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mircea_popescu: heck, i talk to people all the time, not particularly hung up on it. but! let me ask you something for the love of christ.
mircea_popescu: jcpham tolerate it, sure. all the time ? enough already.
mircea_popescu: it's really unbearable in the states, i had to point out to waitresses cab drivers, various servants that no they may not join the conversation of their masters all the damned time.
mircea_popescu: the middle east hasn't been fucked over by the "all equal" fallacy.
mircea_popescu: ie, a superior class, with priviledges and immunities clearly entrenched above the mass.
mircea_popescu: fiat500 the problem iof the world now is the absence of gentry.
mircea_popescu: "i want to own some bitcoins but i don't want to be bothered"
mircea_popescu: somehow the idea that their skills + a little work + a little honesty would actually yield something worthwhile playing honestly is beyond their grasp.
mircea_popescu: basically, all the scammers in the world are trying to use bitcoin these days. it's like holy water.
mircea_popescu: the reason is that being clueless, you lack the mechanisms that allow you to distinguish bad ideas
mircea_popescu: honestly, there's never going to be an end of clueless people coming up with \what they think are bright ideas.
mircea_popescu: 122,000 new medical diagnostic codes doctors will have to use in order to inform the government about injuries sustained by Americans. Those codes, said Sen. Paul, a medical doctor himself, include line-items for 'injuries sustained from a turtle,' 'walking into a lamppost' and 'injuries sustained from burning water skis.'
mircea_popescu: mjr_ imagine if somebody coded a bitcoin client which random,ly replaced your btc balance with ltc
mircea_popescu: i think the parasitism angle is probably the best description.
mircea_popescu: KRS-1 there's no appreciable need for it per se, but it's novel enough that it may be one of those where the need arises after the fact.
mircea_popescu: that'd possibly have common points with open transactions
mircea_popescu: a reimplementation of ripple, correctly, openly, may be a good idea.
mircea_popescu: also in that nobody cares, in that execution is appaling, in that their resources are insufficient etc.
mircea_popescu: mjr_ in that debt is not fungible, in that liquidity is not free, in that information is never symmetrical and in that closed models don't work fopr that application
mircea_popescu: about 50% actually enjoy their anal defloration. again, iykwyad.
mircea_popescu: damientrog it's not really that deep. any woman can comfortably fit an average penis in her colon.
mircea_popescu: fiat500 open your ass or openass will open it for you.
mircea_popescu: <mjr_> which is the only rational thing to do << nonsense. who rational is involved ?
mircea_popescu: the entire fucking point of the foss is to build code.
mircea_popescu: eh, just you wait for the elections. if my guys get the mayor and a 3rd place in parliament it's teh end.
mircea_popescu: i don't like it. hot and humid. you're like trapped in a vagina
mircea_popescu: with all the brilliant policies of the brown left the US will be a sort of congo in a generation
mircea_popescu: yup. so basically the rational play is take as much us debt as possible,
mircea_popescu: everyone else probably just make sure they're friends with me lol
mircea_popescu: we need a country respectful of both entrepreneurs and the future.