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mircea_popescu: what's a bricked up door with an alarm supposed to do ?
mircea_popescu: either you use an alarm on the door or you brick it up.
mircea_popescu: of course this is a bankrupt arrangement, but that never stopped anyone before.
mircea_popescu: this is not accidental but deliberate : the more unable to correctly price risk people are, the more they perceive the need for said government
mircea_popescu: making the world appear less risky and risky behaviour appear more rewarding than it is the case in fact.
mircea_popescu: because his parents have lived their entire life in a distorted environment engineered by government to misrepresent the feedback
mircea_popescu: because the random clueless noob believes his independence is ultimately more important than his survival
mircea_popescu: apparently the compartment where knowledge happens and the compartment where this stuff happens don't communicate in the average bitcoiner brain
mircea_popescu: you can tell vitalik there's no chance of that. i wouldn't trade a bitten sub for his crud.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves they looked at atc and started dreamin'.
mircea_popescu: "why keep all your assets in bitcoin ? because your usd denominated assets are worthless anyway."
mircea_popescu: that's ok, i'll just take it as reflective of my mordant wit and deep understanding of matters
mircea_popescu: btw, epic prescience on part of the bitbet mod there huh.
mircea_popescu: right, but if you clean a cookie or w/.e it disappears
mircea_popescu: theoretically he was banned from the system at that point, but whether this is actually true or not has not been verified.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 he was able to get carry to disclose private information of a user upon request
mircea_popescu: dexX7_ i wouldn't trust that sort of nonsense too much.
mircea_popescu: pretty much anyone who said this or variations thereof the past few weeks is either going to be prosecuted or called up as a witness.
mircea_popescu: and from the little i understand of the japanese legal system, amply sufficient to secure a conviction.
mircea_popescu: because selective scamming is in fact sufficient to establish bad faith
mircea_popescu: anyway yeah, sturles and others who made statements about it will be key witnesses once this goes to court in a few months
mircea_popescu: the entire "buying gox debt" meme pretty much started from ver's blather.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you're never going to be able to limit all derpage.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves eh who cares srsly. what's coinmarketcap ?
mircea_popescu: how many people get special made twitter accts to derp at them ?
mircea_popescu: "now the scammers are fucked and mp doesn't want to talk to us. what shall we do!11 bitcoin is dieing!!11"
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's hysterical. "o guise, we backed the scammers, tho mp told us not to. and we were impertinent to mp"
mircea_popescu: you generally want to be able to reference what was said afore
mircea_popescu: most literate people have a lot of trouble with the illiterate approach promoted by twitter and cellphone companies.
mircea_popescu: many channels are logged as a matter of course, including #bitcoin-dev
mircea_popescu: the idea is that random joe schmoe can't log a chan he doesn't own
mircea_popescu: dexX7_ they were still pr-izing at the time, hoping beyond hope they'll find a sucker somewhere.
mircea_popescu: the exact same scumbags are already inflating a replacement mtgox.
mircea_popescu: people were liek "o no, let's ignore whistleblower, maybe everything will be ok"
mircea_popescu: recall when the bitfinex was broken in half last time ?
mircea_popescu: that's how children react, your average raped 9yo girl is more likely to not tell.