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mircea_popescu: Bugpowder i fail to see a difference between patent trolls and any other ip rights trolls.
mircea_popescu: the jewish deli still the best way to get edible food in ny
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are these provably intelligent or just assumedly intelligent ?
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder also true. was just doing a sort of "minimal eval"
mircea_popescu: bgupta why do the inept and poor matter in this discussion ?
mircea_popescu: benkay even so it's safer to purchase it from a distance.
mircea_popescu: they've changed the proposed law 3 times so far, still not a law.
mircea_popescu: unless, of course, you imagine the amish are some sort of separatist state within the us.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "miners will be shutting out s.dice"
mircea_popescu: the original innovation that even allowed the state (ie, bureaucracy) has been meanwhile erroded by the internet.
mircea_popescu: i don't think so. without a cheap and effective way to maintain informational supremacy and without control of wealth transfer there simply can't be a state.
mircea_popescu: actually bgupta ... any sort of future that includes the state is science fiction at this point.
mircea_popescu: ty eu. keep on with your policies, a 4-5% conversion engine is great for bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: it's funny, cyprus govt destroyed 5bn euro worth of suckers fiat,
mircea_popescu: funny. i wonder if the roman empire had rules about barbarian shaving practices right before odoacer
mircea_popescu: retarded kid, didn't even come up with a random name, just mashed kbd
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla can you set assbot to autoban on any mention of bitswing.com for an hour ?
mircea_popescu: helps them learn about what they can and can do and so should or shouldn't attempt.
mircea_popescu: it's about people being forcibly confronted with proof of their inferiority in a social setting,
mircea_popescu: smickles it's not about some obscure exercise of power.
mircea_popescu: problem is, it;'s never used, so it just serves as perverse strengthening of the equalitarian delusion.
mircea_popescu: or at least motherfucking stand up, which is really the absolute fucking minimum.
mircea_popescu: not like they have to go on their knees when nobility enters the room
mircea_popescu: show me a one case past 15 years where a kid was told "you can't do what this other kid does because he is better than you"
mircea_popescu: and also i blame the equalitarian atmosphere in the english speaking world. there's no worse form of child abuse than telling them they're equal to anyone.
mircea_popescu: for the past two years i've been drowning in well meaning idiocy. it's a fate worse than death.
mircea_popescu: 7500 words expended to clearly show he doesn't understand what exactly shareholders are, how they're different from founders and wtf exactly finance is
mircea_popescu: you and me baby are nothing but mammals so let's do it the bitcoin way!
mircea_popescu: not to mention it generated 100's of k's worth of value or so for the people who didn't procrastinate/think themselves better/entitled/whatever.
mircea_popescu: a well. so our dreams are shatter't on the cold shores of jagged reality
mircea_popescu: esp seeing how her thick butt is about 20x the thickness of her wrist
mircea_popescu: ach ; one block of 3`000`000 (three million) shares at a price of 0.0037 BTC each.
mircea_popescu: (b)Based on their knowledge of the company and its assets, as well as on evaluation of market demand, current profitability and projected evolution, the representatives of SatoshiDice have elected to offer in this IPO a total of 10`000`000 (ten million) shares, as follows : one block of 2`000`000 (two million) shares at a price of 0.0032 BTC each ; one block of 5`000`000 (five million) shares at a price of 0.0034 BTC e
mircea_popescu: "We had a good run, and we can't thank our customers enough for their overwhelming adoption and support. It truly is hard to believe that less than a month after launching we have hundreds of users and have processed thousands of dollars per day."
mircea_popescu: holding the btc or throwing them around in weird loan schemes etc does not.
mircea_popescu: Bowjob i think the argument is misplaced. unless you actually NEED the btc, having the shares produces future revenue. even one satoshi is revenue
mircea_popescu: well... atm im trying to discern what tyhe fuck to do here, because price went up so much. i am guessing i'll do 15-150 by steps of 3