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mircea_popescu: what ever happened to the german guy that had his accts flagged and an inverstigation started ?
mircea_popescu: seems oddly adequate. the bfl/mtgox foundation should have luke on the board.
mircea_popescu: that happened a while back, anyway, probably right around the fork.
mircea_popescu: might as well be a bunch of ignorant kids, and therefore brave.
mircea_popescu: but adding all this together it still doesn't quite cut it.
mircea_popescu: there's something to be said for the excellent timing : less than a week after I bitchslapped him there's suddenly supoenas everywhere. let's dillute it.
mircea_popescu: there's some groundwork being laid out already what with gavin's incredibly shitty move
mircea_popescu: the theory may have some merit. make a bunch fo scams, have them pop in concert, then come in "for the good of the industry"
mircea_popescu: it's not the terrorists being felt up in airports, it's the citizenry.
mircea_popescu: i mean, it's clearly one single group, just a few people. they have nothing at all.
mircea_popescu: i have my doubts, but anyway, the cheek is incredible on the face.
mircea_popescu: anyway. this shit smells pretty bad, there are people who suspect it's just governmental skirmishing
mircea_popescu: before they used to run their icbit / btcjam / w/e unheard of scams in anonimity.
mircea_popescu: it's only recently that very cheeky scammors have begun to actually take the pretense to relevancy.
mircea_popescu: seeing how the us pays welfare to about 100 mn people each month, and seeing how the forum population is in the thousands we basically have an infinite supply of people who think they know better, and are too stupid to even suspect otherwise.
mircea_popescu: ESPECIALLY than anyone who isn't impressed with how smart, unique special and important they are
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yes. there's this deeply entrenched mentality of stupid, in the us. it manifests as people spend 50 bux ior w/e for half a btc, and then proceed to know better than anyone
mircea_popescu: besides, how is that ever distinguished ? what draws the line between innocent and manipulative ? one's own preferences ?
mircea_popescu: gecko_x8 that's ok, not like trilema is going anywhere.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you familiar with the infinite hitpoints problem ?
mircea_popescu: what's with all the funny letters anyway ? ŕ wtf s that
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller like if you know a chick loves to be complimented and will do anything if you tell her she's smart. you have her number.
mircea_popescu: nah, the core issue here is that we have a group of people who have pretty much got the forum/reddit retard's number
mircea_popescu: w_white jay and silent bob could sign a nda about 28 nm chip production.
mircea_popescu: that scam is directly linked to the tytus picostocks scam, which is the originator of pretty much all the current gems.
mircea_popescu: consider the case of the original basic. forum idiots are STILL arguing with my girl over it.
mircea_popescu: however, the scammors are notoriously difficult to pin down.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller actually some rich people do try to involve themselves.
mircea_popescu: literate adults, and often contained literary references children would not understand. Younger generations, mostly illiterate, and having little or no Bible knowledge not gleaned from their moronic parents and half-wit talk radio hosts, probably misunderstood the comment as being a general insult describing the slow-witted Fudd."
mircea_popescu: Rawted i love that word, nimrod. to quote ud, "The Bible ONLY mentions that Nimrod was a son of Cush, the founder of Babylon, and a mighty hunter. Curiously enough, Dictionary.com attests definition 2 to have derived from a Looney Toons episode, wherein Bugs Bunny mocks his adversary, the hunter Elmer Fudd, calling him a "poor little Nimrod". Warner Brothers' Looney Toons cartoons were not written for children, but for
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well part of the beauty is that the fake exchanges have no shorting in place, and so...
mircea_popescu: it's like crossing the east river in a peanut. way more than crossing the atlantic in any sort of actual ship.
mircea_popescu: cause while homer touched a lot further out, it was way way less stupid. and therefore...
mircea_popescu: dub that's exactly it tho. if we do the ratio of (how fucking stupid it is) vs (how influent), that shit is in a league with homer.
mircea_popescu: i mean that tytus scammer started this fake thing with his 100th/picostocks pure imaginary thing
mircea_popescu: pankkake im fascinated by the entire thing i must confess.
mircea_popescu: <w_white> I think actm is more likely to start 28nm hashing than anyone else atm. << because why ?!
mircea_popescu: and consequently couldn't care less about stuff like the us congress
mircea_popescu: if it's a scam you're not in possesion of an investment,
mircea_popescu: what if one night the majority assumes the sun will rise ?
mircea_popescu: w_white not just asicminer. the azns have eaten the western lunch on this score.
mircea_popescu: if china made mining illegal the price would probably drop noticeably.