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mircea_popescu: whereas small players will have to retain the help of an investment banker, in which case they get auditing as a packaged deal anyway
mircea_popescu: the20year2 this dovetails nicely into your earlier curiosities re listing on mpex w/o an account. itstands to reason that large financial institutions that have their own account can keep their accounting straight ;
mircea_popescu: defo.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is about the conseuqences of having lied.
mircea_popescu: the20year2 bitcoin is not about preventing anyone from lying.
mircea_popescu: artifexd yea
mircea_popescu: that's generally the way it goes, yes.
mircea_popescu: there aren't such organisations yet.
mircea_popescu: not publishing financial results.
mircea_popescu: are. yes.
mircea_popescu: nobody cares what the scammers do.
mircea_popescu: an0 is accepted by the exchange doing 90%+ of all bitcoin financials.
mircea_popescu: right
mircea_popescu: what's so special about the gaap ?
mircea_popescu: that it's the bitcoin standard.
mircea_popescu: nope.
mircea_popescu: the who ?
mircea_popescu: even simplyfied as it is, very few actually use it.
mircea_popescu: the20year2 the bitcoin standard is the an0.
mircea_popescu: if i ever watched tv perhaps that'd sound like a lot more.
mircea_popescu: she's a sorta leah, and as we all know it sucks to be leah
mircea_popescu: well... "writer"
mircea_popescu: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/CandaceBushnell.png omfg look at this troll
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-peeconomy/
mircea_popescu: i thought this existed.
mircea_popescu: there's no taper.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla how about linking bitbet bet income/outbound to blockr ?
mircea_popescu: tomorrow it'll be 1name.cx or w/e
mircea_popescu: meh there's in principle 5k "services" like that and no barrier to entry
mircea_popescu: maybe they should hire sony
mircea_popescu: "Line to GET IN the security line is wrapped around the check-in area of the Austin airport. "
mircea_popescu: hahaha
mircea_popescu: no because chicks with college debt and no prospects keep adding it to their blogs
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=333851.msg5637500#msg5637500
mircea_popescu: lmao check out this guy
mircea_popescu: web is slowly dieing the death of a thousand idiots.
mircea_popescu: disqus
mircea_popescu: it's like... between cloudflare, what's that fucktardec omments thing
mircea_popescu: yeah
mircea_popescu: jut impersonate cloudflare
mircea_popescu: forged certs are a matter of course
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i suppose goldman sachs' ll run it.
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: "so does this cure it ? " "well... maybe..." "fu."
mircea_popescu: god forbid i ever get cancer, the doctors will have a fucking handful with me
mircea_popescu: i don't buy "sorta" solutions.
mircea_popescu: either it solves the problem and then i buy it, or else it does not and then i do not buy it.
mircea_popescu: i don't care that it's "somewhat better".
mircea_popescu: i will never, under any circumstances and for any reason use https as if it were secure.
mircea_popescu: anyway : all it takes for stupid "solutions" to take over the world is for people who know better to use them anwyay.
mircea_popescu: not really that much closer i dont think
mircea_popescu: what, just becayse better internet here?
mircea_popescu: send 0.05, go to library, load page, come back send your 5btc or w/e
mircea_popescu: so check off a diff connection what.
mircea_popescu: or if the gy is really evil and it does show, it won't show as per your txid
mircea_popescu: if you were mitm'd either it doesn't show
mircea_popescu: you can literally verify it this way.
mircea_popescu: Neil what's wrong with just sending a few bitcents ?
mircea_popescu: not that anyone'll bother checking anyway
mircea_popescu: maybe add signed addresses
mircea_popescu: Neil once it gets taken advantage of it'll be changed
mircea_popescu: on a pseudosecure system like https people misrepresent them
mircea_popescu: on a naked system like bitbet people know what the risks are
mircea_popescu: diametric arguable, because false reliance would sweeten the pot.
mircea_popescu: Neil what, i'm not telling them to be mitm'd.
mircea_popescu: as in, send a few bitcents first before your bet
mircea_popescu: Neil it's discussed periodically. you can always test before you send
mircea_popescu: so that was like 2.5mn almost
mircea_popescu: nah, there was a 2k pool one when btc was 1.2k
mircea_popescu: it only matters whst the pool is at end
mircea_popescu: Neil it's months out tho
mircea_popescu: but i meant specifically the guy's concern re calculating final odds
mircea_popescu: yeah.
mircea_popescu: in that it's quite safe to go "i bet x btc on this and expect the other side to work out the odds"
mircea_popescu: in a sense bitbet acts like the exact oposite of the doctrine of gpg contracts
mircea_popescu: so that prevents them from betting (like say http://bitbet.us/bet/635/1btc-10-000-usd/#c2574 )
mircea_popescu: it's just people are control freaks and want to MAKE SURE
mircea_popescu: even on obscure bets a la halep
mircea_popescu: Neil tbh it always was pretty well arbed, in the sense that i occasionally try taking one side and i have yet to come to a situation where i wasn't covered properly by the other side
mircea_popescu: it's highly human supervised.
mircea_popescu: Neil it's not automated.
mircea_popescu: and so here i am, lvl 60, one hitting lvl 6 mobs with my DOT
mircea_popescu: noobs being noobs are too stupid to beeline for the generators and feed th hunger of the uberrich privileged maxlvl players
mircea_popescu: however to rank it up you need noob materials, which stressed the ufck out of the market.
mircea_popescu: sooo... the rift people added a new profession, which is cool.
mircea_popescu: mike_c yeah srsly.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood, my wp doesn't suck
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: shitty blog interface tho
mircea_popescu: i left her a comment ☟︎
mircea_popescu: thus therefore, the tv is highly democratic :D
mircea_popescu: like say, the tv. anyone even in kenya can get a tv.
mircea_popescu: the ease of access is totally not a tool of privilege.
mircea_popescu: yeah, totally.
mircea_popescu: but ah well. most idiots manage to become useful in some manner.
mircea_popescu: they're beyond clueless.
mircea_popescu: here : http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2014#554683 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i was gonna let her know we were just talking about her.
mircea_popescu: lol look at that, she has no comments section.
mircea_popescu: that's the point of fucking bitcoin : to put privilege above the reach of the unprivileged.