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mircea_popescu: that the way to order a girl in the nude in french refers to her body hair.
mircea_popescu: of course it may come as a shock to the prissy english types
mircea_popescu: this could of course simply be caused by them being femals.
mircea_popescu: i have done a number of psych undergrads and i can attest none were sane.
mircea_popescu: no but seriously, he's done it in civ AND in settlers IV
mircea_popescu: like the original poster. there's about one a day since about march.
mircea_popescu: the countless idiots who keep going "herp, i am going to start a new country"
mircea_popescu: it ha sexactly the lack of byte you'd expect from two lezbos named julia that failed in ny and so moved t la
mircea_popescu: supporting themsleves on the occasional piece accepted by the occasional magazine while going shopping daily
mircea_popescu: by making a bunch of retarded midwesterner housewives think they can just move there and be "writers"
mircea_popescu: there was an article published about a year ago in gawker perhaps, explaining how horseface ruined new york
mircea_popescu: for that matter you could go "bitcoin is great and it happens on bitcoin-assets"
mircea_popescu: I ended up losing lots of BTC at BTCJam.com, thinking that loans are "safe". That's a holdover from the physical, regulated banking world. Not true here. I'm actually a fairly good judge of "character", so I didn't lose all, as I saw that many did there. But I did lose about 30% of what I loaned out. The site itself is fairly good, but the "borrowers" are often not...
mircea_popescu: bcb is prolific and that's the most you can say about him
mircea_popescu: tell me it allows sql injections and you're going to delete the btctalk db
mircea_popescu: jborkl in case you missed it i did say flushed a few lines back
mircea_popescu: these are to date the only two tripwires the devteam managed to bumble over resulting in bitchslaping etc.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand no matter what you do you don't go into telling users how to use your output.
mircea_popescu: and i raged at the dev team for behaving idiotically. if you're blind you don't run and if you don't comprehend your code you don't add more. this on one hand
mircea_popescu: i understand your concern and honestly believe that it's being misplaced.
mircea_popescu: the sea per se is about as interesting to you as that much sand.
mircea_popescu: understand : going fishing is a process directed AT THE FISH. you don;t care about the sea.
mircea_popescu: the government can then make 50000 sockpuppets, scam itself and kill btc this wya ?
mircea_popescu: suppose this reputational thing is actually a bitcoin weakness as you propose.
mircea_popescu: it's just there so you have a reference for your thoughts. it doesn't put thoughts in your head.
mircea_popescu: a trust system is a notation, like paper. it won't do your work for you in any circumstance.
mircea_popescu: wait wut. what;'s been proven broken you mean, the wot ?
mircea_popescu: there's like... one douche that inhabits 9.95 bn of them
mircea_popescu: but they're different physical vessels of the same one idiot.
mircea_popescu: idiot person comes in. mpoe-pr tells him he's an idiot gives him a reading list.
mircea_popescu: people gotta have their choices. there's no education w/o choice.
mircea_popescu: i am paying people to educate noobs. let them be scammed. both work : either follow the light or go into the shitfest