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mircea_popescu: "The SEC does not actively monitor this thread, I have two friends that are attorneys for the Commission, and their interns have much better things to do than passive monitoring. "
mircea_popescu: i am fully confident it's ignorance rather than some nefarious anything at work
mircea_popescu: people who think that by imagining something they're now the best to make it, people who think wanting really hard can substitute for being really able
mircea_popescu: well, bitcoin is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers
mircea_popescu: why. cause they think they know better and don't feel the need to ask.
mircea_popescu: dude, if i could explain to you the why of people doing stupid shit...
mircea_popescu: nah, slush is running a large pool, large miner, he's okay.
mircea_popescu: and the irony here is that the mp of that project is slush
mircea_popescu: as to the wisdom of not taking pre-orders and generally running a business like a business.
mircea_popescu: quoth mpoe-pr "haha forehead and bitcoininv have channeled their butthurt from me to each other
mircea_popescu: that aside, i very much doubt vessy is stepping down to the bitter end.
mircea_popescu: nobody heard of him, nobody cares of him, he is thus therefore throwing the full weight of that pompous nothing into things!!!111
mircea_popescu: i love all the pretense tho, "my personal and professional reputation" apparently is the new stock phrase of the chump.
mircea_popescu: "o i know, brilliant idea : i will try and frontrun mp!11"
mircea_popescu: this is the 80s, back when people using bitcoin i mean email were considered at the very least a little by the guys who generally know everything better
mircea_popescu: "some local computer shop owner yelled at me over the phone when I asked him to email me a price list, telling me that he would never waste his time on email because it took 20 times longer than a phone call"
mircea_popescu: it still requires you to compile a client and run a server does it ?
mircea_popescu: dexX7 what do you mean new ? the guy's been working at it since before my time
mircea_popescu: and by now on their sweat and toil it became generally available
mircea_popescu: in the 2000s it was a business expense for the girfrliendsa working the cams,
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves because they can finally afford mass computers and net
mircea_popescu: people who speak languages with genders end up with fictitious gender partitions like witch/wizard because the teachers are lazy
mircea_popescu: it was all about "projecting your sexuality" upon random unfortunate members of the general public
mircea_popescu: actually, you may get a kick out of reading his (obviously very valuable) instructions and teachings.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the nom de guerre / plume of some particularly unhinged pick up artist guy
mircea_popescu: ha! trilema the rift guild makes ~600 satoshi a day in taxes.
mircea_popescu: in most countries cable companies only sell their tv packages because they're bundled with the internet
mircea_popescu: they couldn't kill smoking, but cable failed to thrive in the interval
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves im pretty sure cable is dead as a going concern
mircea_popescu: yet the trend aren't stopping, now the eyes are gone too. it's just )))))
mircea_popescu: then people dispensed with the nose, leading to the now common :)
mircea_popescu: it's an ancient thing, ot, i recall sponsoring it in like 2012
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete it's really just poorly repackaged buddhism
mircea_popescu: then again i guess i already have that too, in the form of a philosophy degree
mircea_popescu: that way i could somehow filter out idiots who in 2014 create "momentuous historic events" that "revoilutionise bla bla" by poorly reimplementing 2011's mpex
mircea_popescu: and actually... i wish an ancient would come this way into time and bring me blueprints of his fucking spam filter
mircea_popescu: then again, i suppose the atomic view is also ancient, so... perhaps that's why we can't make time machines yet
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the difference'd be that the difference between promise and mechanism is by no means a novel idea, just like the knowledge of communism = idiocy is ancient.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete because obviously the ones that do keep it as bitcoin would report that to mark cuban
mircea_popescu: i suppose we should have a bet as to when he goes the way of ciuciu, eskimobob and so many other great names
mircea_popescu: most people belabouring under the delusion they "own" a house aren't aware they only "own" it inasmuch as there's something to b e paid on it.