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mircea_popescu: btw, get bluematt to take off w/e links/watermarks/anything nao.
mircea_popescu: pumper answer ? "o we had an [unannounced] open beta" but srsly, we don't mean to do any harm"
mircea_popescu: lmao "galtcoin", libertyblabla, scrypt, only 1k coins (20 blocks) premined for "testing"
mircea_popescu: "Everyone that is saying that I have some kind of gambling addiction is a douche and they can go and die in hell. I have never had and I will never had a fucking gambling problem."
mircea_popescu: clearly satoshi had done that wrong, and clearly they be fixin' it.
mircea_popescu: who knew all it took was not premining. certainly all the 5464598769485 derps in the subforum there hadn't figured it out, their premine is like their holy grail
mircea_popescu: s.mpoe statement rectified (~5.4 extra btc expenses on mpex sheet)
mircea_popescu: ima give him a bitcent, cause you gotta encourage kids. give him some altcoin too neh ?
mircea_popescu: he's the one photochopping the altcoin into whatever altcoin site screencap
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's a step up from designerhell's commonplace "i can't pay you but you should do it for fun anyway".
mircea_popescu: pagefuls of retarded quotes and shit. so much win this.
mircea_popescu: i love how he's taking the entire absurdist angle up to 11
mircea_popescu: "With zero premine... I'm not criticising, just wondering how you can pay bounties?" see, you're doing it right already.
mircea_popescu: well point out to the guy it might not be the worst of ideas to store that at creation just as a convenience.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : "Two GCHQ technical experts – "Ian" and "Chris" – recorded the process on their iPhones. " <<< law enforceement never fails to unintentionally entertain part 5487649587695
mircea_popescu: anyway, yeah, you can have altcoind dump any arbitrary block
mircea_popescu: fact is, they failed to publish. who needs a sob story ?
mircea_popescu: tbh sounds morel ike guardian vying to retain relevance than anything
mircea_popescu: "A lot of people in government think you should be closed down."
mircea_popescu: yeah. soft catholic, not the anti-abortion rabble-rabble types
mircea_popescu: there's an entire subculture dedicated to this stuff (and embroidery) in romania
mircea_popescu: the 1800s called, they want their pound of flesh back.
mircea_popescu: s legal tender in payment of debts, alike by the individual states and the United States; and it will have that effect, if it is rightly interpreted and firmly enforced."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in english, "Good money must have an intrinsic value. The United States of America cannot make its shadow legal tender for debts payable in money without ultimately bringing upon their foreign commerce and their home industry a catastrophe, which will be the more overwhelming the longer the day of wrath puts off its coming. Our federal constitution was designed to end forever the emission of bills of credit a
mircea_popescu: ως τελευταία απόλαυσι τους ήχους, τα εξαίσια όργανα του μυστικού θιάσου, κι αποχαιρέτα την, την Αλεξάνδρεια που χάνεις.
mircea_popescu: Σαν έτοιμος από καιρό, σα θαρραλέος, σαν που ταιριάζει σε που αξιώθηκες μια τέτοια πόλι, πλησίασε σταθερά προς το παράθυρο, κι άκουσε με συγκίνησιν, αλλ' όχι με των δειλών τα παρακάλια και παράπονα,
mircea_popescu: Προ πάντων να μη γελασθείς, μην πείς πως ήταν ένα όνειρο, πως απατήθηκεν η ακοή σου· μάταιες ελπίδες τέτοιες μην καταδεχθείς.
mircea_popescu: Σαν έτοιμος από καιρό, σα θαρραλέος, αποχαιρέτα την, την Αλεξάνδρεια που φεύγει.
mircea_popescu: Σαν έξαφνα, ώρα μεσάνυχτ', ακουσθεί αόρατος θίασος να περνά με μουσικές εξαίσιες, με φωνές -- την τύχη σου που ενδίδει πια, τα έργα σου που απέτυχαν, τα σχέδια της ζωής σου
mircea_popescu: also, for our couple greek speaking readers : Απολείπειν ο θεός Αντώνιον.
mircea_popescu: diametric btw re the goldstein thing, grep the logs for "republic of bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: Professor Bernanke is just that - a professor. He is a specialist in a framework invented to employ specialists. Computer science is full of these research empires, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Detaching your little subfield from reality is the easiest thing in the world. Reconnecting is almost impossible. First, you'd have to admit on your grant application that you'd been studying something other than
mircea_popescu: "a country of laws, not of men" ye wanted, such a country ye now have.
mircea_popescu: "No one observing the Western governments today can fail to be struck by a massive sense of sleepwalking. There is no unified consciousness or purpose behind their actions. Each of their decisions is an atom unto itself, made through an almost ritualized process by a large number of very intelligent, talented and ambitious people, whose abilities tend to cancel each other almost perfectly, leaving nothing but a chillin
mircea_popescu: btw, you two, that guy's post is a good checklist of what to do. see if you can match all his links
mircea_popescu: it's what you get in exchange for a classics education, you can entertain yourself with any string of text.
mircea_popescu: finally, the kids got what they really wanted all along!
mircea_popescu: one of these days one of those agents shoots his comanding officer and then there you have it, you bought m's tea and cookies for him.
mircea_popescu: i am curious whether overall the value of the guy to the cia was greater than the value of the cia to the guy.
mircea_popescu: The prison had a debriefing room, where Mohammed, who saw himself as something of a professor, held "office hours," as he told CIA officers. While chained to the floor, Mohammed would lecture the CIA officers on his path to jihad, his childhood and family. Tea and cookies were served.
mircea_popescu: famous words of a guy with a degree. in Exercise and Sport Science