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mircea_popescu: no, im taking the time to blow this to bits, they're too stupid to live at this point.
mircea_popescu: secret ruling. ruling is precedent and precedent is law. ignorance of the law is no defense.
mircea_popescu: "In a bid to avoid revealing the details of a secret ruling on domestic surveillance, the White House has warned a federal judge that making the decision public could do “exceptionally grave and serious damage to the national security” of the country."
mircea_popescu: this is like one of those when serial killer goes on to testify and tells the judge all those people were conspiring to kill him so he was perfectly justified
mircea_popescu: it's really the story of slaves who can't find masters because they don't know they need them.
mircea_popescu: all this angst and loneliness and rest of the bs they keep making sitcoms about...
mircea_popescu: this entire equality bs is an expensive fiction really.
mircea_popescu: <mod6> They want him to take his proper place as lord, and the peasants want to serve him in that way. << you know, people do.
mircea_popescu: they have no skills, no ability and won't do any work.
mircea_popescu: of course msm would like to make it so it's the other way around.
mircea_popescu: the problem with this is that being a govt official IS immoral,
mircea_popescu: The new BVI data, by contrast, contains more than 200 gigabytes
mircea_popescu: The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks caused a storm of controversy in 2010 when it was able to download almost two gigabytes of leaked US military and diplomatic files.
mircea_popescu: contrary to what people of walmart may lead you to believe,
mircea_popescu: 1. pretty much all bartenders are fuckable chicks ; 2. they buy me drinks like it's their bar and i'm their bro.
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu 54s @AdamPosen What are you, like some sort of retard with a high self esteem ?
mircea_popescu: Adam Posen @AdamPosen (President, Peterson Institute for International Economics; member Bank of England MPC 2009-12; advises central banks & governments; proclaiming on policy daily) : #gold is the investment for silly people. #bitcoin is gold for people who don't save. Please make it go away. pic.twitter.com/UdbbxCiNXD
mircea_popescu: also 4000 per episode ?! bwagagagaga who the fuck does this ?
mircea_popescu: this was originally good and needed, because people needed to arrange backing.
mircea_popescu: taub it's been traditional in fiat to halt trading after drops
mircea_popescu: then the latency to move txs around could actually account for some of the uncofirmed pile
mircea_popescu: jborkl i am thinking : if they aren't well distributed (ie, concentrated in major dc hubs)
mircea_popescu: what with the decrease in nodes it could be actually connectivity issues that prevent txs from making it into mempools
mircea_popescu: moreover, as shockingly crummy service this is, it's not much outside of mtgox normal range.
mircea_popescu: they demo'd a box of fans and then their board is passive cooled ?!