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mircea_popescu: sooo.... someone just sent a 2btc donation to mah trilema credits address ?
mircea_popescu: ie, some nonsense both sides were too tired and too tied down other places to argue
mircea_popescu: my own guess would be that it's one of those quirks that end up in legislation of dual party systems
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you really must ask a tax accountant that.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason we don't trust the bitcoin scam foundation bunch.
mircea_popescu: twitter's been going pretty nuts over my repaste there.
mircea_popescu: it is a scam, obviously. it's not without coinbase's involvement tho, which is what i mean. htey're using the same infrastructure a legit merchant would be using.
mircea_popescu: ColdHardMetal always a risky proposition, bitcoin divestment for fiat. who knows, maybe in a decade i live to regret it :p
mircea_popescu: what am i going to do, run mr scrooge's offices over here ?
mircea_popescu: antephialtic no, it's much more like the judge allowing the two unkempt youths fuck his teenaged daughter in exchange of not having his car all scratched up.
mircea_popescu: kinda looking forward to a full edition mp space cadet kbd.
mircea_popescu: not anymore than you have to be "professional" on tardstalk or w/e.
mircea_popescu: anyway. me leling at the pseudoscience of others does not promote me to the rank of pseudoscience author.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ya srsly, how about you make a much bigger board ? this topic deserves some attention
mircea_popescu: because the tropics suck ass, because they had run a welfare system for centuries.
mircea_popescu: mass migrations out of the tropics have been a thing since the 50s
mircea_popescu: jurov well mass migrations out of oceania seems to be against your definition of oceania
mircea_popescu: antephialtic there's reasons we don't trust coinbase after all.
mircea_popescu: jurov everyone is going to have problems sooner or later anyway. that's the definition of problems.
mircea_popescu: they also released the known but apparently not widely known fact that coinbase is forwarding all tx history to teh us alphabet soup on a daily basis.
mircea_popescu: as someone said, when therer's a cockroach in plain sight, that's never the only cockroach around.
mircea_popescu: jurov no but seriously, what, some coral reefs ? some volcanic islands a mile wide ? this is something someone should care about ?
mircea_popescu: but also because who knows, could be a comedy goldmine.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform forwarded you some mile long email, mostly because i have no consideration for your time apparently.
mircea_popescu: jurov just saying, i called it stupid and moved on when i was about 9
mircea_popescu: jurov half of "oceania" is what exactly, some islands ?
mircea_popescu: except you know, they are "professional" and thus fail to communicate.
mircea_popescu: i suspect one of the biggest mistakes ever would be to try and rescue the stupidity of global warming by semantics.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, tis late. we'll continue... tomorrow. which is another day.
mircea_popescu: MisterE in the same sense there's no built in check to the number of alt coins that can be created
mircea_popescu: it didn't last so long, and of course for "very good reasons" (tm)
mircea_popescu: MisterE the best part is this : at the time, if i told a proponent that "govt will just monopolize it" he'd just have loled at me. "what are you talking about, ANYONE CAN ISSUE PAPER"
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with either of the two, up until they're being brandished by a thief.
mircea_popescu: but in the same sense the tech of a pistol is better than the tech of a sword.
mircea_popescu: that aside, obviously the technology is better, crypto chain > paper issuance.
mircea_popescu: im sure when law was writing it wasn't directly obvious that the thing'll end up as a welfare scam either.