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mircea_popescu: course there are those less fortunate who rarely get such a chance, but you're basically arguing that they should be opressed moar just to keep it up.
mircea_popescu: people enjoy reading, because people enjoy not being americans every chance they get.
mircea_popescu: truffles what's with this arrogand, offensive anti-intellectualism ?
mircea_popescu: and so got trampled underfoot by those with better meteoric exposure.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding their astounding other accomplishments,
mircea_popescu: most populations were unable to acquire a few pounds of iron,
mircea_popescu: decimation there's no requirement that fuel availability and mechanical complexity relate in any particular proportion.
mircea_popescu: because clearly she forced you through your lack of other options.
mircea_popescu: problem with this approach is that if you follow it you'll end up filing rape charges against the only woman that'd have you
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah well, i've been saying this to everyone's exhaustion for the past coupla years or w/e.
mircea_popescu: as there's only 20 years between the two wars, and plenty of locales changed hands multiple times... it happens.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's nothing, plenty of old women around the balkans shed 5-6-7 nationalities
mircea_popescu: o, you figure cause southerners weren't protestant enough ?
mircea_popescu: in the 1800s the us was a bit player, fighting with mexico over the silver export to china
mircea_popescu: this didn't always and didn't necessarily result in a default
mircea_popescu: even in practice, in the 1800s multiple governments owed more gold than was actually available in the world at the time
mircea_popescu: just as long as the promise isn't to pay in specie and in one go, it still can stand.
mircea_popescu: decimation that's a subset of "how can public companies be worth more than 20mn btc. they can."
mircea_popescu: much in the way what law and the courts are will change and so on
mircea_popescu: much in the way what tax means and what taxation entails will change,
mircea_popescu: what property means and what remedies for theft are will change.
mircea_popescu: the moral here is that willy-nilly bitcoin will bring about deep and far reaching changes in human society, culture and mentality.
mircea_popescu: old txn past the checkpoint may get pruned eventually.
mircea_popescu: completely indistinguishable from any address this guy'd make
mircea_popescu: it can say whatever the hell it wants. every time you make a payment a fraction is sent to a wholly new address
mircea_popescu: there's no benefit in using some "organic" address. nor does this actually exist.
mircea_popescu: yes, which only means it has the checksum and starts with 1
mircea_popescu: i can send you a bitcoin whether you wish to accept it or not, and whether you know or not
mircea_popescu: but it would be stil lequally easy to deny that it's your transaction.
mircea_popescu: decimation even so, once an address is out it is public.
mircea_popescu: it's what it likes to do. fiat runs and bitcoin rests.
mircea_popescu: moreover, there's no good reason to presume this is not happening at any point, nor particularly easy or even possible to prove so.
mircea_popescu: you could get fucked by some guy who thinks he saw you fucking his wife.
mircea_popescu: in which case we're back to your problems being widely abusable power, which is not a bitcoin thing.
mircea_popescu: and so i have to judge this situation where you say coinbullion googled your name and used it to cover their theft
mircea_popescu: address A sends back to mtgox for credit ? the same bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's go through this. mtgox wallet is emptied to address A.
mircea_popescu: so what if google search turns up whatever ? i can make google show up a shaved baboon when you google for nubbins
mircea_popescu: run me through a scenario where you actually identify such a "direct trade"
mircea_popescu: for that matter, discovering that your wallet directly traded with anyone is an exercise in impossibility.
mircea_popescu: if you spend time in a smoky room "you might have problems one day"
mircea_popescu: this actually works as an argument. bitcoin needs no assaying, which makes it more fungible than something that does.
mircea_popescu: all those series on bars and so forth, they're kinda there to limit fungibility
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bitcoins are more fungible than gold ever was, in practice.
mircea_popescu: "It sounds like you need a few slaps in the face to get in touch with society."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform all coins are and will remain equal. this is the concept known as fungibility.
mircea_popescu: "o you sent fiddy altcoins extra ? allow me to edit all the previous scamscreams!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is what "the community" didn't belive pirate's hash exchange was for.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, "Hi I am a 25 years old Italian boy. I entered the bitcoin about one year ago, so I am not so noob even if not expert."