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mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu So has the #ImpotentAlliance invaded the Ukraine Soviet Republic yet or we still talkin' ?
mircea_popescu: this guy is basically saying that bitcoin is a distilate of all rappers, all wall street and all silicon valley
mircea_popescu: i mean this is total libertard school of denial. it just so happens that theft, drugs and techno-wizardry is the EXACT recipe of mainstream worship
mircea_popescu: make it pleasant on yourself or not, lube up or not, whatever suits
mircea_popescu: for the record, dear regulators : it comes out of your skin, either way.
mircea_popescu: s now synonymous with theft, drugs, and techno-wizardry. These impressions do not a global currency make."
mircea_popescu: "Partly this is because lawmakers and regulators, spooked by early hype and the Mt. Gox disaster, are never going to afford Bitcoin services the kind of autonomy they'd need in order to flourish. Partly it's because there are conceptual problems with the Bitcoin architecture itself. And partly it's because Bitcoin's anarchic roots are too fringe to draw in the masses. In the mind of the average American, the currency i
mircea_popescu: althcare?" Well, lieutenant, pronounced like I'm a British naval commander, if we had a system of healthcare in which doctors were paid the exact same regardless of diagnosis or severity, then there'd be little attention paid to "correct" diagnosis, all of our epidemiological data would be totally invalid, and the number one drug in America would be Xanax. "Wait, isn't that the situation now?" Huh, nailed it.
mircea_popescu: Someone stupid will ask me this: "then why doesn't Medicaid just offer a billing code for "need three evaluations, but likely no diagnosis?" Because if Fox News got wind that Obama was paying for black people to get "no diagnosis" they'd blow up an abortion clinic. Paying for "temper tantrums" is just the right amount of enraging, TV and internet enraging, no violence will occur. "Isn't this why we need universal he
mircea_popescu: pretty much the foundation halmark. it's due to the failure modes of the ycombinated mind.
mircea_popescu: mike_c he's just trying to misrepresent himself into relevancy
mircea_popescu: type 1 is no longer interested. type 2 is now very interested.
mircea_popescu: there are 2 sorts of people in this world, and they're made apparent by the reaction to the statement "few understand this"
mircea_popescu: euros because they're too lazy to do it, and prefer to suckle on the us drip,
mircea_popescu: now this bullshit makes bitcoin easy to dismiss as "indian highschool tomfoolery"
mircea_popescu: i mean, intellectually ridiculous. back in 2011 bruce wagner's antics made bitcoin easy to dismiss as "that cp ring"
mircea_popescu: they should probably relaunch as a wiki, "the fake mkt cap numbers anyone can edit"
mircea_popescu: by now you can just edit the page, write random numbers. just as reflective of reality.
mircea_popescu: it will resolve as yes presently. coinmarketcap.com is henceforth banned as a source on bitbet.
mircea_popescu: and remember : always be nice with all newcomers. they could be as retarded as historically was the case.
mircea_popescu: at which point the chick points out that there's only seven midgets and you point out that she shouldn't be making that kind of noise.
mircea_popescu: and after yet another while, the wolf eats another three midgets
mircea_popescu: and after a while... the wolf... eats another three midgets
mircea_popescu: bad wolf busts into snow white's cavern, offers her a simple deal :
☟︎ mircea_popescu: do you know the traditional first date romanian joke titled "taci si suge" (ie, shut it and suck it!) ?
mircea_popescu: jesus look at that, complete with coelho-esque quotes and the new yorker "narrative" devices.
mircea_popescu: why didn't they make the straight shooter guy into a twink then
mircea_popescu: "o, we have a webpage". great. so does any 14 yo singer-songwriter.
mircea_popescu: do you know anyone through others who you can vouch for as he does ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but look at it. i used to think i can make such representations of people, until i was about 17 or so.
mircea_popescu: he doesn't want to. cause admitting how fucking stupid he is would burn.
mircea_popescu: " I didn’t know him, but I know people who knew him. He definitely wasn’t into any shady business" << dat fiat wot.