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mircea_popescu: i indicated to them that they have to make this choice, and how to go about being friends.
mircea_popescu: the sec couldn't decide if it wants to be friends or it wants to be an authority.
mircea_popescu: it works the other way around : i don't argue the negative, they make the statements that establish the positive.
mircea_popescu: that's not how laws work. i don't declare that i broke no laws, and i don't contest the authority of some random person making demands.
mircea_popescu: some guy wanted me how do i know i didn't break any laws.
mircea_popescu: well actually, it's a fundamental issue of law which somehow seems lost on the journalistic profession
mircea_popescu: there's an important difference here, i am in no position to dispute anything yet.
mircea_popescu: so one thing is that i didn't dispute the legality of the sec's request, i asked them to establish it.
mircea_popescu: since i missed the chance back when slashdot linked it
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 no, im referring to a bunch of news outlets linking it
mircea_popescu: well, i guess there's going to be a steady stream of journo people coming in here these days
mircea_popescu: whoa, gawker ? mp in gawker ? what has this world come to.
mircea_popescu: no wonder the doj is claiming prism has full support from the usg-controlled corps a la google yahoo etc
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves pretty incredible shit. so microsoft is playing nsa nao ?
mircea_popescu: one's a dinky disqus-equivalent owned by conde nast. the other's a facebook-wannabe still in the cool vc phase.
mircea_popescu: twitter love, reddit hate. it's like the interwebs autobalance.
mircea_popescu: "Whenever some new and insightful piece of #bitcoin writing appears, I now automatically look for connection to @Mircea_Popescu"
mircea_popescu: how to make bombs out of dogshit. pictures of nanci pelosi doing her dog
mircea_popescu: tho... "just 19.95 a week and you can download all the secret documents you care to.
mircea_popescu: i guess it doens't work cause you'd have to have a paywall.
mircea_popescu: gamerpalace.net/bitcoindeals/ reportcoin.com/beta/ iusebitcoins.com/ myfxequipment.com/ thecointalk.com/ KculShare.com/ begcoin.com/ etc
mircea_popescu: in other news, coindesk finally heard about the news, three days late. net result ? oodlebunchesd of blog spam from an entire ecosystem of spamsites.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wouldn't bet much on obama not feeding preet to putin's bear. yezhov didn't live to grow old.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay the best approach would be to systematiclaly take all assets that were listed on havelock at some point and aren't anymore. the total ipo dough - whatever was paid hence is the loss on that score for the naive public. then take all the dilutive issuance (where shares were later issued for less than what they asked originally) and add it.
mircea_popescu: jurov it has been for years, but now it finally rained
mircea_popescu: as long as they leave their stinking rags in the no man's zone
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so let's all just pretend like it could never be the case,
mircea_popescu: which is why a procrastinating dork will happily do the god-awful work of clicking through websites
mircea_popescu: benkay: it's downright baffling, chetty. take, for instance, the podcast noted above. how much more work is it to do that thing than to just write out one's thoughts? << you miss out on the point that people would love to do work they can do.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 in my experience pregnancy has no discernible effect on productivity.
mircea_popescu: pretty fucking funny evolution, and i suppose the blueprint will be copied amply.
mircea_popescu: in other news, the somethingawful coverage of bitcoin has changed from "clearly the people behind bitcoin are marginal fuckwits who don't understand central topics everyone else understands" two years ago to "clearly the media is writing positive articles because it talks to a general audience which is very poorly educated and doesn't understand central topics only we understand"
mircea_popescu: well so lettuce guess what happens once some guy with a new york website sends cryptsy an email ?
mircea_popescu: that you were looking for pizde, that you're so-and-so string etc
mircea_popescu: if you are using a mobile phone this is what websites see about your thing.
mircea_popescu: "o i am dumb lazy and fat but rather than learn to pole dance and add a modicum of value to this world i'll just post about how it's ok to suck for i am a woman and i want to ruin this word for humanity"
mircea_popescu: o holy grama on a sitkc already. give her the stupid women post.
mircea_popescu: finish. fucking language of what is it even doing here