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mircea_popescu: you may find decent elec engineers on the cheap, but i doubt they'd have much practice fixing stuff. tinkering on their own more like it.
mircea_popescu: i have the world's best roast in the ovben and it is KILLING ME
mircea_popescu: god forbid they start making a living at it, it'll be the death of os.
mircea_popescu: it's bad enough with fucktards a la maxwell or hearn hanging on to the thing just for the "fame"
mircea_popescu: pankkake tips are exactly the wrong thing in that they would split the community into two types, the actual devs and the people who make a living pretending to be devs.
mircea_popescu: ironically, the spurious "tip" service generated less for torvalds than the strippers left on the table in the earlier linkd material
mircea_popescu: that's ridoinculous, torvalds never was "at the table"
mircea_popescu: in either case sooner or later would-be preditors will learn the hard way messing with bitcoin is not unlike trying to lick a porcupine to death.
mircea_popescu: in spite of all the success pretense, doubtful he has either the gumption or the resources,
mircea_popescu: ironically, he could do a lot of damage arguing the case to all hell.
mircea_popescu: what makes you think that's on the table ? it'd be more embarassing to the da than not making the arrest in hte first place.
mircea_popescu: well doh. plead guilty to a 5 year tops first offense you get out in six months.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla is there some way to see conversations on twitter ?
mircea_popescu: that country is still governable strictly because most of the population doesn't know how shitty its life is as compared to poor people in the third world.
mircea_popescu: giving us citizens more reasons to travel abroad isn't such a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> i wonder if btc will end up like weed in the us << there is no actual way to make bitcoin illegal. think about it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo mike_c benkay & the rest of the blogging crowd : you gonna trasncribe this ?
mircea_popescu: have about as much of a clue as these dudes explaining bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: that awkward moment when you realise people trying to teach you EVERYTHING, such as for instance, physics, or how to cook
mircea_popescu: lots of girls with three fingers around, i guess, but hey.
mircea_popescu: i blame pestalozzi, personally. if every nine year old girl was given the choice of losing a finger a week or learning math like a pro we wouldn't have these problems
mircea_popescu: people are mostly so smart they end up doing it to themselves.
mircea_popescu: once i offered it for shoving things in painful places... takers, suddenly.
mircea_popescu: see, that i posit is not my fault, but the resistance of the medium. i tried to give strippers 1 btc for free. they wouldn't take it.
mircea_popescu: why do people more readily spend on art to be assholes than to be pleasant ?
mircea_popescu: blockchain stores all their secret homeporn for all eternity
mircea_popescu: actually, all the hollywood strumpets could band together
mircea_popescu: cuatls, really. but it needs more cute in the spelling
mircea_popescu: perhaps teh mouth-breathers have a point. get her into d/s asap.
mircea_popescu: one day the girl will read these logs and think you're such a smug asshole!!1
mircea_popescu: to me it looks like forum investors being... serviced.
mircea_popescu: noob writer's mistake, really. but it does make all sorts of marginals usable as journo replacement, so.
mircea_popescu: conceivably forbes wanted to say that you can't short bitcoin as a support for "it's a bubble" or w/e "editorial policy" they had