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mircea_popescu: seems to me 9.983 mn in gold would be a wee bit more than that coin's weight
mircea_popescu: it's more akin to exchanging underwear/chastity vows/whatever other amorous practices
mircea_popescu: outside of bored teenagers behind the bleachers type of situation
mircea_popescu: talk to pankkake, i think they give them a copy with their passport.
mircea_popescu: truffles i'd rather re-read voltaire than re-read forum idiocy nominally "new" and written by some "new" guy but factually the exactly same rehash
mircea_popescu: steer clear of all the puritan bawdlerizations of all of these, that's like millitant illiteracy
mircea_popescu: and you know, cervantes, but not some retarded abridged version
mircea_popescu: it's actually what created the expectation of "timelessness" in art.
mircea_popescu: sophocles is perhaps a little hermetic if you don't understand the context
mircea_popescu: you're illiterate, basically. like it or not it's what it is.
mircea_popescu: well that's what i mean when i write about "teaching people to read and write and nothing else"
mircea_popescu: these dudes were writing post-meta-deconstructivist works on the bitcointalk scams cca 1500
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 yes well you won't get too far in life w/o rabelais and boccaccio etc
mircea_popescu: plenty of good ideas, but you're telling me some people live inside a fake-gravity spinning straw ? it's ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: take... i dunno, take clarke's thing with the rotating space straw.
mircea_popescu: moreover, i understand a lot more science than whatever rules fantasy.
mircea_popescu: and with it, you know. most of strabo, shakespeare, everyone writing before the industrial revolution is writing stuff indistinguishable from fantasy.
mircea_popescu: nah, fantasy has the advantage it's much, much older. stuff like gargantua y pantagruel counts in my eyes.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 notrly. they don't do nearly enough sex to make the cut as a rule.
mircea_popescu: as in your ripples could as well be shares as anything else
mircea_popescu: fantasy is pulp that knows it's pulp. sci-fi is pulp with a pretense. i never like that much.
mircea_popescu: there's no big deal signing in when needed. that's how i do it at any rate, nickserv is good enough for just casual chat
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 kinda it. there still is the bitcoin eve guild, but fuck me if i can be bothered with eve, i'd rather supervise excel monkeys
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 the main town is pretty much a constant spam of "send us monez we send back monez"
mircea_popescu: ". The world in general and bitcoin in particular are all stocked up on vague allusions to anticipated greatness."
mircea_popescu: apparently my mistake was thinking the mobsters can spell.
mircea_popescu: given the nature of hashing these can only be extrapolated into a hash estimate, which may vary arbitrarily much from the real value
mircea_popescu: Neil afaik that site/article is 1-2 years out of date throughout
mircea_popescu: decimation the argument could be brought that all loss of a bitcoin wallet is intentional.
mircea_popescu: prolly the sort of thing i deserve for my hybric nature.
mircea_popescu: maybe some dork manages to send a donation bet for whatever, 5k btc
mircea_popescu: srsly, if there's a sudden gulp and it looks like no have the upper hand...
mircea_popescu: decimation yes, but not against "i accidentally flushed it down the toilet" scenarios
mircea_popescu: yes well just because we found a black swan is no reason to go looking for black lions.
mircea_popescu: or a dumbass and his website, or a website and its dumbass or however this works.
mircea_popescu: KRS1 "yet another tranny thinking he's a woman / guy with dreamweaver thinking he's a coder / guy with a student loan thinking he's a financier making some dumbass social platform tht won't go anywhere and he won't stop talking about"
mircea_popescu: so we got 2bn end of jan, 5.6 bn end of march, 14bn july 14th