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mircea_popescu: the only programmer here is benkay and we only keep him around cause his gf.
mircea_popescu: deanclkclk because people generally want to get what they want to get.
mircea_popescu: well yes. we can see what statements you make and compare.
mircea_popescu: deanclkclk don't take it personally. i have no particular interest in the matter.
mircea_popescu: i would imagine it's a combination of youth and whatever else.
mircea_popescu: well there are many fundamental points you're unable to consider.
mircea_popescu: deanclkclk you may not like to hear this, but nevertheless it's a fact : you're really not able to do this. for your own sake do it for something light, like a play crypto.
mircea_popescu: do you by any chance misrepresent "hft" to mean "a simulacra of amazon's autobid function" ?
mircea_popescu: it's not something to be started to fill an idle hour in the afternoon, like wittling.
mircea_popescu: people with millions of dollars in backing failed at what you propose.
mircea_popescu: deanclkclk perhaps you've not thought this though that much.
mircea_popescu: exchanges currently seem to have a lot of problems, but if you trust any one you are best served by asking them what they can process
mircea_popescu: epic shit this, i've already derived more value from it than doge ever was worth.
mircea_popescu: you gotta actually do it for it to be done. coulding have done it ain't military grade.
mircea_popescu: sure. and i see no problem with that, as you know, conversation.
mircea_popescu: could you have been a one man conspiracy to take it all over ? certainly. did you ? no. why not ? well...because of soft constraints.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let me ask you this : are you gathering lots of information about the early days of bitcoin by extensively watching the altcoin chain, tracking txns etc ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i was going to go "oh, the blessings of romanian living, i just drained a bottle of tuica out of my barrel in the cellar now i have nicely cold tuica", but i guess i should pass.
mircea_popescu: speaking of lays : benkay take the girls pic, post it, have her come by i'll give her a bitcoin so she can build her independent wealth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform keeps giving us these immortality pills, we'll be here forever.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke you'll ahve to put that in the form of a question.
mircea_popescu: the only difference being that in the 2000s humanity is fed by technology, whereas in 1900 it was fed by politics, which meant, of course, deploying the force of arms to acquire wealth.
mircea_popescu: ie, could we say the same things we say of our current fashion (ie, large scale tech project) about yesteryear's fashion ?
mircea_popescu: now, can we transpose the manhattan argument in terms of novemberverbrecher argument ?
mircea_popescu: Dolchstoßlegende is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy. Advocates denounced the German government leaders who signed the Armistice on November 11, 1918, as the "November Criminals" (German: Novemberverbrecher).
mircea_popescu: "Even if the initial miners in the "Satoshi Gang" were not initially part of the USG - they would be hunted down and forced to turn over their Bitcoin at gunpoint." oh for the love of christ.
mircea_popescu: "it's disposal" that's not how you spell the possesive.
mircea_popescu: "and the remaining states are all allies of the US" < ahaha what!
mircea_popescu: "and Israel" << wtf ?! how do you reason francis_wolke ?
mircea_popescu: "A group of people associated with multiple world powers." << no. actual internationalisation happened in 2013, was announced on trilema.
mircea_popescu: " Anyone intelligent enough to create Bitcoin will have aligned themselves with some sort of governmental body." << this is a weak assumption.
mircea_popescu: half the time when i select something a final char is omitted
mircea_popescu: in a world where every "idea" is in fact chewed and spit and chewed so many times by so many generations by now all that's left is the spit itself, in which vaguely one can recognise the marks left by the spit of whoever long ago, in the manner new spits mix today because of the presence of that old saliva of yore,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i loved dame dench. "Be careful with my name, or you may wear it out!"
mircea_popescu: it's neither large scale nor important in that context.
mircea_popescu: <francis_wolke> A large scale, important project, developed in secret by USG. << how does bitcoin meet any of your criteria ?
mircea_popescu: if every great painting in history is a manhattan project then venice and the low countries own the us in manhattanness, srsly.
mircea_popescu: a manhattan project is like escavating a tunnel under the nunnery.
mircea_popescu: creating a new currency is like fucking an altar boy. nobody needs to know anything.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke but a new currency isn't a manhattan project.
mircea_popescu: "go fight in the arena for glory or rot in turda salt mine boi"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, the romans used the salt mines (in transylvania) to much the same effect.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke but you never engaged my argument at all.
mircea_popescu: benkay tiikoni and tis. you tease you. what happened to cunny and tits ?