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mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 so simply advertise a gpg key, which people can encrypt to.
mircea_popescu: you know, to sorely contrast with the bitcoin derpotroll
mircea_popescu: he's simpleminded sociopath, i read in the washington pravda.
mircea_popescu: pretend to be the taxman, even robin hood did that one
mircea_popescu: "A nationwide scam involving fake Internal Revenue Service representatives has already resulted in $1 million being stolen from thousands of unsuspecting victims."
mircea_popescu: so do you propose that they who have it are the best arbiters of how it should disposed of ?
mircea_popescu: if you mean, are they taking it with them, they certainly won't.
mircea_popescu: no. if you mean whether they achieved it legally, im sure htey did. if you mean were they once young, i'm sure they were.
mircea_popescu: understand that the most economic way to run the economy - now as during 1614 - is to just turn off all machinery, lock all warehouses and bury the key
☟︎ mircea_popescu: to reduce economic inefficiency, by taking from the hands of the savers and putting into the hands of the riskers.
mircea_popescu: anyway, "what'd you have me do ? see where young men are reduced by the accursed avarice of their fathers, and they then wonder that sons wish their death"
mircea_popescu: they must have l'avare translated in goetesprache by now
mircea_popescu: "Que veux−tu que j'y fasse ? Voilà où les jeunes gens sont réduits par la maudite avarice des pères ; et on s'étonne après cela que les fils souhaitent qu'ils meurent."
mircea_popescu: the old folks have shit, the young folks want the shit. negotiation ensues.
mircea_popescu: if anyone is so inclined, the immortal balzac has an excellent depiction of the pilfering problem, in his eugenie grandet
mircea_popescu: benkay they definitely have an editor in charge of being 1990s fucktarded
mircea_popescu: the study of epsilon and of the means through which q = mq+e may be ensured is then the business of the economist.
mircea_popescu: at any time there will exist a quantity of theft, q. at any time there will also exist a minimal quantity of theft, mq, such that it is more productive for the young to work at commerce and industry to acquire wealth
mircea_popescu: whereas by workings of biology will (in all its forms) concentrates with the young.
mircea_popescu: by workings of thermodynamics wealth (in all its forms) concentrates with the old
mircea_popescu: society at all times opposes youthful monkeys with aged monkeys. these desire to control the female monkeys, and all the stuff related to this, from cars to stockings. including their means of production and so on, all the way to legislation (which monkey may shave her cunt and show up in garters ? mine or yours ? )
mircea_popescu: anyway, i can readily offer a way in which systematic pilfering is essential to commerce and industry.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: sorta same problem as the average gold bug, except his is more refined.
mircea_popescu: decimation kind-of explains why he was so butthurt when bitcoin showed up.
mircea_popescu: engadget figures the way to do reporting is putting 6 links in two paragraphs, all leading to engadget.com
mircea_popescu: there's a diff eeprom for the symetric key, these are physically separate for reasons etc
mircea_popescu: and other features generally make it improbable a key will be lost. but this level of specific detail is to be you know, put up once the product actually goes for order
mircea_popescu: anyway, decimation : there will be a single key storage eeprom, but the key itself is written quite redundantly on it,
mircea_popescu: (incidentally... without mihail kogalniceanu the afghanistan retreat isn't even all that possible)
mircea_popescu: you mean the only country which has a military base which allows the us some sort of semblance of relevancy in the black sea ?
mircea_popescu: "hello sir, we're mailmen. please step out of the car"
mircea_popescu: more likely future, people will start being arrested by the cable company over there.
mircea_popescu: it's really shocking to me that i have to explain the basics of law to people writing news o.O
mircea_popescu: LordPutin: what ilearned from thiswhole trendon shavers deposition is that youneed to have a good online username like "mymothersasshole" or something...."So you spoke with my mothers asshole on the 10th of Jan last year, is thatcorrect?" << lol
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla seriously, "september 11 TYPE OF EVENTS" << yeah, it's a term of art :D
mircea_popescu: perhaps not as often as is the case in romania, but definitely a lot more often than is the case in russia or w/e
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, such things happen. contrary to what the general public perceives of the government, it does tell itself to go pack sand all the time.
mircea_popescu: go hunt down the comissioners and ask them pointed q's about exactly this.
mircea_popescu: well ok, but that'd have been a prime spot to crack the story you know ?
mircea_popescu: as far as i know this matter has been discussed in their comission already, and they're working towards a decision
☟︎ mircea_popescu: g_forcewinds well, yes, but they do have the help of the fed and gao already making similar determinations.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of difference between trading oranges and trading monopoly money.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a major difference there too. the grain case (and the oranges cove case which is used to teach kids about the sec) all discuss actual items of value.
mircea_popescu: that aside : what makes you judge we're talking about "A bunch of impossible" ?
mircea_popescu: that "and" doesn't work. i didn't question anything, i asked them the traditional quo warranto.
mircea_popescu: either way, i'm not denying or arguing or anything else. someone calls you on the phone, you ask "who is this"
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't presume to tell them how to be authoritative, i imagine they have lawyers that can sort it out.