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mircea_popescu: uyou ever seen a nonservice coming out of the us webservice-entrepreneurs dog and pony show that wasn't a. very banal and b. presented as the new wheel ?
mircea_popescu: twist : queen liz is one of the more famous female criminals of the prev century.
mircea_popescu: "QUEEN LIZ is a company with private capital, founded in Constanta, Romania in 1996, having as main activity recruitment and placement of personnel according with Romanian laws."
mircea_popescu: "Win a USD5000 Casino Holiday to Monaco" i'm like wut, 4 btc ? gtfo. make better prizes.
mircea_popescu: that moment when you transfer a btc to namecheap and can now afford to renew like a hundred domains.
mircea_popescu: working with nefario to invent the exchange of the future.
mircea_popescu: you ended up on the list there by virtue of being in the thread
mircea_popescu: put that together with a no-backsies medium and you're definitely attracting sharks.
mircea_popescu: and that they don't need to think or do any useful work or manage their own lives or contribute anything worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: benkay has a point, but the matter is significantly complicated by a large enough population of functionally illiterate people who've been fed for decades on the illusion that someone else is there to protect them
mircea_popescu: the truth of the matter is, scams are nearly magical, in that they manage to take in people seemingly irrespective of iq etc.
mircea_popescu: by now it's almost worth it to pay for php developers simply to give me trilema article material which then gets me trilema credits which are btc
mircea_popescu: benkay i distinctly recall a diff will grow 20% or more each week bet on bitbet.
mircea_popescu: where parties to the controversy also had to deliberately submit to judgement and advance bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: this is incidentally not so different from the core principles of the rota system,
mircea_popescu: (the constant, leave proof in comments thing, for instance)
mircea_popescu: i've quite deliberately constructed it so a lot of triage of facts can be easily done by the users
mircea_popescu: as the future eventualyl turns into past, what bitbet has to do and what the courts have to do are homomorphic : establish what the words say, what the facts are and how the two relate.
mircea_popescu: a suit steams from a controversy in fact, anchored in the past.
mircea_popescu: a bet is a controversy in fact, anchored in the future.
mircea_popescu: well this is yet another point where bitbet design shines. we don't ever have thios problem
mircea_popescu: yeah, i'm thinking... it's probably the case that at least half trhe addresses are lost etc. why send btc there ? just stop paying altogether, it's for the good of Bitcoin! </sarcasm>
mircea_popescu: i took it to be a sly reference at all the non-statements ppl make on the forum
mircea_popescu: lol this just in, courtesy of concerned investor "i must say, your statement suffers from a lack of comments about your inability to say things and the desire you feel to redeem yourself at a future date"
mircea_popescu: and atm there's no options listed because as announced im going to cut a digit.
mircea_popescu: benkay that's incidental tho, it stopped quoting because bitcoincharts went kinda awol.
mircea_popescu: whoa look at that, mpoe profit is branded by the beast.
mircea_popescu: "plz ilegallty share my medical records, it makes me 1.5k per item"
mircea_popescu: i suppose the future of medicine is having doctors sign contracts where if your information leaks they're held in strict liability.
mircea_popescu: the Anon Derp will go "hey guyse here's this new original wheel I invented all by myself in my garret!"
mircea_popescu: when we take over there's going to be a grand bronze statue of The Anonymous Derp in Bitcoin Plaza
mircea_popescu: There are two main difficulties: first, how can a pair of anonymous participants trade shares without a trusted party to facilitate the transaction?
mircea_popescu: "We showed that this is not the case, that there are infinitely many outcomes that are stable yet differ from the written rules of Bitcoin."
mircea_popescu: lol the guy "build an understanding of the political economy" w/o ever showing up on bitcoin-assets ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the french were quite routed after trafalgar and waterloo.
mircea_popescu: what's come to be known as "colonialism" is the key ingredient to civilisation.
mircea_popescu: nah, it's not outside threat, it's a certain worldview. one that deliberately opresses stupidity.
mircea_popescu: the unthreatened mongols organised pretty much central asia's most complex empire.
mircea_popescu: scared tyrants aren't particularly dangerous. it's the tyrants that perceive themselves safe, a la stalin or the voting public in france/us/sweden/etc that are dangerous.
mircea_popescu: jurov` well, it may or may not improve skills, but it does incentivize the right way at least.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the politician is unimportant. compare the sovereigns. elector vs tyrant.
mircea_popescu: no, i really beleive it's not the same thing. the despot is perpetually at danger for hius life.
mircea_popescu: the voter faces no such challenge (and in fact the only funds diverted from filing canyons with crumpled cars go to ensure elector never faces any inconvenience)