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mircea_popescu: what did that thing ipo at, was it 25 ? or 30 something ?
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure eventually people will, just this bs "o we're the sec/jpm/herpdiderp, we don't need no stikinin' obedience to bitcoin" will have to be either crushed or dissolved first.
mircea_popescu: and the forums i wouldn't advise anyone to read, unless they had mastered both the topic and internet stuff.
mircea_popescu: making a proper reading list is definitely something someone with a background in education could halp with
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves we definitely need a curriculum, currently it's "stfu and read", but the implied "read what ?!" is never really addressed.
mircea_popescu: lampelina hey, you considering a "must read these" page ?
mircea_popescu: basically they're forcing people to be paid in lala land whether they live in lalaland or the actual tide economy
mircea_popescu: the fact that they enforce it on the "Well to do" govt employees makes it very expensive for actual workers to gateway to the cash ecpnomy they use
mircea_popescu: " 'Operation Choke Point,' which is designed to destroy three sectors of the private lending industry: third party payment processors ("TPPPs"), payday lenders, and online lenders. ". sez breitbart.
mircea_popescu: this baby daddy thing looks exactly like bh20910 or w/e it was
mircea_popescu: sooo... aaron spelling is just re-doing the same shit over and over
mircea_popescu: which probably worked, which is why it got perpetuated.
mircea_popescu: benkay yeah because "innovations" are now commodified, like brent
mircea_popescu: but under survival pressure has curtailed the conference to just two people
mircea_popescu: some derp that's trying to make a living out of conferences, and looking for sponsors
mircea_popescu: some fucktarded "life coach" or w/e shits all over it.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck long is he supposed to stick with the shtick ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i don't see what the fdl brouhaha is all about
mircea_popescu: MisterE but what she was trying to do was a sort of mean girls livetv
mircea_popescu: sorta the thing that spurred paris hilton's crap, then kardashian's crap etc
mircea_popescu: ;;google 3d imaging technique where you use some knowledge of the lens distortion to compute a point cloud
mircea_popescu: i can;t for the life of me figure how exactly russia taking crimea disqualifies it as an industrialised country.
mircea_popescu: and wtf you people with your gawker. what the hell is this, we're supposed to be gun totin' libertarians, we reading gawker nao ?!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo for most of the testees having to eat asparagus prolly qualifies as cruel and unusual.
mircea_popescu: somehow nobody picked on "hey, one address per transaction has its issues as a model" as a result, either.
mircea_popescu: the fact that they can't apportion the sent btc to the various users is the problem
mircea_popescu: the fact that they can show that some btc made it there is not relevant.
mircea_popescu: reports surfaced that they showed the same deposit address(es) to multiple users.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i imagine it's coming, but it wouldn't have worked in this case.
mircea_popescu: the fact that i can't univocally resolve their claims is the problem, and decoying it doens't breed confidence.
mircea_popescu: benkay sure, but that was never in question. if I have 5 that owe me 600 btc pay to the same one address, the fact that i can prove i have received 600 btc in that address is neither here nor there
mircea_popescu: "Like rabbits, after eating they initially produce soft green feces, which they eat again to take in further nutrition, before producing the final, solid, fecal pellets."
mircea_popescu: i originally thought they're basically stray cats that took to the wild
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform interesting, these aren't really cats, more like leopards.
mircea_popescu: the entire thing'd hinge on whether the animal responds to the behaviour or to the chemical.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic im just not taking anything for granted at this point.
mircea_popescu: but their pr is spiraling out of control in a certain pattern. that's usually the end sign.
mircea_popescu: in general nothing keeps someone from claiming they got funded.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic you saw actual paper that it actually happened ?