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mircea_popescu: what's this, infantry engagement ? spying is about information not killing people
mircea_popescu: the yurpeans are romantics, they've not killed a spy since forever.
mircea_popescu: im telling you, a lot has changed in the past ~6 months, and a lot in tjhe past 6 days.
mircea_popescu: why, even last year the us could get away with kidnapping the future president of france.
mircea_popescu: except in this field the eu has more money and more human capital.
mircea_popescu: actually there's some talk of the eu making its own sigint and ditching nato
mircea_popescu: and no, the recent spying scandals have cost the us in europe more than what clinton has managed to build.
mircea_popescu: i mean... that in bitcoin crazy lalaland people like that scam whose name escapes me now take pride in 80% return rates is onme thing. but mainstream ? just wow.
mircea_popescu: you mean the borrowed shirts they currently wear ? or what "their" ?
mircea_popescu: measure has its downsides, definitely. also kind of unavoidable.
mircea_popescu: you mean nobody cares about yet another group of posers ?! but who could have imagiend this!
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares anyway, not like that cryptowhatever is doing anything
mircea_popescu: i don't think you;'re getting banned here for expliciting it.
mircea_popescu: obviously it'd be the forum administration deleting old smoking gun posts, not kakobrekla
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic it's a joke, kakobrekla was complaining above he got banned for reposting deleted posts.
mircea_popescu: kleeck yeah, totally, bric needs more reasons to move away from usd. the chinese also summoned the us ambasador in paris, i bet.
mircea_popescu: provided kakobrekla didn't delete all the posts meanwhile, of course.
mircea_popescu: the deal got altered after the ipo so as to vacuum most value from the supposed "investors"
mircea_popescu: well basically the guy made an ipo of his own site, which included a hefty licensing fee to be paid to himself
mircea_popescu: samson_ you know tjhe story of the fraudulent ipo of cryptostocks itself righ ?
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> adis99: I'm kind of wondering why they allowed such a puny bet to be protected from market forces. << mod just forgot private bets need 10btc in zeroconf.
mircea_popescu: godaddy domain Registered OnMarch 30, 2013. so it has to be.
mircea_popescu: "The FBI has not made a single official comment via any of their press channels. The FBI media relations team has updated nearly every day before" ahahah forum mentality, i think the government is a scam because it hasn't posted in the thread for a week!!1
mircea_popescu: anyway, the "wrong guy" suspicions aren't entirely without merit, even if reddit makes a typically redditarded soup out of it.
mircea_popescu: "The mouth which comes from this photo is one shameful mistake." whay ?!
mircea_popescu: funny how the dork mind works. "i can't do shit therefore shit can't be done stop lying to me!!11"
mircea_popescu: What was even more interesting, was that the notice used a high quality logo unable to be found by anyone else despite an hour of searching, until a random user popped in and said “I found it in 2 minutes by using Google.“ No, you did not. I spent 30 minutes staring at Google images, and I found nothing.
mircea_popescu: unless, of course, it came as a cardano. in which case it COULD be a bearer instrument
mircea_popescu: of course it could not really be made into a real bearer bond...
mircea_popescu: there had been a natl debt since there was a nation. everywhere.
mircea_popescu: gecko_gs2 no, actually, it weas much earlier. the 1711 south sea bubble was a mostly failed attempt to finance the english natl debt with paper.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im pretty sure it was a sa op and got neatly closed.
mircea_popescu: mod6 honestly, all finn chicks i ever met were pretty hot and kinda slutty
mircea_popescu: anyway, the notion of putting a bank uphill is silly... all the customers'd get tired hauling all the gold
mircea_popescu: but you know, some proposed reason doersn't become true just because it contradicts the common answer.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck it actually was, it's close enough to the thames.
mircea_popescu: gecko_gs2 you ever been in the old bank of england building ?
mircea_popescu: so what's the alternative etymology fior bankruptcy then ?
mircea_popescu: no dood. banca yielded banque in french, and either or both of these yielded bank in english
mircea_popescu: dub same root as bankruptcy, italian (lombard) middle ages.
mircea_popescu: gecko_gs2 for the record, schneier was like 17 in 1980.
mircea_popescu: lol you're special. people were complaining he ate their comments earlier.
mircea_popescu: mod6 how's urbit these days btw ? you been keeping any track ?
mircea_popescu: so good news : asciilifeform has fixed phuctor. it works about a degree of magnitude faster now. basicvally no keys are waiting anymore.