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mircea_popescu: come to think about it, vexual should be altcoin mascot.
mircea_popescu: i tell you, i've had so much fun with this thread these days...
mircea_popescu: specifically to avoid the female "shit on your baby" reflex.
mircea_popescu: some scams are fun. you go to vegas and drop a coupla grand, whatever, it's an amusement park.
mircea_popescu: well, my next question was, ever been with a hooker you didn't mind paying.
mircea_popescu: scammer - scammor. to distinguish between the fucktard and the person sort-of doing it, technically, but with coolness excuses.
mircea_popescu: i suppose when people localise shit how it sounds in english is not a consideration.
mircea_popescu: my magical future predictive ai (whose name is joan) fails to predict any possible alternative to this thing taking over altspace.
mircea_popescu: does that actually require any chances on the coin side ?
mircea_popescu: actually... perversely enough that bet depends on there not being a lot of power thrown in early.
mircea_popescu: it's best showing on the battlefiled for a long... long time.
mircea_popescu: pizzaman1337 you know! nobody goes "mercedes srsly sold 50 cars in 2014 ?! ?!?!"
mircea_popescu: perhaps a very tall, slender student perfectly capable to suck a golfball through a garden hose.
mircea_popescu: hm... that's possible. the alternate crackpottery, of course, being that his actual work is still classified
mircea_popescu: actually, if there's any merit in the theory of history repeating itself, we could guess that the largest bubble for the next ~3 centuries will be the result of a RoB corporation being granted the priviledge to trade one ships' worth of drugs in the us as a result of a defeatr of the us in battle.
mircea_popescu: spain at the time was roughly the us of today : immense empire run by idiots, access to all the gold in the world that did them no service etc etc.
mircea_popescu: it wouldn't even have to go that far. just, you know... england beat spain into the dirt by using privateers.
mircea_popescu: it strictly won by exploiting badly written rules, neh ?
mircea_popescu: (kind of the reason nobody seriously believes the us has any real chance in any serious military confrontation)
mircea_popescu: tho to be honest... it's success had more to do with bureaucratic idiocy
mircea_popescu: is this the expert system that blew the usnavy staff outof water ?
mircea_popescu: well it just goes to show i don't realy master that space :)
mircea_popescu: "You really are a fucking idiot and have no idea what you are talking about. The project I am working on will be more successful than twitter within a year. When I sell the project for 40 million dollars I will ignore any emails from you begging to be a part of it and will send you a postcard from my yaght."
mircea_popescu: typical "we will fix this" government approach resulting in shooting own foot
mircea_popescu: but which in fact simply make solo mining even less feasible.
mircea_popescu: which he intended to make simple more-power equations unreliable
mircea_popescu: anyway, cga stands for anomaly w/e the fuck. the guy's idea is that the block reward for solved blocks is 0 unless some extended-modulo conditions of difficulty are met.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that was afaik the best thing ai experts ever came up with.
mircea_popescu: thermos is now taking goat's coin ? how much difference does a year make when you're 25, i swear.