mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-01-23#1382256 << ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-27#1491353 << can be had by the 100s for 100s. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-29#1492644 << amusingly, judging by the comment count on the official announcement of the latest blunder ("for best results running our fix for the attack - please don't run it at all!"), even 1k total seems exaggerated. ethereum is dead as disco, will take at least 6 months to re-inflate. prolly more like 18. and i somehow doubt the "many years spanned by experience in experience" people have t ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492472 << to truly round up yesterday's derp list, one has to mention the dejavu "security" team (aptly named, seriously, we've seen this nonsense more than enough times before from the sort of posturing idiots without a wot presence) : akshay aggarwal, "a passionate entrepreneur", adam cecchetti, "ceo", michael eddington, "cto", see https://archive.is/JqJos ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-29#1492599 << - >> http://btcbase.org/log/2015-05-15#1132722 ☝︎☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-29#1492583 << actually that happened in the 90s. all the jam tomorrow "web as a business" "venture capital" bs is exactly that - pivoting to try and survive the situation where consumers don't have money. pretend data is valuable and someone cares, pretend advertising is a business, get people to "invest" in this nonsense, it's a thing. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-29#1492578 << not so much nonsense. currency has a major future-looking function. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://qntra.net/2016/06/how-the-tor-project-pays-and-pays-cia-agents-from-their-usg-navy-coffers/#comment-62660 << check it out, qntra worthy of its own pinoy dept nao ? who could have predicted!

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492457 << so basically, as part of its ongoing cold war against insufficiently-pliable torvalds, the usg through its usg.twitter agency... repurposed what it claims to be "linus' account", ie, a voodoo doll they made for him. and this somehow is supposed to reflect on the man ? why, because we're all from the great nation of africa and ergo fucktarded in the brain ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492429 << the link is quite germane. even as late as 1800 romanian popular geography included "muscali cu coada", literally, moscow people had tails, like a cat. ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492406 << hm ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492398 << see also alt spellyng, hussy-arr. http://66.media.tumblr.com/8f8a4e297b0bd1d6a3c698d2d9e2923f/tumblr_nz1hjgjn0q1v0vlh7o1_500.gif ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492397 << yes! :D ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://67.media.tumblr.com/0c49f3cf0ae644308babd5b13509d1e3/tumblr_na8aaagXtw1th1i2xo1_400.gif << brought to you by misppeal meddia.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487874 << we're up 440k in the first score and 200k on the 2nd. is this still from recent sks dump being put in ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: "Additionally, planners had to aggregate many types of goods and inputs into a single material balance because it was impossible to create an individual balance for each of the approximately 24 million items produced and consumed in the USSR." << ftr, this is actually actively pursued by yellen & co.

mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4q9ewf/ethereums_dao_wars_soft_fork_is_a_potential_dos/d4r8060 << sauce for given quote

mircea_popescu: lol wait, putin now wants russia to become "blockchain leader" ??? https://www.znak.com/2016-06-27/o_samom_glavnom_seychas_biznes_ombudsmen_pri_prezidente_putine_lider_partii_rosta_boris_titov << is this a thing ?

mircea_popescu: "David Chasteen hired a law firm and that members of the list should have no contact with David Chasteen or discussions about him." << what the fuck is this crap ?

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492038 << an iffy point best left undisturbed. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492032 << the problem with this approach is that bribing is for losers. i for instance never bribed anyone, THEY BRIBED ME! because what the fuck is this, i'm going to pay derpy mayor/judge/whatever ? how about he buys his wife from me each year for the love of fuck! ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492031 << there is this. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492029 << because nobody actually did it. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492022 << bwahahaha ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492015 << i wonder if this is true, even. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492008 << it seems rather improbable. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: (#$implies (#$and (#$isa ?OBJ ?SUBSET) (#$genls ?SUBSET ?SUPERSET)) (#$isa ?OBJ ?SUPERSET)) << wouldja look at this inept shit.

mircea_popescu: " Things are probably going to get worse before they get better." << ahahahaha.

mircea_popescu: (one of the lulziest parts - they made their criteria be < cost. in non-scamcoin-head terms, this is not unlike making a soft fork dependent on mempool being < x.)

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-27#1491481 << o wow, gonna start your street tough career ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: https://fat.gfycat.com/UnequaledSeveralIndianelephant.webm << POA or w/e it's called

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-27#1491446 << there doubtlessly is a large helping of that. bad management by engineers who imagined they can manage for reasons unknown. http://trilema.com/2014/fred-quimby-and-ancient-evils/ rather applies. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-27#1491436 << i think there's some merit to this view. usg wasn't nearly as important as asciilifeform thinks it even in the 80s. ☝︎