples implicit claims are held against them.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla deeper than that : they moderate the content to favour scammers, under a pretense of moderating the form.
mircea_popescu: so this has been an exercise in "let's discuss how the salmon would fly if it had no wings" ?
mircea_popescu: especially if that JoeDork was someone with a reputation of any kind.
mircea_popescu: if it was JoeDorksForum your position would stand a lot better,
mircea_popescu: Namworld yes well, some people make MPs thing, some other people make Bitcoin thing.
mircea_popescu: is there a difference between "i perceive a difference" and "there is a difference" ?
mircea_popescu: "Your honor, we finally got around to reading 2012 Trilema. We humbly submit this is a complete gamechanger."
mircea_popescu: your mother was a hampster and your father smelt of elderberries.
mircea_popescu: Namworld that's what you think for lack of experience. what's "an insult" ?
mircea_popescu: "california housing market too expensive for underprivileged groups ? PEOPLE MUST NAO LIST HOUSES FOR SALE PAYMENT IN COWRIES"
mircea_popescu: after people get used to this, maged can start deleting posts that inconvenience his clients.
mircea_popescu: first, allow any random scammer to moderate hteir own thread
mircea_popescu: from "derps derping bitcoin" to "these people are criminals in disguise"
mircea_popescu: Namworld not giving scammers the ability to make "Self moderated" threads would be one thing.
mircea_popescu: mebbe specially rendition some chicks outta their clothes while at it.
mircea_popescu: generally speaking this is true. it gets real hard to argue no mens rea after you;ve been shown to have taken positive steps.
mircea_popescu: Namworld yeah except if you ban people that tell you to get fucked after you deleted a half dozen posts they made ostensibly because "you have to minimise the visibility of moderation" but really because you just as well didn't want their content visible