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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually the novel of "how will SE look in a post-key apocalypse" could be an interesting novel.
mircea_popescu tries to remember who decimation is. who are you decimation ?
mircea_popescu: social engineering as the venetians knew it "mostly went away" too.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or at least, social engineering as we know it.
mircea_popescu: proofines = the quality of something which isn't proven but you'd like it to be.
mircea_popescu: and perhaps the larger loss. as people today interact with him like with shakespeare, out of reinterpreted reinterpretations of copies
mircea_popescu: it's role never having been to be worth "x billionty dollars" but simply to support nurture and allow this conversation.
mircea_popescu: simply because there's a collection of idiots rather than a single idiot.
mircea_popescu: we are today right here in this chan in a much softer seat than satoshi ever was
mircea_popescu: decimation in anyone's defense, nobody can know everything.
mircea_popescu: by the time they're done they will have collected enough tidbits (such as this one) to actually make an alt with a chance.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, bored young minds with the strength of oxen wishing to create an ACTUAL altcoin are well advised to try and specify bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: because they mostly don't exist standalone because people in gaming need and so make them
mircea_popescu: decimation because satoshi didn't understand udp and couldn' find any libraries.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I feel bad for the youth who will be swindled into giving their flower to rank idiocy <<< unlike what other youth ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you know wells fargo was originally a stagecoach company ?
mircea_popescu: basically what they do now, if you move usd to eur or w/e
mircea_popescu: not that we necessarily care, but it is the first actual loss in the field.
mircea_popescu: after paypal offers transparent exchanging into and from bitcoin to anyone with a paypal account we won't even KNOW what the exchange rate is anymore.
mircea_popescu: and given the horridly ineptitude of the tech people + the horridly dishonest ineptitude of the "business" people involved in the "market" let's call it for lack of a better term of interfacing bitcoin and fiats
mircea_popescu: anyway, the greater strategic implication here is that given my lukewarm at best interest in the fiat side,
mircea_popescu: lol i was thinking, "and after you're done telling me go tell kako"
mircea_popescu: but you are telling me that bitstamp has better ops and it security than paypal ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, they of any sense'll treat their investments in coinbase/whatever exchange as having terms of 1 year tops.
mircea_popescu: this, prior to bitcoin was the most valuable and only valuable thing to keep on a server.
mircea_popescu: so i guess there goes the market for man-and-his-dreams exchanges.
mircea_popescu: course their webwallet would have an exchange built in, which by now they're probably testing and which nobody will be either to compete with or outlaw.
mircea_popescu: lol so paypal wants to compete with bitcoin by making... yet another webwallet.
mircea_popescu: i guess the people that got the licenses in colorado made out ok.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i guess i must be an old arse, everyone i heard was very excited for some reason.
mircea_popescu: maybe one in ten has the sense (or really, the looks) to actually do something worthwhile with her time.
mircea_popescu: every romanian chick that's not starving while pretending to be working in pr is starving pretending to sell hebalife, avon and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves gotta make fiddy bux somehow. to buy al lthe memes
mircea_popescu: The program accepts 16-18 year old male and female high school dropouts who are drug-free and not in trouble with the law.
mircea_popescu: The stated mission of the Youth Challenge Program is "to intervene in and reclaim the lives of at-risk youth to produce program graduates with the values, skills, education and self-discipline necessary to succeed as adults."
mircea_popescu: "I agree with his final point. We've done the technical approach. It was a good effort, but if the theorising (I'm assuming that a lot of this is theorising?) is true, we can't build our way out of this problem. We have to shut down organisations and programmes like this by bringing them to the light of day, and the only approach to that is political."
mircea_popescu: so you know, doing stupid shit is one thing, being a tard is a different thing.
mircea_popescu: dude get out of here. what was your resume like at 30 ?
mircea_popescu: i mean i don't mind telling people what to do, but i'm kind-of partial to telling them to do that which can be done.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many actual nuts that end up shooting people COULD in fact be detected by reading facebook pages.
mircea_popescu: he could at least have gone the whole distance and made he names funny.