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mircea_popescu: i've never ever used because i'm nuts, not because it's patently useless.
mircea_popescu: if it's a case of "shut up or we're building our own nuclear subs" then maybe.
mircea_popescu: Confirmed total: 10,009 BTC << BitBet over 10k BTC bet.
mircea_popescu: check it out, basically this is goinna happen on xmas eve
mircea_popescu: and then there's the days like today, when i no longer comprehend what the distinction between those two wishes is
mircea_popescu: some other days i just wish fewer idiots cluttered about under the delusion they're involved in bitcoin
mircea_popescu: some days i wish more smart people were involved in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they can't take walk-ins. it'd make the chinese's job too easy
mircea_popescu: she doesn't, but if they didn't believe that they couldn't put up with their life.
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's like the ingrained belief of cuckolded husbands that their mistress has a really sexy cunt.
mircea_popescu: this change has been much too rapid and smooth to leave any room for hope said rats are actually equipped with brains too
mircea_popescu: the random idiot with delusions of knowledge populating the various social media outlets has switched from "tptb will kill bitcoin", a la goldbug's bs
mircea_popescu: "This whole fucking thing has been embraced way to quickly and smoothly by TPTB for there to be a coincidence, folks."
mircea_popescu: it's like truffles is a repository of all the wrong notions.
mircea_popescu: it looks like it was written by someone with such competence very security.
mircea_popescu: window.onload = (typeof window.onload != 'function') ? loadChartbeat : function() { oldonload(); loadChartbeat(); };
mircea_popescu: all humor is nerd humor. just different types of nerds.
mircea_popescu: if we stoped to consider what people consider funny there'd be no humor at all.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you should hire a sloven girl to do the moderation there
mircea_popescu: captcha should probably be "name the last woman that gave you a fair lay"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla> because you only need to prove you are smart once << win
mircea_popescu: this is how you know you're top dog, noobs come to abuse your open comments to spamvertise their shit.
mircea_popescu: for the benefit of "i can write a website too!" crowd : this is the result of removing about 14 different bias sources
mircea_popescu: i daresay this is the best 2,5mb random sample i ever did see
mircea_popescu: Monte Carlo value for Pi is 3.141602161 ; Serial correlation coefficient is 0.000435
mircea_popescu: so in the most recent rng tests for the cardano we now see Entropy = 7.999926 bits per byte.
mircea_popescu: (which is why the us army has been evolving towards smaller and smaller units as the quality of recruits sunk)
mircea_popescu: an army however is about the weakest not the strongest link
mircea_popescu: so it's not really practical, from a strategic perspective. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: a trained man with a sword is a better asset in close quarters than dudes with guns
mircea_popescu: ic exactions to the increase of their private fortunes and made the tax indictions their opportunity for plunder?"
mircea_popescu: " So you find men passing over everywhere, now to the Goths, now to the Bagaudae, or whatever other barbarians have established their power anywhere ... We call those men rebels and utterly abandoned, whom we ourselves have forced into crime. For by what other causes were they made Bagaudae save by our unjust acts, the wicked decisions of the magistrates, the proscription and extortion of those who have turned the publ
mircea_popescu: "Although these men differ in customs and language from those with whom they have taken refuge, and are unaccustomed too, if I may say so, to the nauseous odor of the bodies and clothing of the barbarians, yet they prefer the strange life they find there to the injustice rife among the Romans."
mircea_popescu: ha, since i was going through old tomes, look what a gem i found :
mircea_popescu: the20year he has a point tho, in the sense of brass casingsd are reusable for a finite number of shots.
mircea_popescu: you can mix your own powder and make your own bullets just fine