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mircea_popescu: antephialtic if you think the welfare state did anything for the advancement of pure mathematics...
mircea_popescu: ahahaha diablo 3 apparently still thinks it exists, made update, costs 40 bux
mircea_popescu: idiot b;logger.com. was gonna leave the guy a reply, but a well.
mircea_popescu: "Austerity measures will have taken the route of unprecedented and radical decimation of the state - everything from state provided healthcare to coastguards to income support to education will be practically gone replaced with numerous forms of bitcoin based insurance."
mircea_popescu: antephialtic seems just a rehash of older material really.
mircea_popescu: pankkake not altcoins, but teh people bitching about how other people are eating "their" share of the pie are.
mircea_popescu: it's pure jealousy, and well... that's not part of the laws of nature.
mircea_popescu: antephialtic but the whole argument behind scrypt,. and behind asic-resistence, and all that jazz is "other people than us have better resources and are being rewarded for this."
mircea_popescu: cryptocoins are here to bring inequality back to its proper size
mircea_popescu: there is the problem. it's all trying to somehow build equality out of technology.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform give them a decade. reading these logs is slow work.
mircea_popescu: We have not come across a proof of work algorithm that is truly ASIC-proof and quick to verify. All alternatives will only delay the problem, and at a considerable cost.
mircea_popescu: when people go to war, they couldn't care less about foreign markets or whatever the fuck.
mircea_popescu: since the fork will NEVER resolve, tyhere's no scamming.
mircea_popescu: a hard fork is a political event. they get the old chain coins they chose.
mircea_popescu: antephialtic how exactly would the merchants be scammed ?
mircea_popescu: Wtf is the point of crypto if a bank can simply mine all the coins themselves, the entire point of crypto was to get away from elitist bankers
mircea_popescu: And it would be a great way to stick it to the mega banker elite class who invested billions in Asic hardware.
mircea_popescu: Hardforking BTC and LTC to X11 would be pretty awesome.
mircea_popescu: a hardfork is a major event, but definitely not impossible.
mircea_popescu: there's a deep understanding of what humanity is all about, that someone as fucking weird as dostoievski could exhibit nevertheless
mircea_popescu: antephialtic most neckbeards make excellent worhorses. doesn't mean anyone would want them i nthe house.
mircea_popescu: neckbeard = 30something male with poor hygiene, lack of socialisation and a monitor tan
mircea_popescu: antephialtic not rly hate, but for the usual reason neckbeads fail to make it in human society.
mircea_popescu: is this guy actually gmaxwell or just similarly spineless ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla your forum wordmixer gave mpoe-pr a small heart attack lol
mircea_popescu: i personally don't think there's any value in the forum format, but hey.
mircea_popescu: honestly i don't see why .lk can't be used for exactly this purpose.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i had a forum on the old polimedia domain, same principle, also pretty dead.
mircea_popescu: it's pretty much the system that sunk -otc into irrelevancy, so...
mircea_popescu: i guess we're going to tune in to .lk for further mpoe-pr posts.
mircea_popescu: antephialtic there's a diference between clueless and stupid.
mircea_popescu: antephialtic the problem with any exam that doesn't also include a firing squad is that it creates a class of niggers.
mircea_popescu: one is that people generally are stupid. this, we knew going in, not a problem.
mircea_popescu: was looking for a way out for a while. reducing .org to the status of a lousy scrapper of .lk seems perfect.
mircea_popescu: but the political angle is important, that shit must die.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla simple ban avoiding technique : make .lk account, link it to bitcointalk.org account