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mircea_popescu: "We don't trust anything anymore. Not even the banking institutions," Partcha said. "I had saved in dollars, and when the banks froze deposits in 2001, I got pesos back and lost my money."
mircea_popescu: but don't worry, i'll tell it again so it becomes funny.
mircea_popescu: "Hmm... so many chinese... where the fuck do we burry them all ?!"
mircea_popescu: at which point the local troop is taken aback and they turn around to speak among themselves
mircea_popescu: "But do you realise the great nation of Han is over a billion strong ? That the US falls over itself to do whatever we tell them to ? That we can call under arms about a quarter billion people within two weeks ?"
mircea_popescu: "Hello nice people. Did you send us a declaration of war ?!"
mircea_popescu: eventualy they discover it's a province of Romania and not even autonomous, so they tell their ambassador at Bucharest to go on a trip to Caracal and see what in the fuck.
mircea_popescu: the chinese are kind-of shocked, spend about a week trying to find large enouygh maps so this Oltenia is shiwn on them
mircea_popescu: so, one day these guys (about 2mn total) declare war to china.
mircea_popescu: there's this ethnic group in romania, living in Oltenia (the south west), called olteni. they have a reputation of being sorta hillbilly-ish.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: just because most of their city is undeveloped doesn't mean it's not a city now :D
mircea_popescu: truffles whatcha lolling at ? here's a fun fact : Slovakia : 18,933 sq miles (49,036 km²) ; LA : 33,954 sq mi (87,490 km2)
mircea_popescu: KRS1 well that may have something to do with 0 people using mtgox you know.
mircea_popescu: anyay, this has been enough excitement for one day. take care all!
mircea_popescu: they're 99% certain looking at some exchange hotwallet.
mircea_popescu: if they get the 42k value by looking at which addresses those 2 btc were spent
mircea_popescu: lol is this the nut with the "fix your harddrive spin" nonsense /
mircea_popescu: Since domains are extremely cheap to obtain with Namecoin, and registered domains cannot be seized (they can only be transferred by their owner), Namecoin has had problems with cybersquatters buying up domains, hoping to resell them later for a profi
mircea_popescu: lol there's going to be the piss-mp-off gem on the fgorum, people buying it from each other on the grounds that any day now it'll piss me off
mircea_popescu: i have more like a 6 months span on stuff that far on the periphery
mircea_popescu: a, no. it's just more recent than i've been paying attention.
mircea_popescu: otr ensures you that your messages can only be read at one point on the network, and that once the conversation is ended anyone could have written it.
mircea_popescu: the point is that if anyone needs to figure out wtf you're up to they know who to ask
mircea_popescu: well... at least i presume vexual drinks. tho it could be any number of things :D
mircea_popescu: btw herbijudlestoids do yourself a favour get in the wot today.
mircea_popescu: hey kakobrekla : it's not just slovenly, it's also slatternly!
mircea_popescu: jesus google is shitty, there's a conjunctive verbal form there, definitely can't work as a noun nor does it mean whore.
mircea_popescu: lele actually wouldn't be recognised as such. it's a disused word and most speakers would only take it as an antiquated form for older sister/girlfriend
mircea_popescu: petarda (ie, firecracker) ; zdreanta (used scrap of cloth) ; there's prolly 100+
mircea_popescu: fun fact : parasuta is, in romanian, yet another word for whore.
mircea_popescu: btc is in fact the missing piece in the ancient problem of bootstrapping everything of this sort.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> in fact, now that i think of it, btc is the missing puzzle piece in the ancient problem of bootstrapping a global radio mesh. << /me grins
mircea_popescu: admitting you agree the parachute moment was at the latest nixon
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the one critique i have to this is that should it be invented afore, it'll then necessarily be known afore. this is perhaps unideal. bitcoin was invented before or after ? does it work because it was invented after ? would it have, were it invented before ?
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids you found your way to where i used that same sharpie to rape something awful ?
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic i'll just publish the thing when we're done
mircea_popescu: maddoff's balancesheet, before the collapse, showed some assets.
mircea_popescu: can you prove to me the entire troop of us hedge funds aren't little maddofs running around, shielded by "industry standards" ?
mircea_popescu: a cluelessness about the real value of assets, which may as well mean "buying US stocks" as it may mean "moving money from our account to our account"
mircea_popescu: well... what exactly is this misrepresentation ? what is its substance ?