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mircea_popescu: i mean, normal people have normal kids, from down syndrome to superclever.
mircea_popescu: it could just... yoiu know... sorta suck, sorta limp along as best it can...
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of space between "exists for the good of the people" and "was spawned by the devil and is making him proud"
mircea_popescu: just because her name is lilith does not know she knows how to suck cock, you know ?
mircea_popescu: i'm not saying it's right or wrong, but how would you know ?
mircea_popescu: maybe they're honestly just trying to understand wtf is going on. i could sorta see if i was in that position i'd go fishing like this. why not.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 maybe the sale was fictitious. maybe erik had the wrong kind of friends, a la shrem. maybe shrem was his wrong kind of friends. who the hell knows at this point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the incentive it does have. it's more effective, more effectual and cheaper. that's really the eos.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 well on what basis would i think about it. i have no idea.
mircea_popescu: this obviously will have to chance, and this obviously will change. it's just that a number of otherwise well meaning people didn't even know they had this problem until last month
mircea_popescu: well... it doesn't have the people, the brains, the training or the intellectual culture.
mircea_popescu: i somehow can pursue bitcoin fraud quite in the open. the sec can not. why not ?
mircea_popescu: the clash of cultures is between the ankylosis of old bureaucratic paperwork and contemporary digital openness
mircea_popescu: but the real clash isn't "you wanna phone me ? get on irc"
mircea_popescu: people have been pointing to "clash of cultures" discussing this, and its true
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so you got me reading the adventures of the 14th waffen grenadiers, which resulted in much amusement at the freitag guy
mircea_popescu: the blood argument is incredibly weak. there's a shitton of blood on "romanian", doth not make it particularly unusable.
mircea_popescu: i think we should institute a 1 bitcent fine for unseemly behaviour
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : things happen in ways things happen, it's very important to either this or the other and make sure you brush your tits in the morning.
mircea_popescu: tech crutch. read all about how you don't need to really understand anything about new tech.
mircea_popescu: benderp if anyone was curious to see how the bega looks.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 people are making 10 btc bets on a 170/9 btc pool with 10k diff
mircea_popescu: (on which i also wrote, but w/e, writing is overrated)
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic i tihnk so to, but why read when one could have ideas
mircea_popescu: well maybe the usg open sources its english translations/summaries of romanian t articles
mircea_popescu: the details are more important than the actual article.
mircea_popescu: the problem with trilema article is that they really don't have any gists
mircea_popescu: you don't have my tools, it's kind of like watching someone build bridges with a hammer
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know it strikes me how much pr/social media you're doing these days
mircea_popescu: moiety the cleavage was spectaculay. oodlebunches of starving aspirational chicks wearing their friends' only designer outfit.
mircea_popescu: moiety yeah. i've had all sorts of tea once at some sort of "all sorts of tea event" in greenwich village
mircea_popescu: not that it ever was much of a thing, but for the sake of lulz.
mircea_popescu: the jury in my head is out on the entire topic of bitcoin-backed ccs
mircea_popescu: turns out you can rent hotel rooms w/o credit cards just fine. provided you wear a suit and your gangster roll is larger than the receptionists' penis