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mircea_popescu: well... the entire share transfer thing am uses is pretty insane anyway.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well no, the point is that all the hindsight expertise is dumb.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well of course it's the case for everything
mircea_popescu: by then it was probably an inside joke among us side accountants and whatnot i imagine
mircea_popescu: deadweasel i wasn't really watching in '95, but it started to smell to me sometime in early 2000s
mircea_popescu: your odds of investing in a start-up are nil, start-ups take investment from people they know.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> imho people already started confusing it with asicminer :D << pretty sure that was part of the plan.
mircea_popescu: well i suppose you could actually be the resident pirate imsaguy
mircea_popescu: stayingayou you're missing the part where you bought a ponzi
mircea_popescu: there, if you manage to get that translated it'll give you an idea of me at the time.
mircea_popescu: "lawmakers voted to ban Internet cafes that facilitated online gambling in the state. But in doing so, they might have accidentally also banned all computers and smartphones"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you know, one of the best games ever made, ie elite, sold ~100k copies ?
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> I just suppose it's fake by default << pretty much everone sane does by now.
mircea_popescu: nah, those used to be the temples. the new temples are stuff like reddit and huffpo
mircea_popescu: then they reddit each other into a froth and before we know it "it's widely accepted that the moon is hotter than earth and bison died of alien anal probing"
mircea_popescu: it's the new hip thing, people without a fucking clue as to reading telling you what X said.
mircea_popescu: im siock of it, the "bitcoin foundation" idiots came out with a completely orthogonal read ofg the fincen thing
mircea_popescu: im getting sick of various folks flooding the market with their inept and unrequested "interpretations" of stuff
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> "...the Treasury has made it clear that it does have jurisdiction over domestic bitcoin “miners” and exchanges." <<< where ?
mircea_popescu: details— text strings are chosen numerically from a lookup table and assembled to produce unique descriptions for each planet). This means that no extra memory is needed to store the characteristics of each planet, yet each is unique and has fixed properties. Each galaxy is also procedurally generated from the first.
mircea_popescu: The Elite universe contains eight galaxies, each galaxy containing 256 planets to explore. Due to the limited capabilities of 8-bit computers, these worlds are procedurally generated. A single seed number is run through a fixed algorithm the appropriate number of times and creates a sequence of numbers determining each planet's complete composition (position in the galaxy, prices of commodities, and even name and local
mircea_popescu: i was explaining how the death is supposed to work, person went "sounds like improved EVE" i was wtf is eve and so...
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves not really part of either, just stumbled into it.
mircea_popescu: <rulother-gs> You try to say anything negative about AMC on reddit and you get down voted into oblivion <<< reddit is dumb.
mircea_popescu: matthew_boyd i think you speak for most people here when you say that.
mircea_popescu: now... make it illegal today and you'll make it mandatory tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: whenever people want to know who satoshi really was... well.. he was the ONE DUDE who invented sticking it in the poop[er.
mircea_popescu: in no sense under the control of it's "inventor", who's in fact a discoveror.
mircea_popescu: however, this is not the case. bitcoin is in fact a law, like gravity,
mircea_popescu: people like to think of bitcoin in terms of it being a thing, like an iphone.
mircea_popescu: "I don’t think it’s either practical nor feasible nor even desirable to use Bitcoin in the day to day dabble of pizzas, phone credits, hairspray and sneakers"
mircea_popescu: omfg look at all the stuff people said about me while i was away!
mircea_popescu: however, it's well discussed there , this future of payments in bitcoin topic.
mircea_popescu: well may be an idea to read back becauyse there's some great stuff in 2012. i'd love to find you the exact one but i gotta jet right now
mircea_popescu: consider that most in light of the effects of me saying "stop buying"
mircea_popescu: it seems to me you're the only one who doesn't read trilema