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mircea_popescu: i guess if i add up the various bitcoin guilds in games we get just about a circulation
mircea_popescu: there should be a forbes list for bitcoin, derping about hao mp lost most of his wealth this quarter and is nao desperate!!1
☟︎ mircea_popescu: o look at that, wikipedia has meanwhile caught on that the people still left editing there are mostly paid marketeers.
mircea_popescu: actually, that's like cyprus' largest circulation newspaper
mircea_popescu: i suppose i;m gonna end up having to write a post about introductions. apparently it's completely lost on peeps that it makes absolutely zero sense to just start sputtering stuff as a complete unknown.
mircea_popescu: goxtakeover start by introducing yourself and drop the spurious "we"
mircea_popescu: may be that they've found a sucker, but that story'll end if i find him too.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: not particularly. they're going to come back monday they say.
mircea_popescu: so prices move while you sleep. welcome to the insomniac side.
mircea_popescu: seriously, those people never heard of a wake-up service ?
mircea_popescu: "Many Americans today, just as they did 200 years ago, feel burdened, stifled, and sometimes even oppressed by government that has grown too large, too bureaucratic, too wasteful, too unresponsive, too uncaring about people and their problems. I believe we can embark on a new age of reform in this country and an era of national renewal, an era that will reorder the relationship between citizen and government."
mircea_popescu: "If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what's at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodati
mircea_popescu: bloctoc all done now thanks. you can go back to #eulora :p
mircea_popescu: @cukeking @CharlieShrem How exciting. Where will the bitcoin innovation end?
mircea_popescu: B007 some people do but mostly the car is not for fuck.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remarkably clever the trashbin faraday cage.
mircea_popescu: so if i have a shell in the shape of two connected spheres, of different sizes, i can't put an instrument inside that will tell me whether the small or the big sphere is closer to the nuclear blast ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the amount of aiming the light beam requires makes your ships still vulnerable to emp
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think he is lucky that he's unkempt, otherwise i'd be reading all over the internet how he's a pedophile pornographer gypsy guy.
mircea_popescu: After about five minutes, it finally dawned on me that this was the guy behind the GNU/GPL movement but he spoke like an insane, raving mad man. After about half an hour of listening, I came to the conclusion that he fits the stereotype of “prophet” – like those found in the Bible – only he’s got the software angle.
mircea_popescu: "I met Richard Stallman (RMS) once. Actually sat down to dinner with him at the same table but I didn’t realize who he was. He was poorly dressed, unkempt, needed a shower, and his conversation was both confused and confusing. I later learned that he was always that way. When he got up as the speaker for that afternoon, I said to myself, “Huh? Who is this guy that he’s being allowed to speak dressed like that?”
mircea_popescu: someone pays money to be in the class of people doing this ? why the fuck already.
mircea_popescu: i think a bitbel prize for computing may be in order for whoever predicts a vexual next line.
mircea_popescu: any system in which the printed books cost more than the xerocopies doesn't deserve to exist.
mircea_popescu: ~10 or so bux a 500 page book vs 30-40 for photocopying 1k pages.