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mircea_popescu: mod6 it is, you know ? i mean people who haven't lived this side of the iron curtain can't really get the depth of it, it;s not the same to be told about it or to see it with your own eyes
mircea_popescu: and well... you can't have a society of nothing but that.
mircea_popescu: no but this is in reference to an amply discussed 19th century problem, where jewish kids didn't really want to do anything but learn
mircea_popescu: fight the tendency to spend 100% of one's life in the sinagogue
mircea_popescu: they're there to force people to also do some work in a day. at the very least to pay for the credits.
mircea_popescu: people love to think that trilema credits system is there cause im greedy, but it may just as well be the case
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this brings forth an interesting point :
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones wonderful thing technology, i'd have forgotten 80% of my good ideas without it.
mircea_popescu: heck, goat is still there, rpietilla is still there, one of these days the pirate character is gonna start posting again.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck are all these people without a clue involved in stuff.
mircea_popescu: "We are being blocked, even in a startup the owners can move their ownership to another investor, we can't even do that."
mircea_popescu: pankkake that'll be interesting. i guess the results are only predictable to like five people or some shit.
mircea_popescu: jborkl i don't even remember which bahamas it supposedly was.
mircea_popescu: it's clearly a fraudulent construct and will be pierced by any court, but hey.
mircea_popescu: pankkake yeah, because they want to sell more treasury stock.
mircea_popescu: any chick with nice tits has serious problems running topless.
mircea_popescu: they only took their investors down 30% or so, so far.
mircea_popescu: i'm with pankkake, they actually are one of the less scammy things on havelock.
mircea_popescu: s/laungh/launch. apparently laugh got impacted in there
mircea_popescu: deadweasel maybe they can laungh a poll so that 2013 comes before 2011 in their personal history.
mircea_popescu: more abstractly : for things to be unique it's not enough for them to be different, it's also required for that difference to be meaningful in some sort of actual system. it's not enough that a system may exist in which the difference may be meaningful. it has to be actually meaningful in an actual system.
mircea_popescu: i get that this has of late become fashionable, but it's not actually true.
mircea_popescu: wtf must you be thinking, to simply make false statements for absolutely no reason.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves> "New bitcoins are now far more likely to be spent than hoarded" << on the basis of what ?
mircea_popescu: dun worry too much, as exciting as it may seem and as fleeting it may appear for that reason, bitcoin will still be here in a decade, and so will this chan.
mircea_popescu: "mp, you must do what we say or else we'll hurt ourselves! care!"
mircea_popescu: this is actually not a bad idea. kakobrekla would it be hard for !b to also pass the link to the first line ?
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, people need their 18 bitcents or w/e to go invest it and double it or w/e it is they do, but still.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla but srsly, bet closed on 14th, guy agitates about not being paid on 14th ?
mircea_popescu: boolcrap it's a bot. it does various useful things like
mircea_popescu: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:06f4e6d6f3f39f655619c7c5064ab96dcfcb77e103c7dedbccf58e2c
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids remove this "decimals" nonsense from your head right now.
mircea_popescu: "it's 2014 and that picture quality doesn't even exist anymore" i liked that part.
mircea_popescu: perhaps some upside, he's gonna be an internet expert if it randomly happens he' sright.
mircea_popescu: no downside, if he's proven wrong it's yet another random internet guy that's wrong.