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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 ?
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids let's examine the following avenue : maddoff's "investments" collapsed like so much termite eaten furniture.
mircea_popescu: the fact that andressen horovitz is not in the wot today dooms it.
mircea_popescu: should have started earlier, but there was still space.
mircea_popescu: if back in april wanna-be investors had actually invested, the us still had a chance.
mircea_popescu: there's options you have, and then there's options you actually can take.
mircea_popescu: now, people do have options. it's just they won't take them.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids the article was discussing investors, you know ?
mircea_popescu: well, i dun know what you think, obviously. im merely noticing that what you say comes from this one point of view.
mircea_popescu: technically it is still possible, but in retrospect it'
mircea_popescu: you're trapped in this mental representation wherein stuff can only happen with permission. this is not how things happen. your choice is whether you're on the boat when it sails or not.
mircea_popescu: “The Bitcoin ecosystem of companies and investors has to engage to allay real concerns and avoid being pigeonholed by policy makers,” Klein said.
mircea_popescu: "This is possibly the last chance to take those piles of fundamentally worthless US dollars and use them for something with any sort of future value."
mircea_popescu: etition at this level. If things don’t get fixed soon the only thing that we’ll be able to say for sure about Bitcoin regulation will be that it won’t be written in English, and it won’t consider US interests or sensibilities."
mircea_popescu: "Nobody will care that the original paper may have been written by an American and the original discussion on the long forgotten original Bitcoin forum was carried in English. I can deal just as well with Russian investors, I can deal just as well with Chinese investors, Bitcoin is completely neutral from a cultural perspective. This neutrality means that cultures will have to compete. So far the US is losing this comp
mircea_popescu: “If that same company can be started in the U.K. or Germany, maybe that innovation just gets pushed offshore,” Liew said.
mircea_popescu: i guess with the extra "watch us fail" boost 10k may even be possible
mircea_popescu: bitcoin was taken to $10 by lulz, to $100 by lulz and drama and to $1000 by lulz, drama and mining.
mircea_popescu: it's funny tho, making exactly the wrong moves. you couldn't pay them to be this conveniently stupid.
mircea_popescu: “If the choice for regulators is to permit money laundering on the one hand, or to permit innovation on the other, we are always going to choose squelching the money laundering first,” Lawsky said at the hearing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the mark of the true junkie : he keeps a stable of dealers, rather than the other way around
mircea_popescu: be so kind not to modify my statements by your discussions with third parties eh :D
mircea_popescu: doesn't mean it's bad. just means it's much better at other things.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids i merely said that out of the various functions, that happens to be the one it does worst.
mircea_popescu: much like... no 1800s woman on her knees polishing the floors is much represented in the modern vacuum cleanner.
mircea_popescu: but btc will dictate how these look and how they work and how they feel and even what retail is.
mircea_popescu: you're going to have stuff built on top of btc to handle the subsidiary and marginal task of retail.
mircea_popescu: has electricity replaced female labour in the house or hasn't it ?
mircea_popescu: i have no idea. there's like 7k or so full nodes iirc.