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mircea_popescu: the chinese have the working brains to figure this out on their own tho
mircea_popescu: truth is things are overheating, but we still have some leeway.
mircea_popescu: shit i've been yakking about since i dunno, a year ago or w/e.
mircea_popescu: anyway, on the positive side, the plaintive story of the guy out however many bitcoins over not including tx fees will perhaps inspire all the noobs to set their tx fee > 0 like... NOW
mircea_popescu: basic stuff like "don't blow your entire wad on the first thing you fall upon without having tried to figure it out first"
mircea_popescu: consumers. bitcoin will bust a large number of butts before people get used to how things work irl.
mircea_popescu: i like people who learned about bitcoin once it passed 500 or w/e telling what the network is all about
mircea_popescu: jurov no, i'll just push it down just to be an asshole.
mircea_popescu: who was it, patton ? "we don't fight the war we'd like with the weapons we'd want, we fight the war what is with whatever we've got"
mircea_popescu: the last one they won, they were woefully unequipped to win.
mircea_popescu: how equipped one is has little bearing. the us "soldiers" are splendidly equipped to win any war
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that'd seem to be a counterargument to your terrarium argument.
mircea_popescu: most of the persians that went to battle the greeks also were woefully unequipped to fight nutty spartans
mircea_popescu: i thought it came out quite plainly between the lines.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the secret nobody wants to share is that the price for a shot at the entire rich busienss is your life.
mircea_popescu: somebody needs to write a markov chain script to talk to vexual.
mircea_popescu: if i knew how to make people through blog posts i would do it.
mircea_popescu: i can write out how a rock falls, and that will help you aim your cannon
mircea_popescu: but see, this is a script. scripts differ from reality in that they're correct.
mircea_popescu: they figure all the thirld world moving in will perhaps maintain the state once they're all fed clothed and educated.
mircea_popescu: pankkake amusingly, that's the one thing the us govt is currently putting all the piggibank on
mircea_popescu: pankkake chin in romanian means torture. so the chin-ium they got.
mircea_popescu: of course, "our innovative economy will adapt and invent"
mircea_popescu: well you're one of the mommentum types, those never end up rich.
mircea_popescu: if you have more of your wealth in btc than you wish for, there is. different people.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder if you have a lot of fioat and little btc there isn't.
mircea_popescu: yes, not in the last two hours. because that's how life works, two hours at a time omg.
mircea_popescu: i would hope you'd have noticed where reality diverges from personal bias.
mircea_popescu: amusingly the rally had absolutely nothing to do with the us senate.
mircea_popescu: attention whoring only takes teh doods so far, what can i say.
mircea_popescu: there's a year old post on bitcointalk in which mpoe-pr tells hearn he's scum
mircea_popescu: why can't he advertise like a sane dude and generally behave like a normal person
mircea_popescu: well so why all the retarded litecoin shilling and general butthurt.
mircea_popescu: i vaguelly recal a litecoinlocal reference in there somwehre
mircea_popescu: i guess i should have bought ltc when teh guy said. now i've been totally left out of the cool kids club.
mircea_popescu: pankkake there is probably a market for a zero fees exchange where people can eat each other's cow shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform confirmed, there's at least one place in dear deustchland.
mircea_popescu: there's also a market for having sex with sick underage prostitutes.
mircea_popescu: are we in this position where there's more play exchanges than dollars to the bitcoin ?