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mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan nope, you can't "analyze" the blockchain,
mircea_popescu: and it should be, because just like with the poker table : if you live with no masters it just means you're an idiot.
mircea_popescu: B007 of interest re the boss being smarter always or not, see the mp 50-50 rule, too.
mircea_popescu: decimation more like, it's your duty to live in a sane world.
mircea_popescu: you don't want to keep the job where he a) isn't smarter and b) can't cope.
mircea_popescu: suddenly you have a society in which censorship is not at all absurd, but quite logically sound and flowing from what the people do.
mircea_popescu: well... in this context censorship is merely the enforcing of the obligation of coherence.
mircea_popescu: and if anyone else does, whay! THAT ASSHOLE! THAT BROWNNOSE.
mircea_popescu: not like you go to the boss and say, hey, it just dawned on me, you're so much smarter than me. thank you for taking the time to be my boss.
mircea_popescu: i mean, take the notion of censorship. you consider it unbearable to be told to shut the fuck up, keep your bitching to yourself and disperse right now. but... you DO keep your thanking to yourself as a matter of course, as if it's ordained from on high.
mircea_popescu: this is how socialism starts : by encouraging the slaves to not be expressively thankful.
mircea_popescu: because, turns out, keeping teh girl content is not exactly trivial. it seemed trivial back when the other guy was doing it, but it is not in fact trivial.
mircea_popescu: now, stealing her and trying to get her dressed is the best exercise a young boy could possibly attempt.
mircea_popescu: suppose a guy who is older than you, and better than you, and smarter and more connected and cultivated and powerful than you has a number of slaves, among which this absolutely breathtakingly stunning young lady.
mircea_popescu: decimation the idea isn't to "skim stuff" and try to pass it as your own. the idea is this :
mircea_popescu: i know the general opinion is that omg copying is bad or w/e, but i don't hold it. any painter worth a shit was made by copying the old masters in his own hand. it's how you become a good writer, rewrite fucking hemingway
mircea_popescu: anyway, kids about his age in romania used to do this all the time.
mircea_popescu: a rare day when what you thought mp meant is what mp actually meant.
mircea_popescu: middle class folks looking through the press always imagine that the protesters are you know, like them. house and two cars.
mircea_popescu: i mean, he'd be camping somewhere else if not there, not like he has a house or anything.
mircea_popescu: what, srsly, passionate people can't lie ? what's this.
mircea_popescu: mike_c that looks less dumbfoundingly no fucking way-ish. i ordered some data extracted i'll have something in a little
mircea_popescu: mike_c it can't possibly have 2 min resolution seeing how you have what, 20 pixels in each day
mircea_popescu: from that graph it either was down an entire day or up an entire day or some shit
mircea_popescu: no way tho, you mean it was down pretty much solid 8 to 10 jan ?
mircea_popescu: and stealing the wallets is totally unreasonable, because he's going to jail.
mircea_popescu: a guy who has been runing fractional reserve since ~2011, and who has lied on paperwork submitted
mircea_popescu: it's just the perfect smoke cover, because people suffer from some sort of very particular brain issue.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder wait, you are actually buying the "malleable tx" bs ?!~
mircea_popescu: <Bugpowder> how they fuck could they get the cold wallets drained. It's not plausible << what exactly is not plausible about it ?
mircea_popescu: a) you don't need all ; b) nobody actually pulls disks anymore.