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mircea_popescu: shouldn't happen again, at least not in exactly the same way.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it wasn't an attack of any sort or even related to outside influence. it was a problem stemming from the too stringent checking imposed on proxy synchronization after the last adventure, which in an edge case put everything in a paranoid state.
mircea_popescu: i would imagine they see them in the log or don't care or something tailored to personal taste
mircea_popescu: to be honest irc is the best news channel i've ever seen
mircea_popescu: even if you know why and what happened, or at any rate think so.
mircea_popescu: sorry for teh delay. the problem with this sort of shit is once the slightest not-working-as-expected thing pops swaths of things have to now be checked
mircea_popescu: jurov nah, go relax, by the time you're back everything should be fine.
mircea_popescu: today on tap, "postpartum and parenteral gangbang, dual penetration and bukkakke. come one, come all!"
mircea_popescu: i don't think they're doing anything bad, and heck, bitcoin can benefit from the attention of more people with financial expertise
mircea_popescu: lest some bright young mind reads the log and gets confused.
mircea_popescu: also, re the earlier discussion : sm is a marketplace for illiquid assets. it's not that it just magically gets past the hoops winklevoss have to jump through, it's a very specific thing
mircea_popescu: the girl accused him of insider dealing, he swore he didn't have a clue wtf nefario was doing
mircea_popescu: anyway, you're too new to know, but the way glbse croaked was like this : theymos announced a private sale of his glbse stock (+ some aussie scammer's)
mircea_popescu: earlier about his promiting pirate, earluier about his glbse stock dealings,
mircea_popescu: at some point they were incensed about his reading pms on the forum, earlier about his poor manageemnt of forum donations,
mircea_popescu: well, better question would be "why this time" i think
mircea_popescu: (also, fb IS a motherfucking scam. not at all in the same sense, of course)
mircea_popescu: o, people love to challenge me. because i'm such a snotty asshole see ?
mircea_popescu: in fact, i did *the exact same thing* about bitcoin, it took commebnters on my blog ~3 months to get me to look again
mircea_popescu: Kleeck_ i do that all the motherfucking time. i am fortunate to have people who love/hate me enough to insist on the topic.
mircea_popescu: i guess judging by the site is a superficial approach to life.
mircea_popescu: well what can i tell you. yes silbert is well known, no we've not talked, yes that fund looks dubious to me.
mircea_popescu: seems to me it's some random item on their platform anyone could have created, much like the other "open platforms" of the sort
mircea_popescu: well that's where it gets complicated. give an actual example.
mircea_popescu: no, see, this is the problem. you don;'t start by believing what you read is true,
mircea_popescu: and as far as to the "were traded there" : i can put up a website tomorrow which claims to be trading your mom. this does not imply anything about the actual lady's probity.
mircea_popescu: so yeah. now you know kinda how the mental process goes.
mircea_popescu: and what are all those llcs being held by incs i never heard about.
mircea_popescu: but instead find a sales pitch intended for people with a financial iq corresponding to about the age of 15 ?
mircea_popescu: no, i have specific things in mind. for instance, how come i can't find a name ion the about us page,
mircea_popescu: also it looks scammy as all fuck, what the hell is that ?
mircea_popescu: i don't recall on the spot. what would this be about ?
mircea_popescu: VanCleef you know, for a site that nobody uses i'm always surprised to see public channels notice any hickup a minute before or a minute after the tech people whose job it is.
mircea_popescu: can anybody do anything on mpex yet? i see trades on assbot, but nobody here seems to be able to talk to it (including me)? << atm proxies are dumping most of the input because they can't agree its valid
mircea_popescu: anyway, im sure the twitter in question is being run by some teen having fun, otherwise unrelated to anything
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back at the ranch, "Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website"